The Woodstock age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1844-1845, 1844-09-05

ment of the alterude of bacchanallan Oh
gIes; a conclusion characteristic of tn,
advocates ola Sabbath breaker, a gam
bier, a duellist and murderer.
A DEMOCRAT.
North Bennington, Aug. 81, 1914.
AN OLD MIRROR FOR NEW IA.
CES.
When certain little great men Get Sc
large as to be troublesome in their obcsi.
ty, and so important as to occupy moro
room than belongs to them, it is some
times useful to hunt up their old clothes
and show them what they 'use to was. "
Men are not always what they ciajm to
be, and though smooth faced little Inf
del may now hang round the door-posts OF
the "orthodoX church" as he was wont
to call it in his days Of "libcral scnti-
ments" and Il Crack-brained Deist pro-
mulgato morality through the columns of
worthless newspaper, yet, it may be,
after all that the first is dcspicablc hyp-
ocntc and the other miserable dcma-
goguc. 1t is wcl-enough to examine in
to the matter.
In days gone by, one Nahum Hakscll
now the oSicMibIe, and one Tom Powers
the reat editor Of Il paper called the YER
mont Mercury, were engaged, in the
same relation, in the bcgettng of anoth-
err and if possible more beautiful sheet,
entitled "Libcral Extracts" which paper
consisted Of "libcral extracts" from all
the most notorious lnidel publications of
the day, intersperscd here and there with
the "libcral" views Oft the "boId and fear
less Dcists" who conducted it, on mat
lcrs Of religion, the distribution of the BIZ
bic, the observance Of the christian Sab
bath, Sunday Schools sc.
These two worthy champions of the
'redoubablc Paine" formed a society for
The dissemination of their 'liboral" views
and the support of their "lihcral cx-
tracts, (which they christcncd the"Wood-
stock Free Reading Society,"" of which
Nahum Haskell, as appears from the fol-
owing notice and art. 4 of the conslitu.
ion was the librarian and secretary:
"ilOodsiock Free RcaGiag Soniciy's Ii
'rory-'Thc Free Reading Socicty's Lii,
)rary will consist of such liberal Tracts
md Periodicals of the day, and such 9TH
'r works as are calculated to rub of the
'ust of prejudice, promote morality, and
Expose pricstcrait and other evils.
Any person may have access to the IL
,rary by paying fifty cents per annum,
N by paying 3 cents week, per No.
which is not to be detained over four
weeks"
NAHUM HASKELL, Librarian.
And of which Tom Powers, as will
horily appear, was the orator.
This Haskell, it would seem, then,
Is now, kept a bookstore, not only for the
ale and delivery of his Liberal Ex-
racts" and the entertainment of the Poo
lie to the drawings of his friend Tom,
'ut also as depository of all books, PAM
'hlcts and publications of whatever size
md worth for the benefit, use and in
truction of all who were afflicted with
lis "libcral" notions. This appears from
he following advertisement which may
'e found in Vol /, page 81 of the Glib
raj Extracts"
Subscriptions riH be rcctircd tm The
oiloming Lib1al Publications at the Book
tore Of NJ HaSkcIi-
OFSPHIEsTCRAFT UNMAsKED-N. York
lily, ~ sheet seml.nonthly at so cts per
mum.
The FREE lNoumER-N York City, |
heet weekly, SO 90 per annum.
The Observation-Disclosures, sheet
monthly at : per annum
ED9The PRIEsTCRArT EXPosED-Lock-
'orl N. Y. | sheet monthly s; co per ann.
The GOSPEL ADyoC Lockport, n.
Z. l sheet semi-monihly 81 80 per annum.
Well, it came to pass that these mighty
nemIes Of Orthodoxy" and ''prlcslcrail"
which they declare, in their Liberal Ex-
racts' TO be "lhe cralticst of all crafts"
vaxed patriotic, and determined 10 cole-
rate the birth day of their patron saint,
he "redoubtable Tom Paine" With 4
his purpose these worthless aud such as
hey had been able To seduce into their
liberal" views, gathered themselves to-
,ether, as the book says, at the house of
Col. Cutting, on the evening of the Goth
If Jan, a. ID. 1880, the foil account of
which meeting is as follows, as we find Il
in an extra" Of the Liberal
extracts"
EXTRA. II
CELEBRATION OF THE ANNlVER-