Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-02-14

would be read by the lovers Of virtue with
far Greater interest, than that of themiser-
able slave of passion, of whom we aret |
sneaking. How can Christian booksell- |
ers circulate such a book? How can
Christian parents purchase, and place it
in the hands of their children2 Would
thew willingly. have them, 'sdress them
selves by this mirror ~ We warn every
one against this work, almost as earnestly
as we would have warned them against
admitting It's living subject into their do
nestle circle for neither pleasure nor prof
it can be derived from the contemplation
of cool systematic villany, OUTLYING even
the influence of passion, and descending
with its author even to the tomb.-AdU. Of
1 Moral Reform.
/ Burr had scarcel " removed from the
family of Washington into that of Putnam,
before las we now learn circumstance
occurred, which, whether known then or
not, affords abundant evidence that Wash
ington, in common with all men of princi-
pie, had just grounds for disliking him.
And here we must approach topic that
but for a sense of duty we would leave
wholly untouched. We Of course will
not shock the decency Of our readers by
} polluting our pages with one word more,
concerning the atrocious profigacy of a
professed and shameless debauchee than
, is necessary to "'point the moraP which,
in undertaking this article, we had it in
view to enforce On this subject, his hi
ographer has spoken as became man and
a father: his treatment of it does him hon.
or. In this particular of character he
j says, truly, mo terms of condemnation
; would be too strong to apply to Colonel
n Burr" We think so too, and therefore
: we write it, that he was selfish and un-
s principled and almost peerless villain, who
# deserved the indignant execration of every
:, man that had one spark of honor or hui
~ mainly in his soul. Notthe mere victim Of
II passion in its sudden impulses, be deliber-
+ ately adopted the grossest sensuality OF
d life DIS an occupation: he made it bust
II ness to betray. The sacred claims OF
e. friendship, the unsuspecting confidence Of
Or hospitality, were as nothing in his eyes
Every feeling which should have touched
II the heart of benevolent man, every re.
:. straint which should have controlled the
- conduct of an honorable man, was tram.
- pied in the dust; and yet, forsooth, this
- wretch, whom purity would scarcely look
70 at, much less touch, without contamina
We ton, claimed to be finished gentleman
of Bat even this was not enough as if Il
- add to 1.-The deep damnation' of his infa
tn my, this gentleman" against whom eve
1T ry father, and husband, and brother in tn,
or land had a right to make common cause
IL as against common foe to all the bes
- feelings of human nature and all the en-
Edearing charities of social life; this " gen
H. tLeman," who wormed himself into tn
~ habitations of virtue, even as the serpen
for crawled Of old into Paradise, that h
IN might drown its deceived inhabitants il
INT tears, and then glory in the ruin he ha
to wrought; kept by him, through a lon
full life of one and eighty years, every lin
INT which was written to him by any victim
as. of his per6dy; and these accumulated me
air MORALS of the fond, the deludcd, the bro
ken-hearted, the ruined, liable at any mo
~: ment, by his sudden death, to be expose
'''' to the gaze of the world, he treasured a
100 trophies of his irresistible fascination, an
IS evidence to support his unmanly boasting:
me They fell into the hands of his Geographic
Sc, who tells us he consigned them indiscrin
say inately to the flames. Will it be believe
of that more may yet be said q A fact, M
oil related by, possibly not known to Mr.. d.
toll Wis, and ii known, not necessarily calm
,uo for insertion, is given to US in one of tn
works OF an American writer whose nam
is familiar. When with the guilt
ner blood upon his soul, fugitive from .iu
an tice, Aaron Burr fled to Europe, he sou Oh
the or accidentally obtained, the acquaintanc
! is OF Jeremy Bentham, and lived in his hou;
our for some time Mr.. John Neal was afe
arv wards an inmate Of Bentham's residenc
.ero and from the biogra phical sketch whic
ooI he has furnished of that individual y
na. learn, upon the testimony of Benthar
""' that Burr, while with him, had endeavo
): ed to impress him with the belief tn
us small indeed was the amount of fema
e IN virtue in our land and had dared to tax
did upon his lying lips, names infinitely
out You'd the reach of suspicious shadow, al
bier 10 enrol them among his victims. In tn
foul stab at his country's reputation, MAJ
with no nobler motive than that of esta
" fishing his own claim to the Infamous T
nown of unequalled proRigacy, the vi
calumniater aimed at the Hottest object
. could reach: for one of his pretended vi
tins, from her connection with him wi
NJ to bore the highest official station, was en-
Jew tied to the first rank of respectable
We among her countrywomen. We won
rae we knew word stronger than any tt
hf,l our language affords. which mioht eYnrf