Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-02-01

to prove every assertion you make as untrue
and every inference you draw as tallacious.
Slavery is not merely tolerated in the United
otetes, it is cherished you neither hope nor
believe In Its abolition. | read, not long ago,
a letter written by the American Minister at
Stockholm, (MR. BED1NaER, in which he pos
itively declares that the opinionis fast becosn-
ing general in the United States, that Slavery
is not only compatible with Christiauiay, lib
erty and the rights of man, as understood in
the United States. but it is essential to their
full development. l see this view maintained
throughout the entire South, and the conduct
of your Government and OF your politicians
is in harmony with it, !.
Such was the subsistence of the dialogue
and though do not mean to vipdicate the
statement or the logic Of the Wine Merchant.
yet it is indisputabIe that he stated truly the
tendency Of popular opinion in Europe, and
especially in France, as to the position Of the
| United States in regard to Slavery. If there
S one thing in which Europe is agreed, it is TIA {
Negro Slavery is an accumulation before God
and man. On your side of the water, where
you are familiar with the views Of savehold-
ers, you can hardly conceive the horror with
which their doctrines are regarded. 70 deny
that the African is in all things man, is not
ouly against Culver, as the greatest of natu-
raiists, but it is against what is universally
acknowledged in society. Democracy. here,
especially, calls all men bretheren. One OF
the first acts of the late Provisional Govern
ment OF France was to abolish Slavery, and
this was done in concession to public opinion.
: There are 200 pupils ,of negro blood in the
Colleges of Paris. DUMAS, one OF the most
gifted men OF the age Was part negro. You
constantly see negroes OF various degrees oil
mixture in society. IH -
Now o. us to say to the people of France
that these are not men, or that if they are
, they are an inferior race, aud hence we may
enslAve them, is as shocking to the French
popular MUD as it would be to say that {
: Hndoo, a Jew, or a Turk is not man, ant
: hence may be ensaved. This doctrine o
) the Shareholder seems here to involve the doc
y srine that might is right; in other words, i
e completely destroys the foundations Of all NOR
: alty. Tue great precept-Do unto others "a
you would have others do to you-is complete
iy overturned by 1t. If the new doctrine
true, tnen our Declaration OF independence
is taiiacy, Democracy and Chritianity
o farce.
i Such are the reflections forced upon tn
l. mud here by the attitude we seem to be as
u suming Ii things progress thus; we sha
|. not long challenge the sympathy OF the peopI
e OF Europeas friends OF liberty, friends of tn
/, oppressed; nay, rather the popular sentimeu
ii will rise i'll Indignation against US as natio
J Of opFpessors, who add to tyranny the hype
e critical pretonce Of democracy. The signs c
+ 'hcse coming events seems already visible. !
f3w days s,ncc an American lady in Pari
. >coidcd her French cook. Said the servan
Is Utterly Do you think | am negrol" A
l, American going to "A railroad station, spok
i. sharp y to the uan who carried his trunk
is The reply was, Do you take me Tor u slave ?
g Now am not telling things that arc apoch
: ryphal-things that can be set aside by snee
IS or annihiated by boast grasp in on
c view map OF things, notoriousiy true. An
. the general inference is obvious. We hav
Z already lost, Or are fast loosing, that honora
II bIe prestige that once belonged TO our name
The opinion is getting to be general, anon
j. rulers and people, that we are an unscrupulou
a and an unprinciped nation, which it is i'm
l. possible to love, and impossible not to. fear @
: hate. Our prosperity only aggrayates thi
10 general tendency TO aversion.