Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-02-25
ELEGANT EXTRACT.

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ELEGANT EXTRACT.
From Sermon on War, by Rev. Dr. Claiming.
The idea of honor is associated with
war. But to whom does the honor be-
long! If to any, certainly not to the mass
ofthe people, but to those who are partic-
ularly engaged in it. The mass Of q
people, who stay at home and hire others
to fight, who sleep in their warm beds and
hire othe to sleep on the cold damp
earth, who sit at their we'll spread board, &
hire others to take the chance of starvin
who nurse the slightest hurt in their own
bodies and hire others to expose themselves
to mortal wounds and to linger in COM
fortress hospitals, certainly this mass reap
little honor from war. The honor be-
longs TO those who directly engaged in it.
Let me ask, then, what is the chief bust
ness of war? 1t is to destroy human life,
to mangle the limbs, to cash and hew the
body, to plunge the sword into the heart
OF fellow creature, to strew the earth
with bleeding frames, and to trample them
under foot with horses hoofs. It is 10
batter down and burn cities, to turn fruit
full fields into deserts, to level the cottage
otthe peasant and the magnificent abode
OF opulence, to scourge nations with fam
inc, to multiply widows and Orphans
Are these honorable deeds? Were you
called to name exploits worthy ofdemons
would you not naturally select such as
these? Grant that necessity for them
may exist 1t is dreadful necessity, such
as good man must recoi from with in
stlnctlve horror; and though it may ex-
empt them from guilt it cannot turn them
into glory We have thought that it was
honorable to heal, to save, to mitigate
pain, to snatch the sick ana sinking from
the jaws of death. We have placed among
the reverend benefactors of the human
race, the discoveries of arts which alevi-
ate human rutterings, which prolong,
comfort, adorn and cheer human if, and
II these arts be honorable, where is the
glory of multiplying and aggravating tor
lures and death
The INTELLECT. One proof Of the
superior and independent excellence of
lofty endowments, may be found in the
fact that the brute creation have got the
senses IN far greater perfection than man,
and yet their external knowledge is blank
in comparison with his A raven can
scent its prey at distance ofmany leagues;
hog can smell a truff1e that is buried un-
der the earth; all eagle can see an object
with d:stinctness at the distance ofseveral
miles; the fall of leaf cannot escape the
ear of a sleeping hare; the polypus, SAYS
Dumeril, is capable of receiving light it.
self by its fineness oftouch; most quadru-
peds are enabled to distinguish more accu-
rately between Wholesome and poisonous
herbs, than the most accomplished and la
borlous botanist; and yet by his intellect
alone, man is able to triumph over the
comparative deficiency of his senses; and
with inferior modes Of acquiring knowl-
edge, to rise to that prodigious superiority
which he possesses.
LIVERPOOL SLAVE TRADE. cit is
melancholy to he obliged to remember,
that the African slave-trade has been one
otthe principal means of the growth, and
one of the great sources Of the wealth of
Liverpool. During the ten years from
1888 to 1898, it employed in that trade, in
! ALL 878 ships; imported to the West In
dies 3O3,737 slaves, the price of whom
averaged ESQ each; making 9l2,ls6,-
$50, S62,796,880. Deducting allowance
to factors, &C., the actual revenue 10 the
town was Rl2,294,ll6 or S59,Ol1,756.-
An abatement should be made from the
number of ships as stated here, the sum
being made by adding those registered in
each successive year; as the same ship,
IN some cases. might have been employed
for half the period, more or less. Saw
800 ships.
AS this estimate comprehrnds only a
minor fraction ofthe period during which
this traffic was tolerated by Great Britain,
1T may perhaps, fairly be supposed, that
the number of s. aves actually made by
the Liverpool trade alone was considera-
oily more than double this number, and
the additional income to this town, from
that source, proportionate The history
of Liverpool, published in 1895, from
which this statement is abridged, has CIV /
en- the items with great particularly, ap-
parently as if it were part of the honest
and lawful trade of the town-no more
dlscreditable Or improper than trade in
logwood and ivory! How great and in
teresting the change in public feeling in
forty years! Great Britain has 6een
shocked at her own deeds, and atoned har
aultbefore heaven and the world Nav
America soon follow the glorious exam
pIe"-ColtOn's For Years in Great
Britain