The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1846-02-03
THE GALAXY.
MIDDLEBURY. VT.
Tuesday. Feb. 8, 1916.
Mn. GARNET AND SLAVERY.

Mn. GARNET AND SLAVERY.
Last week for the first time the people o.
Middlebuiy had The opportunity Of listening
to Mr.. Garnet, the colored preacher who, uu-
der the patronage of the third party abolition
lists, is delivering lectures upon slavery thro'
the State. Mr. Garnet has considerable
power, and doubtless impressed the audience
strongly with his own deep convictions fthe
inhumanity and horrors Of the peculiar in
stituton." No man who has any adequate
sense Of the innumerable villainies which
make up slavery, can be otherwise than elo-
quent in discussing them. But Mr.. G. said
in substance nothing more than we have
for four years past every week in the COL
umns Of our paper, to fix upon the public
mind an abiding detestation of slavery as
lawless act of usurpation, violence and iyran-
ny from which humanity and the prosperity
Of the country demanded the Nation should
be freed. Nor can we believe there is re-
lecting man in Vermont who dissents from
the opinions we have so repeatedly inculca-
ted upon this subject.
But it is one thing to depict the abomina-
tons Of slavery, and another to get rid Of
them. In this respect Mr.. G. could have
given bu; very little satisfaction to the intelll-
seHt portion of the audience. 1t was not,
however, his fault. To devise scheme Of
universal emancipation to be carried into ef-
feet in the present situation of the Union, re-
quires largeness of wisdom and prudence
of which this gentleman and those who walk
blindfold in the same visionary path, evident
! ly have no adequate conception. He seem
ed TO think that the car Of abolition must be
put Immediately upon the track, and should
all the institutions of church and state which
opposed it's progress he crushed into Demi-
semiquavers under its heels, it must be kept
in energetic operation. There need be no
| gradualism or preparation Of the slave for the
enjoyment of freedom. lie took the ground
that the bible prohibited slavery, and that all
the guarantees Oft Constitution and the
| u
as they contravened the laws Of the Almgh
~.
Surely the bare statement Of these rash
schemes of abolitionism is sufficient on our
part without any attempt 10 disparage them
in the minds Of an intelligent public. Their
practical and prospective effects in the dis
| r. Il, tl,a hue of nj
religion, the destruction of religion itself, and
in sapping the foundations of This govern
ment, introducing anarchy and confusion.
and finally. dissolving the Union itself, fur
nsh the arguments of their own condemna-
ton.
We were very happy to hear Mr.. Garnet
impressing so strongly upon the audience the
lamentable fact, that as free as we feel we are
in fact the slave of slaveholders. Nothing is
more true Than that the annexation Of Texas
has subjected the North to vassalage TO the
South base and humiiaing in the extreme.
But Mr.. G.. had the best Of reasons for not
adverting TO the mercenary course of certain
pOIltlCldOS WHICH ildu fcuhNSu US ~ tuiS uS
graded condition. The very last act in the
grand drama of the late Presidential election,
was the betrayal of the cause OF hnman free
dom by Brine, and his followers in not pre-
venting, as they might have done, the triumph
of party which must inevitably result in the
annexation of Texas. The issue was plainly
put-Pck and 1eras, and Clay and anti-dn-
neratiJn. most certainly by the party to which
he belonged. At all events. Polk and annex
alton was certain, and yet with $4,000 votes
at command, 5000 of which would have Civ
; Ell the State of New York and the Union to
Mr.. Clay, the third party divert their votes
from Mr.. Clay to candidate whose success
they knew was impossible, and thus placed
the balance of power in the Union in the
hands of SHAREHOLDERS And yet Mr.. Carmel
suffers himself 10 be lead round the State by
one Of the editors of the Freeman, to multi
ply converts to party which is virtually re-
: sponsble for the very bondage Of the Nurth
TO- the South of which he so vehemently
D complains.