New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-04

Hugh Moore" Plattsburg n. Y, 1884 which re-
prints most of tho "NarrativeD From this a few
particulars Of his subsequent life may be obtained.
He might have been again employed in the mill ary
service of the Congress- but the old Colonial troubles
regarding Vermont were renewed, and Allen was
appointed General of all the militia forces of the
State. Sixteen towns of New Hampshire sought a
union with Vermont. and Allen was sent to the
Congress to explain the condition of affairs. Some
effort made by the British to buy him, and
with him the New Hampshire Grants. He feigned
negotiations and thus kept the enemy away
from Vermont; but he sent the letter of
the English negotiator, Beverly Robinson
to Congress- He spoke plainly, however He
thought that Vermont had an indubitable
right to agree terms of cessation of hostilites
with Great Britain provided the United States per-
sisted in rejecting her application for union with
them. The controversy greatly prolonged. and
has not now much interest. The boundaries were
finally adjusted, and the 9th of February, 1871,
Vermont was admitted into the Union without de-
bate dissenting vote.
Allen lived and cultivated his farm until 1888.
His eptaph says: His spirit tried the mercies of
God, in whom he believed and strongly trusted"
Only five years before his death he printed a deisi-
cal work in which the Bible and the Christian re-
ligion assailed He also published various po-
itcal pamphlets and a history of the controversy
between NewHampshire and Vermont. Whatever
else may be said of his style it has the undeniabe
merit of straghtforwardness and perspicacity, and
| cannot imagine prettier book than the Mar
rative for young people, if only of it's
could be modified and some of its superfluity
of epithet retrenched.
Aliens deistcal work, Reason the Only Oracle
of Man." was republished, somewhat abridged by
Munsell, of Albany, i'll 1886. 1t was then scarce
book and suppose it is still scarce in Mr.. Mum
sells reprint The first edition printed by Has
we'll of Bennington, VT Not long after its publ
cation, part of the edition. comprising the entire
of several signatures was accidentally burned
Perhaps Haswel thought the fire judgment upon
him for having printed such work At any rate, he
committed the remainder of the edition to the
flames, so that few copies were circulated; and
he also joined the Methodist connection. Dr.
Dwight, in his "Travels" H., 3S7), is severe in
writing of Allen; says his mind NATURALLY
naughty, restless and cnterprisng that he was
liccnuous in his disposition inpatient of the re-
strants either of government or religion, and not
always submissive to those of common decency.'
He is represented by Dwight in conversation as
"yolube, blunt, coarse and profane" y; in his "pre-
| tentions to knowledge daring; in his assertions
bold and percmptory." d" Reason the Only Oracle
of Man is described by the Doctor as the first
formal publication in the United States against the
Christian religion" Decent nonsense" continues
Dwight "may possibly amuse for an idle hour but
brutal only be read as an inlliction OF
penal Justice" 1.-THE Style he adds, twas crude
| and vulgar" the arguments fimsy and unmean.
ing; and the conclusions fastened upon the
premises by mere force" The original and I'M
abridged edition is of the of American
books and fifty vc dollars have been paid for it AT
a sale