Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-08-16
From the Yntmont Patriot Of Aug. 0. 1919.
The Sd Congressional District.

Hc on OOuBFeSSlOudi DiSJlACts
The church called upon 10 sanction, sanciily and
sustain slavery. IL rg
The Taylori,es of the Sd District have non,in.
nted Rev. James Meocham as candidate for
Congress This must strike my ono as being
strange nomination.. Mr.. Meacham has never
been known as politician and hardly us wbig. |
lie is professor in Middlebury College, and II |
elected must abandon his proessorship. How
comes it about that all the leading wing potl-
clans IN that District, are passed over and a
minister Of the gospel selected for so important
an office? Why are such men as Ex-Governor
Eaton, Ex. Governor, .Jennison, Samuel Swift, |
Harry Bradley, Albert G.. Whittemore and other
political men having talents, experience and
claims upon the party for past services, all laid
aside to make room for clergyman, unknown
except as a preacher and professor? There is
but one answer to these questions. THE Taylor
Ties expect 10 carry The congregational dcnonl,na-
lion into his support TO unite The influence Of
all his brother ciergymcn Of that denomination an
his. J0uor! If Mr.. Meaclan had been for years.
n political man, like Elder Sabin, of Georgia, il
I would not have appeared as it does now, and
wi the people Of the district sanction by their
votes, such manifest appeal to religious secta
ransm? viii they consent that large and
powerful denomination shall have the same con.
troll in the political world as it does in the rei-
gious? We do not believe the game will sue
ceed ..I
We trust the foregoing article will receive the
deliberate consideration OF every christian of ev-
cry denomination in Vermont. Professor Mcach-
am is opposed by the Patriot on two grounds
Isl. because he is Minister; and
Cd. Because he is a CongregatiOnaiist
First, observe that this is the very essence Of Sec
ia,idniSm. Let the people adopt this prin-
cipe Of political action, if they choose to dtsiran-
government exclusively into the hands of anti
christian men. Shall the christian Minister be
prescribed ?--then why not the christian man /?
Shall the Congregdtiondlist be prescribed? then
why not every other denomination?
Second: observe that the Patriot is not con-
tent to object 10 Professor Meacham as a minis
ter only, but as preacher and a professor"
Then if professor in Middlebury College is to
be prescribed, why shall not every teacher, high
or low meet with the same exclusion from pub
lie service? Nay-not only the teacher but the
taught?
Truly, if the Patriot is correct the world will
moi have arrived at complete political perfection,
until every magistrate is an nfdel and fool.
But observe fEally: that the fact of Mr..
Meacham being congregationalst minister and
professor, is used to prove that the ,Ohig patty
is Seciarian, and is now attempting to enlist the
support of congregationaiiStS in the Sd district.
This foolish Charge Of the Patriot has lee us to
inquire into the religious character of the wing
Governors of Vermont, since the time of Ezra
Butler, and we find Governors who have been
members of the Universalist, Methodist, Baptist
and Congregational denominations, with those
who are attached to no denomination at all: u
pretty fair proof that the wing party is quite as
clear from the charge of intolerance or sectarian.
ism as any other.
AS to Mr. MEAcuAM: the Patriot unllushing
ly announces that he has been nominated to
SUSTAIN SLAVERY. This charge, even il
true, would come with i'll grace from paper
which has been an inscriptions tool of the
savocrats from the days of VAN BuKEN to the
political death of LEWIS CAss. But it is fllse
We are not sorry for the opportunity TO show
that in opposing Mr.. MEAcHAM, the Patriot
is at its old WORK of opposing anti slavery men,
Mr.. MEAcHAM is one OF the most fearless as well
as one of the ablest opponents of slavery to be
found in Vermont. We quote from one who
published in the first district
Professor JAMES MEAcuAM, of Middlebury
College, was nominated by the convention OF the
81 District at Burlington on Tuesday (3lst nil
3 tor representative in Congress Tor the unexpired
- Lon
fall. The election will take place on the usual
day Of the State election. .4I
The nomination, so far as we have heard il
spoken OF IN this district, is received with high
qualification, and Is thought TO be very strong
one. The personal popularity of the Reverend
Professor is certainly unusual and the Wings OF
the Third have only to make a vigorous and
united effort to secure him their representative
against all odds which the coalition can bring
The well known energy, ability, eloquence,
and above all, Incorporating and fearless de-
votion 10 Human Freedom and Public Justice,
which have characterized Professor Meacham in
the pulpit and elsewhere, will do honor TO the
seat OF Mr. MARSH, and TO a place among the
unspOtted Congressional delegation of Vermont
We take at tue present time an especial pleas
ure in tes;ltyng that Prof Meachlm has been
personally known TO us as one of the re5u tu
Christian Ministers who had courage to de-
nounce from their places IN unmeasured terms
the black national crimes which had violent de-
tenders committed in their favor by purtizan ties
among bis own auditors, pew holders and tax
paying church members. When Public Inquity
such as Annexation robbery, unprovoked wal
for National Plumber and The Inlrenchment and
extension Of slavery, &c.--overshadowed the
land, sustained by Northern and Christian
voters, under the sound of his own voice he new.
er shrank from the duty of preacher of right.
eousness, or leveed his indignant eoquence
at vague distractions and generahtles, but adj
mnstercd 10 his hearers Of every party the un-
diluted, unpalatabIe truth
Such man can hardly fail TO prove, in the
Congress of the United States worthy repre-
sentative Of that high toned and uncompromisng
political hon sty which characierlzes the Wings
Of Vermont, aad gives them the iustrious posi-
tltion they hold III the Union.
Sauce for the Goose is sauce fOI