Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1844-02-02

States held slaves not excepting Massachusetts
Now there are thirteen non-sayeholding States
are those ten millions of northerners slaves p
Great Britain, in conjunction with all Europe, ex-
cept ihems Q rable anarchies Of Spain 1nd Portu-
gal, have long since emancipsted many slaves, and
now, in the year 1843 to her honor be il spoken,
have liberated 30000,000 Of her last India seris;
i'll all her wide domains, which touch on every
sea, aud embrace every cline under the whole
heavens, there is not, nor indeed can be, single
save--und is she enslsved No, she has sense
enough to know, and heart enough-to feel, that il
IS justice, honor and glory which secure tho liber-
ties of people aud make them invncible and i'm
mortal.
Do gentlemen take the absurd position that
one hundred and eighty thousand freed men could
ensave kentucky? West India Emancipation
proves that the great majority OF freed mon could
be employed economically in the same Offices, at
small wages, which they fill, with perhaps
more ease and safety than now exist But should
they prove turbulent for which there would be no
cause, and which man in his senses believes
" ould happen, and were disposed 10 Indulge in
that vauniiDg spirit, which to-day has 60 power
fully infected us, with five thousand such troops
as those have the honor 10 command, to whom
gentlemen have been pleased TO alIude in man
ner complimentary at my expense, would
undertake 10 drive from the State the assembled
one hundred and eighty thousand 10 arms iney
further tell u.s. with most revorential gravity, that
God has designed some men for slaves, and man
uteU DOt hVcfnM 10 reverse tNd JeCTos " iouOtet
that the blacks should be slaves, than the whites
This proposition which ! denounce as utterly
false, passes away before the glance OF reason, as
the dew before a summers sun.
81 shall admit merely for the sake OF argument,
that some men always have, and possibly always
will, perform menial offices for the more fortu-
nate. Let the law of Nature or of God have its
undisturbed acon-let the performance OF those
offices he voluntary on the part OF servants, and
that beautiful harmony by which tho highest in-
elect is united by successive interior Inks 10 the
lowest mind, will never be disturbed. The sens-
tive and highly organized and intellectual, VIII
gradually rise from service TO commands the sto-
i'd the prof gate the insensible and coarsely or
ganized, will sink into their places; the law OF
God and enlightened freedom will still be presery-
ed, and the greatest good 10 the greatest number
be secured forever. But when by municipal law,
and not by the law Of fiincss which is the law Of
Nature, not regarding the distinction oil morals,
mind or body, whole classes ere doomed TO seryi-
tude-when the intellectual, the sensitive, the
foolish, tho rude, the good, the bad, tue rehned,
the degraded, all depressed to one level never
more to rise forever then comes evli-nollling out
evil-like as from damned up waters or pent up
streams, foods or explosions come slowly, but
come al last-sO Nature mocks with temporary
desolaon at the obstacles man would oppose TO
her progress, aud at length moves on once more
in all the untrammelled vgor and unfading love-
illness, winch from eternity was dacreed.
"That the black is inferior to the White, read
lily allow but that vice may Gepfess the one, and
virtue, by successive generations, elevate the 9TH
err, ill the TWO races meet on one common level,
arn also firmly convinced. Modern science, in
The breeding and culture Of other animals than
man, has most fully proved this fact, which the
ablest observers of man himself all allow, that
, mental aud moral and physical Development
transmit their several properties TO the descend
ants -corroboraiing by experience the divine de-
cree, that the virtues and vices OF the faher shall
be visited on the children TO the third aud fourth
generation. In the capitals Of Europe, blacks have
attained to the highest places OF social and Iiiera-
ny eniinepce. That they are capable of high
. degree OF civilization Hayti daily illustrates
, There we have lately seen a revolution conducted
in manner that would do honor TO the first PEG.
pie on earth, one fthe nvowed grounds Of which,
. was that President Boyer neglected to secure gen.
eral education to the peopleHa consideration that
should make some Wanted States blush in COM
4 parison. After the expulsion oil the tyrant, they
| SET about forming more republican constitution,
admitting the whites who had participated in their
dangers aud SUCCESS to all the rights Of citizen
f ship.
Y ''If history be true, we owe TO the Egyptians,
: said TO be Of the modern Moorish race, the arts
and sciences and early seeds Of civilization
l. How many centuries did it take to bring them to
# pertecten When We reflect how little time the
q negro race has been under the influences of other
y civilized nations and the rapid progress they have
: made in an upward direction, we have no reason
o 10 treat them with that absurd contempt, which
n in the eye both of reason and religion stands
h equally condemned Why, then, am tauntingly
asked by pro-savery and anti-slavery men, do
=, hold slaves Uninfuenced by the opinions Of
y the world, intend, in my own good time, to act
u or not 10 act, as TO seems best in view Of al
= The premises. Yet, thus far pledge myself, that
!, whenever Kentucky will Join the in freeing our
Z" selves from this curse, which weighs us dowr
y even unto death, the slaves own she shall dis
10 pose of as she thinks best. shall ask nothing ir
W return, but the enhanced value Of my land which
J, must ensue gradually from the day that we becom,
y indeed free and independent State. will e
10 yet iarther-sive me free labor, and will not only
y give up my slaves but will agree to be taxed Il
u buy the remainder from those who are unwilling
=, or unable, consistently with regard to pecuniar,
lie interest 10 present them TO the State, and then
~ shall deem myself and my poSterity richer in dol
~ lars and cents than we were before"
id Reader opposed to slavery do you think
he worth while TO join party which declares al
Id such men as Cassius NJ. Clay uuft for public sta
an ton and the deadly enemies of the slave? VIII
in it advance think you, the cause of Emancipation
ed 10 brand such as the enemies of Human Liberty
On Yet both the poltca, abolition party aud the
We ID litica antislavery organization denounce sue
err men as unworthy ofsurport, or II was the latte
- not the former, as we once mistakenly asserted
elf who. in late State Convention al Utica, denounc
of ed John Quincy Adams recreani and unwor
to thy0 Is it NOT better to 60 on in our own wa
N, GRIPPING ourselves by no pledges 10 vote ior Dill
~ ney or not to vote at all, as TO be ready at
IT. times 10 do good through any channel when ina
TO present ITSELF and us our unettered Jungnei
ay shall direct Consider this whole subject caim'
ire and act as enlightened reason shall dictate!
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