Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-03-29

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and brutallizing system is on the wane
The handwriting is already appearing
on lis walls. The knees of its supporter:
are already smiling together. Thei
hearts are failing them for fear OF what j;
to fall upon the goddess at whose shrine
they have worshipped. Their craft is il
danger. Their employer is becoming
bankrupt, especially in character. Fear
fulness has seized upon them, and terror
has taken hold of them. The grave j:
opening her jaws upon their idol, and
hell is tapping out her flames upon it. Il
any work Of human depravity deserves to
have fire and birthstone kindled upon it
it is the bloody Moloch which demands
free thought and free speech for its first
and last sacri6ce-whlch feeds and fattens
al the expense of the liberty and inteIli-
gence ofthe people-which requires mind
10 bow down 10 matter-Which calls for
the crushing and killing Esprit and soul,
for auimalism 10 glut and gormandize up
on. o, this is the fouIest fiend OF dark
ness-lhe blacklist and direst son of per-
dition.
Seven years and half ago | purchas-
ed the Vermont Telegraph and commenc-
ed editing and publishing it. Very soon
after it came into my hands and lis i6flu-
eGce began to be felt, the aristocracy who
had formerly sat upon it with nightmare
effect, betrayed alarm and disquiet These
manifestations began to appear. in fact, be-
fore the establishment was delivered into
ny hands. After the bargain was fairly
negotiated,an effort was made by the prince
of the aristocracy who had ruled over it, in
concert with the genius who presided at its
seclarian orgies, to keep it out of my hands,
in violation of fair and honorable con-
tract. But the &naVish attempt proved
abortive. The Telegraph was to be taxi
en- out ofthe service of slavery. selfshuess
and depravity, and enlisted for freedom,
benevolence, purity and redemption.
Soon afer it was well on the way, under
the banner of emancipation from all sin, a
clandeStlne movement was made to buy
accounts of its creditors, for the purpose
of turning key upon it and staying its
progress or stopping it in its course. But
the aristocratic clan who set about the cru
SADIE soon became convinced that it was
quite doubtful whether they could succeed
IN closing the doors of the office by legal
violence. And then they bethoug ht them
selves so far as to arrive at the conclusion
that if they should succeed for a moment,
the closed doors would be flung open so
soon, and by such means as would defeat
their object altogether. So they wisely
came TO the conclusion to abandon their
base project The disclosure was made
TO me some months afterwards, by one
who bad been in the secret with them,
and was brought to make the confession
by deep affection. 1t is due here to the
Individual who was al that time my great
est creditor, TO say that he peremptoriIy
refused, like man of integrity and a low
er of good neighborhood, to sell his ac-
count to the conspiraors against freedom
and human advancement.
From that time to the present, as the
Telegraph has been advancing, step by
step, against hoary prejudice and time-hon-
ored despotism, in church and in state
buffe:ing popular practices-making limo.
vations upon hurful habits exposing viii
lany in high places-rebuking sinners,
instead of screening them by talking about
SINS only in vague and indefinite ter MS
bringing to light the works of darkness
unmixing truth and error, good and evil,
right and wrong, sin and holiness, HUI
mainly and brutality, love and hatred, liz hit
and darkness, "2ure and indebted relig-
ion" and hea'henish idolatry. purity and
pollution. fidelity and infdeliiy, honesty
and hypocrisy, liberty and slavery, peace
and war, federation and prescription, ben.
evolence and sel6shness, forbearance and
resentment, forgivness and revenge-stem.
ming the tide of influences flowing from
corrupt institutions-and turning back the
torrent of depraved public sentiment, these
same arlsiocratic tyrants and ruffians have
been lurking in ambush, and Watching 10,