Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-05-12


amid long proraced applause.
Opinions of the Early Southern
Statesmen on Slavery.
Since the South have assumed new attitude
on the Slavery question, and undertaken to de-
feud and claim the Institution as blessing, in
which they are already enliatng no small degree
of Northern aid aid sympathy, it should be the
dutv Of the friends of freedom everywhere 10
arm themselves with arguments to meet the new
crisis and with this view We give below the
opinions Of the early Southern Saiesnen-lhe
very ahlest that America has production The
subject, and invite careful perusal of their able
and unanswerable arguments. They were col
lecIed by the New York Euening Post. in de-
fence Of nm assault of the Charleston Is. C.)
Mercury, one Of the leading organs of the
Slavery interest
| THOMAS JEFFERSON.
The whole com nerce betw en- master and
slave is perpetual exercise OF III most bolster
JUS passions the most unreuilitng despollsn
on the one part and degrading sub mission on
the other Our children see this and learn to
initiate IL; for man is an initiative animal. Tbs
quality is the germ of all education in him. From
his cradle to his grave he IS learning to do what
he sees others do, If a parent could find no
motive either IN his philanthropy or his SeIf-l"Ne,
for restraining the mtemperance of passion '''-
wards his slave, it should always be stilfici t
one that his child is present. But generally It IS
not sufficient. The parent storms, the chi 4
looks on, catches the lineamenls ot wrath. pats
on the same airs IN the circle OF SIN ,rr slaves
gives loose to his worst passions, and thus
nursed, educated, and daily exercised IN tyran-
ny, cannot but be stamped by lis odious pecu
lIarities The man must be prodigy who can
retain hls manners and morals undepraved by
such circumstances And with what execraton
should the statesman be loaded who permitting
one half the citizens thus to trampIe on the rights
of the other, Transforms those into despots, and
these into enemies, destroys The morals OF the
one part, and the amor pntrlae OF the other For
if the slave can have country IN this world, II
must be any other IN preference to that in which
he is BON to live and labor tor another: in which
he must lock up The faculties of his nature. con-
tribute as far as depends on his individual en-
beavers 10 the evanlshnrn of the human race,
or entail his own miserable condition on the
endless generations proceeding from hin. With
the morals Of thr people their industry also is de,
stroyed. Fol 10 "A warm climate, no man will
labor tor hlnselt who can make another labor
tor him TINS IS so true. that OF the propretOrs
OF slaves, a very small proportion indeed are seen
to labor. Aud can the liberties Of "A nation be
thought secure when we have removed their
only firm, bass ccnvi;ion in be minds Of the
people hat these liberties ure Of he gifts Of God
That lhey are MOI 10 be violated but with his
wrath Indeed, trembe tor my country when
| reflect that God is just that his justice can
not sleep forever that considering numbers, IA
ture, aud natural means only a revolution OF the
wheel of fortune, an exchange Of situation, is
among possible events: that It may become
prooable by supernatural interference! The
4mighty has no attribute ,Dhich run Toxic side ,ch
us in such contest.-Letter 10 VI. Wdrule, Paris,
February, 1888.
PATRICK HENRY.
Would any one believe that | am master of
slaves, of my own purchase? am drawn along
BY the general Inconvenience of living here with
out tben will not, cannot justify it, How
ever eulpabe my con .uct. will so far pay my
devoir to vtrrue, az to own the excellence and
reclitude of her precepts, and lament my want
of conformity to them.
believe a time ,oiH come ,0hsn an opportunity
,oiN be offered 10 abolish this tamcntabie evil.
Everything We can do is 10 improve it, if hap
pens in our day If MOI LEI MS transmit to onr de-
seer dants, together with DOR slaves. pity for
their unhappy lot, and our adherence for slave
| 18Th. vi too,
nation to practice, H., US treat The unhappy vic
Tins with lenlty. is the Furthermore advance
we can make towad, Justice. IT Is -44.b' Ne
to purity of our rehgun, 10 show that II Is at va
rance with that law which warrants slavery.
know not where to stop could say many hIngs
on the subject; a serious view Of which gives
gloomy perspective tos future tunes !-LeHer to
Robert Peasants.
PRESIDENT MADISON,
Many circumstances concur in Frightening
the prospects Of the society, and cherIshlng the
hope that the time will come when the dreadful
calamity which has so long afflicted onr country
and filled so many with despair, will be gradu'
ally removed and By means consistent with jus
tice. peace, and The general satisfaction -hns
giving to our country the foil enjoyment Of the
blessing of liberty, and to the world he full ben
eft of its exampe-Letier to r. e Griey, Dec.
80, 1881
JAMES MONROE.
We have found that this evil has prayed upon
the very vltals of the Union and has been pre-
judicial to all the states in which it has existed.
Speech IN The pIginia Convention.
The American Colonization Socrty has at all
times, soIemny dsavowed any purpose OF inter-
ferance with the Institutions or rights oI southern
communities BY The soundest and most judi
cous minds in our country. 1t has, however been
regarded as developing and demonstrating the
practlcableness and utility of plan which CON
mends itself as worthy of adoption to those indl-
vlduans and states who desire not only TO bene
fit the free people Of cnior, while they relieve
themselves by their removal, but also diminish,
and finally eradicate. what all sober and unpre-
JUDGED minds regard as The greatest evil Of our
national epits--the system of slavery Opinion
quoted by j. p Kennedy in Report No 2S3 in
The House Of Representatives., l043.
WILLIAM PiNcKNEY.
Sir: Ubiquitous aud most dIshonorable to Ma.
rpI nd 10 hat rou AZ ~. 4.