Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-08-09
Vol. IX....No. &c.,.

christian to write on every thing-and then
Plungng that sword into your neighbors heart"
"The foregoing from the' Vermont
Telegraph "wi!l receive the appreciation
ofevery good member of society who reads
it. 1t is painful 10 find the following in
a succeeding column of the same number
Of the same paper
We understand that Congress has passed law
to raise six hundred men, for the purpose of chas-
Using the Indians /; this ought to be done, and
we trust some one will be placed in omnand OF
the expedition, who will co his duty with energy
and promptness we need not expect peace until
the remnants of tribes who reside on the Trinity
and Brazos are destroyed the MeXicans ate con-
stantly among them, melting them to acts Of bar
barity. The manner in which the Prbonefs who
have been lately taken have been treated calls
aloud for vengeance Exemplary vengeance -
both upon the Internal savages, and their moIe
brutal advisers, the IMexica, 8. We ought to id
wade their country and externnaie from the face
of the earth, a race Of useless vagabInds, whose
brutal deeds have scarcely any parallel !-Ieras
pa.
This article is unaccompanIed with note
or comment; and consequently, according
to established editorial usages, we are to
regard its sentiments as sanctioned by the
editor. And what have become of the
peace principles ofthe editor of that paper!
nay, where are the common feelings of
humanity, when he thus calls for "ven-
geance" 1.-THE extermination.' the blood,
Of the defenceIess and oppressed indians?
1--WE need not expect peace until the rem
nants of the tribes who reside on the Trim
iv and Brazos are destroyed " This is
fighting for peace in a summary way!
Inrade them take cen ge0mce upon them!
destroy them !--e9termtm0te them from
the face of the earth " internal savagcs"
they deserve no mercy And this is the
peace for which the Telegraph contends.
Shame shame! that SO 8 infernal' a
sentiment should find its way into the
heart of human being! much more
that it should be held out to the world in
the columns of paTer protesting to labor
for the advancement of the mild and mer
ciful precepts of the Prince of Peace -
Peoples Press.
Here is specimen Of the candor and
fairness Of this print, in its conduct towards
the Telegraph. The performance is highly
characteristic. The editor gets up his man
of-straw, by putting a forced construction
on our course, without a shadow of pre-
text-as we shall soon show-and then the
way he demolishes the creature Of his own
making should be caution 10 all men-oc-
straw, how they fall into his hands.
The article copied into the Telegraph, on
page IT'S, and credited to the "7erds Chron."
mot TEXAS pd." as in the Peoples Press
was designed as contrast to our own
sentiments. We shonld be very sorry to
learn that single reader Of the Telegraph
took it otherwise. Among our reasons for
supposing that it would be understood as it
was designed to be, are these: l. The sem
timents Of the Telegraph, on the subject of
all war in general, and of the persecution
of the Indians in particular, are knorsn TO
; those who choose to know anything of the
present prominent characteristic features of
, the Telegraph. land these are known 10
> no person better than to the Editor of the
Peoples Press-] 2. The sentiments and
spirit OF the article under consideration are
, sufficiently foul and atfocious to show, 11ri-
ma tdcie-on the first view-and on the
lace OF them, perfect contrast to the SEN
t'ments cherished and defended by the TEL
egraph. Moreover, as circum stances addi-
tIonal, the article was regularly credited to
the TEXAS Chron., where it originated, and
where the responsibility Of it rests: and
the Telegraph, at the very time it copied the
article: was, and had been, laboring to show
that the whole Texan. crusade has been one
continued series of instruction, piracy and
murder. What is there in these facts and
circumstances that justify, in the least. the
construction which the Editor Of the Peo-
pies Press has put upon our use of these
murderous sentiments which call for blood
and slaughter?
The Editor of the Peoples Press saws:
his article is unaccompanied with note or
comment; aud cons ,qren,ly, according to ed t.
''a' usages, we are to regard It's senti ments as
sanctioned by the editor-[of the telegram l.
n'a" Wnathav- become Of the peace princip1es of
the editor of that paper?'
lie has answered his own Question in re-
saFu 70 our peace principles, in the ouota,jou
from our editorial matter which s,.nds At
the mead Of his presen, piece leveled agains,
'ne Telegraph. This fact, together with
the other that he has enjoyed everv needed
opportunity to know that the neace nr;nci-
pies Oh the Telegraph have been of one
consistent piece, from the day it first came
. ,n our hands TO- the presen: hour, stamps
'n.s "hoie proceeding of his with bvpocrisv.
We dissent an,;-al