Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1844-05-24
"PRovIDENTIAI. DIsPENsATIoNsn

"PROVIDENTIAI. DISSERTATIONS"
We give space to the following appropriate re-
marks upon Amos Kendall's TRACT lately put forth
from this city, entitled "Provdential Dspensatons"
many thousands of which we learn have been scat
tered abroad by the Locofoco members of Congress,
who are willing to give currency to the hypocriti-
cal cant of as arrant knave as ever graced pill
lowry or Rugged whipping post and who assumes
the cloak of religion to hide his moral leprosy.and
political prostitution man who, Judas like, was
bought by the party he serves, but who, unlike Ju-
das, prefers to live in infamy.-Uhfg Standard
Our political opponents have at length been driv,
en- to admit that there is an overruling Providence
that there is One who is King of Nations as he
is King of Saints In this we agree and He it is,
that "speaketh concerning nation and concerning
kingdom, to pluck up and to pull down, and to
destroy it" From this it follows, that there are ma.
tonal sins, and that these visited with national
judgments and if nation against which He has
pronounced turn not from her evil she will be ut
tery destroyed. =.
In these cases of his visitation, the angels of his
wrath are war, famine pestilence, drought, blight
murrain, hastones, and Goals of fire, and las in the
case with Babylon desoation Of prosperity, and
the like.
Up to the period Of General Jackson's elevation
to the Presidency, 1920 our country, for a long
series of years. latter the scourge of the then last
war; had been most sgnally blessed, and had re-
ceived no severe unusual manifestation of Divine
dspleasure chastsement. Her condition wa
peaceful, prosperous, and happy.
The course of our political opponents at the
present time, and particularly the publication and
extended circulation of their "TRACT No. w."
on PROVIDENTIAL DISPENSATIONS,n
renders it fit and proper part to recur to the
position of our nation under the twelve years adj
minstration of Jackson and Van Buren,, and ex-
pose the hypocrisy of that tract and of Ahe party
who are disseminating it through our land. This
shall be done with fairness and candor, and with
presentation of facts and circumstances which none
but the most hardened and nconsiderate amongst
them will attempt TO deny. =
And let it first be noted, that in the very COM
mencement of General Jackson's administration,
sect of socialists, e.nbodying the irreligious and
obnoxious principles and doctrines of the -infdcl
schools of philosophy of the French Revolution
sprung up in the city of New York, under the gui:
dance of Fanny Wright and others, and who las
our political opponents now speak Of the sanctity
of the Sabbath) held their orgies in the very tenn
pie of democracy lin Tammany 1all) on the Sab
bath day. promul ging there their inldel doctrines
and disturbing the peace of the city in noise and
tumult, and in shouting their blasphemous and inf
del songs, not only in derision of the holy Sab
bath, but also in defiance of all respect for morsli
ty or religion This has connection with the Sc
quel.
In 1882, the pestence that walketh in dark
ness, and that destruction that waseth at MONDAY"
(the Cholera) broke from its lurhng places in pa
gan and idolatrons climes, and laid waste our
dwellings and the fair places of our land. Thou
sands fell by side, and tens Of thousands by
right hand" The high and the low, the rich and
the poor, the white and the black made their bed
together in the dust Was there no "Providential
Dspensaton" in this Was there no visitation of
the Most High-no chastisement in judgment or in
mercy Let our advcrsaries answer
tlae yir,r,
gain in 1884? He made way to his anger, he
spared not their soul from death, but gave their life
over to the pestilence." Was there nought of Di-
vine dispensation" or of judgment in all this Let
our adversaries answer.
1t was in this same year that the Jackson party
entered into solemn political league and cove.
nan with that sect Of socialists, and granted unto
them five of the eleven members of Assembly from
the city of New York, the great commercial empo-
rum of the Union. At the ensuing session of the
Legislature, these the instruments in eecting
, the ministers of the Gospel from the Legislative
halls, and they were kept out until restored under
the Wing ascendancy. And the leading men of
that same sect afterwards, under those admin
istrations, put in high places in the government,
and kept in communion with the party"
In that same year the Most High sent forth his
Goals of fire" and laid waste the glory and wealth
of that great and most beautiful city, and caused
: the rich to howl, the widows and orphans to weep,
: Was there nought of "Divine dspensaton" and
Judgment in this Let our adversarics answer.
In that and in the succeeding year, He opened
0 upon us the treasures Of the hail and of the
snow" and scattered his hoar-frost like ashes."-
= He nearly buried the land. she destroyed their
vines with hail. and their sycamore trees with frost.
He gave up the cattle also to the hail, and their
S hocks to hot thunder bolts He cast upon them
G the ferceness of his anger wrath and Indignation,
= and trouble, by sending evil angels amongst them.
: He caused seed time and harvest to he shortened
: He made "waste our mountains and our hills
dried up our "corn and our herbs and our POOLS
: murrained our cattle-consumed our herds-emp.
tied our stas-basted our trees, and destroyed our
fruits and for t,co long years made The people Of This
+ devoted land which had overfown with milk and
honey dependant upon the almost rotten and The I'M
i wholesome Grains Of The Old World for their susie
: nance and bread. Was their nought of Divine
: dspensation" and judgment in all this? Let our
= adversaries answer.
= He visited us also with long and agonizing
and bloody savage warfare, draining us of millions
upon millions of our treasury, and of thousands up
Q on thousands Of valuable lives Of our people. Was
there nought of " Divine dispensaton' and Judg-
a ment in this Let our adversaries answer.
And then he laid PROSTATE the entire prosperity
not only of individuals but ofSates and the nation
: Was there nought of "Divine dspensation" and
: Judgment in this Let our adversaries answer
1 and let those who have been brought from high
f to low position by these dispensatlons" bear es-
t timony and answer.
, Such was our situation--such the state of things
: when General Harrison was elected to the Presi-
= dency Such were the "Providental DISPENSE
tons" toward this people underline Administrations
D of Jackson and Van Buren,. Let him deny it be-
fore Heaven, who dares. Such ,oas Me state Of
things. That has since occurred? PEACE is re-
a stored to our borders Prosperity again smiles up
4 on us-the earth yields her increase a0unddntty-
ii an DIV ia afforded
d ndustry-confdence is revived--credt restored
commerce enlarged, and the merry mum OF business
: suits of the campaign of 1910, under the smiles of
Il beni6cent Providence, notwithstanding the en-