Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-07-05

strlks us on the left (6)-we too have COM
merece that must be protected-national
and individual rights that are too valuable
to be lost, and that cannot be maintained
without the power to resent and punish
any infringement. In word, we must
hold ourselves prepared at all times to
vindicate our ri lights, by the same means
that are adopted in other countries and
however much we may deplore, and de-
sire to avoid, the evils of war. we must be
in condition to enter upon war with
promptitude and efficiency, whatsoever
that measure shall be necessary.
The question then is, where are we to
look for the most efficient and least expen-
sive means Of placing and holding our
selves in that condition and we do not
hesitate to say that human ingenuity
could not devise one more excellent in all
respects, to the extent of its operation, than
the military academy at West Point
We do not mean to say that it is alone
sufficient, or to give it equal importance
and utility with the United States navy
but we do say that as school for officers
as a nucleus around which to form, in
time Of need, "a powerful military force
with the greatest atainabIe ceIerity-as a
place for the acquisition, and developer
ment, and extension, ofsoUnd experiment
tai knowledge in all the branches Of
science which are made subsprvicnt to the
art OF modern warfare, the military acade-
my at West Point, both in plan and per
formance, is an institution of the first i'm
portance, an honor to the country, and
deserving, at the hand Of every American
citizen, OF all the cOuntenance, support
and service that it may be in his power to
give" o.
(l) A previous Spectator had announced
the fact that President Wayland was on
the spot. The information was so painful
that we concluded to suppress it, until some
cleW could be had at the Presidents views
and motives which induced him to attend.
1t was at least family hoped that he would
enCe against a system Of which he had
spoken in such terms. 1t remains to be seen
whether he will. He cannot fail to see that,
as the matter now stands, his influence, so
far as it is disposed Of by VIM. L. Store in
the \. Y. Spectator, (and, it may be pre-
sumed, in tie Commercial Advertiser, from
which the Spectator is made up before his
" fifty thousand readers" is cast in support
Of this " barbarous,N anti-Christian custom.
The Spectator, great champion of war
principles, says exultingIy, lie lid attend
the examination, and took part therein
AND WE VENTURE TO SAY HE IS NOT SORRY
THAT HE DID 500 After the President is
thus made to support the West Point Insti-
tuition, that institution is set forth as Of
1.-The first importance, to the urt Of modern
uartdre."
Two questions here TO President Way
land: l. Would he be understood. by any,
thing which he has written in his Elements
of Moral Science, to teach the doctrine that
rdr IS &Ij1ul? 2. If so, how does he rec
onciIc with that doctrine, his present course
Of conduct in relation to the subject, as rep
resented by the \. Y. Spectator
1t is no gratifying or desirable tax, on
our part, to bring President Wayland before
the public in his present attitude. But when
his personal example is made into a gantlc,
and thrown out to US by one of the chief
champions of ~0r, We cannot, and shall
not shrink from taking it up. To do so.
and thus bow down with the President be-
fore the bloody Moloch, w~ld be treason
against the Prince of Peace.
(2) We trust the Telegraph will ever
stand up SO straight as to lean the other
way" from any participation in the work
Of human butchery. Whatever contumclv
may be heaped upon il for maintaining such
a posture, ii will endeavor to bear with all
becoming meekness and fortitudc.
The sheer at those who advocate the
peace doctrine, lntimating that they pretend
to wisdom above what is written ii. e..
taking 1t for granted that the peace doctrine
is something more or less than Christian
Observation-Disclosures petitio p1 incipii. a beg
gIng OF the question, dognnatical assunp-
ton Of the main point in debate.
60 What is here, but the doctrine that
" general p"''ciples" are to give place to
circ"mstd"ces-that our highest and o7lv
Of duty is, The acN and coprjre
Of the multitude of morta!s around rs
rhether that 1rW be RIGHT or wRoxc2 1rI
the multitude say, fght-why, ",here is no
help for it," we must fight! If the muI,;-
tude say that every man shall drink a mini
of ardent spirits, every woman half min,
and every child gill, daily-why, the
" interfering law of poaoe1 " must be obov-
ed: what signify "abstract theories ~ g orou