Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1861-01-24
IFor The Vermont Phgnir.l
WEST CHESTER, Pa,
January 18th, 1861.


for when you smote him on one cheek, he turn
ed to you the other.
But it is also true that he who strikes a
christian, strikes the world The race that pre-
sumes upon the meekness of the Negro to en-
slave him, must inevitably become mean. That
real high mndedness which was once almost
peculiar to the South, is no longer looked for
in that region except in the way of derision or
exception.
To enslave the Negro because he does not re-
sist isvery like that other act of taking money
because the drawer is left open.
That the Negro may resist, however, one of
these days. is believedby every body, and dread
ed by no one more than it is by his master In
asking us therefore to restore the Missouri Com.
| promise, what does the STAKEHOLDER ask us
10 do but TO go on accommodating that danger
Gus species Of property which is some day to
force the general government to exhaust its
blood and treasure in efforts to suppressP-
There is this difference between the property of
the free man and that of that of the slave-hol-
der, viz, while that if the first is without polit-
cal power and perfectly harmless, that of the
other carries political power with it and endan-
gers the country with servie and civil war;
The persistence of the Shareholder in carving
slaves with him into the territories, is like the
merchants of a town claiming to store their
powder amidst the houses of the residents in
stead of a magazine outside.
No one has right to vote to establish sla-
very in new territory or strengthen it in an
old one, for thereby he would endanger the lib
critics of his fellow men, in the South as well as
in the North, over which, of right, he has no
control. man may throw away his own lib
critics, if he pleases, but he has no right, by a
casting vote, to endanger the liberties ofthous-
and millions of Others We derive our liberty
from Heaven, not from political Institutions
No political institution can invest us with le-
gal right to hold slaves, or to impose slavery
upon children yet unborn.
But every system, good or bad, will be i'm
bued with the instincts of sef.preservation
and just in proportion the system is low and
unworthy, will be the sharpness and cunning
OF these instincts. Accordingly the slave-sys-
TEN, in its efforts at self-preservation, has had
the cunning to make the country believe that
all our difficulties and dangers have arisen from
abolitionism; whereas, they have arisen from
the slave states failing to keep their compact Of
securing "the blessings of LIBERTY to them
selves and their posterity" They have willful.
ly perverted the original object of the constitu-
ton to the purposes of extending and strength.
ening SLAVERY. 1t is the slave holder, there
FORE who occasions our difficulties and dangers
and not the abolitiorist. And YET, nothing is
more frequent than to hear honest and intelli.
gent men of the North express bitter hatred Of
abolitionism as the cause of all our evils. Such
is the cunning of the slave-power to impose up.
on us! The name of abolitionist was at one
time held in great honor in this State; and the
day is not remote when it will be again.
AT no time during the period of our Nation.
al existence has this state stood in a nobler at.
ttude than at the present juncturc She has
offered all her large resources to the govern.
ment for the preservation of our original com.
pact but her people would rather see the line
of separation drawn to-day between the free
and slave states than to consent to another com.
promise, which would be alike ruinous to the
South and the North. The state is waking up
and is beginning to see how egregiously it has
been imposed upon by the slave-power. o.
rather, heretofore it has been too busly at work
to give particular attention to the nsidious az.
gressions of slavery upon freedom has been
industrously developing its resources, and es.
tablishing noble institutions which will do il
immortal honor Among these are schools fol
the large numbers of Negroes who come here
from other states, and a school for week minded
children. This latter institution is a work Of
the noblest philanthropy, which will excite the
admiration and respect of every one who ex,
amines it. And its practical advantage will moi
be less as source of valuable statistical infor
nation than as an immediate relief to suffering
humanity. While Virginia is raising and sell
ing human beings like cattle, Pennsylvania i.
making large and liberal efforts to elevate the
condition even of idiots. 1t is folly to suppos,
that two such opposite spirits can remain il
harmony in the same body polite; and of thi,
fact the people are being reminded in Thousand
different ways. If the Union is to be saved
the original effort-the spirit of concession
must from the South, not from the North.
In speaking of these noble institutions, W,
are reminded of other works of elevating ten
dency to human character, and among these, o
the works of our Vermont Artist MEAD. Ar
ide became current some time ago, we do no
I know for what object that the ad memoriam tc
BRoDERIcK was TO be statue of the deceased
himself; but we have since learned, on gooc
authority, that it is to be monument, not
statue, and as marked in its features and posi-
ton as was the character of the man whose
death it is to commemorate. 1t is to be SC
situated as to attract the attention of every one
entering the harbor of San Francisco from the
sea, reminding him that California man once
marched deliberately to the slaughter for the
sake of human liberty, and that another man as
deliberately committed the slaughter in favor OF
human slavery.
Truly Yours, J. w. p.
--SsS-
1t is said that, within the space of l-2 miles
including part of Topsham and Orange, there
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