Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-06-21
VOL. X v. NO. 81.

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Did the man who peuned the above arti.
| Gle ever reflect that the same motire-lhe
same great idea actuated this Williams
that actuates the whole mass around him in
all their various occupations? Did he ev-
er allow his mind to suggest that he was
actuated by as laudable motive as the
Lawyer who makes the truth appear lie,
and lie the trulh-as the Doctor who goes
| forth TO heal the sick-as the Priest who de-
EQUITY prays for the people 10 be cleansed
from sin, yet does not want them ENTIRELY
cleansed for fear he will have nothing to do 2
|: he has not, there are those that have.
What then is the great ruling motive TO all
the above named crgfts2 There may be
desire in them all to do good--to benefit the
human race but, take away this one great
motive, and their efforts cease. They must
have their "tredd and butler" Give me
money and will heal you, says the physic-
al doctor. Give me money, and will
pray and preach for you, says the spiritual
doctor. Give me money, and will clear
you from the crime with which you stand
charged, although kuow you are gully,
says the doctor Of the Laws. The same is
the cry with all the various social doctors
with which the world is cursed All-alI
act from the same motive, from the King or
the President, down to the lowest Office in
the land.
On Ibis ground, then, there is no differ
encs between the Pirate on the ocean, Cor
land,) and the Priest who officiates at our
worsaip-houses. One may be more guilty
more criminal than the other, insomuch
as he wades through blood TO obtain his
treasures. While the other, as a general
thing, only sanctions and upholds system
which would do the same thing on land, to
keep the pirate from taking treasure. The
difference here, then, is, that one butchers
men to get, the other 10 keep his "bread
and butter" Nor would we confine this to
the professions" as they are called. They
are not sinners above other men in this re-
spect. We only select them as representa-
tives Of the great whole. This state of
things pervades all ranks, trades, profess
ions, grades and conditions of men. The
great idea is, hop shall getrich? Actu-
ated by this idea, one man who has the abil-
ity, goes out into the world and accumulates
J his millions, and from whom? From the
laboring poor man and his starving child
rem. No man pretends that be ever accu-
mulated an immense fortune by the product
of his own hands. No, ii is by his talent
for managing to get the products ct the Ia
boring producer; and just 10 proportion as
one man grows rich many grow poorer.
The actual producers do not. and never did
have the benefit of their own toll since
Gains system of marking off went into op-
Grafton. Look at the lahoeing poor in The
tactorlesof Eng land who get scarcely enough
10 keep the soul from rattling in its clay tenc-
ment. Who get the surplus Of what they
produce the rich over-grown company
who are doing comparatively nothing. At
any rate, they produce nothing. II is only
better in this country because We have yet
soil enough for the mass 10 live ON. But
we are fast yerging 10 the same condition.
When the iaborer is driven to the last ex-
tremitY, almost naked, starvation staring
him and his family in the face, he sees no
, way left but TO resort to our degrading poor
house, fand they are generally poor enough
. or crime: His desire TO live like others
drives him TO desperation. From the deg
e radiation of a poor.house if be goes there,
! there is no escape. BY taking his neigh
boris property he may possibly escape the
Laa0 and the degradation. He knows tina,
: the rich are respected. He thinks if his
: scheme should succeed he may be one OF
these for few ask rich man how he OBJ
) tanned his riches land his wife and child.
q rem be saved from beggary and degradation.
Here then is the great ground work = the
great starting point of the ineendiarisnl,
: theft, robbery, piracy, and - burglary, for
J, which this poor man is sentenced to twelve
years imprisonment; while he who takes
the life of a fellow man in the same city iu
broad day light-a murderer goes unpunisE-
eds and is respected with the thousand OF
: fashionable robbers and wholesale murder
= ers that surround him. Williams is looked
: upon with cold neglect by the great mass,
! as thing, beneath a man. Yet see how
the warm gush Of human sympathy burst
forth when about to part from bis compan-
ioa and children, perhaps forever. Are the
cold, damp walls Of prison, with the treat
!, meDt be is likely TO receive there, likely 10