Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-06-05

to duelling, not II South. "Yet | take
shot whenever it suits me-" Thus stands
Henry Clay, in heart and tongue and ac-
ton
Near the extreme left of the picture is
the vacated chair of Senator Calhoun
He has just risen from it in gloomy and /
desperate exultation at the vain achieve |
ment of his towering rival. He stands |
with his4left foot remaining, where it had |
beeu while he was sitting-on the YER |
mont Memorial "Mass. Resolutions, all
men are created equal and entitled to Lib
erty, &c., and his right foot is streached
| forward, to its utmost, SO as to give him
an extraordinary uEsenatorial attitude, and
planted near Clay's left, toe to toe, on the
breast of the slave. At this STOPPING in
clination or declin0ton, he takes Clay's left
hand with the fingers o. both his, as cor
daily as doctor thkes his patient by the
pulse. With a countenance OF most grave
and solemn chivalry, he exclaims, Well
done Haz-your old folly and delusion
about liberty are all gone. You are be-
ginning TO see slavery in its true Light
as the most safe and stable basis for free
institutions in the world Give US shake
of your daddle, my worthy? You shall
be made President for life + The face of
the "great nuilifier'' looks veteran and
weather beaten in the service of slavery
and political distractions Bafied ambi-
tion-scarcely less aspiring than an arch
angels ruined" and endured with the
4 gloomy Impotence of the pit, marks his
care-entrenched face. He looks wild,
ssabstract" and wrong headed Clay
+ reckless and ruined. Mighty men both,
they seem capable. had their hearts been
, early touched with. contrition. of being
other Wesleys or Baxters-now forsaken
, of the Spirit and abandoned to irremedia-
/ bic pride. They are the glory of the ma
tion,-the star ofthe West-the star ofthe
South. They stand both with foot on the
breast of "cloven down Humanity. THE
star of the North, why is he not in the
picture, with his dark presence lowering
like thunder storm from behind his ma
tive mountains-alas he was not in the
5 original scene, and he is not in the picture.
, He was away from the trial of the great
: cause of humanity, arguing the graver
5 and more mornentous question of some
j. bank prerogative, or the corporate right Of
: some steam company. He was not re-
: tanned against Clay in the case Slavery Us
! Liberty. He left that argumeatio Thorn
4 as Morris. He should have had litho
i graphed-a starry place in this picture
!. He should have been sitting by, as COO
d as Mount Washington, or the Bunker
], Hill Monument,-in death silence, while
i Calhoun and Clay trampled on human
n liberty.
l. The poor PROSTATE slave, with averted
h face, utters these solemn, but unheedet
g words; "Rejoice not against me, o mine
K enemy, when fall. shall arise. Mi
st cab vii, 8.
N The PRlvELEeED CLAssEs.--W'
y have, in the United States, say the jour
n mails Of the day, eighty eight colleges
II twelve law schools. and ninety-six medi
g cal seminaries, thirty divinity schools, an
y somewhere about one thousand academies
6 S more or less sustained by Legislative boun
= ty, for the almost exclusive benefit O
II , the learned professions, which do nc
! comprise, probably, one-twentieth part O
e. our population. We have. not singh
y college, seminary or school, for the partic
I, ular improvement of the other 19-20ths c
~ our population-the farmers and mechan
= lcs-who earn our wealth, paw our taxes
- and fight our Eattles--although,
= speak it in the spirit of truth, the countr,
- would be more benefited in its wealth, il
! its morals, and in its politics-far more
e bene6tted-by extending to the laborins
e classes higher standard of learning, il
u what especially concerns their business
8 than it is from the aid which it now give
: to the non producing classes. 1t is a re
= publican maxim, that all should partici
/ pate alike in the public bounty. But tn,
e maxim has not as yet been adopted By GU
IS legislators.-C ultiu0tor.
FOURTEEN PERSONS Blown UP.-
Y The Hagerstown (Marylandl Torchligh
Z, of the Cd inst says in postscript.
$, We stop the press to say that we hav,
p lust been informed, by passenger in tn,
St western stage, that Rush's store, in. Han
: cock, was blown up, last night, and four
!. teen persons, who were in the store, kill
i. ed or dreadfully wounded. 1t is said tina
le two open kegs of powder had been lei
', standing by the counter, into one of which
,e the snuff of, candle was accident,
is thrown. We have not heard any of th,
Is names of the unfortunate inmates of the
n store at the time of the explosion.
,. "P. S. We have just seen letter o
l. this mornings date, which says. 1T i
= thought three or four will die;' so that W.
Y, presume none were instantly killed"
Of Extract from letter dated
n Hancock, May 2, 1889.
l. Last. evening, about 8 o'clock, we were
d suddenly alarmed by a tremenduous ex