Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-04-17
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Ridiculous.
The Rutland Herald is belaboring the
Vermont Anti Slavery Society for with
holding communion with shareholders, and
those churches which hold
religious fellowship with Them; and for
avoiding alliance with either Of the polit-
icai parties of the day"-lor supporting
those candidates, without regard 10 party
who will promote the cause of
immediate emancipation;" and, eff no such |
candidates are nominated by either Of the !
political parties" for "giviug votes TO good
men not on either Of the regulur tickets"
The Herald has fallen into new hands.
The former publisher had grown wise
enough, in his old age, to be silent on the
subject of abolition, as he saw it nsirg in
the community around him. Strange, that
he did not teach the young men their alpha
bet before intrusting them with the Herald.
They are at least three years behind the
age. They have heedlessly espoused
sinking cause. Do they think. in 1899, TO
hold the christians Of Vermont in commun-
ion with the vilest system of sin The sun
ever SAVIOR with those who uphold it?
Or do they think to whip all the freemen of
the Green Hills into party traces? For
specimen Of the good sense of these astute
young quill-drivers, take the following:
"This prescribing and DISTINGUISHING our fellow
citizens for merely political religious opinions,
| has always met with signal rebuke from the peo-
pie, and if we mistake not, II wall new.'
More nonsense could not we'll be ex-
pressed in an equal number of words, Do
they know what the word "disjranchise''
means? If they do not, they ought not te
have used K. If they do know its meaning,
they certainly ought not to have used il as
they have. Ii it murderous use of Eng
lish. 1t is one thing TO withhold ones own
suffrages-it is another, and entirely differ
ent thing, to deprive another of exercising
his sufrages, or OF any of his rights OF
privileges as free citizen. Until the latter
is done, there is no disfranchsement: ana
; this, nobody, of sane mind, win pretend the
Anti Slavery Society has ever undertaken.
Then, "fcr MERELY political or reli
gious opinions" had supposed that th,
religious opinions and practices Of mel
were very proper tests of fellowship 70
: christians; and that the political opinion
7 and practices of men were very proper test
D of suffrage for freemen. Wonder how Ion.
it is since these conductors OF a pelitica
journal have learned TO place so low an est
mate on mans POLITICS? They certainl
= must allow religious men to esteem OF NOR
consequence than they seem to the RELlelo
s of men.
But the next paragraph Of this wonderfu
! piece diseloses The object and the motive
u 1t is found in the following sentences:
5 "Hence one of the best aud most emn,inent Twin
men Henry Clayl in America must be sacrificed;
S &c.
Here the secret is out Now the publish
ers of the Rutland Herald, and every olhe
tool and workman of party -political-ma
n chlnery in Vermont, may just as we'll UT
), derstand and know at the outset, that a
y efforts TO faiter or drive the aboli,ionists
this State into the support of practice
> Shareholder and colonizationis,-who ha
. himself recently taken the lead of the ba
4 tie against the cause of abolition will b
y labor lost. They can now have their choic,
l. whether TO abandon their sinking ship or 2
d down with il.
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