Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-03-11


to enter their names Immediately. The
specimens exhibited show very commend
able improvement, and afford satisfactory
evidence of the teachers skill.
HE RUTLAND AND ADDISON County
WING :" is the name of political paper 10
be published in this village. The sheet is
oil moderate size. Ii is to be issued weekly.
on Thursday-at one dollar per annum.-
The first number appeared last week.
Two weeks ago l noticed certain scien-
tifc Lectures, then in a course of delivery
in this village, by man named Bannatvne.
1t slipped from my memory TO say anything
further OF the lectures last week. They are
rich treat 10 every person of correct taste
and elevated views. The following notice
Of them is from the Whig:"
MR. BANNATyNE. This gentleman
concluded shou course of six lectures,
on Sabbath evening, on the nature, ORR
gin, progress, and probable extension of
physical science. Ii was attended thro'-
out by a large, attentive, ard highly graf
lied audience. Mr.. Bannatyne's method
was, necessarily, ILLUSTRATED, rather thar
aem0"strotsre, and admirably ada pied to
interest," and delight, and improve, mis-
cellaneous audience, which always choos
es rather to submit its faith to the guild.
ance OF reason and eloqnence, than to he
called 10 follow the laborious processes of
investigation which are necessary 10 DEM
onStrate the astonishing and mighty
truths OF physical science And it is we'll.
Tor the advancement of society, that such
is the tact. Ii every thing which is not
absolute knowledge, were absolute scept;,
casm, our age would be far behind its
present advanced condition of intellectual
and moral science. If, tor instance, the
familiar, but sublime, law Of grav;tation,
were maintained by those only who can
demonstrate its mniversaI prevalence, and
heid IN utter scepticsm by those who CALI
not, 1t would be regard ed almost as the
/" idle tale OF an aud wife;" and the nine
teenth century would 20 hard TO pro-
nounce the maintenance of it as "mon-
strous,' as the seventeenth did the noble
system OF Calico. Faith and revelation
are as necessary to the progression of SCI
ence. as Of religion.
I Mr. Bannatyne's concluding lecture.
on the scientific differences of natural the
ology, and the necessity of Revelation
was exceeding v beautiful and instructive :
rich in the argumentative force of an ed.
ucaed mind, and laden with the "pearLs
and precious things" of warm and glow
ing Imagination. Our kindest wishes
for his welfare and prosperity, follow him
For The Vermont Telegraph.
SENATOR TAPPAN's SPEECH.
Brother Murrdy:-Having noticed and
read the Speech of Senator Tappan of O.,
delivered in the U. S. Senate, Feb 4, 1910,
on presenting petitions for the abolition Of
slavery in the District of Columbia, was
{ reminded Of Harrison's dinner speech in
! 1885, and knowing that your publication Of
|, it recently, injured the feelings of some O.
your Wing readers, | have thought that BY
1 publishing the following extract from Tap
| pans Speech-he being a Democrat
o might operate as PREPARATION to their injur
: ed feelings. | hope you will ever be S,
i ready to publish the slavish spirit, occa sion
: ally shown by both political parties, tina
y you will evince to all who are not alread
e convinced, that you have no Partially t
e either. After acknowledging the right q
+ all persons to petition Congress on an
r subject, and acknowledging the constilu
n ional right Of that body TO abolish SLAYER
r in that District, he goes on in the following
n strain: IL.
h Resolutions of her Assembly have re
4 peatedly declared her sentiments upon tn
" subject mater OF these petitions, and he
n decided opinion that the attempt maxim
by these petitioners, 8 is hostile 10 the spi
= it Of the Constitution, and destructive
d the harmony of the Union : and recer
g more numerous assemblage of Demccra
he ic delegates in a State convention, lha
so has ever before met in that State, with b,
il three dissenting voices, adopted the 70
lowing resolutions:
!, Resolved, That in the opinion of tn
y convention, Congress ought not, witho
: the consent of the people Of the Di
Ok trict, and the States Of Virginia and NJ
be ryland, to abolish slavery in tie Distrl
IS Of Columbia and that the efforts no
ie- making for that purpose by organized S
he cities in the free States, are hostile to Il
no spirit OF the Constitution, and destructi'
:, to the harmony OF the Union.
az Resolved, That slavery being d
zee mes,ic institution recognized by the Co
lu- stitution of the United States, we, as eli
lis zpnS of n frea S,ate have no rio hit II !