Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-04-24

mo Ills cause 10 look al MS poor DrOtneT,
weItering among the brambles Of the hot
anG dusty way side! We tell them that I
though they may be able TO turn our indis-
Greet attacks upon them to the disadvan-
tage of our cause, they will not be able
on future day, to account for the enhanced |
degradation of the slave. or the enhanced |
iafdelity of the Observation-Disclosures Ab-
oLltionist.
A CRUST FOR CAsUIsTs.--' What was
the mans crime. papa?' He killed au-
other man. Is that very wicked! %
Dreadful, desperately wicked an out
rage upon all laws human and divine.'-
And what are they going to do to him q
: To kill him. What, kill another mani
My dear, you don't understand: it is
necessary to punish crimes, and to hold
up the fate of The criminal as an example
and warming Il know L am very Stu.
pid; but what | cannot understand is. that
you punish crime and warn others against
it, by committing the very same crime
! YOURSELF THAT is different as regard
individuals and communities. To kill a
man according to law is an act of Justice.
not murder Then are laws throu ehout
the world good2 NO BY what stan
dard do we try lhem'' by the law of
God, written in the human heaH, and in
the Ten Commandments Did YOU not
say that killing nan was an outrage up
on the divine law2' Don't be trouble
some, my dear.'-The Student, and La
, dies Literary Repository.
BENJAMIN Franklin. Boston pa-
per says, that the following characteristic
letter of DR.. Franklin has never before
, been published, so far as we have been
able 20 ascertain.
s'Passy, March Is, 1885.
"My dear Friend My nephew, Mr..
" lllams, will have the honor of deliver
ing you this line. 1t is to request from
3 you list of a few good books, TO the value
OF about Els, such as are most proper to
lnculcate principles of sound religion,
and Just government. A new town in the
Safe of Massachusetts. having done me
the honor OF naming itself after me, and
; proposing to build seepIe TO their meet
Ing-honse if | would give them a bell,
have advised the sparing themselves the
expense OF steeple at present, and that
they would accept books instead OF a he'll
sense bssng preferable to sound These
are, therefore, intended as the commence
men: of a little parochial library for the
; use OF society Of intelligent respec,a bic
; farmers, such as our country people gen.
orally consist of. Besides YOUR own
works, would only mention, on recon-
G mendatlon OF my sister, tStennet's Dis
Y courses on Personal Religion which
: may be one book of the number, If YOU
> know 1t, and approve of it. With the
: highest esteem and respect, l am ever. nv
!, dear friend, yours most afectionateIy.
u 3. FRANKLIN."
j "Rev. DR.. Price.
The LADY OF THE FIRST GOVERNOR
OF VERMONT. Thomas Chiuenden. who
was plain farmer, alike remarkable for
$ strong native powers Of mind and the re-
publican simplicity with which he con.
: Quoted every thing in his public duties
;, and in his domestic establishment, was
It once visited by party of travelling fash.
e lonables from one of our cities. When
u she hour of dinner arrived, Mrs. Chitt,n-
J den. to he establishment of her fair guests,
u went out and biewa tin horn for the work
men, who soon arrived; when 10 the still
9 greater SURPRISE and even horror. oflhese
y fair cts, the whole company-govcrnor
"A his lady, guests, workmen and aIl-vere
= invited to sit down together 10 the sinh.
5 stantIa! meal which had been provid ID
i for the occasion. After dinner the ladies'
p were iek by themselves, and one Of the
guests thought she would take Mrs. Chit.
tenden TO task for this monstrous violation
OF the rules of city gtnti'ily to which she
had been. as she thought, so uncour;eors-
c y made a victim.
: d" 4on Go not generally sit down 10 the
same table with your workmen, | sup
: pose Mrs ChttenJen !' she commences
Why replied The governors lady.
! whose quick wit instantly appreci ted the
dr'ft OF the other, Il am almost ASHAMED
10 say we generally Go, but [ intend soon
10 mend IN this particular. | was teiinc
=, me governor this very morning. than +
: was an absolute shame that the wor,men
who did "a the hard labor. shoutl far. No
: better than we, who 81, so much of,ba
J time IN the house, doing little or no,hino
= ana am determined hereafter TO sci two
tables the first and best for The workmen
ana The last and poorest for the governor
and myself. "-Green Mountain EmD,,;.
I'm.
10 PRESERVE Eees.-Eggs have often
oeen Preserved Sound and good for months
by shutting them up with common wool
ashes In box or cask, so as 10 exclnds
the air.
A Coop OxE.-Friend Rogers Of The
Mlg9ef Herald" gives US in his last, the