Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-05-06

Wy anu SldVtIy nave ldppCu uPOAA S"SA ONiASA' "A
great slave market, and Liberty paper in the
same city, Such antagonisms cannot long live
together, one or the other must retreat. But
hope beams from the dark horizon. Truth is
mighty; and trust that the last vestge of slave
nv will soon disappear from the National capital
| like the morning mistS before the sun. But
great work remains to be done.
A few days ago, company of slaves were
crowded together in pen-like calves when ia
ken to market-on board the cars from Baltimore,
from thence to be taken to the south,
Sometime since, on my way from Washington
to Richmond, l happened on Board steamboat
with some thirty slaves, men, women and children
direct from the slave-market at Washington and
bound for the far south. The men were fastened
two together, at the wrist by heavy chains The
women and children were herded together and
closely watched. 1t was the first scene of the
kind which had ever come under my observation
and sad thoughts crowded my mind in view of it.
was led to inquire from whence came those
honest men in irons, those mothers with sorrow
written in deep lines upon their sable brows those
tender females and half clad innocent children
trembling in the wind, whose varying hues chron-
icle the deep damnation Of their lives. What
country is this where christian men are chained
and sold! 1t was on the Potomac in full view Of
the Capitol, and as | saw it towering proudly
in the distance, bearing the flag of freedom, with
the nations stamp of stars and stripes, it seemed
to hang dropping as if ashamed to extend its
broad arms and kiss the free air of heaven. AS
! | directed my thoughts above, there seemed
holy power in that countenance of love. His
right arm seemed barred for justice-the sword of
his anger lifted high for vengeance | felt the
deep significance of the words of Jefferson: 81
tremble for my country when | remember that
God is just, and that his justice cannot sleep for
ever"
But some Northern dough-face curls up his
| lip in cold contempt and asks What of IT,
What has the North to do with slavery! Much
every way All the crueties of this most demo-
cratic slave-trade in the District of Columbia
are committed by the sanction or sufferance Of
the laws of the United States for which the peo-
pe of the North-of Vermont-are directly re-
sponsible But this is not the only way in which
the people ofthe North sustain slavery. Rev. AL
I. bert Bunes has said, "If the christian church
would have united and consistent testimony
against slavery, it could not exist a single hour
A more truthful assertion was never uttered
: From the pulpit and religious press of the North
II we have been told that slavery is an organism
that it is wrong in the abstract; but that under
+ certain peculiar circumstances it may be justlfa
n Bile. Holding this convenient doctrine, Northern
J. men go to the South, soon find themselves il
u those same peculiar circumstances, become
Shareholders, and conform to all the customs o
Il slaveholding community. The South is full o
them. The class is we'll represented here, anc
. upon them rests in an eminent degree the fearful
S guilt of selling men, They buy and hire slaves
e and what better inducement does the "niggel
: buyer" desirel
For instance Rev. President S. s. Bacon, D
D., of Columbian College, D. c., is a pcrfec
> specimen. Readers of anti-slavery papers vii
recolect the expulsion of Northern studen
from Columbian College, for giving a slave mon
: ey to fee larger, to sue for his freedom bein
probably entitled to his liberty by the laws o
= the district. This was the crime for which h
was expelled.
e Northern men who are shareholders and over
seers are proverbially mcaner and more tyrannica
c than others So in this case, President Bacon
n by whom this base act of Tyranny, and subscrvi
II ency to the peculiar institution was perpetrated
It is Northern man, and believe native c
d Massachusetts. The following advertisement
: which copy verbatim, from the Daily Fountain
n of June 30, I845-a temperance paper published
i'll this city-is in perfect keeping with the char
acter of the man.
"Wnnted to Hire, good cook, washer and ironel
; for moderate sized family one that can come we
: recommended will find good house and fair wages
, slave would be preferred. Inquire of j. S. Bacor
# Columbian College, June q, 1916.
d "a Slaoe UOuH be prefrred!" Here yo
= have Northern Doctor Of Divinity, advertising
u his preference for slave-labor, over ree-abor-
/ Thus virtually offering premium to slavery
e One more specimen, and | will bring this lon
II letter to a close.
II About ayear since, in ShellbyvilIe, Tennessee
o met methodist preacher by the name of Doty
originally from Troy N. Y. On the occasion
of my introduction to him, he was argueing tn
righttuness or expediency ofslavery, with mem
Der of his church, and native of the South
who, like other christian men, in the slavehold
ing States, believed it to be a sin He had rea
6 his Bible and the writings of John Wesley, an
though he held small family of slaves, he scorn
= ed to open his lips in relation to the vile sys
y tenn except to denounce it. How long will
take an influence like this to remove slavery
4 Sir in my humble opinion, if the bottomless pi
has any inmates, those most assuredly will be a
mong the number, who, reared under the fire.
e institutions of the North, go to the saveholdin
States, and protesting to preach the blessed COS
~ pei of Jesus; who came to bring dellverance t.
# the captives, and the opening of prson-doors t
j them that are bound preach the rightfulness O
slavery, and sustain and apologize for the "su,
ts Of all UitlanieS" Southern men, who from in
Is fancy have been surrounded by all the darkenin
70 influences of slavery, have high claims upon gu
# charity and patience; but in the action of sue
q Northern men as Dr. Bacon, and the other abov
r mentioned, who have been born and educated
j. among the free hills of the North, there is
m depth of meanness which is so unfathomable, an
,e aposltve demonstration of the doctrine of tota
70 depravity.
II But "think not that these are sinners above al
a. others" There are hundreds of organic sin re
lie liglonsts in the Northern States, who if tran.
lie planted IN the South would bear similar fruit