Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-12-07


part Of the theology Of the schools, which
is terrible nightmare upon Christendom.
CAPITAL PUN1szn3Hur.
Sentiments OF the New.York TriBnne.
am happy to find the Editor~of the
New York Tribune on different ground
from that indicated by the brief extract on
which commented last week. I found
the extract, credited 10 he Tribune, in the
Vergennes Vermonter.. How-lo get 70,
gelher the sentiments. therein contained
and what is copied from the Tribune be-
low, know not. There may have been
mistake 10 the Vermon,er or elsewhere
in giving credit. Or the extrac; may
have been Imperfect Or the Editor OF
the Tribune may have been speaking a
popular sentiment in ifony--and not bis
own sentiment. Be this as il may-it
was no fiction, or thing of imagination.
that | commented on. 1t was the retIg-
ious sentiment Of the popular religionists
of the times. am happy now TO let the
Editor Of the Tribune speak for himself
on this great subject. He is replying TO
a correspondent of the Tribune. who
clings, reiigiously, 10 the bloody notions
of former dispensations and barbarous
ages.
Our correspondent having been all
lowed to state his whole case as strongly
-as.he may, we shall take room barely 70
hint at the heads cf our reply. They are
these:
/. ltlhere be any man who feels him
self Divinely commanded TO i.nbrue bis
hands 10 ihe blood OF murderer. let him
do il, and take the responsibility. We do
not; and therefore protest against being
dragged in 10 share the esponsibiIity of a
deed from which we shrink with horror.
2. Government is mol founded on Di
vine Revelation, but on the consent OF men
of all creeis and opinions TO require q
community to engage in killing men be
c use The religious views Of part require
il, is TO transform Gove:nmnet into The
tocracy, and ultimately Hicrarchy, sine,
the Clergy are the virtual Interpreters 0
1.-The Word and Will Of God. Should th,
! views Of our correspondent be accepted a:
sound, Cot should have Eeen tried, not &C
cording 10 The Revised Statutes but th,
Bible, and prosecuted, not by Mr.. Whit
ing. but DIR. Bfowniee and Rev. Mr.
Cheever. ss4 80
g. God does not need nor require tn
| aid ofhuman Gocernmeats TO enforce Hi
judgements. { Vengeance is mine -
will repay, saih The Lord. The com
mands. of God are not addressed to Gov
lernmenls. but to the individual con
sciences OF men. II government is to TAX,
upon itself the duty OF executing one Law
Lot God, as sncb, and Furnishing its viola
/ ton, must it not do SO with all God
lava Must it not inevitably determin,
what are Cots laws throughou? AM
does not this imply more than ".unlon'
IA perfec, consolidation Of" Church AM
| S,ate2"
A. We think the Scripture. Gen. TX G
Whose sheddeth@ Mans blood, bv MAJ
] shall his blood be shed: for in The ina g
of God made He man" is by no means
command TO any human belng--much les
TO Gayernments-to shed blood, but !;
prediction "A Divine appointmt nt-an in
dication Of the unfiiliag order of Provi
| dence, under which violence and Wron,
unfailingly return upon the head Of tn
vioent and the wrong doer. HE tina
kilieth by the sword shall be killed b,
the sword'a-not because any man is O
all men are required so 10 kill him, ba
because just Retribution is the unerrins
law of God. who will Himself take care
OF its execution.
| s. We are not strict construclionis!s
and do not pretend 10 be; yet wethink tbt
/ absence from all our Constitutions, Stat,
AMI FEDERAL, of any grant to, Govern,nen
of power to determine, expound and exc
cute Gods laws. should be considered il
this connection.
8: Our 2ondent cites the solemn
command OF God, Thou shalt not KILL
with its repetiions, as sustaining hts view
OF the question--in effect interpolating
qualification, so that il practically reads
Thou shalt not kill" any but murderers
We accept and insist on the command a
Il reads, without qualification. Fearfu
is the responsibility ssumed by him wh,
ventures TO violate this command. Wer
we 10 do SO under any circumstances, "
should expect 10 die bloody death, n
matter what mig ht be the laws Of man O
the subject, r4. i.
+ PusEVlsM our OF The CHURCH o
ENGLAND.-h is an erroneous o7inio
that the influence of Puseyism is confine
| to Episcopaiians. II is spreading Owe
the whole Christian world. We thin