The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1846-08-25
THE GALAXY.
MIDDLEBURY. VT.
Tuesday, August %, 1916.
Anti Slavery A citation.

We commend the following eXtrac from
the speech ct Professor Haddoca of Dart
mouth ColIege.r the New Hampshire House
of Representatives, to the perusal OF every
Wing. The sentiments in the main coin
eide with those Of great majority of the
Wing party in this region, aud they are those
which we have long endeavOred to impress
upon our readers. Every day cOnvinces us
of the vast importance Of bringing up the
public mind TO full sense Of The evils of
slavery. Let the right of one man to reduce
another TO hopeless bondage be fully dis
russed and the moral, national and political
plague Of the accursed institution be fnlly
appreciated. There is no other way TO in
duce American freemen to breast themselves
with an unflinchiDg frmness against those ont
rageous usurpations & encroachmenrs which
Of late threaten the whole nation with subju-
CATION to the slaveocratic power, residing at
the South. The wrongs of the oppressed
slaves are not more revolving than the wretch
edness & misery which the slave power in
Congress by its relentless persecution OF all
the Interests Of the North is about to entail
npon this nation. And yet Professor Had
dock is by no means Third party man. He
is an incorporating Wing, and is perfectly
satisfied that the Wing party alone IS able
and willing to embrace every means not for
hidden by the guarantees of the national COM
pact or the safety of the Union, to limit the
Power aud gradually abolish the monster in-
stitution.
Gentlemen deprecate agitation they are
alarmed at discussion they court repose
and silence. Why not discuss this matter,
sir Is anything TO be feared from inquiry
anything to be lost by consideration and
courteous, earnest argument on great civil
and moral quesiions1 We propose no viO-
-lence; no exercise of unconstitutional pow
err; no interference with the domestic policy
of sister States. We claim no right to strike
the shackles from single slave. We only
assert the liberty OF speech; we only solicit
the ear of the master. We say 10 the peo-
pie of the sIaveholding States, come, lie, US
reason together Weappeal TO the con-
science, Ine Juugineuts tuC bdSuoh'uioue
sentiments of the human heart. And IT is
matter Of great JOY that this appeal is moi
idle o. vain. 1t never was wholly so IN any
ago ofIhe world, nor on any important sub
iect. It will not be so in this instance. Il
has not been so hitherto. Discussion ha.
done something for the liberation of the slave
already. 1t mas done not little. Ii has en-
gagged our own attention TO the condition and
rights Of the oppressed.
The youngest member Of this House j:
able to recsllect when almost nothing wa:
known oil thought of the American slave in
this remote part of the country. Intercourse
with the South was infrequent. Jefferson
had indeed expressed concern and alarm ioi
his guilty country; nlghtened philanthro
pists had here and there ventured 10 question
The right, and condemn the policy ofnegrt
slavery. But there existed very little knowl
edge ofthe subject. and still less interest in
among the people at large. Men were alb
soroed III their own pursuits. exBltipg in
tne!r own freedom. and gathering together il
tnelr places IF religious worship TO thanh
Tod Tor The blessings of a free government
and free gospel. apparently ignorant of the
cruel bondage under which so many Of theil