Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1855-12-29

'n' siaNe anu shoe-olich OF the white man
they say, If not, why don't the Niger rise and
cut the white mans throat, and be free and
then they are apt to say lille line
Who would be free, himself must strike the blow;'
which is an honest truth, strikingy expressed.
When the timid sportsman was aghast at
live lobster who had seized his hook, and one
cried out, Catch hold him = he declined fol-
lowing the advice, and said 'Oh, yes, il is
easy enough to say, Catch hold of him. but
try it,
So with these niegers it is easy enough to
say why don't they rise = but those who
say this are hard TO please, as shall show,
should think it likely thing enough that nv
friend the Rev. Mr. Careful, would say, why
don't he rise, il he be really mani Now,
my reverend friend gets large salary, and
some OF II comes from cotton profits, and he
does not see things as do, who am only
blacksmith. lie cannot. Let US put him in
to the nigger's shoes, or tracks rather for
while
The Niger is born with dark skin, often
without known father, (Which is not the case
now with DuIham caite,) and so is a sort of
immaculate Conception, not, yet, however. ell
evaied into dogma he is sucked four times
day, for his mother is let in to him as care
fully as if he were calf; in due time he
makes mud-pes, as any child, even white
one, does then he gets old enough 10 bo in the
way, and is cuiled out, but on the whole has
good time, for his hair curls without the aid of
tongs, and he is not distressed with clean clothes:
as he grows older, he is carefully trained
His mind Of course, Mr.. Wallysr
| TN bless your simple soul, that would
! shake tho glutivus IT,. ., ,ia.o, II =.
carefully trained to handle the hoe, and is as
siduously watched over by judicous overseer,
hired for the purpose, regardless Of expense
who, having conquered his prejudices, is able,
with the aid of timely fagellants, to keep this
growing soul in the path of duty, (between the
rows Of growing cotton or sialwart cane,) so
that in time the boy develops mind, body, soul,
and affections, and becomes
What, Mr. Wallays,'
A finished minister (of that Jesus who said
he came TO let the oppressed go free, and to
loose the chains of the cap,ives) -of-course !
One whose polished eloquence and bland piety
are the solace and delight Of great numbers of
kindly Mrs. Grundys of both sexes, who say
why doa't he rise
Is that the way the boy Careful was trained
into Christian minister, and is that the arli-
Gle which slavery produces Reader, ask
you.
Now | say-has God not created him for the
benevolent purpose of hoeing the cane, and
backing the boots of US sinners
One serious thing enough may be said,
namely-that when very heavy mountains of
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and oppression, have lain on one for some cen
turies, one is apt to be pressed rather fiat, even
if one is a niger, and to find it rather bard to
rise. But let US see what did once happen,
and what was said then.
Once upon a time, on an island in the sea-
where there were many very brutal and degra-
ded blacks, who, il was satisfactory to think ,
were the descendants of Ham and whom kind
and good Cod had damned to this patriarchal
state-on such an island, where there were
4S0 900 Of these creatures, and some 80, 900
amiable and refined whites, trouble broke out
Strange as it may seem TO cultivated and sim
ple-minded people, the Christian whites quar-
relied among themselves, and came to violence
and bloodshed, and shonted Liberty liberty =
to arms y so loud, that it penetrated the thick
tympanums of these degraded niggers; and
out of their slough some of them crawled, and
they discovered, my dear Mrs c., that liberty
did not mean slavery! Stupid as they were,
they supposed that this was a discovery, for
there were no eminent Doctors of Divinity
among them, no learned lawyers, no liberal
commercial princes to tell them that il did, that
they were exactly synonymous, and that slave
ry was really the cornerstone Of liberty, and
that any man who knew what was good for
himself, would put himself (mind, body and
souD into slavery; but especially nigeers, for
the kind Providence had arranged it for them
some years ago. They had no one 10 tell them
these things, so they said--'We love not the
scars of the whip, we love not degradation and
ignorance nor do we love labor for your sake
OH mighty masters so we will take your
arms and our liberty, and henceforth yon may
work your own sugar-felds. In other words,
they rose,' and, for twenty years, cruelty and
revenge met cruelty and revenge, and these mig
gers almost equalled the white men. But now
comes the singular part of the story, namely
that after they had done this, and had risen,
and had applied the whip to the backs Of the ir
masters--the Rev. Carefnls and others were
not bit more satisfied than before, and they
have not ceased to scream in their solemn slum-
bers since that day.
So il has been as | said if they were con-
tent with degradation, they were called Cuffs
and if they rose and slaughtered right and left,
and tricked themselves in gold lace and swallow
Jailed coats, as Louis Napoleon does, and in
all things behaved after the manner of the white
folks, they were called dam'd nggers.'
No wonder they are discouraged.
The claim is that niggers belong TO less
capable race than the whites Intellectually it
may be so. Then the inference is, that as they
cannot be masters, they must be slaves; in
other words, they are weak, and it is the busi-
ness of the strong to rule them; and there is
no difficulty in deciding who is weak and who
strong, because the color Of the skin settles it,
Let us agree TO that for the present.
Now go step further-aud this is my
position, to which think Mr.. Knox will not
object viz that bilious temperaments, with
black hair and strong digestive apparatus, are
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