Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-07-05
Nj | S C E L L A N Y
From the Herald of Freedom.
THE PRIZES THOOD.

THE PRIZE GOD.
Opening The eyes Of mankind 10 the use
lessness. and what is worse the dangerous
and deadly character Of this mysterious
order of men, would be the greatest bene-
,, fit ever done the race The use and ne
cessily Of priesthood, in keeping the peo-
pie in subsection 10 temporal tyranny. |
confess and depIore. Tyranny cannot
control the people without it can play up.
on their superstition. The physical force
is always with the people. They are the
many, and their oppressors and rulers are
always the few. The few can rule the
many, only through their ignorance and
their fears. AS instruments 70 keep The
people ignorant, the tyrant breeds his
/ learned professors who monopolize all
learning and teach it as a mys,ery-and
clothe It with character as nearly super
natural as ii will bear and as instruments
10 keep the people afraid, Tyranny main
, tans its prieslbood-a trained sand Of
players on human superstition. In the
old worlds despotisms, monarchy, at the
head Of Church and State, wields its lord
y universities and its NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
of mysterious learning, to which the poor
/ can have no access-and church as ar
| iStocratic and arbitrary, as nobility or roy
ally. There they have kings ard 7opes,
in visible, confessed shape. They make
no secret of their tyrant claims to authori-
", and make no scruple TO own, that they
claim sovereignty over the people, ami
will enforce il Sy the sword Here the
people suppose such prlestly and klngly
power TO have no existence. II is fatal
mistake. Political supremacy here is al
tanned by cunning and fraud. 1t is des-
potism, while it lasts-only there is rota-
ton in il. The rotation does not however
attach to the people-a rotation of relief.
They have no relief There is rotation
and succession of tyrants, but no rotation
of endurance and exemption on the part Of
the people. They have to work and
maintain a perpetual, unremiiting political
despotism. And it happens with US, that
we have TO maintain double set-called
national and state governments-both in
directly sucking at the peoples jugular,
and disclaimng all The while that their
drink is blood. The priesthood come up
on US in like insidious shape. They
disclaim popery, and republicanize their
ecclesiastical forms, so as to hunor the
democracy of the people, and then ride,
roug h-shod and steel-corked, over their
bosom. Our Popery is as decided, as
sovereign, as despolic, as Rome's ever
was. And far more dangerous. 1t is
disguised. 1t is too crafty to be open and
confessed. It has learned prudence, from
{ the fate of ecclesiastical tyranny, when
unmasked so as TO excite the anger and
resistance of the people. 1t according y
; disclaims all power 1t denounces Popery
and vaunts Ilselfa protestant. Under tha
! protestati0A turks the fuli-horned dragon
: of popish despotism. 1t is priesthood
( Popery was nothing more Popery wa:
priesthood confessed. Prottstautlsm il
Popery concealed. La The matter Of prizes!
hood there is no difference.
4 Now soy to the people-a priesthood
' is an order God does not create, and mar
cannot bear. You may quote ancient
/ precedents. All say OF them is they
: are not of your times. Our times are
$ here. They are realities They are Ger,
!, tain. They are for US. We are here
i Our times are our matters and our bust
4 ness. Ancient times were for the people
D of their day. Let them and the future
d take care of themselves The present
T times lay upon our shoulders, aud to them
we must attend. We know that in oul
o times, mankind are equal by birth, anc
!, that humanity is one. A Priesthood !;
incompatible with this equality. Thl:
we know. We do not waHt Priest
# hood. We cannot endure it. Our Coz
s is our friend-not our enemy or tyrant
e We know thy his help that he has war
If ranled no spiritual rulers over Us. He L
h no despot, and he maintains no vicegeren
d despots on earth = either in kinglg o.
n prieslIy shape. The religion that need
a priesthood to teack tor to carry it on
is seIf-evidenIly an imposition and sor
: cerv. Does not every body at once ant
;, always See, that religion to De true AMI
n useful to mankind, must be one so ptair
IF and simple, that it would be level to th
a comprehension of all ! The need of it i
d as extensive and as essential as air or wa
J. ter. Can it require learned pries:hoo
then, 10 interpret it, and dispense it
II SeIf.evidenlly not. Nobody Can dout
q, this--or ever would, unless educated OF
to of their senses. God is every body