Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-04-18

and drbased by this hereditary yoke appear less
active and capncious than our own? or is II be-
cause we have become SO Infatuated to their
situation as to be caous to the horrors oil II,
that we are determined, whether polite or not,
to keep them until time shall be no more on a
level with the brutes? For nothing says i"on-
tesduieu, " so much assimilatcs maj TO brute
as living among frpemen, hnsef slave
Call not MARYLAND land Of liberty; do not
oretpnd that she has chosen this ct",Etry as an
asvlnm: that she har erected her temple and
consecrated her shrine, when here also her un-
hallowed enemy holds his hellish pandemon"m
md our rulers offer sacrifices at his polluted al
tars. ...,
The lily and the bramble may grow IN soci'i
proximity, but liberty and slavery, delight IN sep
aration. W",," IL '',''
believe the ncoherent tale of schoolboy' VINO
should tell me that he had been frightened oy
ghost MS that the grunt OF manumIssion oneht
in any degree to alarm us. Arc we arpreheh-
sive that these men will become more dnnger-
ous bv becoming freemen? Are we alarmed.
lest by being adtni'ted TO the eRioyment OF civil
rirhts thew will he inspired with deadly en-
mItv scaiust the rights Of others? Strange I'M
accountable paradox! How much more ration
nj would il be 10 argnc that the natural enemy It
the privileges Of freeman is he who ls robbed
of them himself In him the ioul fendlof jealousy
converts the sense Of his own debasemen into
IN ncOrous hatred for the more suspicious fate of
others, while from him whom you have raised
| from the degrading situation of q slave. whom
Won have restored to that rank in the order OF the
universe which the maIignity of his fortune pre-
vented him from: obtaining before, from such
man, unless his soul be ten thousand times
blacker than his complexion-you may reasona-
bly, hope for all the happy effects of the warmest
gratitude and love.
Sir, let us not limit our views to the short pc
Rod of life in being; let us extend them along
the continuous line of endless generations yet to
come. How will the millions that now teen in
the womb of fniurity, and whom your present
laws would doom tothe curse Of nerpeua bond
aye, feel the inspiration of gratitude to those
whose sacred love of liberty shall have opened
the door to their admission within the pale Of
frcecom? D'shonoTab'e TO the species is the
idea that they would evei prove injurious TO our
interests released from the shackes of slavery,
by the Justice OF Government and the bounty Of
individuals, the want of fidelity and attachment
would be next to impossible.
1t is for us to reflect that whatever the com
plrxion. however ignebie the ancestry, or uncn'-
tivated the mind, one universal father gave being
to them and us and with that being c0nferred
the inalienabe rights of the species
Extracts from speech dciirtred IN the Maryland
Legislature, .Aoy l7S9.
The door to freedom is fenced about with
such barbalous ution that stranger would be
naturally led to believe that our statesmen con
sdered the existence OF its opposite among us
us the sine qua ron Of our prosperity; or, at
least that they regarded it as an act of most at
trocious criminlIity to rise an humble bond.
man from the dust and place hila on the stage
OF lite on a level with their citizens.
Mr.. Speaker, iniquitous and most dishonora-
bic to Maryland rs that dreary system Of par
, tia bondage which their laws have hitherto sup
4 ported with a socnude worthy of better oh
! ject, and her citizens by their practice counte-
, nanced.
Founded 10 dsgracefui traffic, to which the
q parent country lent her fostering aid, from mo
. tives OF lAterest, but which even she would nave
d disdained to eicourbge, had England been the
destined mart OF such lnhu'nan Werchandlse' lt'
10 continuance Is as shameful as It's origin
~ Eternal nfany await the abandoned mlscre
~ ants whose selfish souls could ever prompt then
tH6n1 Ghef b. thousand, 10 poison the fair EdeI
=" oflibrrv with the rank wecd0f individual bond
l. ave Nor is it more to the credit OF our ances
nj to'' 'ua' Wy ",I H'' '.r"i .''',
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to h'i'l'an "a.''I wou'" na'e neeueu Une s'osS |
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H. Ma'y ,ane' VIC saic' 'Na' wac" "e' o"Aen' u
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Is u" '''o N"o"' VI ""'a' Pil'0 anu az Ell
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r. '' ''eD ,"V "oSo'n VI '"en Oo""''y VIII
on '''g T "iuo" "' I'e,y IHroSaSI se,e'a''Il
veil n, oGyon over th, discussing sce u'e" nf u; in
w qu'y' ont 'na' tIe present aO5ect sa'e OF tno'
so "'o u'o uo0Ie"n'u l'oi .'ies N'u"'Pleu s"iiei
w. 'I pI' o'Ins9 :, III "U'~ \" u'o "'I'''o
lie pu' Wherefore snou,u We e" ,n 'e edse
go cehsure 10 our ancestors or those RON whoL
ot They s,rewed around the seeds If slavery. W
ny cherish and sustain the growth. They intro
ia duced the system, we enlarge, inyjgorpte an
re. confirm it.
q For shame cir, let us throw off the mask-it i
cobweb one at best, and the world will Sc
IS, through it. 1t will not do, thus to talk like phi
Did losophers, and act like unrelenting tyranrs It
NV be perpetually sermonizinr it, with liberty fo
n our text, and perpetual bondoge for our con-
in mentary.
nd Survey the countries. sir. where the hand Il
in freedom conducts The ploughshare, and compar
is, tIpir produce with ours. Your granarcs in thi
er view appear like the storehouses of emnets bu
m not SUPPLIED with equal industry. To trace din
ir- cause OF the dispauitv between the fruits of
H. freeman'S voluntary labors, animated BY tn
IN, hone of profit. and the slow paced effort Of
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