Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-12-15
VERMONT TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, DEC. II. l84I.
From the Non Resistar

:as'@, From the Non. Resistant.
Third Annual Report of the News england
Non-R esistance Society.
CONTINUED.
Since the last anniversary, several
friends of gospel 7eaeelhave been called to
suffer governments persecution rdeeal.
ing /: right to obey God rather than man
AT meeting of brethren assembled at
The Free Meeting House, in Lexington
Lagrange county, Indiana, Nov. IA, l84O,
the following facts were stated in regard
10 the treatment of Elder Bradford, for
many years an uncompromising and eff
cient advocate ofthe non-resistance prin.
cipless- r..
Last spring, William Hurn. of Broom
field, Lagrange county. believed and was
baptized. About the same time, the court
appointed him county commissioner, but
ne refused to serve: in consequence of
which, it is thought, the other two COM
missioners {Whose duty it was 10 select the
jury for the ensuing year, put Elder
Bradfords name into the jury box; con-
sequently in October, 1910, he was sum-
moned to attend the Circuit Court, and
serve as ajuror. Accordingly, October
90, he attended Court, and, refusing to
serve, was told by the presiding Judge,
Judge Wright that he, as one Of the
lodges of the Court, had mind to put
the law in force against him till he so0aid
serve: then consulting Judge Spaulding,
tone of the associate Judges,) he turned to
Elder Bradford and said -" 1t is the SEN
lence OF this Court that you be fined fify
dollars, and be imprisoned in the county
jail until you will serye.' But after some
deliberatior, the Imprisonment was remit
ted, bu! the fine remains ..~-E= ..
| |, is added. s..-.... ....z. ....>.
| Brother William Fish was fined five
dollars las, fall, for attending Court, al.
though he gave as a reason that he was
not able to walk to the courthouse, and
that he was disappointed in getting con
Iveyance to the place. He would proba
IDLY have been imprisoned, had the party
by which he had been subppnaed, demand
ed, his testimony. q +~@=s II z
| Several individuals have been dragged
10 prison because they could not consci
entIously bear arms. or pay a military
fine, Among those, The case OF Dea
Amos Wood. Of Concord. N. H.. i.
worthy Of being placed on record. The
Editor of the Herald of Freedom. { N. P
RoGERs,) describes it 10 the following
graphic style:
i We had the painful qualification, las
Friday morning. of going with our broth
er Amos Woods wife, to see him wher
he was shut up 10 the loathsome cell o
Hopkinton jaii--for being Conscientious,
lscrupuIous of bearing arms, and leafnin,
1.-THE barbarian mockery Of military ser
vice. .H- ILL.,. .--
i We went to visit our beloved bro.he
Wood in this doleiul place. 1t is in III
back part of homan dwelling. Th
stencil that issued from the confined an
grated window Of his cell, into the col
entry that ranged before it, was intoera
bic 10 US. We had to approach it, or "
could not see our friend. We did not Sc
how he could live in it. He approache
1.-THE aperture eagerly, and gave US hi
band through the bars of iron. Tie sal
he was happy. and had passed a peacefu
highland had no desire to come on
while the cause Of his Imprisonment r,
mained unremovtd. If his brother Mo-
riil, who placed him there, wished him t
!, come out, he would with cheerfulness.
was not desirable place, he said, of !
sely-but he felt no disposition TO CON
plain OF it as place IN which to bear te
limony to the Truth. TO suffer for it. In
| apartment was quite small for an indiElc
/ uaI's sleeping room. Four men wei
ishat up Ia II. In one corner of It wa
their straw couch--an.l in The other
their necessary! Two small. gloom
{ windows admitted the reluctant light !
: heaven, through bars tina. seemed place
J. There as much 10 keep that out, as TO kee
+ the wretched inmates in. Two OF Il
!. men are confined on charge OF arson
d ard the other is a poor insane man, wh
d | has endured con6ne.nent in this dlabUl
|. cal cell for nine tedious years. Last wi.
i Ter he said he went without fire. Z
hears il with piteors patience. +
had rather be ont he said. u alwa.
o suited him better to be out, taking care
\ The cattle. than to be in The house. aoo
the Ere. Poor maniac brotherl He o.
e Eforegone the light of day, and the sootnll
i, inA1eD:es ct nature, more than halfa &c
Iteration, ia that heaFt-subduing aboo
sThe afIartionata demeanor of broth