Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-08-03
Timely Hints.

Brother Rogers, of the Herald of Freedom, ac-
companies a communication from returning SUBJ
scriber with the following well adapted remarks:
!" welcome friend Spencer to the 3" lam
water" list of subscribers to the Herald. I
did not wonder much at his former stop.
page. knew the influences and "instiea-
tions" he was exposed to- | should not
wonder at the stoppage Of many others. |
know that what feel obliged to say here is
tryingto the nerves and fortitude Of a priest
haunted age and country know il is
disreputable to take the Herald of Free
dom. 1t is infamous to edit il, and wby
should it be much less TO patronize it,
The clergy read it extensively. But they
warn their people against reading it, and
exert all their Roman Catholic influence
to put it down, and to render me de.estable
| in the community. They have succeeded
In making it infamous to be a subscriber
to the Herald. They almost snatch it
from the hands Of their Pensioners, vet
they themselves read It greedily, aud with
a desperate interest. They know it
speaks truth-the truth of God, and that
| if it is generally read, their power, if not
their trade, is gone. No wonder they try
TO stop peoples reading it. They creep
after it--and borrow it of those they abuse
for taking ii, and SO do their church mem.
bers. Some in my native yilage-who
used to be loud abolilionists with me. and
who have meanly discontinued the paper
borrow it of their more manly neigh
bors, and then abuse them for taking il.
Folks not given TO reading = of no taste
for letters or for intelligence, but vet eager
to see the Herald. borrow it, and then
wonder to the neighbor they borrow Of.
that ne should continue to take a paper
IKE thatl Magnanimous abolitionists
Vide bosomed pbilanthropis,s They are
Just such as mercernary occupation and
prlest-leadlng are calculated to make. of
those who otherwise might have been
men. Well they must be borne with
Let them borrow the Herald and read it.
! am glad they read it. | hereby ask
them not to be SO ungrateful as to tease
those who supply them, not 10 take it-for
Il they should listen 10 them, they would |
have to go and beg it of somebody else
Some poorer persons perhaps, not so re.
spectacle to be seen borrowing of and per-
suading to stop taking.
The time is coming when it will be
less infamous to be known subscriber.-l
II people have eyes. they cannot always
be kept in the dark. Anti Slavery is
flashing about the atmosphere. The bat
winged priests cannot shroud il with their
dusky pinions from the sight of the peo.
pie forever. Meantime | will bid the
priests defiance, and trample their preten.
sions under foot. And will call on all
lovers of the Truth to have the courage to
come up and help me spread it.-and the
other faithful sentinels, who are standing
here and there on its thinly mounted walls
Editor Herald Freedom.'' /.
The news from India and China is IA
vorable TO the British. Several engage
ments had taken place between the British
and Chinese. in which the former gained
he advantage Morning Star.
Is this the way for religious Editors,
and other religious teachers to talk about
these Wholesale murderous proceedings.
Il is the way they do talk. And By So 9
talking they afford the greatest possible