Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-08-31

ment Of mind. A different adjust
ment of things, dividing manual la
Dor more equally among all classes,
would produce better physical, NOR
al and mental developments among
all. If the manual labor were equal
" divided, five or six hours out OF
twenty-four would be sufficient, in
stead of ten or twelve which the
present arrangement requires of the
working classes. This would be no
more than would be necessary for
the best health of body, mind and
soul. 1t would leave ten or twelve
hours for intellectual, moral and re-
ligious improvement, and sufficient
time for rest. Such system would
not level dozen, in the least. It would
level up. And, not only this, it
would elerate all classes, lifting them
above the vile tendencies of the sor-
did, selfish propensities now indulg-
Jed. 1t would do away what is sup
posed to be the necessity, and what
is made the occasion, for a thousand
Offices and employments, in church
land in state, which the working
classes are now so enormously taxed
to support. The vices of society
arise mainly from the disposition
engendered and cultivated by the
present system of things - to benefit
ourselves at the expense Of others. This
is directly the reverse of what was
taught by Jesus Christ. He taught,
by precept and example, the benefit
ting Of Others at oar Oson erpense. ODE
dience to this law would preuent what
can never otherwise be cured. Let
! those who take it upon themselves
to gouerw others, obey this las0 Of be.
neuoteHe, in every act towards theil
fellow beings, and the occasion fol
violent punishments would soor
cease. The, truth is, the creates
J. iniquities are "framed by law
There is vastly more crime commit
ted against God and humanity, un
: der the protection of human laws
than otherwise. The records of hu
man tribunals are not the places t
90 to, TO ascertain who are the Grim
inab. AS often as you will show
me one villain in his shroud and cal
, on the gallows, or in his coarse attire
!, and with his coarse fare, in the dun
j geon, the penitentiary or the Jail,
will show you score of equal an
: even greater villains walking tn
streets, and filling high stations
, dressed in fine cloths and farm
i sumptuously on the fruits of the
!. own villainies. And when the case
are examined into, it will not unfre
| quently be found that the latter have
~ by intrigue, fraud, or oppression
! emptied the pockets of the forme
!. into their own, and thus drive
4 them TO extremities which have lie
=, or forced them into their preser
80 condition. The enormous taxatio
= of the working classes, for the SUI
port of those who only consume an
:. squander without contributing any
ID thing to production or support, is th
60 beginning of a great part of the mis-
"a chief and violence, the "wrong an
r. outrage with which earth is filled.
- 1t is not the place here to enumerat
ev the classes who live at the expens
- of others. In future numbers of til
;al Telegraph they will be marked an
re pointed out. 1t is within the know
n edge of all the intelligent that tt
nd working classes sustain the worlc
on Andsthey are wanting in Observable
who have not seen disposition mai
bv ifested BY many among the consun
NJ ers and squanderers, to keep or
,zx. hand over the eyes and the other