Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-06-07
IIemain yours, &C. TIMOTHY.

KISS AND cUFF."-Our readers will
recolect that, two weeks ago, we exhibited
the inconsistency Of ga brother editor" &C
companied with comments. That editor
was the present editor OF the Peoples Press.
We are now led BY the character Of his re-
ply, 10 bring out his name. If an apology
is due TO our readers for again noticing this
prlnt-and we now think there is-we have
only 10 say that, inasmuch as il had nomin-
ally changed hands, and inasmuch as it now
held forth such professions of the highest
regard for morals and religion, promising
strictly to guard its columns against "every
line or word that may tend to weaken
moral or religious feeling" and 10 lend its
controlling influence" in doing good"
We, in all fidelity to the cause of religion
and morals which our neighbor had So zeal
ou>ly and so publicly espoused, felt in duty
bound to give him gentle rebuke-not once
susPectIng that in So doing we were stirring
up wasp's nest or casting pearls before
swine.
If the pretensions to doing good, and to
strict regard for the best interests of religion
and morals, had been left out Of the new
EDITORS manifesto, most certainly we should
have refralned from noticing the article of
lrrcllglous and immoral tendency, because
the publishing OF such an article would have
been IN character with the former course of
that papeI-as we'll as Of many others with
which we have nothing TO do in such mar
'er>-and we should have expected TO NEE,
boots and horns if we meddled with it,
But after such professions and promises, we
had right TO expect that kind suggestions
would be kindly received.
But our neighbor, in addition TO labored
attempt to make the publication of such ar
tlcles consist with the promotion Of good
morals and religion, has put the worst con-
structIon upon our gentle adnonition, call
ing it kiss and cuff" besides doing the
ungentIemanly thing TO make a most sour
rllous allusion to our polilics, in,imatioo
that sometime in" our life" we "mioht
haze 6een," in politics, what we arr NOT
"o'o. Now, while we say, once for all. on
this point, that we never have consented
and never will consent TO be chained 10 the
car OF any man., called by whatever name
but Will adhere to principles, whether in
religion, morals or poitics-we also saw
that what Te haze been we are, and what
we are we are not ashamed Of
But what right, we ask, has political
paper TO call out religious paper on its
d'st'nchre poL't'cs-a religious paper that
has not committed itself in politics anv
way-any more than religious PAPER has
TO call out political one on its distinctive
sentiments in religion ? We maintain that
whether religious editor is republican or
arlstocratc In politics, is matter which il |
S his hight and privilege to keep in his own
BOSOM, just as IT is the right and privilege of
political editor to keep it in his own bo-
'om whether he is Baptist or Pedobaptis,
suppose that, while the Peoples Press and
he Telegraph were exchanging some words
which could be done by common consent
With the greatest propriety-as to what is
moral and what immoral, what RELIGIOUS
nd what lrreligious in the general conduct (
f men, the Telegraph had started off in a
argent and thrown out vile cant by way
{ attaching an opprobrious epithet TO some
ertain sect in religion, at the same time in
iDuatng that the editor of the People's =
ress, "sometirne in his life might hare
cen caught with" that sect? Would il
ave been kind or gentlemanly conduct
recisely parallel conduct to this is that of \
lie Peoples Press towards The telegram
and that too, after the former had ins,
zen reading homily to the editors of Yer
ont on good breeding in the matter of ed;-
rial etiquet, thus exhibiting another con-
stency of conduct about as striking as the o
lie before exposed.
For promising to cultivate pure morality y
ID holy religion in the hearts of his read. -
5, and then in another column If ,ha u
me sheet taking his readers to the duelix,,s
Id of blood and asking them to laugh with n
m at the wittieism of murderer Will. 70
gagged in his murderous work, the re,.- re
aph charged the Editor of the peonl.,s III IL
ess with inconsistency. And how !. ,b;~ r. r,
arse metz Look: =
we think we have much reason II fa-
ltate ourselves that no better ground eouid ke
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