Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-04-06
VERMONT TELEGRAPH.
RRANDoN, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 6, 1912.
Popular Religious Leaders and Reform.
More Sympathy and Affinity.

sympathy Of the N. Y. Baptist Register,
as it will have OF every other pro-slavery
and anti-reform print in the land. Inc
Register discourselh thus:
"sVRRMoNT BAPTIST JoURNAL.-l
We have received the first number OF this
Journal, published at Mlddlebury' W. ~
Ephraim Maxhsm, and edited lot lhe
present by Br. B. Briefly. From hints
which have been dropt, tor some time we
supposed hat the wildness and contentious
shirt OF the Vermont Telegraph. conduct
ed byO. s. Murray,wa becoming wearl-
ness to the great proportion of the judicl-
Gus brethren in that State, but that anoth-
er paper would be started as the organ of
the Baptist denomination so soon, we were
not prepared TO expect. However, we are
glad to see it, and hope it may be literally
sustained for the cause of truth and the
character of the denomination have been
misrepresented quite too long. The selec-
ton of the matter in the first number dis
plays good judgment, and corresponds with
the view set forth in the prospectus. of a
good religious family paper. The size of
The paper is nearly that of the Register.
According to the circular signed by Joseph
Freeman, John Colant, and Ryland
Fletcher, these brethren were appointed
at the sitting Of the State Convention a:
Poultney, in October last" committee
to make arrangements for supplying the
members of the denomination in Vermont
with religious newspaper, devoted to
their interest whose spirit and principles
should be suited to promote the piety and
ediicaiion of the churches. and they
have presented the Journal" The brethren
in Vermont, if they put forth generous
exertion, can sustain the paper. Nothing
is said of the Telegraph. 1t is very prop
erly passed in silence, and left to manage
lis own business in its own way" 49,.
view such piece from such source to
be one of the strongest testimonials that
: could possibly be brought, in favor of the
sound character, good conduct, and Chris
tian faithfulness Of the Telegraph. The
Register is the property of the denomina-
lion in New-York. The Editor is their
tool. What he thinks will please the ma
jority Of his readers he advocates, and wha,
he thinks will displease them he opposes
let truth and holiness be lohere they wil
How then are his readers to obtain the truth
necessary to their advancement in reforma
ton e. unpopular truth? They must
obtain il in spite Of his efforts to prevent
them. These weighty charges are not bro'
carelessly, or unadvisedly. have watched
the course OF tina; print. Of all the foes tc
the advancement Of the Anti. Slavery cause
among the Baptists of New-York, this too
Of their own has been the vilest and mos
efficient. Without daring to come out bold
ly and advocate slavery directly, it has in
other ways more efficiently contested the
ground with An,i-Slavery step by STEP
The Editor has receded just as fast as Anti
Slavery has driven him back. The express
ion OF his unchristian and inhuman feeling:
has only given way, from time to time, tc
the rising aud overwhelming surges of hu
mainly and Christianity which have been
driven against him. His tone has beer
lowered only as the swelling tempest from
the people has overpowered him, until he
is now about silent on the subject. His
affected piety and his rampant zeal for sec.
iarianism have eaten up his honesty and
Christian fidelity, if he ever had any Of
either. His course on Temperance ha:
been little different from his course agains
Anti Slavery-yet very little better. Will,
he has made professions of Temperance
since the general name has had a popular
sound - be has, so far as have observed
contested every advance step, until each
measure in its turn has become so popular
asto silence him-fo for he is as obedient tc
the popular will as the weather-cock is tc
the wind or the dead fish to the current
Only let the majority of the denomination
in New-York order him to preach Anti
Slavery, and he will preach il, in his way
But what will such preaching be worth, by
the time it is obtained Just nothing at all
and worse than nothing; for it will be oc
cupying the people with things FIVE or ter
years behind the times, and preventing
majority of them who have already got tn,
start Of the paper in this department from
receiving instruction which il ought now L
sue yielding them in advance on other sub
-5ecss. Thus it is dead weight continually
on the "retard" side Of the wheel. It i
Tor reasons drawn from such facts as I hay,
now alluded TO in the case. that set fortI
such notices as the above as commentator,
of the Telegraph to all lovers of truth !,
ddDdnce.
Brother Grandy's.communicalion, brolhe