Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-01-06
From the Pennsylvania Freeman.
GREEN'S yALED1CTURY.

From the Pennsylvania Freeman.
GREENS yALED1CToEY. -
We advise every reader of the Free
man who desires rich moral and intel
leetuat treaa. TO read attentiyely the follow
| ing Valedietory Address to the Senior
Class of the Oneida institute, b.. Beriah
Green, the gifted and noble-hearted Presi-
dent of that institution. We took it up,
! intending to make some selections from it,
but could not find the part we were will
ing to omit; so have concluded to copy il
tentire, 1t will richly repay a careful
perusa. 1t is full Of the eEoquence OF
/! lofty thought, uttered ia language plain,
clear, and forcible. Not destitute of the
ornaments of style, it wears in juticious
moderation, such only as are chaste, SIM
pie, and betting tho transformations digni-
jty of the discourse. But It's main excel
! lence is the strain of eIevating. hope in
spring, strength-imparting trust in. God
and his truth---nervingt soul with fresh
vigor for the conflict with evil, and cheer
ing it with bright anticipations Of tri
umph as complete and glorious as the
contest is arduous and severe. The Ad
! dress is entitled. sEsa ~ -Hz
" A RIGHT-MINDED MINORITY.
/ I1know Republic of some fifteen OF
sixteen1nillions Of inhabitants, 10 which {
| band of conspirators have established and
] fortified themselves. Despising manua
t1labor, they have contrived by cunning
land violence to reduce thousands of the;1
fellows to subsection to their passions
\ These they compel to minister in every
way and whatever expense to the gratifi
cation of their own abused appetites
Upon the victims of his lust and rapacit,
+, each Of them inhcts insult and injury, il
the presence of the nation, openly an
habitually, without hesitation and with
out apology. They have thus withdraw
from the field of useful industry hundred
, of thousands of their fellow citizen:
Hundreds of thousands in this field the
> have deprived Of the natural occasions an
I indictments of heakhful labor. They nav
tasked their ingenuity and put forth th
most decisive efforts to make robbery an
If whoredom and murder legal and honors
bic. Their country they have great
; impoverished. To every form Of VII
they have given wide prevalence al
: great power. They have stabbed the vel
heart of freedom. They have made Il
Republic infamous. And yet this band
K icopspirators, a small fraction ofthe Peep
Ie which they thus insult and injure, but
y by night and by day in doing misehi.
have controlling influence over. Z
Y Republic They are its insolent dictate
+ They propose objects, they define conc
Mt lions, they prescribe methods. They /
at church and State bow to the insolene
r. and run on their errands, and share
d. disgrace; and their demands are yield
ID their dirtlest work is donel The STATE
:, man and the priest vie with each other
y the privilege of licking up their spittl
lie Now what has given TO this handful
IS ldesperadoes such power to Destroy
is answer: unbroken unanimity aud u
!. yielding determination. They mutual
a sustain each other. They drive the
"a bloody trade as the end of their existene
IS Nothing do they allow TO come in comp
10 tition with it, One thing they do; al
d though in doing this one thing, hey NAL
a themselves wicked, miserable. infamou.
it though they wage open war with G'
0, and man, yet By their unaaimity and d
+: termination. they are able to sway Il
il counsels aud cen.Tol the activity OF Il
ID nation. !,
Of What then might not a minority equal
d. small attempt for the glory OF God ond Ut Z
e welfare of manEind2 OF this iaqni'
ID history furnishes some sublime iliustr
: lions. Ia the battle done.for human VI
Of tue and hutilsn welfare, one warrior on
e at 4 moas erentful crisis remained upe
ID the field. All his fellows had fled, di
I Icomfiled and broken-hearted. His 70
d gathered thick around him, brandishir
. Iaheir weapons, and tor,uring the air 81
/, The ye!ls Of savage onset Hecalnlly m
d and nobly bore the onslaught. And viii
It, the dogs Of war snuffed up the blooI WIKI
lie streemed from his wounds, the cause
(: was devoted 10 seemed to be PROSTATE al
is lorlorn. But was il soa Surely ~
His magnanimisy, his courage. his P