Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1864-04-22

can hunt nc down with. nonnds, nor h>h
mo when ho catches me, Neither can any
one take me.up and sell me for jail fees il
nobody olaisss me. If my landlord or any
other man were to strike me | could strike
back if pleased. and before the magistrate
nv oath is as good as his; but slave who
strikes back, may be shot on the spot, and
moreover slaves testimony Is in no Gaze al
lowed against any white man in the slave
States Neither myself, my wife nor nv
children are guw liable to he sold like bull
locks or sbosk. either separately or together,
at "a mas,er'sstt tthe sherif's pleasure, The
case is different with the slaves. Your rev
| erence don't seem to make much account o:
these things, but Dc. On the whole !
much prefer being slave TO circvn's,aEees
| as you say we all are-thsn TO be slave on
an American plantation and may it please
you, I believe you yourself would rather
take nv chance than theirs"
1t is worthy Of note that, though the
Bishop discoursss 50 freely and speaks 81
positively about the general happiness and
welfare Of ,beslaEes at the South, he ac-
knowledges that, personally, bis knowledge
about their condition is every triaing" He
has bOen in the slave States but very little
saws he oame in contact with none but house
slaves; and that he ''canoot pretend to any
knowledge personally Of the condition Of the
slaves on the plantations" He places, how
ever, the fullest confidence in the statements
OF sundry southern clergymen-and espe-
ciallv in the manifesto which IS rebel cler-
gymen sent to England last year. He is sat-
lsfed that, as & whole, southern slavery is
yer7 bene6cent affair, not to be spoken
against nor meddled with, except according
to the pleasure Of the shareholders them
/ selves.
Touching the influence of southern cler-
gYmen on tho subject Of slavery, wo have
/ a; hand a quotation from Miss Martineau,
who l. giving "reminiscences of her VISIT to
this country in 1895. Speaking of Madison,
she SAYS
| Mr. Madison had a cheerful and sanguine tenn
per and II there was one thing rather than anoth-
er which be had learned to consider secure, II was
/ the Constitution which he hsd 50 large share
I in making. Yet he told me that ne was nearly
in despair, and that he had been quite 80 till the
| Colonization Society arose. Rather than admit
70 himself that the South must be laid waste by
servile war, OF the whole country by clVil war,
he strove 10 believe that millions Of uesrues could
I be carried to Africa and - got nd Of
He talked more Of slavery than Of all other
subjects together-returniug to j, morning, noon
and night He said that the clergy perverted
the Bible. because il was altogether against
slavery; that the colored population was increas-
ING faster than the white; and that the state oi
morals was such as barely permitted society TO
exist
Oftbe issue Of the conflict. whenever IL should
occur, there could, he said, be no doubt i
society buriened with a slave system could make
no permanent resistance p the unincumbered
enemy; and he was sstonished at the mnaticism
which blinded some southern men TO so clear a
certainty.
4 good many will say Of the Bishop, as
Mr.. Madison said of the southern clergy.
The faIacIes and irrelevanees Of argument
and inaccuracies as 10 facts, in the book, are
not surpassed by any thing which we ever
saw in book of this size.
But we have already given more space 70
it than we intended. We presume it will
serve as sort of pro-slavery gospel for cop
perhead politicians, though not few, even Of
them, will say they cannot quite stand all
that. We do not think the book will do
much harm except to its author.
1t can be found at Fuller's.
THK VkRSoxr SCHOOL JOURNAL, for March
and April. West Brattleboro, Hiram Or
cutt, Editor and Proprietor. The two num-
bers reached US nearly together last week.
Ii did not strike Us very favorably on open
ing one to find the opening article first
rate notice" of some kind Of patent OF
prepared Coffee, for which it seems the
editor is agent; but we do not feel like crit
icising the Journal very closely. 1t has had
hard work TO live at all, and undoubtedly
needs more patronage, as a condition Of
higher excellence. There are some excellent
names in the list Of contributors, such as
Prof Buckham, Pliny Il. White, Messrs
Adams, Ferrin and others. Are the teach
ers doing their duty BY their Journal ?
Tux srcoxD BRIGADE, Or CAxP LIE, by {
Volunteer. Montpelier Printed for tbs
author BY z. P. Walton.
This is volume of 224 pages, written b
member Of the 18th Vt, Regiment, and IN
tended for History Of the campaign of th'
nine months men. II is in fact 4 journal
, such as might be kept by any soldier of av
erage intelligence, describing the daily oc
cupatious Of the soldiers and the various re
, movals from place to place of the Vt. Secon'
Brigade. We notice numerous inaccuracie
, in the chapter on the Battle Of Gettysburgh
E The account of Reynolds death. for in
= stance, is almost wholly erroneous, and tn
/ wouuding of Gems. Hancock and Gibbon !
= put into the wrong dav; but the author evi
IDENTIFY does not pretend 70 describe YER
closely or accurately. The book will remin
1 many Of the nine months men Of tbei
d marchings and camps at D." Camp Vermont,
Fairfax Court House, on the occoquan an
i elsewhere, aud we should think many {
9 them would desire to have it. Ii is sen
$ post paid on receipt Of sl.l2, directed
1 Box 475, Montpelier.
, A DEAR MrTE, Miss Montgomery,
n Chatauque Co, N. Y, ct recent e1hib
ton in the New York Assembly Chamber