Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1857-07-24

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advisable, let the procept about buying a
slave be always accompanied by this about
/ thoir treatment. PLYFAtR
rye have not read the article noticed in
the roicbuau of the 10TH and commented
upon in tho annexed communication. and can
not therefore, pass Judgment upon either our
"sub" or friend smith.-Ed Watch.
For the watchmou
Mn. WALTON In your paper Of July 10,
noticing the Lopdon Quarterly Rerieu you
/ say. Tho Essay on ImeTcan SiaUcry is char
actcristic of the English mind, it cannot com
prchoud the subject and better let it alone
/ This remark gave me pain. think it docs
/ Injustice TO the English mind, and looks like
a desire to ward off foreign rcbukcs against
our national sin. From the London init /
/ Sl1rery Reporter, which regularly receive, ]
Judge that English people do comprehend
American Slavery quite as well as our own
Northern statesmen do. What should him
dcr3 is there anything inscrutablc about the
subject: Have we managed TO conceal our
shame from the gaze Of the world? Docs
never page of our literature escape across
the water: Is there a high wall all around
the slave States TO shut out English travel
lcrs Be assured, sir, American Slavery is
well studied and understood abroad. Dos
pots study it with dcrison, and phianthro-
pists with grief Better let IL alone; How
can we desire EngHshmcn 20 be hoartlcss -
Had not ire better listen with candor and
mcckness TO what they sayi They arc in bet
ter circumstances than we 60 judge of our
slavery impartiully. Let them speak freely.
is 10 not humane. is il not friendly, is it not
hudablc i'm them TO demonstrate with us If
we are determined TO sacrifice the slave to our
notions of State sovereignty. and not plead
his cause. nor lift finger for his omancipa-
ton, why. in the name of humanity, let him
have friends and advocates somewhere' III
we choose to be dumb in his behalf for MGR
cys sake, do not gag all the rest of the world !.
If VIC construe the Constitution as pro-slav-
cry instrument and swear TO support it az
such, thus binding ourselves TO side with the
I opprcssor against his victim, can we proceed
to rob that victim of the sympathios Of man
- kind
p The English mind ignorant of American
Slavery: If / mistake not we shall soon
& find OCCASION in the progress of light, 10 blush
at our own ignorance. and feel vcxed at the
crcduhty with which we have suffered our
selves TO be duped by the pretcnsious of slave
holders. However cXcusablc English igno-
; rance may be- ice ought to know that slavery
iu our country is rot State institution, Csc
% tabGsbcd bv state authority for The good of
o. the pcoplc. but creature of individual law
. Iessuess. oppressive. not Co tho blacks merely.
% but toa grcat majority of thowhitcs While
the Fugitive Slave bin was under discussion
r I'm Congress. southern members. Co prevent a.
81 provision for giving FUGITIVE slave, a Jury tral
came forward. almost by dozens. To- disclose
- the fact that slavery was not established by
D lav. Juries would require proof of law
showing that slavery existed I'm thc State
s from which the slave escaped. but the protoc-
ton which slavery needed was the protection
n of "a lawlcss system To gain thcpoint. thcre-
fore. the system was stripped of It's ruise of
pretended local law. and shown off ~ its
. naked deiormitv And vet. as If determined
never 20 learn fact against slavery. we con-
r tinuo o. give 10 the benefit of the old io of
local law and State sovcreiguty Should
c shareholders. after having acknowledged the
p, lawlessness of their system. abolish IL ON the
y, ground of its lawlcssness wonder " North
o em politicians would persist in recognizing
IFS @ocredncss. and affirm. i'm their resolutions
Be- and platforms, that IL must not be- interfcrcd
d with "vhero it exists under the shield of
Of State sovereignty
nd The theory of compromise and local law
NJ served TO procure a federation of slavery where
it existed, but did NOT favor cStcnsion That
theory, with shareholders, has had its day