Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-08-03
Necessity for Pro-slnvery school-booLs.

obliged to the donor for such II curiosilv-
W hat city claims the honor Of birth place to
such learned Thcban' as the author is. we do
not know. pencil note inform. us that lac is
4 Northcncr by birth and cducaton."
probably to show us villa precious blyclhrads
the north can producc,- at least occasionally.
Folly, We admit, is not confined to any par
ticular latitude. Ounces are found ia Ill
climates. Born and cdHcatcd nj thc North ,
Born at the north he may have been. but ,du-
cdtcd, in any hjeral sense of the word, he
never was at the north or anywhcrc else
We have read a.good deal about slavery as
an evil to be endured because it could not be
helped,-to be got along with as well as pos
siblc, till in the providence of God it shall be .
gradually worked out Of the society cursed .
by its presence curse which many there
would gladly shake Off if they knew how. -
Many depreciation, too, have we read of the |
sweeping censures too often applied by the
ignorant, the thoughtless and the fiery to the |.
whole population Of the south. as if all there
were guilty Of every enormity which the few
more ferocious or brutal natures indulge in. -
Oflatc years too, we have seen an abundance Of
fierce political defamation about ..thc rights
Of the slave states about the ''mcddlinr
Of Northern fanatics with the domestic insti
tutions Of the South''--have read often of a
stout rope and the nearest tree or at least
coat of tar ind feathers, as the threatened
doom OF every " aboltionist who should
lnr t, cbn hig
and Dixon line. All those sorts Of talk We
could understand There might be some
wrong and some right which could be scpa-
rated and reasoned about-somcthing to pity
or to be indignant at But Mr. Marshall's
solemn twaddle about proslavcry arithmetics
and philosophers and pro slavery fine arts,
and about their benign influence over the
W est Indies and all the vast regions watrrcd
by the Amazon-about Africa being herself
redeemed through slavery. since "thc colorrd
men who are to rule and govern Africa. will
f.. ,r,n OF tlrmt. learning. aud email 81 fl.
and they will think and speak aud act ON
the subject of domestic servitude as citizens
Of the southern states do is only aJsurd -
1t does not deserve sober argument, but
only to be laughed at. Yet it is plain that
the continual din of the southern politicians
| has 50 bcwldcrcd the brains Of many worthy
! people at the south that they have begun to
/ think there must BE- some essential good in
the system Of slavcry-that is where HackS
and mnldtoes are the subjects of it (for we he
lieyc that as soon as the black blood is all
nttt Of 1a,,, 81 Iii L.. II
slavery can be of no service to him) and hence
We t"Eo it there is a demand for such silly rro-
ductions as this of the Rev c. K. Marshall
friend who knows we'll how to do such
things, in order to get little more BODY t.
work upon, has stuck Mr.. Marshall's speech
and the Charleston Courier together. and
given US Reyiew-rathcr longer indeed. than
our columns could often find room for, but
too good to be abridged or kept from our
readers. 1t commences on the lst page.
r The TEMPERANCE CONVENTION at lud
low appointed a State Committee for the
Powers and Sampson party. and placed upon
it the name of REV. Eli BALLOT, of Montpc-
licr Mr. Ballou is staunch and consistent
temperance man, altogether too much so tt
couhtenahce the Ludlow movement. From
inc io'!ow'nS sensible remarks on the SUBJECT
which appear in his journal, the Christian
REPOSITORY 1t Is safe to presume that
the use Of his name by that Convention was
un,,utL,ri,,d
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