The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-10-03

on every side, and also from the
knowledge we have, of one who fig
ured prominently on that occasion-I
refer to that wild in6dcl Professor Den
ton, as he is called
Not that would, in the least, be sup
posed to speak deiamatory of the general
character Of any member of that body,
for many persons, otherwise reputable,
advocate its intensely anti-biblcal views ;
but Tor this very reason. that it We are
to have, from year to year, such Assem-.
bages, and such uttcrances, as are and
were endorsed by persons otherwise es-
tcemed, We may learn to discriminate
between their general reputation, and the
abominable and blasphemous views, and
uttcrances they sustain and that we
may not become partakers of their vIc
deeds, by affording them any facilities
for such meetings, and in any way bidding
them God Speed.
So long as we know, that all which is /
valuable in our civilization is the product
of Christianity; that upon its pure and
holy principles reposc and only reposc
safely our popular, political institutions,
and that our personal rights are best Sc
cured by rigorous conformity to the
precepts of the Bible that, as these prin-
ciples and these precepts have been sub.
jected to long and rigid tests, and never
have been found wanting, but have proved
themselves, by a thousand examples, and
by tens of thousands of experiences, both
general and individual in all cases and
under all circumstances, the safeguard
and protection Of everything dear and
sacred and that, in proportion as they
are embraced and practiccd, do persons
become valuable citizens of our commune
ties, true and reliable patriots ornaments
Of society, pillars Of virtue and morality,
patterns of general excellence, and sup
porters of well tried and valuable institu-
tions-generous, public spirited, charita-
bic and humane, free from acrimony and
from sordid sel6shness, SO long, | say,
as we know that these, and such as these,
are, and have been the fruits of pure
Christianity, and that no other religion,
and especially, no anta-religion, like
Spirituaism, has ever exhibited any
such traits or tendencies, but always and
invariably the opposite, should we not, if
for no higher reason than the demand Of
common prudence, frown, in every proper
way upon the latter and encourage on
the other hand, the former.
And now that Spiritualsm has stripped
itself Of every scmblancc of religious,
to say nothing of Christian character,
and has endorsed, in State Convention,
utterances the most shocking, blasphe-
nous, and the most intensely hostile enc
mics of Christianity and of Christ, and
has thus exhibited its real God-hating
and Bible destroying-Spirit, until not a
rag Of real, holy Spiritualism is left upon
its foul yet stalking carcass, but that it
stands before US, a veritable Gorgon Of
evils, the lowest specimen Of skeptical
madness, and morally depraved infatua-
ton, is it not time, that every lover Of
his kind-to say nothing Of the lovers Of
God, should set their faces like hints,
against this heather abomnation, and
deny 1t any more place of assembly in
any public building in our village. For,
what reason is there that hall of JUS
tice or any public place whatever, should
be opened unto an assembly of dogs"
for such Paul calls the false teachers
of his day, phil. 3 {: 81 and that such
places should be converted into the ken
nes of their meetings, and be disgraced
by their baying blasphemics
If we thus bid them God-speed, are
we not partakers of their evil deeds Is
it not time that we let them know, that
Middlebury is too decent a place, for a
Denton and his endorsers to hold forth
in, unless they do it entirely on their own
responsibility and on their own footing.
A. +. BAILEY.
Massachusetts State Convnntion.-But-
Ter Decentralization Nominated.
The Massachusetts State Convention
assembled at Worcester on Wednesday,
organized by the election of DR.. Lorng
temporary president, and Hon. George
f. Hoar permanent president. George
5. Merrill of Lawrence and a half dozen
others were elected secretaries, Early
, I "A. L.
Rice and DR.. Lorng withdrew their
names as candidates before the Conven-
ton.
There was hot work in determining
which of several different delegations
should be admitted to seats in the con-
venton. After these preliminary matters
were settled the ballot for governor was
taken with the following result.
j Whole number of votes ZIG
Necessary for choice $50
Alexander II. Rice
Geo. b. Loring 8
b.. +. Butler AGA
VIM. B. Washburn CAB
The announcement of the result was
received with perfect tempest Of APP
plause and continued rounds of cheers,
accompanied by the waving of hats, hand
, kerchiefs and canes, and every dcmonstra.
ton of enthusiasm on the part of the anti
Butler portion of the assembly.
, w. w. Rice Of Worcester moved that
VIM. b. Washburn be declared the NOM
inee Of this Convention. Carried almost
unanimously.
Lieut.. Governor Tucker was renomi.
mated by acclamaton.
There was seen the other day a little
boy in the streets of Cohoes, n. Y, cry
ing. A gentleman stepping up to the lit
tie fellow, said My little man, what is
the matter with you" to which he re-
sponded 1--WE got the stomach.ache,
: and I'll have it again if I've a mind to-
There is no disease flesh is heir to more trou-
blesome to manage than rheumatism. 1t comes
when you least expect it. and generally remains
= till it gets ready to go away. The most conspic-
uous remedy for this complaint is Johnson's Ano-
dyne Eminent