The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-15
Reply to Vindex.
Fdisor Rutinnd Globe :


Editor RiIlnnd Globe -
NindeS's letter from Manchester under
the hcsd line. Islander in the Pupit,'
which anQesg,3 80 the WEEKLY GLoBn OF
April 28h att,-.oJ some attention and ha.
been the subjoci CT comment. The objec.
iionabIe slalrmelt about which lie seems
so sensitive aid which fred his heart
snd so filled his bosom With alarm
\ "for Israel'9 sake, doas not APP
pear 10 have been made from the pulpit,
nor does it appear that the church was al
/ all or in any way responsible for it or that
} it was at all expected by any member of the
church or other person present. Nlnde1
khimself calls it ''stsrtling announcement"
and says it surprised those present"
Nor does it appear even that the offending
gentleman who had so suddenly found
himself IN hornets nest, was member Of
khe church. Vindex calls him "a tyro 10
christianity, fledgeling not over six weeks
I'D" Plainly, then, the church had no re-
ponslblity for the "slandea' moro than
my one would have had, had 1t been
Fblur,cd aud blubbered out in his house or
kfllcc, or more than the town of Manchea-
Deer would have had hsd 1t been ''blurted
and blubbered out GA her marble walks.
That the church left the responsibility ex-
Rctly where it belonged-with the offend
Ping gentleman hims.lf, 10 also plain. Vic
dex says. "How far the church does and
will protect him Qhe slanderer) in this mat
)ser remains to be seen. Yes, it 'remains
be seem" 1t hadn't been seen when he
ldressed her an abusive open letter through
re columns Of q widely circulating jour-
And so the church has received his evil
IDENTIFY pre- conceived and inimical notions
of her and her principles, his counsel and
warning and onIinous "recoil" and filings,
"the flexible fabric of ngregationalism'
and the inslnuation that she would receive
unworthy members "for the sake of the
ire, all these and more OF the Same ilk,
he church has received at his hand, unds-
rvedly. For the church had positively
PINE nothing at all to merit the dspleasure
Vindex or bis friends. But Vindex was
Trembling in his boots for fear that she
kould and he was mad clear through and
struck out right and left, punching the
faces and backing eyes Of the innocent as
yell as the guilty. How entirely crazed
nd beside himself he was, is evident from
single track Of his pen. He informs the
public that one of the gentlemen interview
ed twas enabled to show satisfactory that
be alleged identifying circumstances did
bot describe him because, among other rsa-
IONS, be never walked "beside q woman, In
all his life." That 10. he was not "a good
looking man, a prominent politician" and
"drunk" at the depot on the day before
fast, because he never walked "beside q
\ woman !" And this says Vindex, SIT will
! be gratifying to his friends to learn" But
II is not our purposetO track Vindex's pen.
He no doubt thought it wrote well and
with it seems to have proved unwittingly to
Yhis own entire satisfaction the good old Or
8thodox doctrine of tho church that, while
!. the lamp holds out to burn the vilest sinner
mot only may bu. actually has returned.
: Nor do we quarrel with his conclusion. 1t
10 really to be hoped as he concludes that
The alleged good looking, prominent
drunken politician was merely creature
pot too vivid imagination. We, away up
here in the marble and saw log end OF the
country, bave al ways been assured that the
good looking, well dressed and prominent
politicians If Manchester subsist mainly
on solids, never taking any thing stronger
than water fl q ont a very little of that.
We csunot however resist The belief that
Yiudex has assa.sd the Congregational
church of Manchester wrougtully. His
own words and even him if bis
conscience does not. in East Dorset
We don't abuse man or church so long as
1t rem sins to ba seen whether they have
any temperance principles or not. But
when il actually has been seen or is seen
that they have, then we go for them. And
we believe this is popular and we'll estab-
lished custom throughout Bennington
county and no words can express the sor-
row we ieel that Viudex has made 'a clean
departure from" it. But lie has taught that
church q useful, preventive Lesson. She
has always been radical She never en-
braced the philosophy that all virtue exists
in the mean ana probably never said to one
OF her sons, medic tutissimis IBIS or as the
English hath II, you will 20 safest in the
made course. For years hhe gave employ
menI to negro who severed himself from
his delights and ran away "from home and
al ils pleasures" And now nothing is more
likely lhan that if she has in her society "a
good looking man, prominent politician"
who, as ARENAS Ward says Of himself, IN
drinking the health of his friends and wish
ing to make them AZ robust as possible,
keeps on drinking till his own health be-
comes impaired, we say nothing is now
likely If she has such an one than that she
should begin To fix her eye on him, should
scent his breath, notice his tipple and talk
about his rublcund face. But II she does
this, If this heretofore black abolition
church now, ''like lobster boiled, from
black to red begins to turn" everybody
who 10 "wsll alarmed for Isrsel's sake"
and who ID accustomed to "take my pen In
hand" should drop her an open lii Q and ask
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