Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1875-10-29


! gies follow after very little creek husbands
its waters to drive few spindles. Ii is
England with the English omitted Ii is
age with nothing old in the generation.
There are no negroes to be seen ; phospho-
rous is in the air. A gray-eyed destiny has
possessed the provinces.
To-day, in the town OF Northampton,
went to see the grave Of Jonathan Edwards.
He was boss metaphyscian, and proved
beyond peradyenture that, although what
was to be must have been, still free will had
the right of way Man was free any how.
and must take his punishment like man,
but the Lords foresight still prevailed. For
preaching in favor of mans pleading guilty
IN this way and m0derating the character of
Providence. Edwards was ordered out Of the
church at Northampton, and there are still
two churches there-one for Edwards, the
other for the DEGREES. As they both lead to
the same place, felt ike the negro who was
asked by his missionary what would be the eff
fest of two irresistible bodies colliding with
infinite force. The negro said he would
take to the woods. 50 did |. went to
the grave of Jonathan Edwards lie has a
plain slab in an old willow and elm-embow-
cred graveyard, thus inscribed
RRv. JONATHAN EDwARpi.
The American Divine.
Born October 6, l7u5.
OIitiaei colleague pastor with Rev. Solom n
StodarI in this town Februars la. 10.
Dismissed June y. ".
Died Of smallpox in New Jersey, March % l75s.
This inscription WIS designed Tor 4 re-
porter it i minute down to the small pox,
and the great event OF hi- Lille is distinctly
nOted-dlsmissal.
Bat appended to this headstoue was sub
epitaph, as follows
REV. THOMAS CHALMERS. II. b.
Scotch Divine. aud Protector Of the Frss Church.
D ei o; apoplexy. Msy %. 1871. IN his 5-th year.
6cd is love.
In the same cemetery are buried four
United States Senators, one Of whom
(Srong) opposed as Governor, with all his
might, the war Of 1872 | felt as looked
at his grave that no Politician had any bd-i-
ness 10 oppose either the next or the last
war.
All the sects, to speak Of, came from New
England. The smallest sect in America Is
that of Robert Landemau, of DanburY, Ct,
who founded it in l704. on the dogma that
" faith is bare belief in bare truth" In
1870 it had already split into two >ects with
twenty members in both.
Did YOU ever observe how many kinls Of
religion are afforded here? Take fly at
them
John Murray, Of Gloucester. Mass,
founded American Universalism in 1880.
George Whiteiied WAS buried at Marble
head the same year, the head Of CAlyinistic
Methodi-m William Ellery Claiming, born
ten wears afterwards, led the liberol school
Fuller was born at Cambridge; Emerson, the
transcendentalist, at Concord Joe Smith at
Sharon, Vt, aud Brigham Young near Brat
tleboro. The Oneida Community il barely
established in Walhngford, CT, and orig
mated in Vermont. Spurzholm, the founder
Of phrenology, Is buried near Boston. Near
Meriden, CT. was born Bishop Ives. of
North Carolina. who went over to the church
of Rome in sall canonicals. From Litch
field, CT, came all the Beechers, inclusive
of Bsecher Stowe, and JOHN Brown of
IIarper's Ferry. Susan B. Anthony came
from South Adams, Mass, Roger Williams
and other Baptists settled Rhode Island,
where hundreds of them yet observe Sltur
day a. the real Christian Sabbath. Jona-
than Edwards, President Of Princeton Col
lege, is buried at Northampton beside his
son-in-law, David Brainard. Samuel Groton,
who was buried at ShAwomet, was banished
both from Massachusetts, and Rhode Island,
showing that Roger Williams was 10 ultra
apostle Of tolerance L. S. Grants great
grandfather was from Windsor, CT. and
Horace Greeley. his competitor, who popu-
larized all the experimental religions Of the
time. was from New Hampshire o. O.
Howard, of the Freednen's bureau, came
from Leeds, Me. and JudSOn. the Bur
mese missionary, from Maiden, Mass. At
Northboro, Mass, lies the only Jewish rabbi
who spostatized to Christianity-Judah
Mons At Norridgewock, Me-, fell Sebas-
tian kalc, the last priest, surrounded by his
Abenaau Indians, at the foot OF the cross.
From Concord, n. H., Ben Thompson Count
Rumford, was driven away by his erzealous
lovaliets to become head of the regency OF
Bavaria and a master of state and science.
At New London, CT, Is buried the first An
glican bishop of the Republic, Samuel See
bury, who was refused conservation by the
English bishops, and was Scotch cross, or
Skye, legalized by the three Bishops Of Scot
land
There, Tor example, Is the little village of
Ashford. c., where they buried General
Lyon and bred Dr. EIiphalet Mott and Galu-
sha A. Grow. On the public green the
place Is pointed out where the Ashford men
were logging non-churchgocr-literally
lashing his back for absence from church. A
strange horseman rode up and cried To
them
Men Of Ashford do you think you can
whip the grace of God into man? Christ
will have none but volunteers" lie dashed
away, and left the Impression Of an angel
that had been there ~ they let the absen-
tee put ON his Jacket, aud NJ longer ducked
him in the horse pond.
NEw ENGLAND sLowING-ur.
What district il this for ideas and tools,
cranks and isms, town meetings and sects,
screws and subscriptions. books, and all
manner of patent rights and peddliOg
New England is Is 900 miles square, and |
and has fifty-four souls to the square mile, or
about three millions and a-half inhabitants.
Her property is assessed at 81 500 ,000, 900, |
vet nobody could keep it going but these
sons of thrift There are only ffty-three |
counties in the whole province, leaving out |
Massachusetts, and hence the superhuous |
political energy OF the people Is expended |
on town governments and on distant objects |
of sympathy. A society to compel the Es-
quimaux to abandon their huts Of ice or to |
put skirts on race-horses would be received |
favorablv in the majority Of the four or five
hundred g towns of the provinces.
The railway Development Of New Eng- |
lani has been slow, since in 1926, Massa-
ehusetts chartered the Granite Railway Of |
Quincy, and is yet halted before the Hoosac !
Tunnel and seeking to turn Lake Champlain
ut both ends 50 as to e go vest Forty |
wears ago, Boston reached out slender sim
gle track to her dependants Of Lowell, Prov
idence, and Worcester, and her senior |
gauiEed line Of trunk rail to the West which |
reached Albany 10 1874 vas consolidated as |
hate as 1867. near the period when Governor |
Andrew forced the Huusac Tunnel line out |
Of the hands Of its corporation into the d. |
pect control Of the State. When the civil |
war broke out Massachusetts, had only l. |
200 miles vf rail between 1861 and 1870 |
it added as much more. Still New England |
is poorly provided with inain stems by short
roates Ii might have beeu expected that,
before The present hate day when the mania
for railroads Is over. there would have been |
AN International Steamship railroad to Hall |
fax right across New England, lessening the /
ocean isrry to Liverpool by r~o or three
day There should have been New York |
and Boston mir line ~ we'll, instead Of the |
hog slbsv dissrsion by Hartford and Spring
6eid .Slssls however, ths Portland asd
D. 0sdensbarg Railroad is advancing vest
ward through the Notch OF the White
Mouataius to Chsnplsin ssd Oswego.
As long o New England coednses TO J