Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-07-12

It layman, and $50 if a clergyman, or
an honorary member by paying $50 if a
clergyman, and 800 if layman. In
dividuals can also subscribe to our period
cal entitled the Advocate of Peace, an
8mo pamphlet Of 48 pages, issued quar-
terIy, edited bv the Rev George C. Beck
with, and published by WhippIe & Dam
rell, No. 9, Cornhill, Boston, at one dollar
a year. Ministers may heI p the cause by
preaching on the subject. To those settled
ministers who preach against war as often
as once year, we send the Advocate gra-
It's, if duly notified and pledge given
Churches may help the cause by observ-
ing the annual concert of prayer for
Peace, between the IS Of December and
the lst of January, and taking up con-
tribut;on then, or after the peace sermon,
if they have one Half of such contri-
buttons is returnable in Peace books and
tracts by applying to Whipple & Damrell,
who have Peace books and tracts for sale,
on account Of the society. When such d
contribution amounts to $40, it constitutes
the minister life member. Letters to
the editor or publishers may be addressed
post paid, to Whippe & DamreII. Mr.
James H. WhippIe of this firm is the
treasurer Of the society. Vermont bank
bills, or the bills of any other Northe rn
or Atlantic state, would be received in
payment, though Massachusetts money
would be preferred
In ain glad to hear that the Herald of
Peace is started in MiddIebrry, and hope
soon to hear from your State Peace Con
vention. QD
Yours in the bonds of Peace,
WIN. LADD, Gen. GET A. p. S.
P. S. All papers favorable to the cause
Of Peace are requested to give the above
excepting, if they choose, the two first
paragraphs,) place in their paper
Norris BY THE EDITOR.
CD The article referred to, appeared in
the December (I636) No. of the American
Advocate Of Peace; and was written by
VIM. M. Holland, Professor in Washing
ton College. The Telegraph was sent to
brother Ladder rather father, in this case
by the editor; and he will accept our
thanks for his kind and frank reply.
(2) Our language may not have been
sufficiently explicit, in adverting to the
| anomalous character Of the Peace Society.
We designed the comparison TO extend only
to those Societies which, like the Peace So
clety, make it their first object to combine
the moral influence of their members and
WELD their united moral power for the re-
moVal of an existing moral evil. Such are
the Temperance, the Moral Reform and the
Anu-Slavery Societies. And we had SUD-
posed that the Peace Society was to be
understood as ranking itself in this class
Money is one thing-moral influence is an
other. If the Peace Society had made no
pretenslons to act upon the war system, for
Its overthrow, by the combined testimony
and example of its members, then it might
not have been chargeable with inconsistency,
yet it would, in our view, have been funda
mentally inefficient. But we had supposed
that 1t was one of the Society's objects to
collect and WELD moral influence against
war; If such has been one of its objects
that member of the Society who acts the
practical warrlor,* not only does not cast
his influence in support of the Societv's en-
terprlse, but he retards its progress-is a
clog to its advancement. The more tho
Society has of such members, the worse off
it is-enough of them would be a n,illstone
about its neck.
(3) E.rpediency, of course. must have
been the adopted rule of duty, when men
conscious that all war is violation Of The
Great Teachers commands, agreed to re-
frain from proclaiming the truth in the case
Most happy are we, that those who have
enlisted for life against this formidable foe
of Christianity, this DESTROYER Of souls, have
now concluded 10 build on the foundation
Of Jesus Christ, rather than of William
Paley.
ca But how does the practical warrior
" show to the public that war is a tremen-
dous evil 2" Just as the drunkard show. 70
the public that drunkenness is tremendous
evil. Just as the debauchee shows that de-.
bauchery Is a tremendous evil? Just as the
Shareholder shows that slavery is tremen-
dous evil? Every practical warrior is build
ing up what the Peace Society would pull
down, and is pulling down what the So
ciety would build up.
60 TO asking the aid of all men, es
pecially of philanthropists, to do what could
be done to abolish so horrid and sinful a
CUSTOM" there could be no possible ob;ec-
ton. But the question arises here, what
can be done, by the practical warrior wh;,e
he continues Such IN abolish ,bo ~