Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-09-27

! kind and candid attention, and expected OF
course he would lei his readers see what
had done. In the next Investigator the
following notice appeared I'VE intend
ed TO offer some remarks in to-day's pa
per, in reply to the article on Non Re
sistance,' in the last Telegraph, in which
our position that it is RICH; to use force in
protecting the innocent is disputed (; but
not having had time 10 prepare such an
answer as is due to the importance Of the
subject and The ability of our respected OPP
ponent, we are obliged, very reluctantly, to
defer our arguments upon the question I'M
| til next week" Now after all this, | must
say was not little surprised and disap-
pointed when the Investigator came, the
next week, with remarks upon my article,
but my article suppressed. 1t did not look
TO me like magnanimity, fairness or JUS
tice. Perhaps misjudge. would not
accuse, find fault, or complain. .. - vi.
| would suggest to all these editorial
| friends that, as | view it, good cause
would require OF them different course.
If they believe in. human progress, and
/ would promote it, they must themselves
cut loose from their creeds their standards,
their stakes, throw off their chains, and
travel On. Forthe UniyerSalisls 10 travel
on single step beyond the less liberal
sects, and then stop, take their position,
chain themselves 10 their post, and wall
themselves about, is not the thing. So of
those who call themselves, and have been
called InfIels. For them 10 find a place
somewhere above and beyond the Uuivsr-
.alists, as well as the other secs, and then
stop to defend dogmas and build up par
Ety, IS mol The thing | have heard of an
old man, UuIversalist, in the town of
i Woodstock, who rejects the Copernican
system of astronomy, which makes the
world round and 10 turn on axis; because
if he is TO receive this view Of things, he
says it will compel him TO give up the idea
that Tie Bible Is a sufficient source OF
wisdom 10 be taken for mans ntallible
guide. Such view, he says clashes with
the Bible. He is no doubt man Of sight.
Such a view does clash with the idea that
those who gave the Bible account of the
creation were competent teachers for all
future generations. Nothing can be more
manifest tc tie ursofislicJled, discerning
mind than that the Bible recorders o
what they call the beginning Of things
wrote down only traditions and opinions
of that matter, without being 10 possession
Of the facts. Many things there statet
> can no more be reconciIed with geology
than others can with astronomy. VIVA
then2 Are the demonstrated truths of as
$ tronomy and geology 10 be set aside by
q the authorities of books written by thos,
$ who were ignorant OF these truths2 MY
! commentator of the old mans SIGH
T should be understood ds having referenc,
J to single point. He may also be maj
of discernment and judgement in man.
l other things. But there is great matte
: here where he comes sadly short, al leas
o In making estimates OF the comparative
!, worth Of things. To reject demonstrat
Il ed truth because its reception would dis
place and remove recelUed opinion
: shows that the sight is not comPre4eas1re
U and that on the whole comparison AM
L judgement are wanting. Ii is not for m
= to say that my editorial brethren are hold
ing on uponsopiniens against facts, on &C
i count merely OF what has transpired be
: tween them and ne. But the case of tn
: old man alluded 10, does, in my own view
very accuralel y illustrate the position @
!" stctarians and parlyists generally, VIII
{ employ themselves in The defense Q
- CietoS, uoSt mas sai'u oplu'ouS uPoH "uiSi
: they have established themselves wit
: stakes, chains and walls And | subin
: 10 the Editors Of the sWatchman aud tn
! Investigator whether their course in con
: Gemning before thcirreaders he views az
vocated in the Telegraph, ana then shuttin
u away from their readers, under such Gil
: cumstances as. they have, the argument
y produced in The Telegraph 10 sustain il
e views, does not Leave them justly liable I
< the suspicion, a! least, that they are holc
9 ing to former opinions against present coz
is, gbo oId-n,n bofds1 ~