Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-06-24
THE FREE MAN .
Common Objections Answered.

Common Objections Answered.
A sentimen, is frequently expressed that person of
limited capacity may ask questions, but it requires
person of sense and knowledge to answer them. This,
undoubtedly is true, and people in the slave interest
have taken great advantage of it in addressing to per-
sons who have not read or thought much upon the sub
ect the questions GLOW can the people of the north
ern States abolish slavery in the southern States?-
What will become of the slaves when made free? Are
you willing they should be hudded into the northern
States for support like the crowds of emgran paupers
from Europe"
A short, true answer to each of these questions
should be readily given by every man who pretends to
any considerable knowledge of our country's history
and its various climate and of The constitution of the
coored race.
LIST. Lctthe morrill, or free States withdraw and with
hold all their support Of slavery, and its own weight
would sink it so deep that it would never rise again
That would be abolition enough.
I'd, The slaves will be employed, as soon as free'
to labor for their old masters upon hre and fnot for
them for others wanting labor.
g. There is no danger of emancipatcd slaves leaving
their congenal, warm climate to nhabit our northern,
cold regions. Slaves, cmancipating themselves by
flight, have no direction in which they can flee from
slavery but to the cold regions oftho north All other
directions would but plunge them deeper and deeper
in the mire OF slavery. Ask, if you please, any who
have fled to the north in quest of Liberty, where they
would choose their station if they could exercise their
choice upon the subject, they will all tell you they
would altogether prefer the SOUTH if they could enjoy
freedom there One of the fifteen Or twenty thousand
fugitive slaves in Canada once said in a convention,
that if slavery were abolished in the southern States
black negroes would soon be as scarce in Canada as
white negroes then were. All would return as soon
as they could be sure of enjoying freedom in their
tive land.
Ifany one doubts that the method herein named
would be ecctual to abolish slavery let HIM read and
recollect the history of the United States legislation
the north helping the Shareholders to carry every mca-
sure, and appropriate all the monies they wanted for
the support and extension of slavery and the like aid
in eIectng saveholiing Presidents, whose unbounded
patronage has been devoted to the encouragement,
support, extension and perpcuty of slavery, and his
doubts upon this subject will all be removed.
With regard to the answer to the second question,
will add word. If no experiment had ever been
made of immediate or sudden emancipation, what
might we not expect as a matter of course? The E.
mancipaed race would all be at liberty to engage in
labor, and to make such contracts as would furnish
them with cmpoymcnt and the planters would be des-
titue laborers. They would want to empoyas free
aborors those who have been doing this work slaves,
and know as much as slaves could be expected to
know, how their work should be DONE and would nave
some motive for doing and learning till they should
become efficient laborers The most natural SUPPOSE
ton is that these planters would contract forthwith,
with those who had been their servants, at some fixed
wages, for their future labor for some period, while 1t
could be asceraincd what would be the reasonable
price of their labor, and what the employer could af-
ford to give for it. Now this experiment has already
been made. Whoever will read the operation of i'm
mediate emancipation in the British West India Islands,
as seen, and written and published by Thore and
Kmba, will be satisfied of the entire practicabity,
and safety, and utility, Of immediate emancipation
utility both to the planter and his emancipatcd flock,
now laboring as company of freomen, stimulated by
the consciousness of having emerged from their for
mcr degradation, and the hope of moving in the as
cending scale Of moral social and intellectual improve
mcnt. RESPONSOR.