Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-06-24
VERMONT TELEGRAPH,
BRANDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE "a. ia4o-
NON ESIST ANCE

carefully laid up for weeks. They shall
receive due attention in due time. Reports
OF anniversaries, at New-Y ork and Boston.
and some other things have delayed the
discussion. 1t was my intention 10 resume
1t IN the present paper; but on turning to
the articles, at late hour to commence a
review of them, find both of them devoted
to the support of capital punishment; and
there being some facts which wish to bring
to bear on the point, that twill take some little
time to look up; and being about to leave
| home, to be absent week or two, the dis
cusslon is postponed In the mean time. I
have something to say, before laying down
my pen, by way Of examining doctrine
| which my opponent holds TO as fundamen-
tai. wish to examine this doctrine at this
time, because am so well furnished, by
one who manifestly holds with my oppo-
nent on the point, with the practical results
OF the principle legitimatelY carried outs
The doctrine is this:
Christians, as nell as Others man, uqder
certain circumstances, fight and kill their
feIIoa0 beings.
The illustration at hand, which will rem
der me essential aid in holding up this doc
trlne In lis true light, and showing its true
practical results, is furnished in the conduct
OF the missionaries at Liberia, as related
by one of them in an artless, unsophisticat-
ed letter, TO be found on the first page of this
paper.
Now l hold that G. S. Broacm, the mis-
sionary, in slaughtering his fellow beings
as he did, in seLfdefence, "taking deliber-
ate aim at fflies of them"-" pouring
stream of lead down upon them from the
window D" cutting them down like now
ers cutting down grass p" throwing buck
shot into their bowels, hearts and brains
like tornado "-scattering "their fingers
by the way-side," and ''their blood and
brains in every direction did but carry
out, to their most legitimate results, the
principles advocated by Harvey Curtis, and
all other advocates of the right of chris
tians to fight and kill in self-defence. l
know the description of it, given by the
chief actor himself, may sound horribly,
even in the ears of Harvey Curtis, and
other staunch advocates Of killing In self
defence. They may all of them censure
their brother Brown for giving a faithful
relation Of his bloody transactions, and thus
holding up to the gaze of the world the
practices growing legitimately out of their
own avowed principles; but how can they
censure him for the transactions them
setDes? Do they not themselves teach that
selt-defence is justiiable and christian ?
And was not G. S. Brown acting in self
defence? Which of the Colonization prints.
among those of them professedly christian,
have given him single rebuke Not one
among all that have seen or heard of them.
The Vermont Chronicle-in which Harvey
Curtis anti-Non- Resistance articles appear.
since his flight from the Telegraph atho'
1t does not publish Browns graphic account
of slaughtering his neutrality-suspicious.
letter from Thomas Buchanan, Governor of
the Colony, in which he alludeg, in general
terms to the fight, and congratulates their
cause on the success Of Brown and the
brave and resolute men, who aided him
not only ''to maintain a successful defence |
but to drive off the assailants with a precin. |
itate flight" He furthermore discoursetb |
after this sort:
Alter this, information was brought that |
Gay Trou-Bay was collecting larger force
foF the purpose Of avenging his loss; con-
sequently, 10 anticipate his movements and
punish him for his outrages upon the COLONY
made a sudden march upon his town with
two hundred colonists, and took. and do.
stroyed 1t. This place is nearly fifty miles
from Monrovia, land twenty from MilIsburob
In the heart OF vast forest, surrounded bv
Two high walls, and so well fortified as
formerly to be considered impregnable.
consider this expedition in every respect
as the most important one ever made by the
colony, and It's good effects can not fail to
1e extensive ana permanent; already the
s an ana chiefs OF the country beyond the
81. faui,s, even as far as Bo Poro, are COM
Ing In, or sending representatives with pres
ents to declare the friendship and snb;ec-
ton to the colony"
All this the Chronicle publishes, not only
without rebuke, but with apparent compla- I
cency, which is certainly in keeping. with
the principles it propagatesin regard to self
defence. 1t holds to the right of the follow
ers of Him who inculcated and practiced
peace and good aDiun to sspuaishn their
enemies. All those who hold and teach {
bus, whethe. from the press or thespulpit.
must be expected of course, If they will be