Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-07-05


body ought to be- Men cannot ord0in it
away. Every body can be and ought TO
be morally and spiritually right tt and if
they Were, you never could make them
reIigiously afraid. or impose priesthood
upon them to play upon their fears. This
nobody can doubt 49,. :..~ ....
As result of the tyrannies, the Eng
lish people abroad are bowed down aud
crippled subjects. The American people
here are what they call themselves cili-
zens, private s0Uereign people,
with rulers over them, whom they so0eat
tomantain. Our people are also toy-nen
Under servant priesthood-cafIed cler-
gv, or more piausibly, ministry. An en-
ployed, appointed ministry. The people
are properly styled lag. They do lay
PROSTATE and submissive under the clerical
order. The whole order Of divinity
among US, claim and exercise all, and
more than was ever claimed or exercised
by Popery in its palmiest days. hclalms
il, whenever It's supremacy is questioned
and it is obliged TO speak out, IndlVid-
nals deny it. when it is handy, and to de-
ceive the people, when anti.siavery charg-
es tyranny and popery on their o:der,--
They DENY i: then, but the denial is not
sanctioned by the brotherhood in grand
council Nor would the individual be
sanctioned or tolerated. should come
out against the brotherhood, and deny that
it is dIvinelv appoin,ed-is divine and
not human institution-ls of God and
not of mans appointment. Any clergy
man, who should deny the brotherhood a
divine character, and say they were lot
set apart by God, with power to represent
Him on earth, and commando his church
militant, would be at once disowned and
deposed. The brotherhood may depose a
preacher, so that he can't officiaIe, and so
that the people may not employ him, or the
church acknowledge him as a PASTOR
What is this but divine power2 1t is all
the Pope ever claimed, and more than he
could ever long carry out, without resist
ance and revolution: Under this state of
things our people are loymen. The
church is bound hand and foot, soul and
body The worshipers of Juggernaut are
not more thoroughly fettercd to their idol.
The people out Of the church, are overaw-
ed, aud have to maintain a cautious reVef4
ence and silence The church worships,
and the people, although outcast by the
church, and doomed to perdition, bel p
largely to maintain worship. The negro
is euslaved, and is beast. He is perfect
w unhumanized, and made thing, in.
stead of person. Our religion and priest
hood crush his very humanity all out o.
him. There is not particle of it left in
him, so far as they have the potency to
eradicate it, and the negro is accordingI u
reckoned 10 the country, mere tool VI
ulensll, as much as cart or hoe is sc
reckoned. And it is all relIgiousv right
The word OF God has SO ordained anc
sanctioned The Priesthood recognizes
it, and denounces, with inqulSition fierce,
ness. the claims set up by the aboli,ionist:
in the negro's behalf. Antislavery de
mands the recognition OF negro humanity
and human rights. The priesthood cast;
divine and whitening scowl upon the dar
ing demand, and curses it as lnfde. Tn.
issue is making up before the people
whether or not antislavery is sacriege
and whether or not the priesthood is di
vine And fit be divine, antisIavery i
ungodly and blasphemous. This is thu
r great issue making up in the antislaver1
movement. The priesthood have strucI
a blow al the movement, with the mace
aud battleaxe o. is divinity. The peopl
!, look to see the movement stunned am
thrown back, and its advocates perish mis-
, erably by the visitation Of God. Anti
slavery boldly shouts to the people, tha
! the weapon it is struck at with, is dIabol
, icaI, and no; divine, that it hits not--.but il
the false estimate given it by the people
; and that it challenges It's divinity befor
5 God and man--and defy it. So the CON
!. bat is becoming. -. !. :...-::.....
A word further, for | am hurried 70
!. time and straig hteued for space. Woul;
: you do away all preaching and teaching
and all ministry! l answer, no. d.
away nothing but this usurpaton OF bein!
divinely appointed. Lei The people know
that God has no special order Of ministr,
on earth, and that whoever claims to b
such is an impostor and tyranl--and Their
will be preaching enough of the right sort
Every man then has right to preach
The people have right then to hear AM
: employ and pay whom they please, an
he must speak without authority, and
! heard for his good reasons only. The
truth will stand chance in the world, an
truth only Now, whatever is cIothe
, with religious authority is received, an
!, truth has no chance for reception or
= hearing. | wantto say good deal NOR
:. on this all important, vital theme. 1t
: the theme OF themes. But no more now
; -Heratd Of Freedom. Ill.,.
ri PUTTING TO RIGHTs-There are per
5 sons who are never easy unlesstheyare put
J, ting YOUR hooks and Fapers 10 order-tila
: is according to their notions OF The matter
d and hide things lest they shonid be los