Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-02-10

BosrONi February ., 1910
Messrs, Editors In my last letter mentioned
n minister who as | said, used to preach aboli-
tionism in Washington county, in good Garriso-
nian fashion, before The war, wherein he served in
the capacity Of chaplain, until some unconverted
negro stole his pantaloons away from him, and
left him well, presume he mad another pair,
but these being the ones In which his abolitionism
lay he came home cursing the Niger as vigor-
ously ~ his sacred office would consistently per-
init him" But the type-sctter evidently failed to
see the allusion to the intentional omission which
tho dash after left him was designed to point
to, and did the proofreador, the former putting
period in place Of the dash, and the latter fall
ing to remove IT, thereby spelling II not the story,
good share Of the little skill which had put into
tho telling Of it,
For FIVE full weeks Boston has been under the
snow OF rather, perhaps should say, on the
snow, at least ON runners, and con the road to
brighton" The slcighing has been good all the
time and has been well improved by those who
keep teams, and more less by those who do
not, except your correspondent, who wants all his
sleigh rides about the middle Of July,-or at least
between May and October ! Judge that Boston
has few very expensive turnouts, having no Jim
tisks or Commodore Nandcrbilts and yet there
are plenty Of good teams to be on the streets
more or less pretcntious according to the taste or
means Of the owners. Judge Richardson keeps a
handsome span, whereof he says however that
his wife is proprietor, though she invites him TO
ride often that be experiences no inconvenience
from his non-ownership Of the equine appcndage
to his very comfortable surroundings.
The last Of the revolutionary heroes Is at length
duly honorod Somebody has said that when the
American ship Of state WAS attempted 10 be
launched, but had somehow got aground"
Thomas Paine pushed il of. Whether 20 much
Is true, am not certain, but that he pushed Wig
orousy in that direction, is unquestioned Buthe
pushed no less vigorously in other directions
lie gorcd, in fact. lie laid about promiscuously.
lie sought to destroy, 10 "a certain extent at least
the established religion Of his country And
whoever does that, must prepare himself for mar
tyrdom. And for that the despsod and hated
name VI Tom Paine has been under ban for a
century And so Il may be for centuries 10 come
Hut even he has Die disciples Thousands Of his
countrymcn now rise up 10 call him blessed And
these have recently concentrated their efforts upon
The erection to his memory Of large and elegant
building un Appleton street. at the South End"
which they call the " Paine Memorial building"
the namo being painted conspicuously over the
main entrance aud under this il Is also announced
that it is the Home Of tho Boston Iagcsiigdtor"
Besides for the office Of that paper II is u be used
for lectures and concerts, etc ! think it is de-
signed TO support some sort Of public speaking
there every sunday, aud the platform they say is
To be free 10 everybody. orthodox and hetcro-
dox, but Of COURSE, It will be used mainly by
the heterodox.
The building is a handsome one and has been
erected at an expense Of about $4,000 The
money raised mainly by subscription, rs
churches are built under the leadership Of Mr.
Mendum, the Publisher and Mr. seaver, the
editor Of the newspaper above mentioned Il
contains n front a large tablet Of stone, on which
Is written besides the name Of the building and
the Hir0stganr some ~ Thomas paine's religious
aud political maN.ms from which ! take the fol-
lowing extracts;
i.y. Ingq 1 Go and no morei and hoge for hap
believe the equality 81 man, and that rsous duties
make QUE fellow creatures happy"
4 little extmc; from one Of his works will how
ever, give more definitely Dis differences with the
Christian world, and show the drift Of his lenses
against it, a friend had protested against the
Publishing Of the book think the Age Of
Reason to whom he wrote in these words
You, taking me nr,le fer standard. have poor
opinion ~ poi while taking tod for my standard. havc
apoor oilnlon " ihe Bible"
But when he wrote, Christianity was either Ro-
inauism or Calvinism, and not drawn In 50 many
of H. present mild forms, 50 nicely calculated to
suit us ALL Tho building has also PAINTED on it,
the names Of raine's principal wotks--ihe " Age
Of Reason The Crisis" Common sense"
and the Rights Of Man" It is in a good loca-
ton, and is money value will doubtless tend, 10
greater or less extent to make nfdeIity respec-
table
The friends Of the Rev Mt Murray have pre-
scented him with = seven hundred dollar watch
aud chain, with the design. suppose OF enabling
him to keep the time 30 correctly that when he
drives his perfect horse he may not be led to
believe that he has made better time than he nc
tually has Mr. Murmys scheme for binding
new church il now reckoned success by the
friends II the enterprise, and have no doubt but
the church will be built and Mr. Murray installed
therein with a large aud enthusiastic society to
extend TO him the moral and material support
which he seems to expect WfLouoHBy