Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-07-11

TnE TRUE AMERICAN, No 4, is filed with mat
ter OF the highest interest and Importance, enbra-
cling beside the various articles on Slavery fair
amount of miscellaneous reading. Each success
sive number of this journal deepens our conviction
of its incaculabe usefulness and adds 10 the
warmth of our desre-strong from the first-hat
It may be vigorously sustained and have a wide
circulation in every part of the country. The lead
ing editorial in the present number is an able re-
view, from the pen of c. NJ. CLAY, of two articles
published in the Lexington Observer on "Slavery
under the Constitution of the United States" Of
Which we give the concluding passage. Tribune
ave have heard great deal of silly talk about
compromise as if slavery sacred whilst the
truth u.s. there are but two iRerorabte COMPROMISES
or binding agreements in the whole Constitution
The is, that each State shall for erer have equal
representation in the Senate the other is that the
Constitution shall not be changed, except in the
manner prescribed in the instrument ITSELF Every
clause in that Constitution was a subject Of COM
promise in one sense, and in one sense oniu That
Is, each member of the Convention did not ret all
he wanted and had to submit to some things that
he did not want. Such was the substance of Frank
Inns speech in Convention. But with the two ex-
ceptions above named, every clause in the Conven-
ton stands upon equal ground subject TO the indg-
ment and deliberate will of subsequent generations
So far from slavery being intended to be held more
sacred than any other rights, we have by us roi,-
nllnouS testimony Of The most prominent men of the
North and South looking fortrnrd TO The dan OF ,ni
rerSnl emdnci patton, when, as the word slave was
NOT mentioned in that immortal instrument, so in
this wide spread nation there should not be a SIN
gle soul who could not clam the Declaration of
American Independence as hs-and the American
Union as the Palladium of Freedom and Equal
Rights. Our fathers saw that Liberty and Slavery
could not co-exist--they believed and hoped that
Slavery would perish. They were mistaken: Sla-
very now triumphs over even those liberties which
we inherited under the British yoke taxation and
representation are yet unequal and the liberty Of
speech and the press, habeas corpus, and trial by
Jury are lost The blood of '76 was shed in vain
the Americans are the slaves of slavery.
"Tmning loose" "What" says the slavehold.
or, shall the blacks be turned loose among us:'
Permit Inc to ask in the most chdlike simplicity,
if they are not loose already? Men talk as if all
the slaves were chained to a block, and some mad
hand was about TO sever the links, and let them go,
like wild bears to ravage 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 an individual STAKEHOLDER, which is absurd
BY liberation we do not withdraw the force of legal
restraint, but enlarge it, because we bring high
moral power to sustain tie civil arm in the execu-
ton Of justice. The whole population of Kentucky
we take to be- now, S40G00 Blacks 100000 for
since the last census of 40, the Whites must have
increased, whilst the Blacks perhaps have remain
ed about stationary, owing to the Southern trade:
that is GG00n0 Whites to 10000 Blacks; an ey.
cess Of Whites over Blacks, which would ensure
The Whites absolute power of control, for ever over
the blacks, in case of liberation: more especially
MS statistics of the North and South SHOW that no.
on the same basis, the Black increases fuster in
slavery Than in state of freedom, among tchiies,
rhen all the StimuGniS Of occurring position in soci-
aty and rising 10 eminence lriRdrulcn. To say,
then, that turning them loose, would endanger the
peace of society, is absolutely contrary to all ex-
Derience, as proven in the West Indies, aud in the
Northern States and contrary to every law OF the
human mind for it involves the gross absurdlly,
hat man would revenge favor, or love his enc
mics, not as well as bnt better than his friends
We are not for turning any man loose, Black or
Ihie; but in the case Of liberation, we repeat, we
would only have the civil power over the Blacks
which we now have, but the superadded power of
he combined moral power of the master and the
slave The master, strengthened in his position,
~ sense of being based upon justice, and the
freedman constrained toqulet subsection 10 the laws
~ every grateful affection of the heart. But five
10 not turn them "loose," they will go on ncreas-
NC, TIL they get IN majority when, at last, they
will turn themselves loose for every law of nature
n time, vlndlcates itself. Man never has, and new
n Will hold his fellow man in perpetual slavery
south Carolina has gone on with the let alone sys-
EN-, and it will right itself" policy, I'LL she is on
he very eve of utter ruin. single citizen, from
he State of Massachusetts, where Bunker Hill lifts
Is eternal granite brow to the eyes OF Equal Free
men, throws the whole State into CONSERVATION,
Ireater than if an hundred thousand mail.cl men
With fire and sword, had landed on the shores of
ust people In spite of all the silly vaponng of this
unhappy State, we are full of pity when we look
pon such sorry sight They are now set about
irving the slaves "moral and religious culture"-
lost lame and impotent conclusion; the only rem
dy Is to Stay them-remove them-or make them
rec. Kentuckans, you know the right, you feel
he wrong: in South Carolina you see the end