Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-07-27

OF all hlercleS, Tor his signal Inter POSITION
in behalf of the Charter party. in enabling
them, by brute force. by military dcspot-
ism, by murderous weapons, 10 crush the
Suffrage party !I-Liberator.
GLANc Es-BY THE WAY:
Monday morning, 9th inst we left our
habitatien and lis endearments, at Dover,
taking up our carriage" for journey
as far as New York city A doctor in
medicine insisted that the apostles went
all their journeys Oh foot. A doctor in
theology, who rode in silser-plated car
riage, 20 refute him, quoted from Acts:
I'VE took up our carriages and went up
to Jerusalem" But he doctOred the doc
tors sentiment lily, breaking The bone in
ASSUMING to set i. while il was nearly or
quite in joint before. Instead of riding in
their carriages, these apostles went on
foot and Urged them, their carriages be-
ing bu: mere baggage. They Went on
loot and were their own porters. But
few of their professed successors are emu.
lous of imitation here. For one, my
claim is small in this instance, as only
bore my carriage, assisted by dear boy,
mile TO the railroad depot, where we
were taken up, carriage anil all to ride
with i:e. and water harnessed together for
team. An expedien; OF men for making
distance void, without diminishing the sur
face Of their land An invention for rid
ing switer to ruin, while they ride, as
most of them do. in the race of worldli-,
ness. =. A good errand may besdone upon
il, a goal of rig hteousness run for. But
it is easier than the ourneying of our
Lord. Is the disciple so above his Mas
ter! He toiIed on foot his weary way
in blessing and saving men. Would he
have gone in railroad car. had such
been in his time and way! His messag-
es are worthy all the speed of earth and
heaven. The disciple has business else,
and if the world is. riding steam-speed tow
ards destruction. salvation should 60 as
swiftly on the way Of probation.
At Exeter u on the upper route from
Dover to Boston, a man of-color came in
to the ears, the best of them, and sat down
a passenger, as if he had been a pale man.
1t was odd to see nobody faiat away, or
get angry, or even stare at t.. lie sat be-
side white folks, without offence. On the
loaoer route, through Salem and Ports
month, they drag out and tear people o.
color At Andover we passed the great
school of the prophets-such as are taught
to prophecy lies and teach for hire"
See Stewards letter toFisk, pretending to
sanction slavery by the Bible. See the
" living epis,les'' Of that institution ofthe-
Eologv. scattered through the land. Near
| HaverhiA we noticed beautiful vale with
! a lovel stream winding through it, with
trees, aud grassy banks. A place for mus
ing. we thou ght. before the black railroad
with its smoke and clatter cameso near
and we thought of Whittier, the Anti
Slavery poet. remembering that some OF
his numbers came forth with date of Fla
verhill Did he live in this vale2 and is
his silenced harp hung up on some Of
these willows 2-or has he lost it in the
quagnire Of Babei's pol;tics2 That val
ley, and its stream flowing to the Merri
mack, brought to my mind another valley
whose stream made itself a tribune to the
ESusquehanna Altar 1t was there, wen
alone at evening, TO seek the Lord-ir
such Spring sedson-on the grass banks
hunder the fair trees, the mooa-beams pierc
| ing the foliage and Frightening the wa
tiers there, 10 meditation, an! repentance
and prayer and faith, gave my spirit Il
the Lord, and received the manifestation
by His, which was peace and joy an
eternal life. Thirteen years.zhaye role
! their cares, and trials. and tolls and chan!
les, over my soul and my heart, but tfol
beneath their pressure my spirit leaps
10y as association and memory bring bac
] the scene. =. go -.:-<--- ~"
/ Near Boston, on the left, in Charleston
e appears the burnt Convent. lis walls
/ Eruin. Poperywill bring the land to az
: count for that burning, if it becomes abb
t There is abundance Of Protestant Pepper
: now to do il, We're it at friendship vii
r Catholic kind. Farther on, rises Bun
II erhiF onunent, not quite finishe
d They are now building i: to The dead pa
n riots, while they are hating and pefseeu
t ing the living friends of liberty. w
h 40: the Lord be averaged on such a matte
e as this ..... ~.
$ Il vas joyful 10 meet, in Boston,
. nlony dear abolition, Christian friend
q ready TO proceed for the Anniversal
7, erecting of the American An.i-Slaver
d Society, to be held in New Z ork next di
Id among them Stephen S. Foster, just o
y of Amherst IN. H. Jail, into which
e was put for attempting to rebuke the pc
r PIES sins, in the Baptist meeting at Mas
Ee ua-the Baptists being his prosecutor al
nj the magistrates their instruments, after t
."Ef old fashion of the Pharisees and Pila:s
a. Religion is reuiriag-thereis revival
hi Christianity, when it becomes enou:
h. falive to provoke hypocrisy to seek itsi