Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-03-29

nv PECUNIARX AFFAIRS.
Mobbing, Piracy, Plumber s. Confscation
Under the Form of Church and State
/ Law
Mobbing is mobbing-plunder is plum
der-pifacy is piracy-confscation is con
observation-disclosures may be the letter O
written laws. 1t is the intention that gives
character to the act. The apparent act
ors are not always the real ones. In the
mobs that have destroyed property and life
without the forms Of law, the sans cuIoaes,
the rabble that have committed the depre
dations have only beer the anst,um ents in
the hands Of employers who have kept
themselves behind The curtain. The rea
villany was not wrapped up in the rags
that appeared-but in the broadcloth tina,
skulked away in cowardice and basel
shrunk from responsibility. The poor
deluded actors 10 these scenes have not I'M
frequently been punished by the very
hands that have employed them TO do the
very things for which they have been pun
ished.
But this work is fast coming to an end
The gossamer web with which the NOV.
ers OF the iniquity have endeavored to
screen themselves is too fimsy and atten
uated TO conceal the collision. The light
OF truth is exposing these hidden things
of darkness. The common people are
beginning to learn better what belongs to
their own peaEs@d,Ylfare.. Costly ex.
Perience will them by degrees, no
only that /" kno Wedge is power" but thai
it is for all to enjoy in greater profusior
land not for the few to monopolze and
exercise al the expense OF the many
| The people will not always suffer a tyr
annous sentiment TO fit their necks for the
halter, for the sake of fitting the halter tc
their necks-and all to support a set O
legalized swindlers aud sharks ia church
and in state, who live by devouring theil
kind, as if part were made TO devoul
aid part 10 be devoured. 1t shall We
be seen that the wrong persons have beer
imprisoned-that the haIters have beer
on the wrong necks Not that | an
now conceding that any human neck;
ought to be in hallers, or any human he
ings in prisons. l am only taking th.
"sons OF violence on their own ground
and exposing the rascalties of one elias:
towards another, in the working of theil
own system. My object is, not TO engen
der enmity or animosity-but TO expos,
folly, delusion and wickedness, and thus
if possible secure reform and redemp
ton.
i l have said that mobbing. lynching ant
sacrifice TO the lust Of power and gain
, qolthOut the Jo'm of a0ritten Ian, is di
ninishing and receding before the increas
ing and advancing light Of truth. Il il
so, in proportion to the enjoy ment anc
use OF free inquiry and discussion, an,
the best means of general intelligence
But these atrocities committed Uith, o
under the firms of written law, will be o
longer duration. They will doubles
. lcOntlnua tn a oroator a. loSa o,,.-. n
the people can be kept so ignorant O
themselves and of the laws of their beino
e as to De persuaded to be governed by blu,
e brute force, and not by truth and reasol
!. while they can be induced to work a
E physical beings, and hire others to do thei
: mental work for them-while they wi
e suffer themselves TO be led about in dark
e ness and destitution of knowledge, instea
/. of going forth into Light aud wisdom f.
E themselves-while they will emp!oy,selI
a ish men to make laws for them and GOV
p ern them, according TO motives of intere.
n with the lawmakers, instead Of governin
! themselves BY learning and obeying th
Q laws Of God. written in their own nature
}. and 10 be found out by the use Of thei
own minds.
But vengefulness and violence will NJ
5 always be able to hide under the form
law, written and executed in the seryic