Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-09-05

make him abundautly useful. II
At Moriah, in compliance with an invit-
ltion received, i held a meeting, in The Bap-
list Westinghouse, on Lords day, at 5 o.
clock, P. M. on the subject of slavery, in
which, l labored particularly to show the
Of this sit with the church. and
to urge the duty, therefore, of all Christians
to strive to do it away. endeavored, also,
to show that it is the duty of every Ameri-
can citizen to labor for its removal from the |
United States; and Of every human being
to seek its Punishment from the world. The
audience was highly respectable and strictly
attentive. Invitation was given to others
to offer remarks. l was followed by brother
Moore, the Baptist minister, who took
very decided stand in support Of Anti Slave
ry, and exhorted others to decision on the
subject. All this was quite too much for
the nerves of certain brother-a deacon if
rightly recollect-at least an ofice-holder
under the government He was by this
time tremblingly alive. His "blood had
boiled" he informed US, while he had lis
tened to the representations that had been
given Of the practices in southern churches.
No wonder he was moved, if he had never
heard or read Of the like before. But he
believed "our southern brethren" had been
slandered and traduced. He had altogether
too favorable an opinion of the piety OF
"our southern BRETHREN" to give credence
TO the speakers statements. Poor man-he
had been so devoted to his own political
interests that he had about entirely neg
lected the religious interests of millions of
benighted slaves. He was informed that if
ne wished to contradict any statement, or
controvert any position had advanced, the
Telegraph was open for him to do it in a
responsible manner. This operated some
what like a ddmper on the score Of his
contradictions. But be did not believe that
the state Of things at the South was so
much worse than at the North. He had
recently heard some boys in their own town
swearing shockingly the Northern
church be held responsible for this? He
was followed by "twig of the law,"'
who commenced with pretensions 10 great
veneration and regard for the Sabbath,
which he regretted to have desecrated by
such exhibitions. Probably, however, to
show his consistency TO good advantage, he
soon laid hold where his lood-boiling coad-
Jutor had left of. He too believed there
was less difference between the South and
the North than may be supposed. There
was suffering and oppression al The Nurth
as well as at the South.
1t was truly painful, pitiful, and humiliat-
ing, TO see Northern men thus prostituting
their powers TO the thankless task Of en-
deavoring to level do1on Freedom, and leve
up Slavery. They were met on this point
by being shown, very briefly. that the differ
ence, which they seemed not to have appre'
hended, between the evils among the lower
classes of society at the North and the evils
Of slavery at the South, is this:-the form
er, 1ohGteuer they are. e:riSt IN SPITE Of tn
Republican E Christian institutions OF tn
North Whereas the latter, in all thei1
horrid forms, GROW OUT Of Sidrery as it
LEGITIMATE FRUITS. Thanks to Northern
institutions that the eriLs here are so FEW
On the contrary, multiplied and great a.
, the eriLs of slavery are at the South, ~
, thanks to slavery that they are not a thou
sand foLd-yed, INFINITELY GAEATER thar
they are.
AT the close, while the people were dis
persing, it was suggested that meeting 70
the further discussion Of the subject shoul
: be held at the same place, on Monday eve
ming. Having business which detained m
in town during the day, attended thi
, meeting also, which, at past 10 o'clock, wa
= adjourned over to future evening. Sayin
nothing about speakers, the Monday evenn
q meeting was clear and decided triumph {
e truth and righteousness. There is nothn
s like Observation-Disclosures in the spirit {
c The Gospel, so that Gods blessing will al
! tend-to remove prejudice, aud break up th
= foundations Of popular sins.
4 On W ednesday and Thursday, l attende
the anniversary of the Essex and Cham
plain Association, held at Brook6eld, [ We:
Essex 1t was a good time. From tn
letters, it appeared that there had been som
. tokens Of Divine faEor-no very general {
y powerful revivals, however. Resolution
!, were passed, requiring the keeping of th
q Sabbath and maintaining family Worship
d in favor of ultra Temperance measures,
q efforts Immediately to rid the church aud th
st world Of the sin of SlaVery-to discount
T. nance every species of War-to unite vii
'e the Moral Reform Society in its benevolel
4 and holy work and to continue to sustai