Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-08-16

only, such language as under other cir
cumstances would indicate sympathy and
care for human kind, let il stand at that.
The cause am advocating has no need OF
taking advantage Of the sayings of any
men. living or dead-any beings in exis-
tence or out.
Nothing can possibly be Plaineribanth
the first & least step taken In acquiring, re-
ceiving. holding or conveying property,is
an encroachment on human life. And
no thanks to the system that it is not often
er and more extensively carried out. il
was so formerly. The history ofthe world
is full of demonstration to the point. But
men are making progress and growing
more humane. The comparative value of
human life is increasing in the minds of
men. Il will continue 10 increase until
nothing will be held as an equivalent for
it. And then no encroachment will be
made upon it by putting it in market, or by
putting in market anything on which it
depends. The things that are necessary
for life, happiness and usefulness should
not be subject to barter and traffic, on ac-
CONT of the relations they sustain for good.
Other things should not be trafficed in,
on account ofihe relations they sustain for
eril. Whatever is good, none should be de-
priyed of. Whatever is evil, none should
be tempted with. From the position
now occupied we may take an advanta-
geous glance at human governments. 1t
is plain what they are and always have
been. One oft the greatest truths ever spok
en- in regard to them, fell from the lips of
a Tennessean at Amesbury, Mass, on the
fourth Of July las. He had formerly been
resident at Amesbury, but his home be.
ing cow in Tennessee, he was attached 10
Southern institutions; SO he offered a
toast on their behalf The first sentence
OF it ran thus & Si0Uery-an institution
coeval with the formation Of government"
| If those who Kissed the hot blood for Civ
ing utterance 10 such truth, had kept qui-
ct allowed blush to come over their ia
ces, for poor, degraded humanity as history
shows it, and then met the toast with anoth-
er, setting forth the self-evident truth that
the antiquity of wrong is no justification
of it, they would have been deserving oil
more credit COR candor and intelligence in
the casethan they now are. 1t ought no,
to be necessary for me to say here that
have no sympathy with the object mani
4 festly had in view by the individual who
gave the toast. And such a disclaimer
never would be necessary from me. but
for the hear;less work of envy that would
make out my sympathy TO be cooling for
one class of slaves, because its warmth is
increasing for all slaves. AS for The toast,
it is only the fact it contains that | wish
10 make use of, without reference to the
intentions of its mover, just as sometimes
make use Of some parts Of the Declaration
OF American independence, or of passages
from books, not as authorities, but for
what they contain. To deny that the his.
tory Of human governments shows as
plainly as it shows anything, that slavery
has always existed in connection wilhthem
is 10 betray either on the one hand great
want Of intelligence in the matter, or on
the other, want of sufficient honesty 10 &C.
knowledge the facts as they exist.
go further and say that all violen,
government is slavery. In her words,
any system ofslavery that has ever existed
is only q consistent piece of government
built on the law of Observation-Disclosures
the law of rewards aud punishments-the
whole being based on the corrupt prnci,
pie that there is right to do whaI there is
power to do. One form ofthis force system
develops itself in The southern states of the
United States, another on The continent O
Europe, another in England, another il
New-EDs gland, and so on throughout The
world Of violence. Some of them are il
advance of others in refinement, and arr
: apparently less intolerabIe. But they ar,
all of one family, their several peculiari
ties depending entirely on circumstances
The treatment is everywhere adapted L
the subjects. or the victims and all tn,
developments depend on attending cir
cumstances. The whites Of the SoutI