Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-04-14

cause, if we should attempt to respect
them; sugar and cotton would become too
dear. 90
have hitherto avoided taking any
part in the temporary questions which
are now agitating the country throughout
all it's borders; because wish my book
10 be the repository, only of those truths
which are permanent, and whic b the mind
of the reader may receive with the least
prejudice and objection. But this motto
contains principle, Carried to be sure to
its highest extreme, and therefore more
proper to be made a menument,) which
must prove the bane Of all free govern
ment. 1t is setting expediency higher
than moral principle; or rather 1t is
bringing an argument from e1pediency,
not to modify but to overthro,o the highest
| rule of righteousness. This is the great
error of our land; this is the bane of re-
publicanism. For, as in a Russian house
made for winter, you can on Y throw up
the windows and diminish the battlements
in safety, by increasing the general mild
ness of the atmosphere so with respect
10 government you can only throw off
the restraints Of external power, by in
creasing the prevalence of deep principle
IN voluntary hearts. When interest is
the criterion of wisdom, liberty will de-
( generate into despotism.
1t has been observed by lord Coke, that
corporations have no souls; and it would
seem in all collective bodies, from the
parish to the nation. that in most of their
deliberations, the immortal nature of man.
with all its wants and wishes, is forgotten.
Man, in his private capacity, has body
and a spirit; and the sensualities Of the
first are infinitely inferior to the everlaSt-
ing wants of the last. But when men are
associated in political bodies, the high
principles of deathless spirit, seem to be
lost in the transient regulations Of a mate
rial life; and there seems TO be a total di-
vorce between politics and principle,
There is no science for which feel a
greater distrust as to its detail s, and a
deeper adherence, as to its general prin-
ciples. than that Of political economy
the great idol of the age. Ne6uchadnez-
EaT the king, made an image of gold,
whose height oas three-score cu6tS, and
the BREATH thereof ST cults: and he set
it Up in the plain Of Dura, in the pror;nce
of Babylon Then an her.
aid cried Aloud To you it is commanded,
OPsople, nations and languages, that, at
Ioaat time re hear the sound ofhhe eOrnet,
fEtt, harp, Saet6ut, psaItery, dvlcimer
, and all kinds of music, ye fall do1rn and
D 1corship the golden image that Ne6uehad-
nerzGr the king hath set up; and ,chosc
talteth not dO,cn and rOrsh ppsth, shall IN
TIE same hour be cast into the midst of d
burning fiery furnace. Yet in despite o.
D all the charms ofthis united music, and al
the terrors af this flaming furnace, mus
hesitate TO fall before this golden image
: more dazzling to the imagination, than
1 conducive to tie e!l-being of man.
In the first place, as to its induction
Is it so perfect as to lay the foundation O
: much certain knowledge2 We will sup.
: pose, to please the modern politician, tina
e trade is the great channel of public duty
and that beef and pudding are the supreme
objects Of national felicity. Still the in
= vestigations Of the political economist rur
n into such an infinite number of infnitesi
n NAL items, as to elude the comprehension
of the most careful mind in its most pa
tent investigation He will find his reg
: ulatons have touched but the smaller par
IT Of the springs which move the wEee!s Q
the complex machine. There is a Wis
:, dom in nature, which any partial interior
IL ence of man only disturts and deterior
IS ates; and as the water, dropped ftom tn
he clouds, finds Its way over the mountains
70 to the brooks and springs which conduc
= it over the earth, in obedience to pre-es
+ tablished laws, which the wisdom of ma
u would IN vain attempt to improve or de
N stroy so, suspect, the interests Of mer
in marts apd cities, in towns and nations
- are balanced by a wisdom, which we on
o. ly disturb when we touch It. What shouI
i'd We say 10 a college of physicians, colIer
ed to devise means 10 keep up an equalit
in the birth OF the sexes!
nd The uncertainty of the science, the di
y. ferences amongst the highest authorize
ne increases the suspicion, that the induction
ne ne must be very imperfect among millions
he facts where thousands of causes meet an
Inc mingie.
ext But it is the spirit of the science whic
en is most deleterIous. It's assumptions al
MD not grounded on the true nature Of ma
viii 1t is not true taat man becomes sensu
the being as soon as he joins the body poiti
ne and delegates his representatives IN col
sG gress to lake care of his sensual interes
md alone. The soul is the creature of pri
In ciple; and there are principles never
ine be violated. however great the loss or Il
,,o gain In the scramble for wealth al
leir power, which is daily increasing in son
led nigh quarters, and flowing like lava1o
~" II rents from the top Of some ignited mou
-. " tain TO every quarter of the land, he IS Il