Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-06-05
VERMONT TELEGRAPH
BRANDON, SATURDAY, JUNE |, 1889.


W
fell upon the following remarks Of the Ed
itor, on Capital Punishment:
"The committee of the Judiciary in the |
New York Legislature, we are happy 10 |
learn, have reported against the adjustment |
of capital punishment in case of murder, !
the visionary notions Of the present day to
the contrary Notwithstanding. We received |
a sermon from administer recently on this |
subject; and we thought he might have |
been about better business" .aft
So it seems that brother Beebee treats the |
grave subject Of taking the life Of fellow
man, in the same way he does every subject
that does not enlist in its favor the popular
will. tappears to ne that every one must
concede that, for ten years, at least, the Ed
or Of the Register has been the slape Of
popular opinion. This would be more toll
cradle if he would meet his opponents as a
gentleman-hot TO say as a christi an-with
scripture and sound argument. But to this
mode Of warfare he seems to be perfect
stranger. With cants, and opprobrious ep-
ithets, however, he has few superiors.
For proof OF this, refer, first, to the
manner in which some eight years since he
treated those who were prominent in Pro-
tracted Meetings. His most cogent argu-
ments against these brethren were-"they
are Arminians; new divinity men; and their
depravity; and even to Socinianism and
infdelity.n The friends,of these meetings
considered themselves slandered, and called
on him either TO retract, or to sustain his
charges. But to the first. he qoould not,
and as to the second, he could not do it.
So he persisted in his course, till public
opinion changed, and like the weathercock
he Of course changed with the wind.
Again,-that brot her Beebee is the dupe
of popular applause, is seen in the manner
in which he treated the new Temperance
Pledge. Sc long as the D. DIS &c., in our
cities and large towns opposed the new
pledge, he opposed it. Whatever they
thought, hethought Whatever they said,
he said. When they became friends of the
new pledge, he became friend of the new
pledge.
The course the Editor of the Register
pursues toward the Aboliticnists, also IA
vors my assertion. Against these he wields
the same arguments which have wrought
such wonders in destroying confidence in
Protracted Meetings and the new Temper
onoa DledCo Thoea ro,, a , re- ,va the sac
Of such epithets as, visionaries, misguided
men, fanatics, nltraists," &c. Is it no
passing strange that the friends Of Immedi
ate Emancipation dare for a moment en-
counter an enemy furnished with such ire
mendous drtillery? No wonder Abolition
ism has so rapidly died away! Such ,argu
men.s are enough to overpower Hercule
himself!
The success which has attended the Ed
itor in going all lengths to sustain publ
opinion, emboldens him, il seems, to turl
his attention TO the few " Missionaries" VIII
are in favor ot.the command, "THou sHAL
NOT KILL" The artillery by which he ha
laid in ruins so many countries, and demo-
lshed the walls of so many cities, he conf
IDENTIFY believes will enable him to overcom
those deluded Missionaries with blow
Under these circumstances, what can W
doY IL he would but appeal to the Bib
history, reason, or the common feelings /
humanity, I should almost be willing ,
enter the arena, single handed and alone
But as he has made his appeal 10 the Hoi
COMMITTEES Of the N Y. Legislature,
connection with the epithet, Missionary
nave we not all reason to tremble2 Or
thing Is certain, should our number in III
cause ode a'Oay," as rapidly as The frien,
Of the New Pledge and Of Abolition Il
warfare must undoubtedly soon closet
Again,-that brother Beebee is the du
Of popular applause is obvious from i
fact that he SO frequently puffs our popu
men. Now no Editor with whom :
acquainted, says so much against puff
and sounding ones own praise, as does Il
same Editor; and yet no one, in my op
Ion, IS more guilty Of this very sin he hi
self condemns. A few years since, Elk
Bennett, one oil the agents of the Forei
Missionary Society. preached in Hamilr
village, sermon in which he advocated
prOpriety of sending some of our m