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the first clause, which distinctly, and unequivo-
caIIy, without ifs or ands, stated that the apos-
ties at once eXtrpated from amcng Christians
the system of Roman slavery. Tais is the tes-
timony of a strong man, who had wc studied the
subject, and had been set forward to defend, not
Roman slavery, as concrete, but slavery as an
abstraction The voluntary testimony Ct such
man, under such circumstances, must be unim-
peachable, and should have much weight, unless
clearly refuted at all events, it will be a coed
oFs,t against Drs. win appear on the other side
of the qustion. When Dr. is pitted against DR..
we have right to Judge for ourselves. If I
have made free use Of such a witness to excul--
pate the holy apostles from such slanderous
charge, who can blame me! Can any man bug
an inidc pronounce slavery an appalling sin,
and then tell us that the apostles baptized the
sinner and took him into the church Of God?-
Truly, if this were the case, see not how the
old charge, that they were the ministers of sin,
could be denied
1t will not do to say, that the whole drift of
Fuller's argument goes to support slavery, and
therefore | must have misunderstood his plain,
positive declaration. 1t is possible that even
DDS may stagger and reel from one side Of the
road TO the other But in this case there is no
reelng. DR.. Fuller understood his position
He knew that the Roman system Of slavery was
as black as the pit, from which it came up, and
could not be excused. His argument did not
require him to justify such system Of wicked
ness And like an honest man he frankly gave
it up and asserted that the apostles extirpated it
at once from among Christians. The DR.. shows
no disposition to fix upon the apostles such du-
Iplicity and baseness as some others seem to do.
My second object was to show the duty of all
Christian churches in relation to any system of
slavery, essentially the same as the Roman sys-
TEN. 1t will be conceded, that all churches are
bound to follow the example Of the apostles and
treat every sin as they did, Granting then, that
the apostles extirpated Roman slavery from a.
mong Christians, then all churches must extir-
pate from among them every kind of slavery, es-
sentiay like the Roman system, or they cannot
be apostolic churches. And as Turkish and
southern slavery are as bad as the Roman sys-
tenn, all christians are bound to extFpate them.
To support these views, and induce ministers
and churches to do their duty, arguments were
stated which will not, think, soon be answered,
although they may easily be disrcgarded.
may now be told that the American Board
have decided against me. am sorry and hope
they will yet repent of what they have DONE
But great men are not always wise" And
when they have point to carry, they can soist
and turn as little men cannot do,
1t will be recollected that my Address was re-
fused admission into the Vermont Chronicle, on
the ground that had Inexperienced the mean
ing Of Dr. Fuller | am now willing to submit
it to all who will read, whether did mistake
the Dr. or whether the Chronicle misopprehend
I'd me, KIAH BAILEY,
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A New Mode Of Warfare.

While the attention Of the more liberal por-
ton of the Wing party appears to be concen-
tratng upon Judge Mclean, as suitable can
didate for the Presidency in iS4S, the other
portion, still infatuated with the idea of putting
Henry Clay again on the course, are resorting
to various cxpedients to defeat their opposing
brethren. As it is proper to keep our readers
advised of the tactics of the parties, we may
notice some Of these.
Webb's Courier and Enquirer, for example,
noticing the elevation of Mr. Woodbury. to the
Supreme Bench rcjoices over it, as an effectual
exclusion of this parsonage from party politics,
and the list of presidential asprants; and he
adds, that public sentiment is fast settling down
upon the conviction, that the Supreme Bench
should be kept free from politics, and its sitters
lower not their dignity by descending Into the
area of party STRIFE or presidential competition.
The whole paragraph is so wrrded as to point
directly to Judge Mclean. The Eastern poll
ticians have nc idea Of yielding anything to the
West
About the same time, there appears in the
Richmond way WhE, an anonymous commu-
nication from King George, Va, reporting Judge
Mclean as utterly obnoxious to the South on
account of hlying married Lady who is Presi-
dent of an Abolition Society,
of the nomination Of Judge Mclean should
be mqde by the Wings not single Southern
State would support him, because they would
believe he was at heat, if not openly an Adolf
zionist, and because they should be unwilling to
see lady, openly procIlmng snch sentiments
presiding in the Presidential mansion"
The sncaAing author of this should first make
sure that he tells the truth. The accomplished
lady alluded to, though entertaining the same
feeling in regard to slavery, which every woman
worthy of being an American mother, cannot
but entertain, is not the President of an Adolf
ton Society She is at the head of an associa-
ton of benevolent Ladies, who seeing how
completely our laws had excluded the colored'
people Of this State from the benefits of common
school education, and penetrated with the con-
yiction that common humanity as well as the
real interest OF the State demanded that they
should be taught, have been engaged for years
in wise and steady efforts to establish schools
among them and through the employment Of
suitable agent, to awaken them the Importance
of selfcullure Aud has it come to this, that
man must be denounced politically, because his
wife has benevolent hearth Judge Mclean is
not an Abolitionist, and we are not set for his
defence or the promotion of his interests but
we would take this occasion to point the people
of the free Staes to that rude, relentless, Argus
eyed Despotism, Slavery, which in its desperate
efforts to guard its usurpations, respects not the
holiness of the household, spares not the shrink.
/ ing decacy of woman or the sacredness Of the
most tender Of all relations, This is the fry,
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cases" In a moment my difficulties vanish. |
open my Bible and read, "a bishop must be the
husband ofone wife" Tim. 80.
In this passage general rule is laid Gown-a
bishop must have a wife But in determining
her particular duties, the scriptures fail Hence
we turn to the other rule of faith and Practice
public sentiment from which we learn that a
ministers wife should be,
l. Like Mary, always sitting at the feet Of
Jesus in possession of the one thing ncedfuI, re-
gardless of every worldly interest
2 Like Martha, we should do all the serving,
yet without being encountered by it,
3. She should be little more prompt than
Sarah Of old, have refreshments always ready for
those travelling angels whose visits at the minis.
tet's house are not " few and far between"
4 Like Dorcas, she should keep constantly
en- hand supply Of ready made clothing" tc
bestow upon poor saints and sinners in the com.
munity where she resides, with a spare box for
the benedciaries in college, and the servant who
has escaped from the blessings Of the "patriar
chaI institution"
5, Like the prophecies Anna, she should ''no
depart from the temple day or night" for the
multiplied meetings Of the church and beneyoen
societies require an almost constant attendance
in the sanctuary, and I" it is the duty of the min
isters wife to attend to them ALL"
6. Like the widow of Sarepta, she must have
the art Of using meal out of one barrel, and Oh
out of one cruise, the year round without dimin
shing the quantity.
Lastly, she must be apt to please every body
"becoming all things to all men," women an,
children. Grave or gay, refined Or rude, ntelli
gent or ignorant alfable or reserved, as suits tn
company in which she may chance to fall.
RElL4RKS
|. We perceive that it is the duty of churche
to set apart young women, and educate them 70
ministers wives,
2. When a chulch is about to call pastor
they should appoint special committee to Wis
his wife and ascertain whether she be able an
willing to perform the labor of five ordinary We
men, without any compensation, except tn
crumbs which fall from her masters (husbapds
table.
3. A minister's wife should be always ;
home and always abroad always serving God an
always serving tables.
Lastly she must be little more prudent tina
our Savior, for he had favortes among his Ow
disciples, which in her is objectionable. To pre-
vent this, let committee of the most jealous, Ia
Ting, lauIt-6ndlng women be appointed to die
tate to her when, and how often she shall Wis
each family.
0, who would be A MINIsTER's WIFE.
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MINISTER'S Wives,

The following article we find in the Western
Christian. We do not know who is better pre-
pared to Judge Of the requisite qualifications of
'''minisers wives" than those who have expert
ence in tie matter, and we think it will be read
by ALL
Mr. EDIroR:-You know that the minister's
wife is willing to do her dNty when she knows
what it is. To obtain this knowledge is often
very perpexing have ''searched the Scrip
lures" for it, but in vain. The strange silence
of the sacred writer's increased my perplexity,
until my husband very kindly explained ii in the
following manuer "The scriptures" said he,
g do not descend to particulars They lay down
general rules, leaving the responsibility of ampli-
flying, specifying, and applying them, with the
world Therefore public sentiment is to be our
gnidc where the scriptures fail, and one princi-
pal thing for which ministers are set apart is to
expound and enforce sprecepts. STILL to ciothe
our teaching with authority, we observe the good
custom of taking text from the Bible in all
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-11-13
Peace Department.
Social tendencies Of the times.

1t is cheering to the heart of the philanthro-
present age That GOOD hath made of one
blood all the nations Of men to dwell on the
earth," in peace and Gratornal concord, seems to
be the revelation of science as well as inspiration.
1t is truth seIf-evident, and selrworking out of
every thing in nature and art 1t is the supple
ment of that other truth, to be written yet on all
the handwork of man. g Holiness to The Lord. -
The devils private sgnet is to be-taken off from
human ingenuity, and mechanism, and things
made Of iron and STEEL shall be made to save life,
not to destroy it, as when all the mechanical
genius of tie world was expressed in the ma
chinery Of murder. The plow-share is yet to
come out with iIlustrious divinity, over all mar
tal instruments; and iron giants, that can
"pluck up the seated hills" shall be peace ma
kers, and wear on their frontispieccs, "God hath
made of one blood all nations Of men, as they
walk over the seas and the dry land. Wnhther
long arms, they shall seat distant nations dc by
side and face to face, and, with the great speech
Of their steam lungs, tell them that they ate
brethren. And ponderous bars of railroad iron
shall corrobcrate their broherhood bridging
deep, black ahysses Of "naturll enmily" and in
ternltional hatred STRIPPING hostile countries
together, and tlking out of boundaries and air
line limits their malignant nationality. To the
seer who saw in his prophetic vision, better
dly fer humanity, it WIS revealed, as the dawn
ing light Of that day, thai "mnny should run to
and fro and knowledge he increased" on the
earth. This day has the gospel commenced to
be fulfilled in our sight Such running to and
fro as the prophet could scarcely have conpre.
hended, has begun to fraterDize the nations Of
Chrlstendom And kings and queens arc com.
ing to be the nursing fathers and mothers Of this
social movement 1t is well that they, too, have
begun to run to and fro, aud to have their
knowledge increased of great facts, pertaining
to the welfare of mankind, and the everlasting
peace and prosperity Of their subjects. This in.
terchange Of social visits among the leading
sovereigns Of Europe, is the most impressive de
veIopenent Of the times 1t is more than ;
Congress of nations for the prevalence of univer
sal peace, for il tends, not only to adjust, but t.
prevent questions Of international CONTROVERSY /
throws its sweetenng leaf Of peace into III,
heart-fountains of national character and exs
tence, purifying their issues in the source, anc
4 acting as prevention rather than remedy
Adv of Peace
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-11-13
A cheerful spirit gets on quick
A grumbler in the mud will stick.

The MECHANIC.--A young man commenced
visiting young woman, and appeared to be well
received. One evening he called at the house
when it was quite late, which led the girl to in
quire where he had been "I had to work late
Tonight" he replied. DO YOU work for liy-
ing inquired the astonished girl. "Certainly, "
replied the young man, 81 am mechanic. -
My brother doesn't work, she remarked, "and
dislike the name Of mechanic and she turned
her pretty nose.
That was the last time the mechanic visited
the young woman. lie is now wealthy man,
The young woman who disliked the name of a
mechanic is now the wife of miserable tool, a
regular vagrant about grog-shops; and she, poor
and miserable girl, is obliged to take in washing
in order to support herself and children.
Ye who dislike the name of mechanic-whose
brothers do nothing but loaf and dress-beware
how you treat young men who work for living
Far better discard the well-ied pauper, with all
his rings, Iewelry, brazen facedness and pompos-
ity and take to your affections the calIous hand
cd intelligent and industrious mechanic. Thru.
sands have bitterly regretted their folly, who
have turned their backs on honest industry. A
lew'years Of bitter experience taught them Sc,
we're lesson In this country, no man or woman
who is in health, should be respected, in ouI
WY Of thinking, who will not work bodily OF
mentally and who emI their lips with scorr
when introduced to our working men.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-11-13

Look at that smooth and bloodless brow Of
one of earths loveliest daughters, born back to
her natal bowers from long pilgrimage, in
search of the lost treasure-health Like pile
perishing blossom, she is laid in all her fading
beauty, down in the home of her ouileless inf m
cy, amidst the h'ppy scenes to which her men,
DRY fndIy chung, The hopes thlt hid nestled
III the heart of many fiithfu friend, had one
by one departed as they marked the hectic spot
upon the wan and plIIid cheek, the shin attenu-
ated fingers Of the tiny hand, the ALTERING step,
the sunken eye--these told in solemn language
that the time was rapidly approaching when they
must prepare the coffin and the shruud.
A few short months only had passed since she
stood before the altar, laughing, blushing bride,
her slight and fragile form surrounded by troops
of admiring fiends. Her name is changed, she
returns to her fathers house but to leave it for a
land of strangers All! little did they think, on
that day when tears and smiles were mingled
when they looked upon that bright face with its
beaming joy and youthful pride, that its glow was
lightened with the fevered breath Of the treach-
ClOuo uloO"SC--CpiouHPti A'thC u VIC IOllh
father think when he left tear of mingled Joy
and sorrow upon her cheek at parting, that she
was so soon to be borne back to the home of her
youth in comfortless sorrow
Death regards not fathers love, nor hus-
bands grief-she is laid in her shrouded beauty
beneath the spreading cypress of her native hills
in calm, unbroken, painless sleep. She has seen
the moonlight resting upon her native valleys for
the last time-the sun to her glds the hill tops
no more The spirit emancipated from the hea-
Wy shackles of mortality, has joined the great con
gregation of the ransomed ones in the paradise
of love, Why weep ye then as those who have
hope that there her darkness is changed to day
that sun has risen no more to set-that the
letters of earth have been exchanged for robes
oflight and llte-that the dark portal ofdeath has
been Enclosed which opens upon an endless day
that the music Of another voice is added to that
unceasing song in world where pang and part
ing are known no more
Tears may fall when the beautiful and the
good are called away; but there is unfading
consolation in the darkest hour The oracle.
of truth point the mourning soul to the land o.
perfect bliss, where the spirit never dies, anc
pain never comes.
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Give me, says Stebins the money that has been spent
in war; and purchase every foot ofand on the Globe
will clothe every man, woman and child in an attire
that kings & queens would be poud OIL will build
school house on every hill SIDE every valley
the habitable earh-I will supply that school house
with competent teacher will build academy in
every town. and fill it with able professors will crown
every hill with church consecrated to the promuga-
ton of the gospel of peaceI will support in its pulpit
an able teacher of righteousness so that on every Sab
bath morning the chime on hill side shall answer to
another around the o1rths broad circumference-and
the voice of prayer, and the song of praise should
cend like an universal holocaust to Heaven.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-11-13

HOME EDUcArIoN-E Education does not COM
mence with the alphabet 1t begins with a
mothers Iook-with a fathers nod of approba-
ton, or sign of reproof-with handfuls of flow
ers in green daisy meadows-with creeping ants,
and almost imperceptIble emmets-with hum
ming bees and glass bcehives-with pleasant
walks and shady lanes-and with thoughts d.
rected in sweet and kindly tones and words to
nature, to beauty, to acts of benevolence, to
deeds of virtue, and to the source of all good,
to God himself
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-11-13

C'NCV '''"N'''
MEssRs. EDIroRs My first object in writing
my late address to the churches in New England,
was, to disabusc the holy apostles of the SANDER
heaped upon them by ignorant or cnyious men,
charging them with patronizlng Roman slavery,
and caressing, as brothers beloved, men who
held their Christian bl0rBers as slaves, under
Roman laws.
Dr. Fuller had said, in his reply to DR.. Way
land, letter 6, remark 4, The truths thus re-
vealed, however, affected every modification of
wrong, and served the apostles as weapons,
mighty, through God, with which to attack sin
in every shape With these weapons they did
e1tirpdtc, at once, from among Christians the
Roman system of slavery, (and let me say, too,
that with these arms they are now coniending a
gainst the southern aliases of savery,) but slave
ry itself-sottened, aud so Gntireiy changed by
Christianity, that the relation between the par
ties was one of justice and iorc-they not only
did not attack, but permitted, both by their pre-
cepts and conduct" ......
Now, understand the learned Dr. as clearly
asserting two things l. That the apostles did,
at once, ertirpate from among Christians the
Roman system of slavery. 2. That they did
not extrpate something else, entirely different
from Roman slavery, which the DR.. calls slaee.
ry itself, solened, and so entirely changed, as
to be relation ofjusticc and IoOe between the
parties. And how any man who ever tool
pains to read the DR.. can invent any other inter
probation, do not know, The last part Of tht
extract supposed was mere abstraction; bu
made no serious objection to such kind o
slavery, if it ever existed NV business was wit
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.ggriCsElEWrNE.

New MOVING MAcmNE.-Captain Wilson,
of Buffalo, has just succeeded in bringing topper
lection an article for the above purpose which
deserves the attention Of all who are in any way
interested in agricultural pursuits The BufTa-
10 Advertiser thus describes the invention:
"The machine consists of carriage on four
wheels, drawn by one or two horses, oxen, or
other beasts of burden, in ike manner as a COM
mon wagon, In the centre, at the bottom, is a
horizontal wheel upon an upright shaft which
shaft and wheel receive rotary motion, COM
municated by gear from the main axel, which
reyolves, with its wheels, as the machine goes
forward The diameter of this horizontal wheel
with the addition Of the knives projecting from
its edge, measures the width of the swath, which
is cut with the knives as the wheel goes forward,
revolving radidly and lying as close TO the
ground as the nature Of the case may require
The apparatus which contains the cutting wheel
is SO constructed as to accommodate its height
to any inequalities of the ground, and to give it
any ncnaton required. The knives are sharp
ened by their own operation, without stopping
the machine. There is also attached to the cut
ting wheel or tub, wings, which gather the grass
as it is cut, and lay it in swarth regularly and
in most perfect manner for curing-.it is most
simple in its construction, and by no means LA
Bile to be put out of order"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-11-13

Agricultural SdisticS,--The Hon. T. D,
Eliot, in his address before the American lnsti-
tute at New York, stated that there had been
raised during the past year 729 900, 900 BUSH
els of grain, 79,OOO,OOO bushels Of which had
been raised in Massachusetts; l7,7l5,090 tons
of hay; 10000, 900 lbs. tobacco 1872 0O0.-
900 lbs. of cotton; III, 759, 900 lbs. of rice
2Ol 100000 lbs. Of sugar and 800, 700 lbs
of silk.
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3~lntemperance seems to have been the Pc
culiar curse of literary men. Pope was avery
hard drinker. Goldsmith was frequently intern
perste. Sir Richard Steele got fuddled when
ever he went to the club ParnelI was conspic-
uous for his debauchery. Dryden killed him
self with ardent spirits. The gentle Cowley
got drunk, took the fever and died. The inn
mortal Shakespeare fell a victim to ntemperance.
His last spree was with Dryden and rare Ben
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-11-13

OINTMENT FOR INFLAMED EYE-IIDs.---The following
receipt was obtained from the late DR.. b., one Of the
most eminent physicians of Baltimore, and in our fam
lily with untailing success:
Take 10 Dr.. white precpitate, and | OF. lard-let
these be we'll rubbed and mixed till there are no I'M
broken PARTICLES, but smooth mass -anont the eye
lids two or three times in twentyfour hours, always
nirht and morning The ointment is also useful for
common sores which children have on the nose,
Every housewife should keep this ointment by her.
-.4merican Farmer.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-11-13

Cure FOR FoUNDERED Horse A correspondent
of the Louisville Journal says, that if horse is oun-
dered over night he may be cured in three hours fit
is attended to in the morning. Take pint ofhogs lard
and heat it boiling hot and after cleaning his boot
WE'LL taking off his shoe, put the foot in the lard, and
with spoon apply tito all parts of the hoo as near
the hair as possible. This he says he has tried for
more than fifty ye1rs and never knew it to fail The
application should be to the foot of each foundered
limb .uE "#
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-11-13

Ashes as Mdaure-On the farm of Daniel
Webster, according to j. Breck, of the New
England Farmer, on Lpart off a ten acre lot
of very light land, three thousand bushels Of
English turnips we're raised last season, with no
other manure than leached ashes, at an expense
of only seyenty-three dollars .-z.-