The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-07-05

settings voted 1T down unanimously.
Politicians took the side Of the doctors
the general court passed a bill, making il
penal to iuoculate but Mathor and the
ministers were ~inlcxiblc the Atlantic
ocean beat Mrs. Darlington inocu-
lation was introduced, and thousands of
lives were saved.
| do not doubt that you may find in
the ministry, as in other classes, igno-
rant, weak, and wicked men but l be-
lieve the great mass, of all sects, are dis
erect, intelligent, pious, and patriotic. If
there were no interests linked to an OK.
istcnce beyond the present, we should
still need their influence in promoting
education and pure morals, if such n
thing be possible without religion Stand
ing aloof, as they generally do, from po-
lltical strife having no personal ambi.
ton or personal interest, they tend to
check the inpulsive and hcadlong move
mohts Of Transient excitement, and lead
to act uniformly and steadily under the
guidance of settled and permanent prin.
ciple. They thus act rs a great con-
scrvativo body of wiso and good men !;
aud hence, as a mere matter Of policy, [
look Oh the present effort to crush them
as one of the grossest blunders. Go
over the world, in the past Or present
time, and you will find this one law writ
ten in all its history Wherever you
.EHd q free. fHttcpendent, iHteUiecHk
ministry ofthe GoY)c(, there yoW wiU
.Gad 0free pcople and yoH can fld Then,
n0ichcrc else. Go to Spain, where a
debased clergy are the crawling syco-
plants of arbitrary power to Russia,
where thirty. five millions Of scrfs up
hold its splendid dospotism to the arid
plains of the East, where the aged parent
is cast out to die, and the carrion bird
screams and flaps her wings over him ere
life is extinct or to the oriental city,
where the night winds are loaded with
tho wailings of children left by their
mothers to perish there you will find
no Congress voxod by the memorial of
Independent, fearless Christian minis.
tcrs. That class can only be found in
the home Of freedom.
In closing, | must pay \ word of com
plimcnt to the bill before us. If it
must pass, as | trust it will not, / hope
it may be done on tho Goth of this
month, the day of the great eclipse.
When that act of pcrfdy is done,thc sun
should lie darkencd in heaven, and the
moon withdraw her light, and tho stars
in the twilight thereof DO darkcned. As
a political era, it will be a day of dark
ness and thick clouds. and on it will rest
the blackness of darkness forever.
NOTE.
The Provincial Congress assembled in
November, l77l, in Cambridge. Massa-
chuse:ts resolved to get III readiness
twelve thousand men. to act on any e.
mergency and that a fourth part of the
militia should be enlisted as minute
men, and receive pay appointed two ad-
ditional officers, and sent persons to
New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Con
rccticut, to inform those Colonies of its
measures, and request their cooperation
in making up an army of twenty thou
sand men.
y circular letter was addressed to the
several ministers In tho lrovlncc, re
questing their assistance in averting the
threatened slavery. The form of the let
ter was as follows
"REv. Sir We cannot but acknowl.
edge the goodness of Heaven in constant
ly supplying us with preachers of the
Gospel whose concern has been tho tenn
poral and spiritual happiness of this pco-
pie. In a day like this, when all the
friends of civil and religious liberty are
cxcrting themselves to deliver this coun-
try from its present calamitics, we can
not but place great hope in an order of
men who have ever distinguished them
selves in their country's cause, and do
therefore recommend to the ministers Of
The Gospel, in the several towns, and
other places in this Colony, that they as
sist us in aycrting that dreadful slavery
with which we are now thrcatened.'-
Uolnics' american 1Rn0lS, U0L. IL, m.
SIS, 3l6, as qHolcI IN Ahfm'S Inquiry
into the Vtc'cS, &c, Of Tie LcaRing
Men IN tic O~riginatton "four Unaon,"
tol. 4 p, 81.