Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-12-09

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ing and selling men women and children,
as means of procuring wealth, if such
tterlmes were legalized by the powers thai
be. They would certainly do this, if by
these means the golden stream would be
more quick and violent. LET me be
quickly rich, is the language of men i'll
general Thence the necessity of a Grim
/ inal code, and an almost endless train OF
penal statutes, for the protection of prop
erty and of right. The law is not made
for righteous man, but for the lawless
and dlsobedient. | Tim. l.: 9. Had
there been no unjust or criminal attach
ment to worldly good the moral law itself
would not have been delivered, as it is, in
prohibitory form, denouncing the yari-
Gus evils which disorganize the state of
human soci"tv, and subvert the govern
ment oil God. Were it not for the inhu-
ence Of this evil passion, there would not
be so many thieves, robbers. murderers,
tcounterfeiters, incendiaries, swinders, and
gamblers, incarcera.ed in our jais, prisons
and houses of correction And were it
rot for our criminal attachment to this
world, there would be little or no theft
very seldom would men bear false Wit
ness, and in nine cases out often no I'M
necessary labor, or travelling would be
performed on the Sabbath Whence
come wars and fghtings! In genera,
no doubt, they originate in the love of
money. A few miles of territory or lit
tie paltry gold, will set men all on fire,
and so arouse the patriotism, as it is
! called, of nations aud individuals, that they
will without remorse commit murder by
the wholesale. And what is still worse,
| if possible, this principle has so infatuated
and blinded professed christians, that up
on hearing ofthe great success of the arms
Of the government under which they live,
they will meet together and devoutly
thank God for the signal victory he has
given them! though they are aware that
many wives have been made widows
many children orphans, and an immense
amount of misery has followed as the con-
sequence Of victory. Yet G ID must be
praised for all thiS2 The history of the
world is but a history Of crime; in thou
sand Instances resulting from the love OF
money. Who can calculate the mischiefs,
the robberies, the murders that have been
committed, originating in this sin ? What
was Sennacherib and Nebucbadnezzar
Alexander, and Cesar, with a host of 9th
ers? Were they not public plunderers
bent upon gratifying an Unsuitable ambi
lion, and DESTROYS to reduce the world tc
a state of wretcheduess and misery? Anc
what has not this principle done in mod
ern times, in every nation under heaven
And what is it now doing ia the world
Is it Lot manufacturing and vending mill
ions on millions Of barrels of intoxicating
: poisonous drinks2 Yes: Great Brita
l. alone consumes more than twenty mil
: ions of gallons of distilled and fermente
d drinks in one year. How vast then mus
IS be the amount consumed throughout tn
t. worlL Are not manufacturers and vent
n ers the cause of this consumption The
he are they not the cause of intemperan'
as and the evils resulting therefrom Is n
10 intemperance a great evil ?
Mt Is not incompetence mental, physic;
Is and national evil 1t is the nurse
SIS disease, the handmade Of crime, and t.
'ut barlot- mother of thousand abominatiol
ch 1t is deadly miasma, the pestiiental v
m. pors of which have suffocated more |
We man beings, than any other evil shat
I'VE ever infected our poor world In the Il
Tor guage of late modern writer, 'C,ud
Tod change the mighty ocean into paint, ira
i've form every stick into d brush, make e
he ~ man an artist, every stara scah0Id, E
y" the outstfetched boundless sky ii canv
the could we then employ The dismal clio
by for shades, the frighlfoI: beginnings aU
; of element for tinge, and midnight pitt
Y to darkness for tapestry of melancholy gle
ex- could we use the dolefol wind for sis
t is the countless drops of rain for tears,
Ives broken music of the bowling storms
the walls, and shrieks and cries, the ca
ness quake's violent shakes for agonizng pa
very and the long, loud rumbIing thunder: