Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-08-21
From G. H. Clans True american.
"TURNING LOOSE"

what says the stakeholder, shall the blacks
be turned loose among usl' Permit me to ask,
in the most child-like simplicity, if they are not
loose already? Men talk as if all the slaves
were chained to block, and some mad hand
was about to sever the links, and let them go,
like wild boars to rayage the land! Now all
this bug-a-boo is founded upon the false idea
that the aggregate power of the community is
less than that of single Shareholder, which is
absurd, BY liberation we do not withdraw the
force of legal restraint, but enlarge it; because
VIC bring high moral power to sustain the civil
arm in the execution of Justice The whole pop
ulation Of Kentucky, we take to be- now, S40,-
600; blacks $4,000 for since the last census
of 40, the whites must have increased, whilst
the blacks, perhaps, have remained about sta
tionary, owing to the southern trade that is
$50, 000 whites to 10000 Blacks an excess
of whites over blacks, which would insure the
whites absolute power of control, forever, over
the blacks, in case of liberation; more especially
as statistics of the North and South show, that,
upon the same basis, the blacks increase faster
in Slavery, than in a state Of freedom among the
whites, when all the stimulus of acquiring po-
sition in society, and rising to eminenee, are
withdrawn. To say then, that turning them
loose would endanger the peace of society, is aD-
solute contrary to all experience, as provenly in
the West Indies and in the Northern States and
contrary to every law of the human mind; for it
involves the gross absurdity, that man would
f,vO
as, but better than his friends.
We are not for turning any man loose, black
or white; but in case of liberation, we repeat we
would not only have the same civil power over
the blacks, which we now have, but the Superad-
ded power of the combined moral power of the
master and the slave! The master strengthened
in his position, by sense of being based upon
justice, and the freedman constrained to quiet
subsection to the laws, by every grateful affection
of the heart. But if we do not turn them loose
they will 60 on increasing. till they get in ma
jority when, at last, they will turn themselves
loose, for euery la'0 ofnatarc, in time vindcates
itself Man never has, and never will hold his
fellow man in perpetual slavery South Carroll
ma has gone on with the 'let alone system, and
it will right itself policy, till she is the very
eve of utter ruin. A single citizen from the
State of Massachusetts, where Bunker Hill lifts
its eternal granite brow to the eyes of Equal
Freemen, throws the whole State into conster-
nation, greater than if hundred thousand mail
clad men, with FIRE and sword, had landed on the
shores of ajust peope.-In spite of all the silly
vaporing of this unhappy State, we are full of
pity when we look upon such sorry sight,
They are now set about giving the slaves moral
and religious culture; most tame and impotent
conclusion the only remedy is to STAY them
remove them----or make them free Kentucki-
ans, you know the right, you feel the wrong: in
South Carolina you see the end.