Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-07-19
VERMONT TELEGRAPH.
brandon, wednesday, July 10, Is4s.
UNIVERSAL INQUIRY AND REFORM.

w udI uSSiSuSu W WIitc lOI tue pres
ent pa per under this head was omitted tll
a late hour, when intelligence was receiv-
ed calling forth the remarks 10 be found
below, in its stead. In the following ar
Iicle, however, there is not an utter dis
placement Of what comes properly under
the head Of Universal Inquiry and Re-
form. A large proportion of what is here
said comes regularly into the discussion
commenced. 1t is only brought in by the
circumstances, in different place from
that which it would have occupied. The
discussion will be taken up next week,
where it was left week ago, unless
something unforeseen prevent.
NIobbing Revived I'm Vermont, for the De.
Tense OF the Priesthood and the Church
In their Alliance with Oppression:
An Anti-Slavery Meeting was held in
Midl!ebury, on Thursday and Friday Of
last week, according TO previous appoint
menl. Perhaps stronger phalanx of Anti
Slavery speakers was never present al any
one meeting in Vermont. John A. Collins,
Frederick Doug lass, George Bradburn, John
0. Wattles, John Orvis, Jacob Ferris. and
Nathaniel H. Whiting-together with Ed
ward D. Barber. What host And yet,
as have been credibly informeG-for was
mol present = the meeting was almost an
entire failure, for numbers in attendance TO
hear And the speakers were mobbed with
stamping Of feet and throwing of gravel and
eggs. This all comes Of priest craft The
people of Mdd!ebury and vicinity have been
smitten and blinded by religion that has
added their brains and devoured their hu.
mainly. Every night, for eleven weeks,
during the past winter, the people were
gathered logether-and most Of the time in
throngs--.,o be excited with noise and the
assemblage of concourse, and to be terrifi-
ed and tormented with threatnings and mys-
teries. Theology had said that a terrible
day was TO come sometime. William Mil
Ter had said that 1913 was the time. The
priesthood generally were mad about this,
because it committed their system 10 some
thing within reach. Their success depends
on keeping everything al distance. Dark
ness-;hick darkness--uncertainy sli-
cism-ignorance- these are what they must
lay upon the people and keep upon them, if
the craft is 10 be sustained. But mad as
they were with Miller for committing them
TO something, they were quite willing to
spread their sails TO catch his breeze. II
was a trick everywhere played = but not
everywhere with success In Middlebuiy
it worked charmingy. Those who would
shrink from any identity with Millerism out
Of the meetings, would when the multitude
were assembled together, say, +" it is said
that the end of the world is near at hand /;
and, whether it be so or not, will it not be
well for US 10 be prepared for il 2" BY such
legerdemain, added to the mechanical oper
atoms in common use for stirring the animal
passions, the york Of proselyling was car
ried on with wondrous success, month after
month, till hundreds had been caught, and
the time came for the division Of the spoils.
And what now became of their love-" So
praIing and can't? And what became Of
their boasted zeal for the "glory Of God and
the advancement Of the Redeemer's King
dom 2" 1t was soon seen what kingdom
! they had been laboring to promote. 1t is
kingdom divided against itself = a king
dom which hath lis foundation 10 depraved
human sel6shness-a kingdom whose prov
inces have ever been at war with each 9TH
er, and with all around--now joining togeth-
er against their neigh5ors, and now falling
out among themselves "a kingdom whose
course has been marked with blood from
the days Of Moses to the present hour.
And why should not mob be expected 10
be raised in Vermont, or anywhere else, in
defense of such a kingdom? An Extra.
10 the Public" Of about dozen long col.
umns, recently received, now lies before
me, giving a sketch Of the battle as il has
gone on, during the spring and summer
months thus far, in Mlddlebury, between
the parties, in their division oil the substance
taken last winter. Why should such PEG,
pie be expected to listen 10 the cries Of
crushed humanity :? Eyes they have--bur
they see not. Ears they lave = but they
hear'not Hearts they have-bu they feel
not. They are engaged in throwing dus
into the air and crying, great is Mammon
) whom the world worshippelh. To &c
money and influence into the pale OF lhei
several parties, is what they are devoted TO
As 1t gain were goodness. As if powe
{ were right. As if blind devotion to pervers,