Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-04-22

W WY ANlAOW, anu perhaps LuC udy dlltI ICdIulg
them from their wives and children, and selling
them to the dealer in human flesh, to be convey
ed to distant markets
Think you, sir, the Bishop would have felt
very penitent for his condemnation of slavery
had he, on leaving Scuppernong, repaired to
Wilmington, still in yOar diocese, and there re-
cognised some of the Easter Sunday commun-
cants among the mandcied passengers described
in the following letter AS | went on board
the steamboat at Wilmington, noticed eight
colored men, haadcgfed and chained together in
pairs, four women, and eight or ten children
all standing together in the bow of the boat, in
charge of man standing near them Coming
near them, perceived they were all greatly a.
gtated and, on inquiring, found that they were
all slaves who had been born and raised in North
Carolina, and had Just been sold to a Spectator,
who was now taking them to the Charleston
MARKET Upon the shore was number of color
ed persons, women and children, waiting the de-
parture of the boat. My attention was particul-
arly arrested by two colored females, who stood
together little distance from the crowd and
upon whose countenanCes was depicted the keen
est sorrow. As the last bell was tolling, | saw
the tears gushing from their eycs-thcy wcre the
WiUeS of taCO Of the men in chains. There, too,
were mothers and sisters, weeping at the dcpar-
ture Of their sons and brothers and there too,
were fathers, taking the last look Of their Oi0es
and Children My eye now turned to those in
the boat, and although had tried to control my
feelings amidst my sympathy for those on Shore
could conceal them no more, and found myself
literally weeping with those that wept [ stood
near them, when one of the husbands saw his
wife on the shore wave her hand for the last time;
his manly efforts to refrain his feelings gave way
and, fixing his watery eyes upon her, he exclaim-
ed This is the most distressing thing Of all
my dear wife and children, farewell Ofthe
poor women on board, three Of them had has,
bands, whom they left behind. Sailing down
Cape Fear river twenty-five miles, we touched
at the little village ofSmithport, on the south side
of the river. 1t was at this place that one of the
slaves lived, and here were his w1e and fUc
children While at work on Monday last, his
purchaser took him away from his family, car
ried him IN chainS to Wilmington, where he re-
NAMED in jail As we approached the wharf, a
flood of tears burst from his eyes The boat
stopped but moment, and, as she left, he espied
/ his wife on the stoop of house some rods from
/ the shore, and with one hand, which was not in
the handcua, he pulled off his old hat, and, way
ing it towards her, he exclaimed, Farewell p
After few moments silence, conflicting passions
seemed to tear open his breast, and he eXclaim-
ed, What have / DONE that | should suffer
this Oh my wife and children want to
| live no longer !''-ChristjaR AdcOcatc and Jour.
And is this most accused traffic in the sheep
Of yOur flock an " imaginary suffering Z"
Not contended with lauding the bessedness of
/ Won TO tr1O
Britain with her factory system, and to sheer at
your brethren of the mother church for riveting
such system on their land A vast amount of
sympathy is constantly expended by the dealers
in human flesh on the English poor and he who,
without conjunction, sends a mother to market,
or plows her back with the LASH finds his bowels
of compassion yearning over the cruel oppres-
sions" of factory chidon the other side of the
Atlantic
1t was the declaration of the Almighty, in re-
ference to his own peculiar people, " the poor
shall never cease out of the land'-a prediction
virtually repeated by your Saviour, and as liter
+, ally fulfilled in regard to every other land as il
was in Palestine. Nosystem of government, nc
form of religion, has ever caused the poor to
cease out of the land. Much poverty, no doubt
springs from bad government and wicked wars
but far larger portion from the vice, IMPROVE
dence, Incidence, and misfortune incident to hu
mainly Owing to the corruption of our nature
poverty often invites oppression which no gov
eminent, however paterna can prevent. In oul
own land, we have armies of paupcrs, exclusive
ofnearly three millions of our fellow countrymcn
who are reduced by law to absolute penury-
Yet this is the country, above all others, in which
extent of territory, cheapness Of land, and de
mand for labor should secure, fpossibIe com
potency for all. Is it, then, sir, matter of sur
prise, that poverty should abound in England
where population, nearly equal to that Of tn
whole of the United States, is crowded into
space less than your own diocese Owing t.
British industry and enterprise the wages oflab
or are higher in ENGLAND than in any other par
of Europe and, owing to the freedom of TIN
press and of the government, the English poo
are probably the least oppressed of any in tn
: Eastern World And yet, of all the paupers Q
u Europe, Asia, and Africa, it is only over thos
of England that the Shareholders raise the not
= of wailng."
, As you thought proper to taunt the Bishop c
Oxford with the cruel expressions of the factc
: ny system, it might have been expected that yo
u would specify the expressions to which you refer
> that it might be seen whether like the abomin;
u tons of North Carolina slavery, they were at
{ thorized bV Tar, or proceeded solely from the Gu
: pidity and cruelty of individuals.
Is 1t is also to be wished that you had condo
2 scended to contrast the English and America
l. factory systems, that we might know wherein
: they differ Such a comparison would not prot
{ ably result as much to our credit as you suppose
;, The two systems difer-hrst, in the rate c
. wages arising from the difference in the deman
e and supply of labor in the two countries anC
! secondly, in the paterna solicitude of the Brit
d sh Parliament to protect juvenile operatives fror
the avarice of their employers, and in the ute
7 indifference of our republican legislatures on tn
g subject. You speak of English churchmen hell
j ing to rivet the factory system on their land.
is to be regretted, sir, that you deal so largely
generalites, and are ayerse topartcular STATE
y ments How and when have English church
men riveted the factory system on their land =
: Has any presbytcr of the established churc
!. auded it as divine institution, and received