Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-10-04

The inevitable tendency is to unbal-
ance everything. To make devotees
to party interests. To promote exclu-
siveness. To confne to limited views.
To give obliquity Of vision. To SHIT up
to single ideas. To destroy proportions.
To create dsharGony. To distort. To
exaggerate. To magnify faults on the
one hand and excellences on the other.
To make enemies. 10 breed strife and
i'll will. To framing iron bedsteads for
chopping and stretching victims. To
sraining at small things and swallowing
large ones. In word, the press, like
other instrumentalities in the interests OF
existing institutions, is made to be tool
"a dependent, covering, cringing slave.
Here and there detachment of it, under
the control of master mind as much as
it is allowed 10 be, is doing nobiy. COM
pared with what is done by others. But
the hes: of them are wasting their ener-
ges on effects, while the causes are left
little disturbed. " - :~.-.~.* i. .......
A noble philanthropy he's been display
ed against inlem perance, impurity, slave
~, and war. But it has accomplished
little more than the cutting down and de-
stroying of the bad products of a vitiated
soil, without staying the hands diligently
at work adding vile stimulan:s aud SOW
ing foul seed. What does it avail TO emp
ty bro,hels in cities, and leave mothers in
The surrounding country fitting their
daug hters, with unnatural food and cloth.
ing, for filling them up continually as fast
as they are emptied! To what does it
amount TO destroy the works of violence
in the particular form Of slavery, SO call
ed, without touching in community az
large the mercenary spirit that produces
it, aad that will produce other forms of
violence to take and keep the place OF 1t !
What the use of declaining agalns. war
and violence, and at the same time sup
porting STAGED religion, the gates
of whose temples are always open for
bIood-skedding Little. Very liule.
A large proportion of our Moral Re
form advocates are living in licensed
whoredom, and are stimulating and heat
ing their blood, and thus keeping it up,
by the most unnatural and abominoble APP
pications the human system will bear;
and by those il will not bear - fer it is
| worn out under them at half its natural
age and with a wretched fragment Of its
| legitimate usefulness. The most Of our
| Temperance yotaries are 10 the same in
1 conslsteEcies. Il is not an uncommon
thing for Temperance lecturer. so call
ing himself, 10 be seen with pipe, a ci-
gar, or cud Of tobacco IN his mouth
and then filing his stomach with dead
flesh, grease, gravy, unripe vegetables,
SAL, pepper. spice, ginger. nutmeg, cloves,
cinnamon, vinegar; and washing down
the whole with scalding lea ana coffee.
Ou- Temperance taverns and stores are
selling and serving up all these and Other
pernicious things, while they are denounc-
ing their neighbors as murderers for add
ing to them the single item Of alcohol,
The things here enumerated as inconsist.
ent with Temperance. are all equally in
consistent with Purity. They inaame
the blood and create every hurlfuI and
abominabIe lust ~.
The Abolition ranks are chiefly filled
up, as to Numbers, with those who are ex-
ercising tyranny and oppression, in various
forms and ways. They sell as high as
they can, and buy as low as they can.
They take advantage of the ignorance Of
their neighOors. They support and help
carry on system Of things that makes it
for their interests TO keep their neighbors
in ignorance, Tor the. sake Of getting ad-
vantage of them. They traffic in bread.
They buy and sell that which is necessary
TO the supply of blood and the support of
life. They virtually deny TO others the
right TO live. by extorting from them
a price for the pririlrge of filing their
slomachs and keeping their hearts and
lungs in motion. Such are they who are
bois!erous for freedom. Their cries OF
robbery and piracy against the slavehold-
er, chime very much with the cry ofmur-