Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-09-12

htuls'Oss duu NhElStidnS, 100, II aOOlllon
ministers have not been thus abused, BY
those who arr. so forward TO complain that
ministers have been abused
Was not the venerable George Bourne,
Tor many years a Presbyterian minister
10 Virginia, and now a minister of the
Dutch Reformed church in New York;
most outrdgeously abused, when a harm
less article Of his, in the Liberator, in
which slaveholding republicans and min
listers were charged with hypocrisy and
menstealing, was tortured by the Vermont
Chronicle. IN May. 1888, into declara-
ton that George Washington, (whom the
writer had not named nor alluded to, Twas
hypocrlte, manstealer, and now in
hellP Was be not abused, when this
charge was persisted IN, latter It had been
shown to be false and with the explicit
avowal OF determination, by such means,
to silence the abolitionists, by bringing
weight Of public iadig nation to bear up
on themf Was It no abuse of ministers
when this intended, and threatened "pub-
lie indignation" was brought TO bear up-
on abolitionists, in the persons of Rev.
Samuel II. Cox, and Rev. III. G.. Lud
low, in the form Of assaulting MODS, who
pelted their houses with stones, and burnt
the furniture of Lewis Tappan, with the
shout o. the Vermont Chronicles fllse
accusation Of {" WashingtOa in heLL," up
on their lips t.-...... ...
Was there no abuse OF Christian min
isters," In 1888, when Mr. Finiey, an or
ator and agent of the Colonization Socie.
ty, then in the city of New York, public
" accused leading abolitionis!s with the
design of exciting the negroes to insur-
rection, when he branded them as incen-
diaries, traitors, and cut-throats"-and
when, on being asked, in conversation, to
whom he applied these charges and epi.
! thets, replied by nlming, (among Arthur
Ta2pan and others,) the Rev. Messrs
George Bourne, Simeon s. JoceIyn, and
Charles w. Denison?
Was It no abuse Of ministers, when the
individuals, Just mentioned, together with
Charles Stuart, Samuel J. May, and Sam
uel Il. Cox, all ministers, in regular stand
ing In their respective denominations and
guilty OF no fault but abolitionisn, were
Systematically secuted as madmen. and
denounced as traitors, in the New York
Commercial Advertiser, conducted by Col
Stone, a member Of DR.. Springs iPres
byterian) Church, and assisted by DR.. Da
vid VI. Reese, a member of the Methods
Episcopal church, neither Of whom have
ever been censured, or called to any &C
count for this abuse of ministers, by the
ecclesiastical bodies to which they belong
edo "...... r-a.
Was there no "abuse of Christian min
isters," when Rev. President Green wa.
assailed, for his abolitionism, by professec
Christian brethren, with accusations so vi
client. that MODS were reused to burn hi
efigy, with that of Alvan Stuart, in lht
T. streets Of Utica, with fires kindIed by an
ti-abolition phrenzy, augmented by alco
hol, and files Of the Temperance Record
erl
So much for the "abuse Of ministers,
with which the present crusade agains
"modern abolitionism," was, in the be
!, ginning, commenced. We hazard moth
Jog, in affirming, that "abuse Of faithful
Christian ministers" has all along beer
one of the most effective antI-abolitior
measures" of the day; a measure which
has been systematically urged forward, O.
, at least connived at, by the very class O
men who affect so much pious horror a
) the abuse of Christian Minister'S wher
the unfaithfal aud timeserving of thci
number have been conscientiousIy reprov
ed.
Has 1t been no 'abuse of Christian
Ministers when the simple fault of lhei
abolitionisn has been sufficient to shu
the pulpit doors Of their own respectiy,
sects, against scores of ministers who's,
praise is in the churches, and whose la
bors the great Head of the church ba,
- seen fit signally TO bless in the upbuiId;nc
OF his kingdom and cause!
Was It no abuse of Christian minis
ters,' when the almost apostolic Davic
Nelson, minister from a slave state
found no opportunity to lecture against in
fidelity, in single meeting-hous IN Bos
ton, from the mere circumstance that he
I; was known to be a pattern of primitive
simplicity, and had adventured to lift ur
his voice for the poor sIave2
Was it no 'abuse of Christian minis
ters,' when the ISLANDERS of northern press
es, conducted by protested Christians, in
duced the blood-hounds of the slave state;
to offer ten thousand dollars for the head
{ OF Rev. Amos A. Phelps, a Congrepa.
tlonal minister, of New England, and a
; larger sum for the head of Rev. L,Roy
! Sunderland, minister in regular stand.
y ing. 10 the Methodist Episcopal church
i IN New York? And was il no abuse d
? Christian Minister'S when the ministers
: thus threatened, were cheered by no ex.
: Pressions OF sympathy by their brethren
:, and when these murderous threats and Of.
\ iers were heartlessly mentioned by them,