Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-09-23

He IS a youthful offender, and we. trust
that as he grows older, he will grow WIS.
,er. Turnbull is an impudent, inflated
5Scotchman, who manifests his high sense
of his American adoption BY villfylng
our institutions and throwing frebrands
among our people. He has been trying
for some time TO flight himself into fame,
and is in a fair way Of achieving very
unenyiablc notorietY We have forgotten
the other gentlemen who figured in the
late meeting at New Y ork. We have
but one remark to make with regard to
them all. We can bear with patience the
warmest and the silliest attacks, of our
American brethren, but we feel the great
lest indignation when made the object OF
insolent attack by foreigners,t8) who,
crawling from the filth and scum that
I Europe casts upon our shores, burrow
under the temple of our freedom, TO eat
ithe chiIdren's bread, and desecrate by their
veroin touch the inheritance bequeathed
to Us by our fathers.
These gentlemen would have US believe
that in their late movements they were
actuated by the pursst philanthropy, and
that their hearts are overrunning with the
"miik of human kindness" Their bow
els of compassion yearn over u.s. and even
( when they shall smite, though it be with
a blow that shall lay US in the dust. it will
be all in love. They are. kind hearted
"honorable murderers,' the Othellos Of
the church who do thought in hale, but
all in honor" Though as the legitimate
consequences. of their interference, our
church should be divided, and the plainest
precepts of the Bible trampled in the dust ::
though we be branded as the most inta-
NOUS of mankind, and visited with the
fercest anathemas it is in their power to
pronounce though our people be goaded
i with incessant insults, and their dearest
j sensibilties made the common stock IN
? trade for Northern adventures in philan-
Ithropy 20 traffic init all involves the
irresistible gushings of brotherlv affection.
And should their fellow laborers, the po-
lnical abolitionists, succeed in their work
of destruction, and convert the whole
southern country into one vast slaughter
house that too will be the result Of the
same generous, irrepressible bene7o!ence.
1t may be that after all, we are conten-
ding with man of straw. The threats
Eof excommunication may be mere bravado
and like the idiots tale,
Sound and fury,
Signifying uothiug.
Had they met with the indignant rebuke
/ of onr-norti1ern brethren, we should be
+ disposed to think so. But the silence Of
/. the public prints is ominous of evil. Even
r the Baptist Advocate is locker on, and
= the whole affair stands unchailenoed ex
! cept by the solitary voice of "A Baptis,
:. Layman'' in the Christian Watchman
: 1.-THE proceedings of The N. Y. Conven.
= ton are not disowned by the Northern
Baptsts, we must do something. Wha
we should do, will be considered in oul
neN.l9) r
j DIToRIAL NOTES.
: Q) soPpu see, brethren of the Free
Y sta:es,"1 ION ponents of Anti-slayery,. ane
:. Eapologists of sIayery-what you have got L
come to, at asst. The abolitionsts have
= told youso ain along. The doctrine, tina
there can be no neutral ground "-tha
" he that is not N nth US is against u.s." 70,
y will now agree to, doubtess, inaslnuch as i
Z comes from your 9 southern brethreu.r Thi
e is an important do8trne which christian alb
6 -olitionists Of the Norm have so long beer
urging upon their, e brsy Ken of the Free
: Estate" and which is o\agreed to ane
;. confirmed by "our southern BRETHREN" th'
e shareholders themselves. BY the way, Thu
e perfect sgreeynent between abolilonists ant
s SHAREHOLDERS, Oh this great point, is no re
q 3concilialioA between PLATE and Herod.-
! No-=it is only an involuntary confirmation
of moalentous truth, on the part of slave
i holders. Let not our -" brethren Of the Free
3 States be surprised that their /" southern
! brethren have so soon joined the adolf
tionists in proclainoing and enforcing this
: radical truth. Let them rather be ashamed
5 that Shareholders have got the start Of them
: ! We have told them, it would be so, unless
they bestirred themselves. Let them now
least about, and see what has become OF their
neutral ground. 81 Let HIN that thinketh
= he standeth take heed lest he fall" 81 =
{. Allow me-, at this point, to congratulate
2 the Baptists Of Vermont generaHy-for l
/ i believe the exceptions to be few-on their
having received and entertained this great
truth, in season to saveNthem chagrin and
mortileaton-so that they are now ready
10 {. take a decided stand" No doubt the
5 time has fully come. The shareholders O.
!. the South have altogether out done their
" brethren Of the Free States u-the apollo
gists Of slavery and ahti-abolitionists-in
discerning the signs of the times.
We shall now see whether tho ,,,o,,111