Thread by @HindooHistory

The Vermont Telegraph, 1837

"The Missionary Herald and the South"

"It appears that the Missionary Herald, even, has become obnoxious to the South."

#HindooHistory #Caste

"And what is its offence? Simply putting down the American Anti-Slavery Society on the list of benevolent institutions, in its passing notice of the several anniversaries-- that is all, for that it is branded as incendiary"

"The alarm has been rung in the ears of the South, and a threat uttered in the ears of the Board. Whether the Board will dare to repeat the offence, will be seen when another year comes round"

"LEt us examine this matter a moment. It strikes us that there is a moral fitness, not only in giving the American Anti-Slavery Society a place in the illustrious sisterhood, but in introducing it, along with them, upon the pages of a Herald"

"It would seem to us, that so far from having got into company unsuited to its character, the American A.S. Society must feel perfectly at home in the great family of benevolent institutions."

"And it would seem too, that the American Board, instead of looking upon it with distrust, and thrusting it out as an intruder, should welcome it as an auxiliary, nay, herald it as a harbinger, to go forward and prepare the way before it"

"The condition of a world lying in wickedness, the obstacles to its conversion, and the progress of effort for the removal of those obstacles-- these are fit themes for the Herald, and themes to which its pages are consecrated"

"But does not the conversion of the world, mean the conversion of the whole world, and in recounting the obstacles to the universal triumph of the Gospel, should American slavery be overlooked?"

"Talk not of Heathen caste. There is not in the Heathen world a more effectual barrier to the onward march of the Gospel, than the system of American Slavery."

" And any well-directed effort to break down the castes of India, that Gospel light might be poured in upon her benighted millions, should not be hailed as an occasion of greater thanksgiving to God..."

"than the efforts which are now making to break down the accursed system of American slavery, that the light of Gospel truth might be let it upon the millions of our own benighted countrymen"