Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1857-07-16

done the Shareholders service for which you
ought 10 be literally rewarded They pay their
political hireliugs out of the peoples money
taken from the public treasury. The money
must come from their own pockets that rewards
Diyines for their services, and they have lived
so long and 50 sumptuously upon unpaid labor
that they may have come to believe that the
whole world are bound tn labor for them for
nothing how your Reverence may fare in
this respect time will determine.
think your Reverence must have fallen upon
pamphlet in which the writer asserts that la
Dor is Slavery and the only question is, wheth.
man or of society. You not only adopt the
doctrine that labor is Slavery - the Slavery
OF circumstances, but you fairly solve the
question stated in the pamphlet After giving
us glowing picture Of the blessed condition of
the Slave, when compared with the hard fate
of our Northern hirelings, you say These
statements may appear too highly colored, or
otherwise just as my readers have been accus.
toned to regard the subject. However this may
be, the fact remains undeniable that the Slaves
of the South are, on the whole, the happiest
class of labo-ers in the world, and the most
perfectly contented with their own condition."
II this is true, it is far better to be the Slave
OF one man than the slave Of society. Does
your Reverence really believe thai the Slave is
so happy and contented If you do, why do
yog propose to the people of the United States
to saddle themselves with debt of one thou
sand six hundred millions of dollars (if | I'M
dcrstand your computation) to purchase the
Slaves and set them at liberty! You profess to
view Slavery in the light of philanthropy, and
curious philanthropist your Reverence must
be to inhict upon your country such an enor.
nous debt for the purpose of removing the
slave from condition where he is so happv
and contented. But reconcile this in your own
way.
You have drawn fancy picture of Slavery
about as much like the original, as an angel of
f light is like one of the fallen spirits. shall
endeavor to present this institution to your
: Reverence as it really is--ask you to look upon
} its hldeous conntenance, and see if you can
recognise single feature you have given in
r yout portrait.
s Some writer has said that there are, in every
, society men that are better than the laws
This is no doubt true but ventura to affirm
t that where there is one better than the laws,
+, there are ten that are worse. shall, however,
e take the Slave Code of the South as giving us
n the true character of Slavery. And
&, lst The Slave Code " dooms the Slave in his
own person, and in his poserity, to live without
= knowledge
c Cd The Slave is to be trained with the sole
view to the profits of the master, his security,
d and the security of society,""
D Sd, The slave is deprived of the " capacity
n to make anything his own" and ST. far is this
y doctrine carried that the law declares the mar
Y riage of the Slave void, and bastardizes the is
Y sue, 80 that the Slave can have no interest in,
right to, or control over, wife or child
i Ali, The law Of Slavery places the body of
t the Slave entirely under the control of the mas
ter, and g allows of no appeal from the will
r of the master And if the late decision Of
= the Supreme Court, in the case OF bred Scott,
G is to be taken as fair expose of the law regu-
lating Slavery, then we may add,
5tb, That the Slave is property according to
8 the common deception Of the term, and no
G Court has right to draw any distinction De.
f tween the Slave and other property. There
, fore, the Slave can have none Of those inalien-
able human rights that the Shareholder is
g bound to regard, and the master may kill his
Z Slave with the sumo IMMUNITY that he can
butcher his OK or his hog.
These arc some of the leading maxims of the
f Southern Slave Code, and they are carried out
i to their legitimate consequences. and rigidly
enforced by statutory enactmenls and judicial
S decision While these barbarous laws have
y ground all humanity cut OF the Slave, they
: have reduced the mass of the whites to semi
: barbarians. Not only So but Slave cultivation
= has married TO wilderness some of the loveliest
o parts OF our beautiful earth, and should this
J, system continue, the time is not distant when
a large portion of the Southern States will be.
S come the Arabia of Amcrica-inhabit ted by no.
il madic tribes, not more civilized than the Arabs
: Of the desert. Did Christ ever sanction such
s a system as this
e hope to have the pleasure of addressing
II your Reverence on this subject again.
u RANDOLPH.