Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-01-20
REV. J. GLEED'S JOURNAL.


in a private house, and addressed a very attentive
audience on the nature, effects and remedy of and
for slavery. Now much ignorance still prevails
among us on this all absorbing subject. Said a !
Clay man to-day, and man Of high standing too,
the only difference between you and me is, you go
round to the right and to the left, and we both
meet in the end. am much opposed to slave
ry as you;--you vote the Birncy ticket and | the
Clay and we shall both meet in the end. When?
When the Northern and Southern poles shall
meet and shake hands
%. Lccurcd this evening in another district,
and the first lecture ever delivered in that district.
Had a large number of children and young people
and few adults, and why not more? Oh! some
hate the colol some hate the thing as bad as any
Ebotly bgbipnH goRith theig. party-wc must sup
portthat and Stil! uorethink it is none Of their
Fhs,Siaess AEsmhbfya statc-a Southern af-
llsF VNsaia ti@f people dlil but suffer themselves
Eto,Isarn leiers Met Witb one respectable man
who commended that tie colorcd race sprung not
from the same parent with the white man; that
they musthe kept apart; that our proceedings Wod
bring on civil war; that slavery was great evil
but we could do nothing with it, &c. what poor
helpless creatures wc are! Oh, reason! Oh, men
and angels have pity ON us Frame our constitu-
uoH-eiect our Understandable our laws, yet cannot
get rId OF moral and political evil wholly at our
disposal! Well, if we arc the free t people in the
world and thus bound neck and heels, God have
mercy On the rest part of Adams poor family
proved to my hearers that slavery does effect us
in the North-that we do most interfere with it
on the ground of self deence-and that we can
and viii reach it.
! %. Addressed a very attentive audience in
another district this evening, and pretty full Is
emancipation worth having? Is it the right of the
several parties who are affected by slavcry-the
shareholders, the free coorcd people and the poor
whites in the South-the nation at large, the free
North, and the slaves? For all these parties and
others, are abused, shamefuIly abused, by ourcom-
mander-in-chef, General Slavery. Can we get
this boon? Is it our duty to try for it: was the
train of thought presented to my hearers, and |
think not in vain.
%. Preached three abolition sermons to-day,
being the Sabbath to full and attentive congrega-
tons. The ability of Christ to save sinners
christianity great aud essential good to the hu-
man family-and the piercing cry of justice and
nercy, IettkG oppressed go tfccF have been the
-sITlects discussed. Good think has been done
Had to say word to one respectable man on one
of the most famous arguments of the day-"somc
of the slaves were better off than some of our
puor pcope--had better clothes and more to eat
Yes, said J. better oft than our poor deluded and
miserable drunkards, for they are generally poor
poor enough in all reason. But what has this con
tingent circumstance to dc with the principle Of
shvery9 Is that right and the enormous evil:
that spring from the working of the system, arc
they right?
"a. Lccturcd this evening in another district
p, Expected 30 or so to hear, and 10! full assem-
bly, in large school room. Mistakes corrected
was my subject and this being the first lecture il
the district, many things we had, new to my hear
ers, and heard with evident surprise and trus
profit. Brother Loyejoy dear and faithful meth
od>t brother in the cause, followed me in pow
criu address. The old Tyrant got some hare
thumpS, but none too hard. Every where do
meet with persons both aged and young in this re
gion of light and knowledge, knowing little o.
nothing of the nature, and real evils, and effects
of slavery. Tracts and plain lecturing, withou
loss of time, We must have
%. Slavery is not a selfsupporting system. |
must go begging, borrowing, stealing to &c
along or starvc out This was my subject this
evening, logically, naturally, and historically il
Illustrated and proved. Northern men ought tt
know and feel, that they commercially feed, an(
politically protect and perpcruate Slavery in the
South Here is the sin, folly, and ruin of the free
: north on this subject When shall we awake ur
: 20 our rIV5.
Q6. Blessed my labors this evening with a lee
ture on the unscrptural character of slavery, ant
! the pocunory robberies it commits on the free
: States The assembly, good and attentive. some
half loaf nan better than bread" thought the
liberty folk, did not give the Wings credit enough
for the Tariff, as it was the best they could get
and better than nothing Lame policy this
! thought, if Justice entitled US to whole loaf, and
we had the means of getting it and wond not use
these means, quarter was too good for us. Thus
have delivered eight antislavery lectures and one
: 'Temnerance lecture in this town. May the di-
vine blessing water the good seed sown, and may
it bear much fruit.