Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-03-03

| your children.
VERMONT CHRoNlcLE-On the ques-
ton as to whether confessed sin ought un-
der all circumstances to be repented of 4
forSaken gradually, or Immediately, the
editors OF this paper have manifestly got
night IN the abstract, that is in the head. IF
the popular current can be set right, we NAV
exPectto see them floating along. The
evidence is found in the following article,
on the use oftobacco, from the last number
o1tnat paper. 1t is reply to writer in
their columns, who finds great "diFcul-
ties" in the road ofgrGAualism, and terri
bic consequences following in the path
OF smmediGtetsm. The editors, however,
very soundly exhort him to pursue the
latter, and severely upbraid him for stop
ping at the consequences.
We feel constrained here to call the at
! tention of these editors to another and
widely different published doctrine of
theirs, IN relation to consequences They
make northern abolitionists accountable
for the effects Of their preaching, as man
ltest In the outrageous acts ofthe guilty
Shareholders offering the present position
and conduct of the latter, and the excite
ment and madness of the South, as proof
that the preaching Of the doctrine of i'm
mediate repentance as remedy for the
sin of slaveholding, is not only inefficient,
but wrong and wicked. What is this,
but rank in6delity? This doctrine, car
ried out, makes Moses accountable for the
augmentation of Pharaoh's oppression,
when he was called upon to let the peo-
pie 60. 1t makes Jesus Christ suicide;
and all the hol y martyrs responsible for
! the wrath Of the wicked who took occa-
sion to be violent and murderous at this
same preaching Of immediate repentance
1t subverts the whole plan ofhuman sal
walton, so far as it depends on the preach
ing Of truth. It closes every pulpit, and
chains every tongue, the moment wicked
men frown and devils rage. In the ma
ture of things-from the history and test-
mony of our Lord and his apostles-and
from the universal experience Of every
faithful minister Of gospel truth and right
eousness, in all ages of the world, we are
to look for the precise results from faith
full exhibition of divine truth, which we
are now Witnessing in the conduct of
American tyrants. We are to expect a
desperate struggle forthe maintenance of
power on the part of those who have set
themselves up against truth and God.-
When we pour light into the Kingdom o.
darkness, we are to listen for clamor, and
look for violence The fact that the
South is excited to wrath and murder, is so
far from being evidence against the cor
RICHNESS and efficiency ofou measures
that it affords the best evidence we could
have oftheir adaptation to the end and Of
their accordance with the requirements Of
the gospel. If we had spent these four OF
FIVE years, as another association has eigh.
teen or twenty, and produced no othel
effect than to lull the guilty into indifer,
ence over a waking volcano, we NIGH
, with the greatest propriety be charged
with wasting, and worse than wasting
f our energies, in the use of Intellectual, and
worse than Intellectual, measures. Blu
we have awakened attention. We have
, disturbed the guilty conscience. We hav.
produced conviction Of sin. The fruit
thus far, is most natural and legitimate
The arrows of heavenly truth stick fas
in the hearts of the transgressors, and Xix,
: the harpooned leviathan they will foam
and rave until their powers are exhausted
and then they will submit The pros
pect brightens every day and hour.
But here is the extract from the Chron
= icle. The high compliment paid the Tel
egraph, is justly appreciated.
r We are glad, Mr. P-P-, to fin
e that you have, in the main, so true view
= ofthe case. There is no hope of leaving
off by any efforts to reduce the quantity
= or the number of occasions or in any sys
r tenn of gradualism. The habit is like tn.
n grave-cruel; like the horse-leech tina
crieth. Give, Give, and, it is not enough
There is no more hope in any stratagem
e trimming round the circle of chewing