Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1858-09-10

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! For the wachman
q Mr. EDIroR In your paper of last week
I | noticed accounts Of William LLOYD Garri-
sons meetings in Montpelier by correspond
( cnts, who were present. His evening address
5 being reported all can pass Judgment upon
its merits Nothing is moro certain than that
e different persons are differently affected by
the same cause. and there will, doubtless, be
& great variety Of opinions with regard to Mr.
! Garrison.
Your correspondent, Amateur" gives his
opinion, after stripping his lecture of Scrip
tural quotations, and wcll-soundng phrases"
in no very favorable terms I. too. have had
the pleasure of listening to Mr. Garrison
in Vermont, and my impressions were entire
ly different from those of Amateur" /
agree with him that "hc is a man who dares
to say what he pleases. and can say it intelli-
gibly;" but that he succeeded in making
something more than "his deploraJle cgotis,n"
Ineligible, Is certain
Amateur complains that he makes the
abolition OF the slave "his creed" and "his
religion Does he approve of religion that
can submit to leave him in his bonds. that
sees in him, not brother. only a purchasable
commodity and yet acknowledges that he has
a soul to save
Because Mr.. Garrison rebukes with severi-
ty religion that proclaims to the world.
whatsoever ye would that men should do
unto you, do We oven so unto them" and vet
Ignores the spiritual condition of four millions
of bondmcn, wearing scrvile chains in their
own land-preaching purity of life, and yet
sustaining, defending and apologizing for
system that compels them to all manner of
crimc--he is cgotistical and inconsistent
Because he sees no Christianity in the man
or system which robs a brother of his right TO
life, liberty and the pursuit Of happiness"
therefore, "hc dcnounces the world as hvpo-
critical and infdel in every respect in which
they differ from him
/ As if Mr.. Garrison thought himself the on
ly man who ever reared standard so broad
and high, and ali must follow him, not the
principles he advocates. Nice distinction. in
deed No wonder that there are those who
can see in Mr.. Garrison only egotism and
seli-g orihcaton, since the declarations upon
which he Pounds his principles have so long
been mere 'glttcring phrases in the practice
Of the nation Nor is it a matter Of surprise
that an intelligent boy of ten years should be
considered able to fathom his absurditics
tho only wonder is that that any truthful
states.
They are taught at church and Sabbath-school
that God has made Of one blood all the ma
tions Of the eaath, the humblest and
most dcprayed are just as dear, and the sal
walton Of their souls as precious in His sight
as priest or potentate-that they must beware
what example they set lest they be instru-
mental in leading one sinner to he'll. the vast
Importance Of pure and holy life is dwelt
ul fD hat enN vtfrl4
be inculcated in childhood, hence the great
necessity Of Tract Societies and Sabbath
School Unions. Does Mr.. Garrison condemn
such teachings because he is not the teacher.
or because he dislikos what is taught: Does
he not rather condemn the practice which is
so at variance with the precepts The child
in his purity and innocence just begins to feel
that it is fearful and momentous thing to
live-hls observation becomes enlarged and
active, and he wonders if these, his teachers,
have practced as they have taught, why such
distinctions? He reads Tracts and Sabbath
School books, and his mind is in many things
confirmed and strengthened in the teachings.
lie contributes his pennies to send missiona-
rics and Bibles to the heather; his tender
sympathies are deeply enlisted in their behalf
lest they perish without the means of grace.
Their degradation and barbarism only entitle
them the more to aid, for they are still
children of the same Father He reioiccs
that his birth was in a land of freedom
and civilization, and that it shall be his TO en-
Tighten the ignorant and lift up the down
trodden, when, 10 wall, a shrek of agony.
groan of despair, comes to his ears from his
own boosted land of freedom, and he pauses
to consider.
How long ere he learns the disgraceful
truth that four millions of human beings.
whose souls he has been taught TO believe
arc Of such infinite value, are eaectually de-
barred from all participation in his benevolent
purposes, COMPELLED to life of sin and he
who sees within them brother, must be inn
INJURED IN prison walls, or meet doom far
worse II he does not stop thinking, and fall
into the popular current too soon, he INQUIRIES
who is responsible for all this guilt; and
when he has succeeded in convincing his Judy
mont and reason, if he cries aloud, and spares
not, if he says Chou art the man" he is told
mot /, not | ; the responsibility lies some
where else, or is nowhere, and fearfully soon he
learns that if he would have honors and emol-
umonts he must cater to popular vices With
such system of education and such exam I
pies, is it strange that there are men who I.
cannot conceive how anybody can represent
Mr., Garrison worse than he represents him /
self He has the absurdity to found his /
principles upon what in olden times was said /
to be self-evident truth, and some higher
prccepts of unquestionable authority, and then
he asks men who claim the same principles to
be so inconsistent as to practice accordingly.
OF course it is an absurdity so palpable that
a schoolboy can fathom it. Have we not. as
a nation, held the same principles for many.
many years, and does not our condition to-
day belle our professions Mr. Garrison can't
mean that we shall carry our principles into
practice,-we have got along without it ever
since the Revolution, and it is impossible nom
and Mr.. Garrison must know it; he only
meant we shall follow him, that glory shall
cover has name, to the qualification Of "his de-
plordbte egotism." So it seems to appear to
Amateur" but so it appears not to many
other listeners
~ man Creations pride Heavens darling child,
w HON Natures best, dyinest gifts adorn
why nom thy home are truth and Joy extant
ana an thy ayorte haunts with tears and blood deRedf"
Sept. 6, 1858.
WASHINGTON'S ONLY MISTAKE.
The Paris correspondent of the New York
Times relates the folIowing anacdo.o ~