Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1864-07-27
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f" Was Mr.. Cutting competent, or by right
entitled to be heard any further on these
points? ?"
| must confess that / have little, pa.
tience with men of coulmon sense--yes,
men of cultivated reason-who will place
themselves in position where they must
drivel out such nonsense to justify them.
selves.
We think Mr.. Cutting cannot make a
good defence, and SO we will not allow
him to make any. We would not take
his opinion as to his soundness in the
faith, and SO we will not allow him to
submit himself to an examination by us:
nor will we give him an opportunity to
examine and disprove if he can. the tes-
tlmony before US, that he has promulgated
unsound doctrines. We think Mr. Cut
ting is not competent Or entitled to be
heard any further on these points, because
we have decided that he ought not to be
heard at all. This is the substance of
what you say was said.
More stupid nonsense Saying nothing
of its wickedness) never was uttered.
You say further that it was s'uq,eed
that the question before the council was
not analogous to jury trial"
/ suppose you mean that the proper
method of disposing of the question was
not analogous, &c. | do not wonder that
the idea of proper trial, after notice,
came into the minds Of some members of
the council, and that there was as YOU
intimate, some difference of opinion az to
the propriety of such mode of proceed
ing. Mr.. Cutting was not party to the
agreement that he should not be notified,
and the case not tried substantially in ac.
cordance with the rules and principles
to govern jury trial. Why should it
not be SO tried? 1t would seem to have
been peculiarly suited to the province of
a jury if iii court of law. 70 dispose
of the case, facts must be found, presum.
ed or assumed. But suppose the case
were not to be proceeded with like jury
trial, was there any reason why the coun-
Gil should pronounce Judgment without
any notice, and even without any written
complaint? .....
Now | wish to have you take another
look at the reasons specially assigned and
set down by you, on account of which you
say it was "orgued' that the preaching of
Mr. Cutting had been not useful but det-
rimental to the cause. They are named
by you in the following order; "opin-
ions," 'peculiarities of speech" 'impul-
+. sive temperament" "disorganizing dispo-
sition," hasty hcadlong zeal" "impru-
dence ''skepticism," 'indiscreet methods
of treating the subject of religion" "ill-
Judged manner of discharging the duties
Of minister of the Gospel" Traz
Such complaints you say you
heard, and heard no others. His SINGER
ity, learning and ability" you say were
admitted by all the members of the coun-,
Gil and no one wagged his tongue in
elimination ofanything immoral in him"
This certainly is very remard able
specification, rendering the subject. if pos
sible, still more indefinite, uncertain, and
in need of explanation. than before. ,
J, have no doubt that Mr.. Cutting has
"opinions," on many subjects, but what
ones rendered him obnoxious to the coun-
Gil does not appear. He has also, prob
ably, Irregularities of speech, F" who has
not {? but before admitting that he ought
to be excommunicated for them, should
ask to know what they were If it was
! only difficulty in pronouncing the Shib-
boleth of sectarian bigots, should de-
mur | make no question that MIR. Gut
ting has. sufficient warmth of ''tempta-
ment" to maifest considerable feeling on a
subject in which he is deeply interested,
for he is emphatically hve man. There
, are other men who are certainly as much
4 too cold and phlegmatic, and if he should
be expelled for his abundance Of feeling.
they should for their. paucity of it. u !.
"His disorganizing disposition" That
Mr.. Cutting seeks disorganization as an
.lLa.L 1 IA rnt Laliaua nor think Won do.