Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-11-20

exclamation of the dying Cesar, when
the we'll beloved Brutas stabbed.9

tne well beloved BTutuS sIaDDcu.1
That so jealous an anti-mason as was
this gentleman at that time, should so far
forget his old sympathies as 10 put his
name 10 charge like this against me, IS
certainly what did not expect.
IT'S strange, IT'S passing strangei
Ills pltIiul, tits wondrous pitiiul
L wish he had not done il.
MY offences under This head, however,
have been few and far between. For
even those few, NAV | not fnd forgive
ness in the eyes of The most wealthy Of ali
my parishionefs-a man whom | love for
his many excellent qualities. whom hon
or FOR his integrity, 10 whom can never
cease 10 be grateful for his pecuniary lib
crafty to me---liberality for which can
make bin no return but professional f.
deity to him and his-,may | not find for
giveness in his eyes for this offence, when
he considers that IT was he who furnished
my table with ant-masonic books, and
sent daily to my door the light that broke
I forth from the anii-masonic preSs2 VIII
not the very gentleman who, al The See
ond meeiing,-the first adiourned-ot the
/ Proprietors, last month, introduced the
Preamble and Vote which became the
basis of all the subsequent proceedings
against me, show me some lnlle pity. IN
respect to my sin of anti-masonry. when
he remembers, il he can remember, who
it was that waited upon me, in anli-mason-
ic DAYS, with request that ! would open
! with prayer an anti-masonic Convention;
:, and who it was that, on returning the
manuscript, which he had borrowed for
I, perusaI, Of the only anti-masonic sermon
:, that [ ever preached, left inny hand a val
y liable token of his appreciation ? Yetthe
& hands of both these gentlemen are now
: against me and if we are 10 believe the
: Report of your Committee. one Of my
~ grave offences is my anti masonry.
=, No. A. Phren0logy. The Report un-
~ der consideration. speaks of every exert
ing topic that the ingenuity OF the fanatic
:, at home, or the imported Mountebank
could conjure up, TO distract and disturb
q the public mind If one were asked
:, - which, of all this list OF exciting topics,
IL have been produced at home and which
y are of foreign origin, he must answer.
Is Imprisonment for debt is domestic
'u The Militia Law is domestic. Anti
60 masonry is domestic; Temperance
III i certainly domestic; Abolition Of Slave
o. ry,' domestic. Phrenoloey is, then, the
on only one of these topics which is clearly
- an imported article. And is any thing,
S"S or any man, the worse, or the better, for
'ho being imported The first Bible thar
was ever read in New England was i'm
u ported Christianity itself was imported.
tie know that il is fashionable IN some cir
me- ces to aud, and run after, as 10 some par
on ties it is customary TO condemn man. be.
ICY cause be is foreigner. Ii he be a PHI
-.
anu proach that he is foreigner. If an ad
venturer, or man of fashion, the sans
'sry consideration is his passport to good so
2 ia cIetv. But the reason or propriety o
ank this, in either case, L have never BEEF
tur5 able to see. To me it ems that the tru
neat question is, not, Whence is the man. bu
nry, What is the manl Does the last name
all, member of the majority Of your Commi
Ty, lee, as an Editor, think the less Of his IL
! all telligence.' because IL is imported2 Do
IoUs the Chairman, himself think the " or
of his Russia or Swede's iron, because
More is imported! If he does, | may, for Il
ed 10 same reason. think the worse OF my me
this tai philosophy. | am sure. geHileme
some that the first canned ofthe minority Of tw
MN whom now address, is not deemed
n de- mis- fellow worShipperS as the less worll
e"t@S of being placed upon their most impC
; had tant Committees, because he was impo
On, 10 ed nor do his lrllow-cilzens, in this ci
ina IN of his adoption. regard him as The i
not, 1t qualified, on that account, to Tepres'
0 my their Interests in The Legislature of d
was Commonwealth | know not why ev
IN yet an imported Mountebank may not
by II, as good as native. Shade Of the lame
nee y ed Spurzheiml forgive the man who Il
of the disbonors thee. Dishonofs Mee2 I
er De no man can dishonor any other than hi
be, OF self. Thou vast honored in thy life
few in this land have been. Thou ~
ne citI- honored in thy death and thy funeral
aneull sequies as in this generations. no o.,
speech man has been. The mumi6cent merch
same Of Boston. who gave Thy bones rest
words place in the sacred shades of Mount
men, burn, and placed over them that beaul
! when copy Of the tomb Of Scipio, was com
to cut thy name upon lis front, IS Ii
re than only epitaph feeling that wherever
scourse ence was honored or philanthropy Io'
lie Ar no other could be needed II was len
DO not the Chairman of Committee OF Hc
at the Street Society, 10 express his own VI
: news Of thv philosophy and thy worth;
,rtilv under the name Of SpurzheiG,' he WI
lbIished THE IMPORTED MoUNTEBANKf
,:lemen. Yes, Gentlemen, AGce entered. SO
second what into the exciting topic Of p
f,rn;sh pologv. | was a hearer OF DIR. S
,sI, 10 zbeim: and have since been, and n
Rv The AGAIN TO be, hearer of the Leciur
Goll;s ! George Combe. To these two impt
i sill Mounlebanks..' feel myself more In
- e. IN H. =