Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-06-28

ITS devotees might IS right. Their preach
ling and Legislation is mockery. There
is more yillany covered in broadeIoth than
In rags. More knavery in puIpi,s than in
prisons. More piracy and plumber in
Legislative halls and court rooms, than on
the ocean. More crime against commun-
ity and humanity under the form of law,
than against law. Men a.e imprisoned
or Otherwise punished by community, for
wrong valued at five, ten, or twenty dol
lars, while the very individuals at
whose inst:gation the punishment is in.
1icted, are themselves at the same time
wronging the community to the
amount OF hundreds and thousands
And in numerous instances the instgators
| and executors ofthe punishment have driv-
en- or led the punished into their crimes,
by defrauding and expressing them, and
setting them wholesale example of Grim
lnality. These things are said with less
/ uncharitable feelings towards those who
sin in high places, than may be appre-
hended. They are said because they are
believed to be true, and their uttelanc to
be needful for the benefit of all. 1t is line
! for those who have taken 10 themselves
power and reigned to know better what
they are about. 1t is time for charity TO
De extended on both sides and all around
1t is time for quarrels to cease - for
| brethren 10 be united - for fear Of man
| to be put away = for confidence in
man to be cultivated and Perfected
But the whole ground of difficulty, in
existing systems, is not yet surveyed.
Perhaps the whole mi ght be summed
up, satisfactorily to some minds, by
saying that ignorance has been the ruin
Of the race hitherto. But it must not be
left here. The workings Of ignorance
must be exposed to view, or lis work will
go on. And i! will yet 60 on for time
in spite of all that can possibly be done.
Its victims are so numerous and so thor
oughly Infatuated, and their keepers are
SO perfectly disciplined and so well paid,
that redemption and rescue cannot be af-
fected at once. The greatness ofthe work,
however, on Y increases the obligation 20
be Immediately and understandingIy about
it. Men in their Ignorance Of themselves
and Of surrounding creation, have been in
bondage to their animalism. They have
bestowed loo much upon their groSser part,
and thus put the machinery out of bal
ance and order, so that both parts and all
paris have suffered and been Kindred TO-
gether. They have poisoned the fount-
aims of life and kept themselves in 1 grow.
elling condition, by the use they have
made OF creation around them. A high
er, and deeper, and better philosophy is in
a course OF development. Men are be-
ginning to search for causes. The rene
dies proffered hitherto have done Iiule
more than NEEDLE with effects, without
reaching the seat of the disease. There
Isl growing disposition in the people to
inquire and know for themselves, instead
of listening implicitly TO those whc have
sold out such things to them in the shape
of public teaching, as they have shown
themselves willing 10 buy Il is begin
ming to be learned that it is for man 10 pro-
gress. That it is not so important 10 hold
on today upon yesterdays view, as 10
have correct view to-day, and travel on
II is more and more seen that what will
not bear investigation is unworthy of con
fdence. The darkness Of mysteries is be-
ginning to be dssipated Such faiths as
have been preached, which produce no eff
cent good works, are seen TO be shear
profession nfaluation-bIank if :
deity. @.- .. .....
The REGENERAToR will be the organ
of no sect or party. l. will be devoted to
free inquiry after all truth. 1t will be
confined neither to negalion, nor to an
affirmation neither to destruction, nor to
Observation-Disclosures to aggression, nor
E to repuIsion-nelher 10 building up, moi
to tearing down. By uncovering deceit
e undolng burdens, unclenchiug the GRASP
!, of Tyranny, unlocking the jaws OF rapaci
i ty, Enchanting mind. interfering thought
| exposing the wrong, exhibiting the right