Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-04-01

port, 1896.
JOHN RANDOLPH " Sir, | envy neither the
head nor the heart of that man, from the North
who rises here to defend slavery on principle."-
Speech in Congress, 1929.
Mr.. Moore =" Slavery, as it exists in Vir-
ginia, may be regarded as the heaviest calamity
which has ever fallen to this portion of the hui
man race. One of the evils which arises from it,
is the irresistible tendency which it has to under
mine and destroy every thing like oirtue and
morality i'll the community ."-Specch in Virgil
mia Legislature, 1882.
THOMAS M. RANDOLPH 1t is a practice,
and an increasing practice, in parts of Virginia,
TO REAR SLAVES FOR MARKET. How can an
honorable mind, a patriot and lover ofhis coun-
try, bear to see this Ancient Dominion converted
into one vast menageric, where men are reared
for market like oqen for the shambes .'-Spccch
IN Virginia Legislature, 1882.
Rev. r. /. BRECKENRIDGE, of Baltimore -
" What is slavery, as it exists among us? We
reply, it is that condition, enforced by tn. laws of
one-half of the States of this Confederacy, in
which one portion of the community, called
masters, is allowed such power over another por-
ton, called slaves, as
81. To deprive them ofthe entire earnings Of
their own labor, except only so much as is ne
cessary to continue labor itself, by continuing
healthy existence-thus committing clear robbie
Ty.
90. To reduce them to the necessity Of univ
crsal concubinage, by denying to them the civil
rights of marriagc-thus breaking up the dearest
relations Of life, and encouraging uaiu0sal pro-
%Stituti0n
90. To deprive them of the means and OPP
portunitlcs of moral and intellectual culture, in
many States making it a high penal offence to
teach them to read-thus perptaatjng whatever
evil there is that proceeds from ignorance.
"4. To set up between parents and their
children an authority higher than the impulse of
nature and the laws Of God, which breaks up
the authority eff the flther over his own offspring
and at pleasure separates the mother at a return
less distance from her child-thus abrogatlng all
deccncy and justice, and degrading and oppres-
sing thousands upon thousands of beings created
like themselves in the image of the Most High
God. TINS is SLAVERY, as it is daily exhibited
in every Slave State. "-Atrican Repository,
SYNOD OF Kentucky " Brutal stripes and
all the various kinds of personal indignities are
not the only species of cruelty which slavery IL
censes. The law does not recognise the flmily
ICldLlOIlS VI Il SluNE, anu CAlCllNlS u lllltl IO pIU"
lection in the enjoyment of domestic cndear-
ments. The members of a slave family may be
forcibly separated, so that they shall never more
meet till the hn1l Judgment and cupidity often
induces the masters to practice what the law al
lows. Brothers and sisters, parents and child
crn, husbands and wives, are torn asunder, and
permitted to see each other no more. These
acts are daily occurring in the midst Of US. The
shrieks and the agony often witnessed on such
occasions proclaim with a trumpet tongue the
INIQUITY AND CRUELTY OF OUR sYsTEM.'-Ad-|
dress, 1885.
HENRY CLAY: {" I consider slavery as a curse
"a curse to the mlster-a wrong, a grlcvous
wrong, to the slave. In the abstract, it is all
wrong, and no possible contingency can make
it right.-COioaization SPEECH, 1886.
7. MARSHALL, of Fauquier county, Virginia !:
" Slavery is ruinous to the whites. The master
has no capital but what is vested in HUMAN FLESH.
The father, instead Of being richer for his sons,
is at a loss to provide for them. There is no diver
sity of occupations, no incentive to enterprise.
Labor of eUcry species is dSrcpata6(e, because
performed mostly by slaves. Our towns are sta
t%ionary, our villages almost everywhere declin-
INC, and the general aspect of the country marks
lllC CURSE vi d w dStClul, lulCI lCChlCoo PoPuldCloH,
who have no interest in the soil, and care not
how much it is inpoverishcd ."-Speech in Fr-
ginja Legislature, 1916.
And now, sir, what will you do with this host
of witnesses, which might be indefinitely enlarg-
ed :! Will yOa, a Northern man, charge these
witnesses with an imperfect knowledge of slave
ry By no means but you may say of them
quite as truly as of the Bishop of Oxford, that,
had they only been at Scuppernong last Good
Friday and Easter Sunday, they would have ask
ed " instant pardon of the American church,
for having spoken so harshly of an institution
which she enjoys, defends, and blesses.
Warburton, in his Divine Legation, (vol. 9, p.
92,) informs us that the ancient slges held it
lawful and expcdient to teach one doctrine to
the people at large, and an opposite one to a Sc
lect number. Hence the double doctrine of these
philosophers-the one external, intended for the
public, and known as the c%r0teriC the other in
ternal, confined to friends and disciples, and de-
nominated the csoteric. The shareholders of the
present day have their double doctrine also and
to distinguish between the %cT0tGric and the ESQ
tcric, it is only necessary to ascertain whether
the language used is intended for effect on the
north or the south side of Mason and DiXon's
line. For the purpose of Illustrating this double
doctrine, which in the sequel will be found very
useful in explaining the spiritual phenomena wit
messed a scuppcrnong, l will call your attention
to the ~eroteric teachings of these distinguished
sages, GovernorseHayne and Hammond, both
within a few years chef magistrates of South
Carolina. The former, in his message to the
Legislature, in 1888, thus speaks to the South
Carolina lawgivers, but only for the purpose O
being overhead by the people ofthe North
at is a remarkable fact, that even during the
revolutionary war, when the State was oyerrur
by a barbarous enemy, marching openly under
the banner of emancipation, our domestics cOutc
not be seduced from their masters, but proved
souce of STRENGTH, and not of weakness, to the
+ country"
Governor Haync, no doubt, adopted the max
i'm of the Grecian philosophers, that truth anf
f utility do not always coincide for ne was, o.
} course, too we'll informed in the history oil ms
native State not to have been conscious that the
" remarkable fact" thus officially announced was