Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-04-22
VERMONT TELEGRAPH.
BRANDON. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22jl84O.
A FAsT-DaY- SERMON.

lives IN an adjoining town, has complained
TO me, recently, that the Telegraph, has
sometimes been -too much flied up with af- |
fairs that pertain to Brandon. Its gener-
ally expected, doubtless, that paper circu-
lating as extensively at;home as the Tele-
graph does, should have some things local
in it. But the brother wiltallow me to ask
him If some things transacted in Brandon.
and noticed in the Telegraph, are not so
much like things transacted. in other places.
that, notice Of them, as Transporting here.
is equally noticeofahings abroad? II has
been my design to be confined, generally. to
things of a public nature, and that interest
the public.
lam about, now, to,pass some brief strict
ures on fast-day sermon, which was re-
Gently delivered in Brandon, by Harvey
Curtis, Congregational minister. I should
not trouble the, readers of the telegram
with it, probably, if I,houg the sentiments
OF the sermon were peculiar to Harvey Cur
tbs, or were confined at all to Brandon. II
is not thensan; affair that concerns Brandon
merely, or peculiarly, that |. NEEDLE with.
but an affair that concerns the public. True
the discourse was delivered in Brandon
but Its principal sentiments had before ap-
peared in the Vermont Chronicle, the organ
OF the denomination for the State. Thew
had not appeared there Ia an embodied form.
that iihave noticed, but from time to time.
and many oftbetn repeatedly, as those who
are acquainted with that paper can testify.
when they come to see them here. It is TO
be supposed then that these sentiments are
entertained and advocated, more or less, in
different parts of Vermont, whsre that paper
circulates,-so it is highly proper that they
should be met and exposed in the Telegraph.
They are emphatically public property, and
it is important that the public should know
their real value.
/ Tbs work would have been done, last
week.-Mrs. the reason was given in the last
Telegraph why it could not be. My report
willbe less full now, inasmueh as my brief
notes have lain ont of sight more than full
week since they were taken. But the i'm.
portance of the subject is nothing dinin--
| ished.
The speakers text was in Micah-6ih
chapter-Sth verse.
| His subject Of discourse was Slareru
His general divisions Of his subject were
the character of slurery-our relation to
it-and our duty iss regardto IL.
l. The character of Slavery. Under this
head he commenced very welL He show
ed very clearly that the servitudeof the Old
Festaments was fundamentally different
from modem slavery. He also expressed it
as his view-if 7 rightly understood him
that American slavery, as it now exists ir
the United States, is, all things considered.
more odious than any other that ever exist
ell among men. Whether he expressed this
sentimen: or not, | believe it to be correct.
And understood him to express it. He
was not wanting in denunciation against
American slavery, as being most elaborate
system. of outrage, oppression, and wrong,
deserving the universal execraiion Of man
hind.
Bot when he had done this, he at once
turned square about and advocated the cause
oil the very men whose acts constitute this
abomlnable system of oppression, with quite
as much zeal as he had used in denouncing
the oppression itself. Slavery is a, horrible
monster. But Shareholders may neverthe
less be very good. and pious, and benevo-
lent men! He believed that truly benero-
Tent men, from the honest conviction that
liberating their slaves would not be bless
ing, but curse to them, had held their slaves
all their lives!
II is by this doctrine, precisely, that the
Vermont Chronicle has always succeeded
in keeping large proportion of.its readers
with their backs turned upon slavery, and
their faces set against the lawful and scrip
tural and rational measures of aboltionists
for its overthrow. With one breath il will
condemn Slavery With the next, it will
sew pillows TO the armholes of Shareholders z
Now what does it avail to condemn sin,
and at the same time exculpate the sinner 2.
were precisely the same thing to inveigh.
az .sinst stealing, and at the same time clear
the ttsef, as TO inyeigh against slavery, and
at the same time clear tine shareholder. A
large proportion of preaching is lost in this
va. " way. No preaching brings The sinner
to rem. 'ntance except that which makes him
feel thar .se IS the guilty person. Thou