Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1844-06-06

though sprung into being insian,aneousy, without
reasoning OF considering the result. The man who
gives up his mind to pursue every woud-be popular
impulse, becomes a slave wiihou, wages, "but he
whose vanity leads him to mistake the shouts of a
mob for tie trumpet OF fame is sincerely to be pit
led and his applause will forever lie as The
cracking OF ihorns under pot. These political
aboliionists seem TO be pursuing after popular APP
plause. and they do acquire, for a time, the name
from their lovely brotherhood, of spofiess PATROLS
bu, as soon truth has stripped away the veil oil
deusion they appear in their natural deiormiiy-
the assassins OF liberty
1t is quite pleasing task to trace them through
their short pilgrimage in the poli,icalword Many
cringe, bow, strut and puff about boast, fatter and
buster along but soon, like the blaze OF meteor,
pass away, some filed as with infamable air, vapor
around and end in smoke; while others, impeled by
rage malice and revenge, rush on like madmen, and
sci The world on fire.
How many we see using arts to deceive, and po-
litical maneuvers 10 circumvent, degrade, deiame,
depress and finally to subjugae and enslave others,
for the purpose Of elevslung hemscves-andg ener-
ally call it tie lo,c Of The peopic!! We behold them
executing and accomplishing their plans, oftentimes
by means of error prejudice and delusion! We
see them striving obtain that bubble called honor,
or place in some newspaper as the fearless cham
pion Of human rights, which is equally interesting
and desirable 10 them. We see them sowing the
seeds Of dscord and division, endangeng the peace
and union Of the churches, by making a par,icipa-
ton in their exercises practically If not in FORM
Indeed there seems 10 be interest OF great impor-
lance in country, political or religious, which is
not put in jeopardy by those who are engaged in
this benevolent, but unwise and ruinous course as il
is now conducted
Their slow growth forbodcs no good, but C, il; fol-
in their infancy they have borne the grapes of Sodon
and clusters of Gonorah. The daily conduct o.
many Of them demonstrates tina, they are more con-
versant with the excuses and practices of mol
than the fruits and principles Of civil liberty. They
have a!rayed themselves against every political par
ty but their own with their heralds OF crimna'ior
aud notwithstanding is done but to threaten
and invite their opponents, who are honest in thei
sentiments and views, TO surrender all and follow
them. ! never was more pleased than to hear ont
of the third party men get IN in the meeting and sa!
he wished he could deprive the pro-slavery peoPl
Gas he was pleased to call hem) ofthnking for them
selves; as much as to say they thought too nue.
for his purposes; and i they could only deprive u
of the liberty of thinking! their end would b
achieved, and we probably drawn into the vorte
from which nothing is discovered except now an
then viper which heaves his snaky head in sigh
There is one consolation left 10 every free and inde
pendendent man:
81 mean liberty, unsung
BY poets, and by senators unpraised,
Which monarchs cannot grant, nor all the powe
OF earth and hell, confederate to take away:
A liberty which persecution, fraud,
Oppression, Prisons have no power to bind
Which whose tastes can be enslaved no more
mean the liberty ofthinking."
East Poul,ney, May %, 1914.