Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-01-29

led, and none have surpassed. Human
rights are. respected here, and the way to
pre- eminence for any man is by assisting
every other man to rise. Mans rights
10 himself and even Gods claims on him
are there denied and wrested away, and
the road to elevation is by degrading and
crushing all you can. Before US omen
prospects OF almost unmingled good. With
them, until slavery receive its doom. omens
Of almost unmitioable evil prevail. So in
many other points, contrast obtains.
But there ore Resemblance also. A
process of assimilation has been going on;
and Col he praised, the worse side is
Welding to the better The healthier
moral influence is mastering the other-
The habits and principles, and anstitu-
tons of the pilgrims are extending over
the region whose early bent Of character
was given by 1.-THE Ancient Dominion"
In The language of CAeUalier, THE
Yankee has set his mark on the United
States, during the last half centnry."
In the midst of what do we live 3
Things around us, The condition of our
country, the state of the world. the mo-
tons of the whole church and Of the
evangelical body in the midst of it, the
divine promises and threatenngs in the
book of prophecy, all bespcak prepafa-
ton for some stupenduouS design of Prov
idence 10 unfold itself in massive develop.
! ments, powerfully breaking up and new
moulding the character and destiny of
mankind Revolutions muster. as hosts
to the battle. A junction of great eras is
10 birth. Every thing gives sign of de-
feat to slavery and sin and hell, and Of
victory to freedom and holiness and heav-
en-. The sesult will be the setting up
| and consolidation, as has Yet been never
witnessed, of Christ's spiritual kingdom
over men. We cannot come honorabiy
or safely except we live up to our respon-
| slbIltes. At such a time as this. wo t.
the man who is timid, and does anv work
of the Lord deceitfully. Wo to him who
wraps his mantle Of self and sioth about
him, and lies down to doze or DREAM
| Oh, where is the spirit so craven. so made
OF lead and stone, as, In these times, to be
unmoved by the fame and deeds of his
| pilgrim progenitors? Who of YOU can
slumber when such things demand your
efforts? when 4 cloud of such witnesses
summon you to action2 Who that laos
behind the chariot OF Providence, instead
OF attending 1t on its triumphant way. is
not recreant TO the spirit of his ancestry?"
GEOLOGICAL Discovery In Scor-
LAND. We have been favored with a
sight of a beautiful ante-diluvian speci-
men of the hr tribe just dug from the
Stevenson freestone quarry, on the estate
of Mr.. Warner. of Ardeer. The trunk.
stems, and leaves are as perfectly formed
and portrayed in this piece of solid rock,
as those now growing in the neighbor-
| hood OF the quarry. This geological GU
riosity, along with a cluster of mats. five
in number, which composed part of the
stone, was thirty feet from the surface. be-
ing twenty feet below the present level of
the sea. The nuts and the leaves, stem
and trunk of the fir, are of a dark brown
color; while the surrounding body of the
| stone Is blueish white, which Owes
hesn fragments the appearance Of the
finest fresco painting. Many Interesting
curosties of the like description have
been found during the working OF this
extensive quarry. TIE antiquarian geo.
G0gIst would certninly be highly sralified
! by repeated visits to this excavation. -Avr
Observer
1t is mentioned as an Interesting fact BY
the Lynn Puritan, that person may