Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-11-27

| N A1dilZe cut hefSe!f loose from tn
steamer that tugs her up to New Orleans
/ the woodman chop off the limb that h
stands upon; the town pauper dissolv
MS glorious union with the select men
or the honest tar, that has fallen over
BOARD apply his jack-knift, with his let
nand, 10 the rope that he holds on to. will
ms riight,-then shall [ begin to fear tina
the slave states of America, will reollu re
cede from their union with the free A
all events, union or no union, will new
er DC slave myself, for fear that anotbe,
man Will not stag, slave. Yet, if mus
DC either pulpit slave or a plantation
siave-send me to the plantation!
believe, gentlemen, that all the items
on this invoice of transgressions, are now
checked OF. And now, docking back up-
ON them, is 1t not little remarkable that
the commonwealth of Massachusetts, in
regard to every one of the items, with the
single exception of Pdrenology,' No. 4,
mas LAID herself open to the same censure
frohl this Committee of Hollis Street So
ciety' that has fallen SO heavily upon its
pastor Well, there IS some comfort in
that. Misery, it is said, loves company :
and while IN good company, one may al
most Consent to be lii disgrace. With the
advancement either of light, or of dark
ness, IN this Commonwealth am al
most afraid 10 say which, lest the author
OF this Report may think that mean TO
compliment myself at his expense,-,he
law OF Massachusetts has followed on
by very striking coincidence Pin the
very direction in which the voice of the
minister OF Hollis street-acco rding to this
Report-has been heard, finding fault
with lis old position, and calling il onward
70 nigher and stronger. The old law
oI imprisonment for debt is altered, in
favor of humanity. The old militia law
is altered. The old law has been altered
70 nearer conformity TO the spirit of an
tI-masonry.' And, if | could sapoose
that many members of Hollis Street So
cIety, who were aggrieved, last year, by
my interference with the laws of the
land still felt interest enough in the laws
regulating the sale of spurious liquors. 10
retain the fact in their memory, after
had mentioned it, | would also remark
that the old License Laws have been al
tered in favor Of Temperance What
may We! be done with the slave laws of
this nation. The Ruler of the nations, in
his own time, will show.
My friends, have thus endeavored to
comply with what understand 10 be the
spIrlt OF your note, so far as two classes of
my delinquencies are concerned nv en-
ga9aDg IN certain mechanical pursuits.
and my cngagedneSS in certain moral
topics,' thai, IN the view of your COL
leagues. are particularly 'excitine.'
There are few other things, which
may be classed under the head OF particu.
Ter acts, and upon which YOU must in
dulge me, if your good nature will hold
out under it. In some further remarks.
Your colleagues speak of nv having
stated unquallfedly that if God spared nv
life, to return, after voyage for the res
toration of my health, few years ago,
; that life should be devoted to my people,
And, still further, 50 late as September of
last year, said, as did say, 'LfIhaue
entered too earnestly or too exclusively
into a lew topics that, from circumstances
IN which, in these days. we are all called
to act, have become particularly exciting,
to the neglect Of others, equally impor
tant and more peculiarly within nv own
province, 1t cannot be TO my people mat
ter Of deeper regret than 1t is to ne; and
| shall faithfully endeavor 10 recall all
undue attention from the former topics,
and confine to the latter what they NAV
ri2htfully claim Then in relation TO
what have here quoted, of my own,
their language is, We aoiH say it is eth
err meant to be ambiguous, or he has
changed his mind How so, pray tell
US? Why, because he now says he
will stand in free pulpit or none
Gentlemen, do you see the connexion !?
For the life of me, | cannot. Let me
ask, in the first place, whether it is pos
sible that the majority-the numerical
majority ceriainIy-of your committee
suppose, when | say II l have done
particular thing, that admit that have
done il? Have they not learned the diff
ference between supposition and an af-
frnation, in the English languaee,-be-
tween the indicative and the subiunetive
mood, in grammar When either Of
these gentlemen says, to man who pre-
sents a bill which he. himself. thinks he
has paid, If owe it. will endeavor to
paw it, does he, thereby, admit that he
owes il? And if the holder of the bill
says that he understands the promise as
unconditional, and insists on payment,
does your colleague set that man down.
in his books. as a very clever man, in bis
way! Let me ask, IN 1be-second place,
am to understand that my life cannot be
devoted 10 my people, if | insist upon
standing in free pulpit or none2 Thai