Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-03-23
' . L. XIV. No -

noon, or early in the afternoon. nj>,u
customary or common thing with rs
work in the office either on SATURDAY
Sabbath evenings. Saturday, tow,rJ,
night, I told one of the hands 10 the ofF.
that | wanted so much work done hr
time specified on Monday-the pre.;ss
hour do not now rccolIect-and suooas,
ed that it could easily be done DURING II,
time that we do not usually work, eva.
lngs and neutrality-suspicious.! the least !;
timation of desire, or .hat it won4 /.
necessary, to have work done duriar,,
day on Sabbath. But, as | arervar,.
found out, some of the hands, 10 acco,nro
date their own arrangements, chose =,
employ themselves at the case a few.
hours by day lisht-thinking they c2y4
do it without disturbing any one-anJ =
took TO themselves other hours which !
had suggested to them to oecrpy. ya
body would have been disturbed if evrrr
BODY had minded their swn business o.,
cording to the requirements Of Sound mo.
rality and common hones'y, and the re~u.
lations of good neighborbood. There wsS
not as much work done in the Tclenranb
office On that Sabbath, as is done eycrv
Sabbath, during large part of the yr.-
by any one of large classes OF inIiy;i,.
ais belonging 10 Baptist and Conorec..
tional churches in Vermont. AnLlh.;:.
ference in my favor is, that this wasaS..
gle extraordinary ease, attended with t..
peculiar circumstances Of a printing Oil .
whereas, they go deliberately uJo4: +.
and plan constant business. Iw.IIo.''y
stop here to specify the business G.! #.p
dairymen for The summer, and OF the WOO.
growers for The winter. These Ih:D-so:r
not said by way Of condemni"g 0: j.>::y-
ing either them or myse!f-but 10 >-.%
how ridiculous they make thAm>+H.s,
who are stopping and strainins a, T..
gle gna', while they have oIread; ST..
lowed a herd Of canpls There is 10
room to discuss the principle Lvt~.
shall be crowded for space to say 49,.
otherwise neeiGul in connection VIA.
practice on this single occasion. r.'
only stop now 10 cal on my rjtuH,5>a..
mendacions calumniators, loS.:4-t .,...
my good and conscientious !r.vud: .o ,o...
out to me the license given in Cans s@a
to lay out their business VIII r",1-
ence to milking twenty five or
COWS and taking care Of lhv ~. T..
feeding five hundred or 4 thous5o,>*...,
and taking care Of lambs, ers>@ : -.
through the Sc tson, far lie SAKE q ~.
ling rich, and being o5le to s%}71rt IN
popular clergy, end otter tHtuss ls3!.l
p0puIar-and l will point o4!, far 81
of that, my license for doing, ca a gHl~s.
lar occasion, under such circum>,1c :, i:
| have mentioned, such thing as h..
described, on one single Sabbath n six .
seven years, for the sake Of despl~s lily
'c0Td, AID fulfilling my caga gemr~.A. /
have mol caused as much work 10 BE- d.
IN the Telegraph office. on all The S.
baths, during the six years AMI hail..
| have Published the Telegraph, as 49,
iormerl Y caused to BE- doae on y.a-:
Sabbath, and paid for under the aJn.~s-
tration of John Conant and Ira NJ Az
| would no; be understood as jus:jtyMs."
condemDing them-for, as l sad 5-:J" !
am not discussing the principle. -
sumo, however. that they der@.el ".''
they did to be a work tntctssi:y. L..
object | believe was, TO get OIL L.->'
dents message. Whoever cv"4r:.5 g
aequits either of us,mus: perceive 'h.'' u
have been less a case of nec,ss.s. ;~~'
nri4e.
| have now scme statements n, ~
marks to make, by way Of s1'"~19 '"S
manner 10 which all SOFT: OF re, oT.- ''''-
been got up, IN connection with THIS al 1T,
and circulated cast and west, Eo'-;1 It,
south. Ezra June, lawyer c@n:' ~
The Telegraph Office, OF .bb1'h MOI,
ing, to get fire 70, his o6j<elO. al! S'"'"'
| believe he says, some q ,he hands s.o'-
ing at their cases AMI picking Z? Hl','
fer hiS Ctopbor II D,rL hurSl-l C't'"