Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-12-07
The church ana state sabbath.

an obituary notice to be found in the Rat-
land Herald of Nov. /:
" The funeral services were attended
the following Sabbath, and better testl-
mony than the poverty Of language can
give was borne the departed by the un-
friends which might not be- distinguished
by absence Of expressions of grief from
the mourners; indeed while stepping 10
the time of the low keyed fife and the
muff1ed drum, while his former compan-
ions in arms, the Walingford Rife Corps
bore to, and deposited with becoming sol
emnity in the dust all that remained of
him who has left vacuum which we ex.
pect not to be filled" s.
The subject Of the obituary notice is
said, in another paragraph, to have been
ofthe age of II years and months. He
had had standing in military company.
The whole story is not told in the para
| graph. which | have extracted-nor in
anything published in the Herald in con-
aection with it. have some additional
facts from friend residing 10 the yicini-
ty. Why one important part of the pro-
ceedings in the burial was suppressed by
the writer of the notice for the Herald,
shall not stop to inquire. Readers may
j Judge for themselves when l have given
them the fact. tits this In addition to
the use of 'the low keyed fife aud muf1ed
drum" on the "Sab60th." guns s0sre fred
| into the graret This, suppose,is what
the writer means when he speaks Of the
remains being deposited with becoming
solemaity"! e<
/ l presume this Sabbath performance
had the attendance, sanction and aid O
some priest of the fashionable religion %
| the age. Such a thing was most certain
| ly requisite and fitting. The ownership
| and occupancy of the Sabbath is common
stock between church and state. On tn,
part of the church, the priesthood carr
their bread and butter on that day, and
the secls do their proselyting. On ths
part of the stare, power and influence j
obtained on that day with sectarian an,
bigoted religionists, by employing III
priesthood as haplains. ia the various Vi
client church and state establishments, an
by legalizing the day, and setting it apal
, as holy time. Then in time of war it
manifesily considered to De the best da
OF the seven for battle. 1t is probably a
much better than any other day for blood
shedding and carnage in The field, as fo
sectarian fighting in the temples built B
The parties for the purpose.
!. Now look at the mockery, hypocris
add outrage These devotees of partyisi
and she!dshness select such portion {
time as pleases them, and consecrate it b
o lawkto their party ends. The above
+ and appropriate work is sectarian wrang
ling and battle field numbering by th
wholesale. But If a sober, conscientiou
: individual, who is constrained TO look U,
s on these denominations as springing fro'
; human frailty aud usefulness. should
quietness and conscious Innocence earn
I, loaf OF bread on that day. to supply b
own wantsaor iced the poor wiki, he mu
= be hauled up and fined t,0o dollars, Ho
,r longsaxiil The people Of Vermont NAL
lie themselves f. laughing stock for Mahon
= etans and pa ans
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e Postmaster General has decided that q,
writing or hierogiyphics on newspap
is renders il subject to letter postage. IL "