Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-05-08

NIT. Opauldng, Tor the purpose OF COM
pairing with the Mormon Bible, to satisfy
their own minds and to prevent their
friends from embracing an error so delu
slve. This was in the year 1884. DIR.
HuFlbut brought with him an introduc-
tlol and request for the manuscript, sign
ed by Messrs. Henry Lake, Aaron
Wright and others, with all of whom |
was acquainted, as they We're my neigh
boTs when resided in New Salem.
[ am sure that nothing could grieve
my husband more, were he living, than
the use which has been made Of his
work. The air Of antiquity which was
thrown about the composition, doubtless
suggested the idea of converting it to
purposes of deluson. Thus an historic
al romance, with the addition OF few pi-
Gus expressions and extracts from the sa,
cred Scriptures, has been construed into
new Bible, and palmed off upon a com
pany Of poor deluded fanatics as divine
| have given the previous brief narration,
that this work of deep deception and wick
edness may be searched TO the foundation,
and its author exposed to the contempt
and execration he so justly deserves
The Rev. DR.. Ely, pastor of the Con
gregational church 10 Monson, and D. r.
Austin, principal Of the Monson Acade-
my, have given their certificate that Mrs.
ID. is a woman of irreproae liable char
acter, and humble Christian, and that
her testimony is worthy Of implicit conf
dence.'
The following letter. from e. d. Barber, of Mid
dlebury, to the meeting of Massachusetts Young
Mems Anti-Slavery Society, at Worcester last
September, will afford treat to Vermont abolition
lists that ought to have been served up, in the Tee-
graph, before.
LIE IT Err
From e. d. Barber, of MiddIebury, VT.
MlDDLEBURY, Sept. 90, 1888.
DEAR S1R:-Yours under date of Sept.
5th, came dul Y to hand, and would have
been answered before this, but for the
pressure of professional and other avoca-
tons. | regret to say that it vii! be i'm
possible for me TO attend your Convention
at Worcester next week. Could [ do so
with proper regard to other claims upon
me, should eagerly embrace the o7por-
tunity offered by your polite and fattering
invitation to meet with my abolition breth-
-ren of Massachusetts, and witness, as
doubt not l should the spirit, power and
progress Of those beneficent principles
which we all delight to profess, and to
the speedy triumph of which we look
forward with confidence and joy. No
one, | think, who watches closely the
'denotements' of the times, can fail of
perceiving that the cause of emancipation
has now obtained a vantage-ground, from
which it will be impossible for all its foes
numerous and heterogeneous as they are,
4 to dislodge it. The war between freedom
and slavery in this country has assumed
a stern and mortal aspect, and the trump
cts of the opposing armies give 'certair
sound The day in which it was tho
sufficient to meet the arguments of aboli
tlonlsts with sneers and ridicule, with
pointless witticisms and affected contempt
IS past, and all who either mingIe in tn,
, strife or watch its progress afar off, fee
n and see that the opposing forces have
f come to the great grapple, and that Their
:. will be no truce, until the one or tn
}. other is vanquished and driven from tn
4 land And can any one, who has faitI
a in the intelligence and patriotism Of tn
e American people, doubt as to the resu,
), of the conflict? Already do we see thos
a who once could join in the senseless CT
O of fanaticism' and 'ultraism' against US
;. rejoicing in the professions and practice
, from which they formerly shrunk wit
1t SO much nice discrimination and superio
f. wisdom. We now see those who one,
n while they honored our philanthropy
IS condemned our measures and though
e US lacking in intelligence and 'discre
h tion,' acknowledging the propriety Of tho;
y measures bringing themselves to Ii
j. level of our intelligence and even b
t. coming indiscreet as we are indiscree
It And as if even objections which wou
Is seem to have been insurmountable, ha
n by a good Providence, been removed
r. give impetus and success to our caus
Mt we behold those who once refused to ler
l. US the aid Of their powerful infuenc
X because tsey acere aeaating 10 aoitneSS OF
D principles, so correct sn the abStrac
l IN safe practical operation, giving
er their cohesion to our doctrines in Il
DIV light shed upon their difficulties by We
&c India emancipation. Whichever way,
nd short, we turn our ewes over the bro
ipt field occupied by our enterprise. we S
b. omens Of good to cheer Us on in the a
he complishment of our great work. 1
* West is answering to the East in
he mastering for the conAict-the beac
IL fires of freedom kindled 10 the Nor
he already shed their radiance over the plai
ich of the Southland we may look forwa
ars with renewed and ever-increaslng COZ
Inr,on Il Tho annnd.r nr.;.rnl Of the be