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The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-04-16

The resolutions were unanimously a.
greed to-; and more solemn and i'm
posing funeral procession has never been
seen at Washington than that which ac-
compailied the remains Of Gen. BRowN
to the tomb.
The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-04-16

It would seen, from our exchange that
other editors are IN a similar predicatnelt
with ourselves. We can fiid nothing in
them Of importance, but Harrison, Har-I
rison, Harrison and our pencil almost
rebels at the idea Of writing on any other
theme.
The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-04-16

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Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-06-24

the right of fighting in self-defence must be
banished from the hearts of professed
christians, or they must reject the New
Testament principles, and its Author.
I shall say no more at this time, but earn
estly request all who profess to have been
renewed in heart and spirit, to examine the
teachings of Christ,-compare them with
their own cherished sentiments, and see
whether they will sufficiently harmonic at
the judgment day, when we shall all be
called to render an account of our steward
ship here on earth. J. H.
A word here to those Colonizationist who sup
port their scheme on the ground of its being a
missionary institution, for the conversion of Africa.
land it is in this aspect of the matter that the sys-
tenn now gets the chief support it derives from any
who pretend TO christianity or honestly ask all
such, whether tie horrible details of this letter
from a missionary, in which he shalnelessly holds
himself forth with his own hands reeking in human
blood, and ~glorving in his success as a man-butcher
should not cause them to pause in their course
The fourth of July is at hand, and the President o
the Vermont Colonization Society has issued hi:
annual call for contributions. How much are TIL
christians of Vermont ready to pay, to send GU
and sustain murderers under the name of mission
aries? Ed. TEL.
Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-06-24

ed amid the banners of storms the voice
of thunders, and unclaimed the light.
nings that linger. and Turk. and fash in
their gloom? Who gave TO the eagle a
safe eyrie where the tempests dwell and
beat strongest, and to the dove a tranquil
abode amid the forests that ever echo to
the minstrelsy of her moan2 Who made
THEE, Oh man, with thy perfect elegance
of intellect and of form2 Who gave
thee that matchless symmetry of sinew
and limbo That regular flowing of
blood? Those impressible and daring
passions of ambition and of love2 No
GoDl And yet the thunders of heaven
and the waters of the earth are calm! Is
there no lightning, that heaven is not
avenged Are there no floods, that man
is not swept under a delugel They re-
main, but the bow Of reconciliation hangs
out above and beneath them. And il
were better that the limitless waters and
the strong mountains were convulsed and
commingled together-it were better that
the very stars were ~conf1agrated by fire,
or shrouded in gloom, than that soNE soul
should be lost, while Mercy kneels and
pleads for it beneath the altar Of intercess-
ion
Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-06-24
Religious Miscellany.

AN ExTRAcT.-Go out beneath the
arched heavens in nights profound gloom.
and say, if you can. 'THERE Is NO
GoDp Pronounce that dread blasphemy.
and each star above you will reproach
you for your unbIoken darkness Of intel
lect-eyery voice hat floats upon the
night winds will bewail your utter hope,
~lessness and despair Is there no goa
Who, then, unrolled that blue scroii, ano
threw upon its high fron;ispiece the legi;
bic gleamings Of immortality! Wno
fashioned this green earth, with its per
~uetuaI rolling waters and its wide ex
panse of island and mainl Who settles
the foundations of the mountains WIZ
nayed the heavens with clouds, and altun
Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-06-24

Far be if from MEL would say again,
to imagine that when men lightly invoke
IN upon their neighbors, OF ups
on their w souls, they really intend
what they say. On the contrary, IT IS but
too difficult to persuade most persons that
such a horrid endless doom can ever be de-
served, or oughlto be inflicted. A Notorious
individual, grown gray in swindling' and
! whom every body thought It a virtue 10
brand with infamE was not long since
sentenced to the Penitentiary for a term
of wears. to atone for the ruin he had bro'k
upon hundreds Of INDECENT and helpless
persons; outr cling their Confidence. and
lrobbing them Of their hard earnings
And vet, so hckle, and so devoid Of justice
is the heart of man, that In a few months
after, there were not a few who could al
most consent 10 see the culprit set az lab
erty, because there were some. sull deeper
dipt in crime, who. contrived 10 eidoe Inc
power of the law. No-let a man curse
me in sport or in earneSt-on mlgnty prov
~ocation or on none at ALL l viii not be-
:. Iieve him. Let him stand and gnash up
ON me with furious rage and with a vol
lev Of ;mnfecations, wish my soul IN the
: d:anest abyss of eternal misery / will
= NO, imagine that the desire is from the
bottom Of bis heart, or thai It can long
hide there. We read in Holy Writ o.
la man, who, after living as he listed, N
h Edne time died and was buried and IN The
! solemn Judgment of God, was sent awag
Ie 70 make his bed in hell. Fromlhat place
, he lifted up his eyes in torment; and if
2 ing up his voice also. he cried. frs Of all
d for a drop of water to cool his tongue
l. That being denied him, his next agoniz
ing PRAYER was, not Tor the damnalion {
+ anv'poor souls whom he had left on eaTtl
K but that a messenger might be sent I
ed some Of them. if only for a little season,
no warn them MOTTO come into that place
n wo, Strange indeed, that a kinder pu
Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-06-24

originally a-delightful spot. 1t was shady
and well watered. 1t was situated on the
east of Jerusalem. At an early period
the idolatrous Jews set up the hrazen m
age of their god Moloch-tO this deity
they offered children in sacrifice. The
name of Tophet was afterwards given to
the valley. This is also a Hebrew word
and signifies a drum, because the wicked
priests beat drums to prevent the cries Of
the dying children from being heard
Josiah abolished this horrid practice. He
caused the place to beSpolluted. All the
filth of the city was deposited there, and
a fire kept burning that the air might not
be rendered impure & unhealthy-worms
also were generated in the offal, and hence
arose the phrases of un~quenchable fire
and u~ndying worms. So far (said Mr.
wy there is no disagreement"
With the informed there is no dispute
at the present day as TO the root or origin
of these phrases: but the propriety OF Sc
Letting such phrases for general applica
ton to the case of the wicked at The pres
ent day is doubted, the only use of then
in the sacred scriptures having been t
represent the judgment which shout
speedily take place on that unbelievin.
race to whom said Peter, (Acts 3: 26:)-
T., /" Unto you fist, God, hGuimg raised a
lhis Son Jesus, sent him to bless yO@ 4
turning GsOoy eusry n Of yOD from b
~aniquities.
(C0nclnded merit Ueek.)
Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-06-24

esus dismissed the eccIesia-a riotous as
sembly?. EccleSio in its classic use sig
nifed an assembly called together by a
crier. 1t was also used for the place of
its meeting, just as the place for the as
sembling of a church is now called a
church. They, therefore, had no ground
of complaint, because custom had accord
ed to the term several different meanings,
any Il Of which it was proper TO employ
as the case required. Nor can | perceive
any just ground of complaint against the
modern use of the word, church.
l am no stickler for the continuance of
the practice here defended, but do wish
the truth to prevail, and that a practice
innocent in itself, should not be summa-
rily condemned, and that without a hear
ing, through the influence Of prejudice.
Finally, R. NJ. speaks of ~"dedications
of churches" as if they were of very
modern origin, and calls them the "of-
spring ofthe mother of harlots and abom.
nations" If the custom of dedicating i:
of recent date, | wish to know when i
began and if it is, as r. M. asserts, thu
offspring of "the mother of harlots AM
denominations" [ wish to know how j
f happens that the child, the splendid dedi
cation of the temple recorded in 2 Chror
5, 6, Z, chapters, was so much older tina
its mother, popery. A.
g L......y, June Is, 1910.
Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-06-24
(Concluded neTt Week.)
The Church needs Conversion.

But why do [ think the Church needs
conversion? l might give several rea-
sons, but l will assign only one. 1t Is
founded on Matt. Is: 3. Except We be
converted, and become a. little children"
Here we see the effect of conversion is TO
make the subjects of it as little children,
and hence ST. John addresses the print
tive Christians as little children. Now,
my reason for thinking the Church needs
conversion is, that there does not seem to
be muchofthe little child about the Church
of the present day. There is a great deal
more of the "old man" about it, | am
afraid. think if John were living now,
he would not be apt to address the mem
bers of the Church generally as " little
children" No indeed, | question wheth-
er, if he were even addressing an assem-
blv of the ministers and officers of many
of our Churches, he would not be apt to
ap2ly other terms than little children "
as a preface to his exhortation "love one
another" which | am sure he would not
forget.
Little children are humble, but humility
t is not a remarkable characteristic of the
: Church of the present day. don't think
the scholars of either of the schools have
: got the lesson of lowliness very perfectly
d from their Master. l fear, if the Maste
were to come in upon US now, he woult
is be likely to chide many in both the school
!; Why two schools2 There is but on
!, Master.
n How confding little children are, an
it'll how ready to believe on the bare word
one in whom they have reason TO fe
confidence, md especially if he be a fail
er! But not so the Church. 9Th
ie saith the Lord" does not satisfy her sol
now. They must have better reasons +
s. believing than that. They must he
ID, first what he has to say, and then see
to thew can get a confirmation of it from ar
to quarter before they will believe it. Ho
unceremoniously many Of these childr'
threat some of the things which their Fat
ses er very evidently says, because they
not strike them as In accordance w
reason, Justice, or common sense!
=" How dociLe the little child IS! MAJ
in who sat at Jesus feet and heard
no word,;' was such a child. Never a u
or a hon asked she Of him. | can
oil say so much for the Church of our q
to Simplicity also characteristics little q
hall dren. How open and artless they are
not how free from guile. Such was Nah
ieL. Whether this trait of character
conspicuous In the Church now, let
the reader say.-Dr. NsUins.
ing There are several other reasons Y
the church needs conversion. /. Sh
an the abetter of LicentiOusHess. 2. Sh
full of a0ine-bibbing d drunkard-makr
I as 8. She is the stronghold Of StaUeTy.
ting She is the chief upholder of Man-SIay
"uu in Christendom.
Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-06-24
TIVE HIaHEsr PArrERN.-As

THE HIGHEsT PArTERN.-As il will
raise our endeavor high, to look on the
highest pattern, SO it will lay III thO'ts
low concerning ourselves. Men compare
themselves with men, and readily with
the worst, and flatter themselves Nilh
that comparative bitterness. This is not
the way to see our spots, to look into the
muddy streams of profane mems livesi--
but look into the clear fountain Of the
word, and there we may both discern and
wash them. Consider the infinite holi-
ness of God, and this will humble US to
the dust. When Isaiah saw the glory OF
God, and heard the Seraphim cry, Holy,
holy, holy, he cried on; of his wv and
the peoples unhOliness-Wo is me, fOr'I
am undone, for l am a man Of u~nclean
lips, and l dwell in the midst Of a people
of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen
f the King, the Lord of Hosts.-FIaUsL.
Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-06-24
From the Ladies' Companion.

THE CROSS BEFORE THE CROWN.
"Let me die the death of the righteous,
and let n,y last end be like his."-Numbers
% 10.
Oh, let me die the Christians death
Of triumph and of peace,
Like him, when fainter grows my breath,
Ere it forever cease
Like him, may l possess the power,
To meet unshrinkingly that hour;
And bid the world farewell,
Without a pang, without a fear,
Without a wish to linger here
Assured that all is welp
Eager to soar from earth away, j.
A soul from bondage free
To the bright realms Of endless day.
And pure felicity. .
lMethinks I hear a still small voice,
Responsive TO my prayer;
Approving well my uttered choice
The Christians end TO share:
And thus to me it kindly saith
sIf thou would'st die the Christians
death,
1 And gain his best reward;
, Renounce this world of sin and strife,
And live the Christians holy life,
Obedient to his Lord:
Seek but His smile-fear but His frown,
v Count WordIy gain but dross;
o IT'S meet if thou wilt wearthe crowDs
" That thou shouldst bear the cross
Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-06-24
For the Telegraph.
The Judgment of the Great Day--Jude 6.
No a.

That we may not do violence to the
words of any author by our interpreta-
tons, nor wrest the scriptures to our own
obstruction, the following passages, as wide
and distant from each other as the present
life is from eternity, are selected and moU
introduced as waymarks and sentinels
vet at the close Of our subject, the Judg-
ment of the Great Day, the same texts,
with others uniting on the same points
and of equal explicitness it is believed by
the writer, will prove to every reasonable
and unprecedented mind, that, while the first
with its class go to prove beyond all dis
~putation that the great body Of recompense
for the sins of this life is on the earth and
follows hard upon the sinner, as Ii is writ
ten, 1.-THE way of the transgressor is
hard" vet that, in the last and its associ-
ates, it is as clearly taught that after death
also both MERCY and JUDGMENT await
the sinner.
; First. "Behold the righteous shall b
recompensed in the earth, much more the
wicked and the sinuer."-Prov. III: 81.
: Second. "For this cause was the COS
l. mel preached also to them that are dead
Of that thea might be judged according
ID men in the flesh, but living according t
God in the spirit."-Pet. a: 6.
IxrRopucToRY COMBINATIONS
!, promises and threatenings. The phrase
an "to enter into the kingdom of God" toun
Of. in Mark 9: AZ, and "to enter into life
~ V. 43 and as, having been discussed
or the Telegraph of the 10th inst, we con
now, a ned Nth the mighty subject, to
ar. examination of their opposite, namely, :"
of 60 into hell, into the fire that never sh'
o. be quenched, where their worm dieth I
and the FIRE is not quenched."
hos OF THE TERM HE'LL, which in t
80 original is "Gehemna," or the s'~ndyi
uorm" :
Now, if any man will convince
:. opponent of an erroneous opinions let h
! in in his argument, approach as near
~; possible to his antagonist, freely admit
han every indisputabIe fact that he claims
sio. even proposing such others as might
~ claimed. This did Bernard Within
oou when in 1888 he wrote twelve let
against Universalism, whose words |
tho quote verbatim. In letter 9th, page
SAYS Whitman to a Unlversaiist '
;, he whom he was reasoning, 1.-The ques
i !, at issue is not to be decided by the n"H
.;na of times a future retribution is recogu
! are in the Scriptures. A few undoubte'
1ss;a stances must be as satisfactory TO e
,,ated sincere believer as many hundreds.
New the first place, you probably know
,vars GehennG is a word of exclusively
ID not brew origin. 1t is made up OF two
+ nike words, which signify. when united
Enb- VALLEY of Hsmnom. This valley
Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-06-24
For The Telegraph.
L.......,.y, June Is, 1910.

A REoUEsT.-Mr. N. Merriam has told
US that kingdom of heaven. and kingdom
of God are merer used in the scriptures
for heaven. Will he explain Luke Is:
%, 90, 1 Cor. Is: so, and Matt. Z: 81 &
s: II? and thus oblIge an inquirer after
truth. A.
Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-06-24

and although they had carried off all their
dead, except three big slab sided fellows,
yet | never saw such a scene before.
There was blood and brains in every d.
rectlon. We picked up their greegrees
in handfuls. But o, the path in which
they went, was one complete gore on both
sides /; yea, it stood in puddles. We pick
ed up their fingers by the way side.
There could not have been less than
800 warriors, and Goterah, the great
champion leopard, at their head. They
had been gone about an hour before any
body came to assist US. Zoda Quee came
first. And soon they rallied in from every
quarter TO our relief. The Americans
came from MilIsburg about IL o'clock
Cnpt. G. Barker. from Caldwell, with a
company of20, all volunteers, arrived here
about 4 o'clock in the afternoon; and al
stood on guard Tor US the first night.
On Sunday morning, about 80 men lief
this place, and took the path of the enemy
determined TO follow it to the ST. Paul
river, to see what discoveries could b,
made in regard to the enemy.
About sunset Zoda Quee's party re
turned with Goterah's head in their hands
1t will be necessary for you TO come a
soon as possible, for [ have stationed 81
mon Peter at Bango's to take charge {
the little flock there, and he is under pay
Besides, | have hired four American SO
diers to stay here until you come up.
wish you would immediately see the go
%ernor, and send US up a big gun.
My hand is so weak | am obliged
close this letter without farther interes.in
, particulars.
Afeclionately yours,
Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-06-24
VERMONT TELEGRAPH.
For the Telegraph.

Brother Murray Having seen that the
following letter, (of which you last week
published an abstract,) came from an au-
thentic source; and seeing manifested in it
a singular method Of preaching the gospel
and converting heather, l will thank you to
publish the letter itself, together with some
thoughts which came into my mind while
reading it. J. HoLcoMB.
Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1840-06-13
THE CONGRE lSIONAL TICKET

All our correspondence and conversation is to
the tenor and effect that the Rocheport Convention
mast present TICKET--eitber in the persons of the
gentlemen who are already out, or spoken of, or in
some other We are gratifed moreover, to hear,
that there will probably be no objection to this
course-in any quarter.
This impetus to the cause is needed--and will
doubtless. be given. If the duty be judiciously
performed, it will rally every foe to corruption,
misrule and extravaganza, and, whether successful
or otherwise, Wings will have the proud satsfact-
ion Of having recorded their names on the side Of
the CoUNTRY--its interests and its institutions.
Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1840-06-13
HARRISON AS A COMMUNICATES
TIMONY OF HIS AIDS,

We have thrown together on our first page, the
testimony of the Aids de Camp of General Harri-
son, elected in consequence Of aspersons on his
fame in the Legislature Of Ohio. They speak for
themselves--und all attempts to deny their au,hen-
ITCHY, or weaken their force, but add to the daily
declensions from the ranks of party so reckless
unmanly and unprincipled. Appropos In the
course of Col Birch's speech at the franklin Bar
bacue on Saturday last, he read the letter of Col
Smith "a friend Of the Administration hcretoforc)
in refutation of the ISLANDERS to which it aludes.
and at the close of it, took occasion to alluLe TO
the disputed authenticity Of the letter. and the gross
unfairness of the Administration prints in this
State, in refusing every thing of the kind admission
into their columns, and denouncing them as forger-
les when published by the Wig press General
CRowrHER, of Boonvie, who happened to be pres
ent, and indignant at such conduct even in the
party with whom he has always acted, called aloud
to the speaker and authorized him state that he had
the letter, in the MdysriRe Monitor, Gan admins
tration paper in Ky) the Editor of which fully ad-
mitted its genuineness. Since then, Gen. Crowther
has forwarded the paper, along with the following
note to Col. b., with permission to use them ac-
cording to his discretion. He has been kind enough
to hand them us-and they are both subject to the
examination and perusal of every adversary Of
General Harrison, DESTROYS of "rightng himself"
BooYvILLE, June 9th, 1910.
Col. JAMES II. BIRCH,
Dear Sir,-l heard you say the other day, in
Franklin, that when John B. Clark read the letter
| OF j. >. Smith, in Fayette, at the time he spoke
| there, that some of the Democrats said that Smith
never wrote the letter-but that you were the au-
thor IF any person, in future, should deny the
letter having been written by Smith, send YOU a
Democratic paper in which 1t was first published
the Maysville Monitor.
Respectfully yours,
H. w. CROWTHER.
Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1840-06-13
TIE MALLS.

We have complaints from several of our subscri-
bers, of the Irregularity in receiving tho "Tmes"
and stakeholder" They inform us, it rarely hap
pens, that they receive their papers in due course
Of mail, that frequently they receive paper for
two or three weeks and then they receive several
numbers in one mail. Nothing is moro vexatious
to subscriber than in being deprived regular re-
Gel pit of bis paper, and nothing is more provoking
and discouraging to Editor, after having labored
for the week to present something of interest TO
his subscribers, to learn that his labor has been
fruitless,-that through the shameful negligence
or wilful disregard of duty, ut the Post Offices
weeks labor has been lost. We SEQ by our ex-
change papers that the "Times" is moi the only pa
per that is mscarried, or mislGid nearly every pa
per we receive, contains more or less complaints of
this kind All that we can say to our subscribers
is that we regularly mail their paper, and if they
do not receive them the faul, is in the Post Offices
and not with US.
OF We just learn from Columbia, iliut our IN
per Of last ~eeA has not reached thai oaicc-ley-
ing been sent in the s., Louis bags
Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1840-06-13

frequently meet with Gen. Harrison, either on his
farm in this city, will testify for us that his con
stitution remains unbroken, and that he is in the
enjoyment Of green old age, And for the truth
circumstances ofclose md accurate observation, we
boldly appeal to the hundreds of his friends and fell
low citizens who ure in daily intercourse with him,
either in the social circle or the transaction Of bus
mess.
We will thank our editorial bieheren through
out the Union, to give currency to this article in
their respective papers, md MS far as wa are per-
sonhlly known to them. 10 tell their readers whe-
Their cur statements in regard to General Harrison
aud his opinions" are entitled TO credence,