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

SOIL slLuQe worthy vi pSteS' N"JSS't 49, " "
gems by their practice connlenanced
Founded in dlsgraceful traffic, to which the
parent country lent her fostering aid from mo-
lives of interest, but which even she would nave
disdained TO encourage, had England been Inc
destined mart of such inhuman merchandise, IT'S
continuance is as shameful MS lis origin.
Wherefore should we couine the edge OF CEN
sure to our ancestors, or those from whom they
purchased Are not we EQUALLY gatftyg Ihey
strewed around the seeds of slavery tue cherish
and sustain the growth. They introdu ed The
system-,pe enlarge, invigorate, and confirm IT.
Speech in The Maryland House Of Delegates
1889.
WARNER MIFFLIS.
Humane petitions have been presented, to ex-
cite in Congress benevolent feelings for the SUI
ferings of our feow-chizens under cruel bond
aye to the Turks and Algerlnes, and that the
national power and influence might be exerted
for their relief; with this virtnous application
unite, but lament that any of my conntrymen,
who are dis Inguished as men emnenlly quail
fed (orpubc stations, should be so enslaved oy
iiberal prejudice as 10 treat with contempt
like solcitude foranothcr class OF men, still more
grlevously oppressed.
profess freely, aud am willing my profession
was known over the world, that feel the calls
of humanity as strong towards an African IN
America, as an American in A Iglers, both being
my brethren; especially as am informed the
Algerlnp treats his slave with more humanity ;
and believe The sin Of oppression on the part OF
the American is greatest III the sight OF the Fa
thcr of the family OF mankind Dissertations
on the .4mericnn Revolution" published BY order
of Congress, In I779
wILLIM WRIT.
Slavery was contrary to the laws of nature
and of the nation and the law OF South Carolina,
concerDlng seizng coored sea nen. was uncon-
stltutlonaI.--Life Of Patrick Henry.
JOHN RANDOLPH.
Dissipation, as well as ro'oer or prosperity,
hardeus the heart; but avarce deHdens 1t TO
every feeling but the thirst for riches. Avarlce
alone could have produced the slave trade. Av
arce alone can drive,as it does drlve,ihs internal
traffic, and the wretched victims like so many
post horses, whipped to death in mail coach
Ambition has It's over shuts, in the pride, pomp
and circumstance OF glorious war; but where
are the trophies Of avaricc? The handcuff the
manacle, and the blood stained cowhlde! What
man is the ,corse received in society for being Il
hard master. Hho denies the hand Of sister or
daughter TO such monsters ?-nay, they have even
appeared in g the abused shape of the vllest of
women lsay nothing of India or Amboyna-
O. Cortez, or Pzlrro -Southern LITERARY Mes
senger.
"Slr. neither envy the head nor heart Of
hat man from the North, who rises here to de
fend slavery upon pripcIpe." -Rebuke Of Ed
,card Everett, in Congress- 1920.
SO. have upwards of two thousand pounds
sterling in the hands of rlGg, Brothers e. Co.,
Of London, and upwards ofona thousand pounds
of like money in the hands Of Gowan and Marx ;
tlis money leave to my executor, VIM. Leigh,
a. fund for carrying into execution my will re-
,pecting my slaves"
II give to ny slaves their freedom, 10 Which
my conscience tells me hey are justly entitled. 1t
h - long time been matter Of the deepest re-
gret to me, that the circumstances under which
| inherited them, and the obstacles thrown in the
way by The laws of the land. have prevented my
ernancIpating them in my lifetime, which it is
my full intention to do ia case can accomplish
it."-Cod., JAM, 1926.
GOVERNOR RANDOLPH.
The deplorable error OF our ancestors in copy
lily ClNll USlllullOIl from savage AilCug nus
affixed upon their posterity q depressing burden,
which nothing but the extraordinary benefits
conferred by our happy climate, could have en-
abed US to support. We have been far out
stripped by states to whom nature has been far
less bountltul II Is painful to consider what
might have been, under other circumstances the
mount Of general wealth IN Virginia, or the
whole of comfortable subsistence and happiness
possessed by all her habitants,-.4ddress to The
Legislature Of Virginia, in 1890
HENRY CLAY.
This Society Colonization does not NEEDLE
with slavery. either to proong or discontinue its
existence. lis abstract opinion, or rather The ab-
stract opinion OF its members, are ,CeH knoWn -
They believe it 10 be deplorabie evil Address on
taxing The Chair as President of the american
Colonization Society in 1887.
THOMAS F. MARSHALL.
have said that considered negro slavery as
a political misfortune. The phrase was too
mid IL is q cancer-a slotc, consuming cancer
Il wihering p silence - an uamitigated curse. -
speak moi in the spirit OF a pulling and false
philanthropy was born in slave state-I
was nursed by a save-my life has been saved
ton familiar, and see nothing horrible IN it. J
am VrgInlau by descent. Every cross in my
blood, as tar as can trace 1t, in paternal or ma
ternai line, is Vlrglnian.
ST. GEORGE TUCKER.
Among the blessings which the Almighty hath
showerad down Oh these states, there is a large
portion OF the blterest d-anrht that ever flowed
hn { fH,,t.an INiiI,t a Ia,
been the land of promise to Europeans and their
descendants, it hl;h been the vale of death to
millions of the wretched suns of Africa. The
general light of liberty, which hath here shone
with unrIvalled lustre on the former, hath yield
ed no comfort 10 The latter, but to them hath
proved pillar of darkness, while it hath con
Quoted the former to the most envlable state of
humun existence. Whilst we were offering up
70 Tvs at the shrine OF Liberty, and sacrificing
hecaombs upon The affairs; whilst we swole If
reconcllabe hostility to enemies, and hurled de
fiance in their faces; whilst we adlnred the
God Of battles to witness our resolution TO live
free, or die and imprecated curses on their heads
who refused to unite with Us in establishing the
empire of freedom we we're imposing upon our
feilow-mpn, who differ in complexion from Us, a
slavery, ten lhonSaud times more cruel than the
utn,>t extremity of those grievuncrs anu op-
pressons of which we complained.
If ever there was a curse, if ever n occasion,
in which all hearts should be united, every nerve
strained aud every power excrted, surely the
restoration of human nature to its lnaienable
rights is misunderstanding on Slavery, FIR
gina.
JAMES MCDOWELL.
If orr ancestors had exerted the 6rmness
which under higher obligations, we ourselves are
called upon to exert Virginia would not, at this
day, have been mourning over the legacy OF
weakness and OF sorrow thai has been left her
she would not have ven thrust down down in
a still lowering relation, t1 the subordinate post
which she occupies in the cnntederacy whose
career she had Icd-ste would not be witherlDp
under the leprosy which is PIERCING her 10 the
heart.
Whoihat looks to this unhappy bondage of an
unhappy people, in the ,ndst oil our society, and