Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-09-22
The missionary, being a good deal

party. Ihe missionary, being good deai
of Buonaparte, and understanding the art of
human butchery, no doubt, better than the
heather, put them to flight with terrible |
slaughter! And such missionaries "Ot
nv soul, come not thou into their secret
unto their assembly, mine honor, be not
thou united: for in their anger they slew
man,
The relation of this shocking story of
blood and carnage was wound up with the
statements that the effect on the natives, of
this wholesale slaughter and signal defeat
of their brethren, has been 10 awe them in
I to yeneration for the missionaries and the
God of the missionaries Ii would appear
that he has succeeded 10 making them be-
Iieve that God has had the management Of
the whole affair, and has turned 1t against
/ them. He told of saying among The ma
tives that, on certain occasion, while they
were assembled together for some purpose,
il being clear day, suddenly there came
down Observation-Disclosures more terrific
luuu dill Tic tSSt vi TIC bhNu0SA vs. SthSA "'1>I
had ever heard-the beasts were frightened,
and the people were terrified. On another
occasion when they were assembled Tor
war. they were seized with fear and trembl-
ing, and dispersed. Finally, "God has
fought them on their own ground, and this
has taken away all their wrath. They now
MONT m kno,u ah,nt TosuS ~
On gIancing over this hasty sketch Of his
account of the battle, find that two impor
tant statements, which be made in his dis
course, nave been omitted. One of them
was, that as soon as Goterah was killed the
firing ceased on both SIDES. He was very
specific, and repeated on this point that
there was not another gun fired after the
death of Goterah. Now the language Of the
letter, it will be seen, contains an entire
contradiction Of this statement. Ii says
They laid hold of Goterah, This dead body,
their head man, made him their tale, Turned
their backs and dra eyed him off, aehile Har
ris and Demory we're pePpering their
hams WHh buck shot"[H While they
f aoere gathering up their dead TO tote off,
/ had The best chance Of any to fire into
The groups."T!] Now either his statement
10 his letter, or his statement in his discourse,
must be false.
His other statement 10 his discourse made
Goterah to have been shot by some6ody''
otherwise G. S. Brown, who he said took
deliberate aim at him from the window.
On this single point The discourse sets him
in worse light than the letter. But it was
the falsehood that was after The letter
r supposes him TO have been killed by Har-
ris. Here then, again, is contradiction
] between his pen and his tongue, and OF
I course falseheod Oh the one side or the
: other.
5 In connection with these proofs Of his
D unsoundness in the matter of truth, | will
( bring in a statement or Two Of my own,
! which can be substantiated with satsEacto-
e ry evidence if called for. On Tuesday
( evening, Milo o. Mott, Of this village, a
member in the Methodist connection, called
: on me for copy Of the Telegraph contain
: ing Browns letter, which he took and car
: RED to Brown on Wednesday. Brown
: ! took the paper and read the letter. Friend
Mott then asked bim if he wrote that letter.
Brown refu sed either to affirm or to denv.
. On Thursday, during my interview with
him, put the same question to him, wheth-
er he wrote the letter. He said he didn't
, know! told him thought he ought to
, know whether he wrote such letter as that
! was. especially as he had read il the day
. before. At this, the poor man, who had
5 been so courageous In assailing the slave
g traders and shooting down the heather,
: skunk away as if he would fall to the
e earth, went to the side of the tent and sa,
down in silence. Is mouth so full oil
= evasion and falsehood TO be frosted to car,
), ry truth and holiness and the Christian
religion to the heather world2 The pa
gans of Africa will be corrupted BY him
v Their love Of truth is proverbfal. Who
j. has not read the anecdote Of the African
;. mother who consoled herself and her
{ friends, in regard 10 her dead son, by say.
e ing, "he never told a iie-he never told a
Il lie" From such a woman G. S. Bro IN
u has yet to learn first principles.
But, to return to the causes of his " diff.
u culties - otherwise his war with the ma
{ lives. 1t has been seen that he was the
&c aggressor. But there may DE those who