Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-12-14
her fair fields crimsoned with the blood oil
her guilty and infatuated sons !


her guilty and infatuated sons
What kind of a sabbath DO these men !
su oppose is observed in popish countrles?-
(of which France was one, at the time the |
process was commenced which developed |
the fearful events of her first revolution
I oas born and educated ROmG nist, and
IN a popish country, and can therefore
speak The things do know, and testify The
things which | have seen. A Roman
Catholic sabbath is day spent in religious
mummery aud gross sensuality. lis OBJ
servance consists in attending mass in the
morning, e mock service in IN unknown
longue,) and spending the afternoon IN
card-pluying, drinking, fddIing and dane
ing, breaking and racing horses, and al
tending the theatre in the evening, where
there is one (Look, for an example, IN
this country, at New Orleans y 1t may
be said that these statements apply TO The
cities only. answer, not so-lt IS with
the country | am more particularly ac-
quainted; aud every thing | have stated
is as true Of the country as ofthe city, ex-
cepting only the theatre. Wha', then, was
the sabbath in France, before IL was ex-
changed for the Decade What do his
tory AMI analogy say? Their unequivo-
cal testimony is, that neither Jewish nor
a puritanic sabbath was observed, noT one
within ten thousand degrees of either OF
them. 1t was day devoted to the gross
est superstition, delusion, hypocrisy, earth.
", sensual, and devilish Qualifications
l., n III,
body, soul and divinity Of Jesus Christ in
the morning, and in the afternoon actually
indulge in The lowest proflnily, 10 scottish
drunkenness. aud carnal pleasure !!
But " hat are the accompanying insti-
tations' of q popish SABBATH Ia priest,
hood. as vile and fiend,like as ever cursed
this miserable world-a priesthood that
have waxed fdt. and rioted upon the spoils,
the chastity. the blood ofmyriads of ruined
and murdered victims that have thus
far existed aud maintained their power and
supremacy, BY keeping their dupes in The
deepest ignorance, buried in superstition.
in bigotry, in terror and in crime. The
pretended offering CT Jesus Christ times
without numoer for the sins Of men in the
i SAT- luCC VI tic tldSS lIIuS SdN Ill tudL
the offering OF himself once is not sufi.
Gent 3. The eating Of Almighty God,
with the entire body and soul Of Jesus
! Christ, 10 the firm Of wafer ! 4. Pen,
! ance-kneeling in the broad-asle Of the
church, and licking up the dust on the floor
-casigating the naked body with cords
and whips, and many other such.like
heathenish, self-inflicted tortures, desi gneI
to propitiate God for their sins-thus max
ing a Christ ofthemselves s. Confession
to priest, and the reception cf a pardon
of all sins from him. 6. Excommunicat.
ing and damning all here,ics e. e. all who
differ from them) to the lowest hell forev.
er! r. =.
{ Surely God must have been brought tt
! the greatest extremity COR sabbath, t,
Judge a nation so terribly as he did France
flr aboIshing the one they had, and 1T:
ACCOMPANYING INSTITUTIONS! y Bu
? the clerical gentlemen are very much il
fault on another point: they represent th
I bloody deeds ofthe Jacobins as TIE effects
/. of the abolition of the sabbath and It's &C
e companying institutions: whereas, tn
e substitution of the tenth day for the sevenl
b was late act which was done after mos
! of the sanguinary scenes had been acted
: which distinguished the reign OF terror.
s II has long been customary with 'cleri
IS cal men (lncluding Dr. Beecher, maj
v from whose general intelligence we hav
Il had reason to expect better things,) to reE
T resen, the fearful deeds Of the French rev
i olution as the product ofin61elity merely
n These representations may deceive thos
e who are Ignorant of The facts in this case
fl but with those who know them, very d.
y ferent judgment will be formed. The il
4, fidelity Of France was the natural produt
h of the popish soil on which il grew. Z
T. ery one who has read the history of Franc
is and who has even grain IF honesty, mu
" confess that all the cruelties, and blood, ar
ri debauchery Of the revolution, must
| charged primarily to the religion ar
il, priesthood ofthe Mother Of Harots. Va
'g laire, DAlembert, Dideroi, Rousseau, al
r their coadjutors proved 10 the people
ed France that their religion was preposte
y, Gus and ridculous-which was easily don
be that it was the mother of superstition,
- deceit, of cruelty, of the lowest barbars
G. of the most degrading ignorance, end
al in,olerable oppression. The people we
to convinced they arose 10 triumph, a
OF threw il eli. Divestpd Of this, they we
of course Invested ofaIi-forthey knew
10 other. There was no other alternate
in than in6deiiiy. Their priests had p
re- viously satisfied them that pro;es;an,i
ny was most egregious modern delusion.
bat .Vollaire and his associates equally anl
ath refragiblY convinced them that popery y
old as egregious an ancient delusion; and G
en-, to punish the bloody house Of Bourbc
The the cruel, naughty aris!ocracy, the IA
av- cious. prosecuting priesthood. and ii
sin, merciless tools, gave them over into
sLE hands oil those who were disposed neill