Jan. 18, 1843.
V E It U O N T T E L E G it A P II.
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For the Telegraph.
THE JICRDEli OJJf BOAXID THE BRIO
SQMRRS.
The popular 3nd leading newspapers
of the day are teeming, and some of them
literally filled, with the particulars of the
mutiny on the above mentioned vessel.
These papers state that a most horrible
murder was about to be committed by the
mutineers on the crew. Now, if in their
laudable attempts to be accurate, they had
gone a little farther and asserted that mur
der was actually committednot by the
mutineers, but on the mutineers not legal
murder as some call it, .bjut illegal mur
dor, it is barely possible they Would have
npproacned nearer the rigion of probabil
ity, i( not of truth.
If any one objects to the caption I have
chosen for this article let them show its
incorrectness and select me a better, and I
will most willingly adopt it. But if, on
the contrary, murder as well as an attempt
to mutiny took place on that brig, then
prirciple requires that 1 should adhere to
the truth of my caption.
1 will not undertake to say how far
prejudice, instead of any real or well
grounded fjar for the safety of his vessel,
influenced the conduct of Alex. S. Mack
enzie in destroying the lives of three
human beings, with a most benignant and
merciful grant of (en minutes in which
to prepare fjr etern'ty but will let his
report to the N ivy Department and to the
Naval Court of Inquiry speak for itself
on this point. It is not denied that Philip
Spencer was a somewhat reckless youth
of bid habi'S and bad associates but it
it is denied, ence fir all, that a boy only
between 18 and 19 years of age,, even cf
his character, can not be reformed bv kinJ
treatment by friendly . and wholesome
ndwice by imparting confidence, and thus
crenting a proper se!f respect. Whether
this was the course pursued by command
or Mackenzie towards his midshipman
Spencer whether be acted as a frierd
liiiJ fither of the boy, as he'ought to have
done, remains to be shown from his own
arcotint of the transaction. Here are his
words at the commencement of the report:
' After Midshipman Spencer had been
received on board he Mackenzie heard
and I had frequently observed in him a
strange flashing of 'the eye "
Witness the extreme jealousy entertain
ed by Mackenzie towards Spencer. Even
his habits of joking, of smiling, and the
expression of his eye are all narrowly
watched and carefully noted down. And
for what purpose? Why, he has before
stated that he wished to get rid of him,"
.
and we shall soon see that he will find an
occasion.
The question naturally arises, what im
pression w-ould prejudice and jealousy,
connected with such conduct as this, be
likely to have on the mind of a high
spirited young man like Spencer? He
could not help seeing and feeling the ha
tred his commander entertained against
him. He could not joke or smile, be
merry or sad, look pleasant-or'sober, with
out being closely watched, and the whole
construed against him. If it be true that
"love begets love," it is equally 'true that,
in such a mind ns Spencer's, hate begets
hate; and we shall cease to wonder tha!
he occasionally 'muttered and threateded,'
as stated by Mackenzie and testified by
the witnesses against him. See, in con
firmation of this, what Mackenzie admits
he said to Spencer, and Spencer's reply
only a few moments before his deaths I
asked him Spencer if I had done any
which made him seek my life, or
whether his hatred was unfounded?" He
said he thought it was only fincy. Per
haps he added, . there tea something in
your manner which offended me," This,
remember, is the.. statement of the party
in his own case, when no other person
was present to hear what Spencer added
on this point, if anything. If Spencer,
on this occasion, gave the true reasons'
why he blamed Mackenzie, pertaps Mack
enzie might not be swift to communicate
them to his own disadvantage ! I think
it can not be doubted that Mackenzie
might, if he pleased, by kindness and con
ciliation, have-gained the esteem cf young
Spencer, and prevcnld even the thought
of mutiny.
In concluding this article I deny, en
tirely, that any such necessity existtd fjr
liking the lives of Spencer, Small and
th:t! Spencer hid b.en sent ho.ne from Cromwell, as stated by Mackenzie in his
lie Br. zil squadron for intoxication; that justihcation. i his necessity, 1 will at-
he ased to grtndoj him, that he con- hemnt to show m your next paper, does
not exist in the circumstances of the case,
" For the Telegraph.
FERSO NALPU R I T M .
Dear Sir : 5
The youthful persons 2nd the youthful
spirit of the civilized world have assured
ly been far some time past misguided with
respect to the true direction in which to
look for a meliorated condition of society.
Those persons and tharspirii are too "no
ble to be inert in' this grand cause, and
did it not happen that a false pursuit is
constantly pointed out to them, they would
long since have actualized in social life
those purer and loftier iden3rvhich come
to every youthful siul. How sadly, how
vainly, are spent many of the best years
of human life in consequence of the false
hope3 held out by political teachers. The
energies wasted in this direction alone ap
pear to be sufficient, if properly applied,
to redeem the world. Every public man,
statesman, lawyer, preacher, lecturerJ
writer, is party to this grand mistake.
Or at least if every one is not, the excep
tions are so fe.v as at present to weigh
little against the mass. However let us
faint not, despair not, for the little "Tele
graph" is at work announcing the arrival
of a new era. I trust that a voice is heard
in Vermont which will not long let us
slumber in deceptive security, or pursue
a resultless work.
If the physical and mental triumphs of
pnst times arc worth anything valuable,
something is still to come very superior
to sue h t ri'i mp'is. A Lexington victory
is no; to be merely the prelude to other
conquests of the like kind. A Bunker
Hill success is not to find its termination
in a Bunker Hill monument the granite
tree cf blood sown 'roots. These events
are surely for some higher end. Our
youth ore not for ever to fall into that
worshipping of history which makes our
in flints antiquaries in petticoats, and our
school boys better acquainted with Greek
and Roman vicesthan with their own duties
and their own nature. This has not been
found the best way to cherish virtue, and
none can expect much that is lifeful or
truthful to come out of it.
Faith on the internal source of good
ness and intelligence is that element in
our nature wh.ch should be cherished.
liberty of two or three people, and 1 think
it will very easily be perceived how I do
it. In the first place l am myself, physi
cally, intellectually, and morally liberated
in no slight degree. I am liberated from
the expense or toil of working for them,
or such of them as do not require a sub
stitute. 1 am freer intellectually by fore
going the use cf all stimulants whatever.
And morally who can doubt that most of
the articles for which we are indebted to
slave labor are exciting to the lowest pas
sions or tend to the most debasing con
duct? So much then for my freedom.
To an equal, or perhaps a greater extent
do I free some one negro laborer. My
conduct has the most serious effect in the
planter's eyes, fir he knows very well that
if he could no: find a market for his pro
duce, his slave would be valueless to him
and might go free. Commercially speak
ing he would be scarcely worth keeping
if there were no export market for the
produce. For the estates must then be
transformed from plantations to farms with
a greater variety of products; more still
would be req.iired, and humani'y, hu
maneness, must be allowed to grow up,
and the slave would be one of a family
from which it would scarcely be-desira-ble.to
Separate him. The third class of
persons which such conduct in a direct
manner tends to liberate.though they may
not believe i', consists of all who stand
between the producer and consumer,
whether as shipper, sailor, factory-slave,
store-keeper or in any other kind of de
grading employment ; for looking at man
and his -neglected capabilities these are all
very lort ly occupations.
This, then, appears to me the most ef
ficient course to be pursued individually
far the liberation of the negro 'slaves not
only in the United States, but in the West
Indies and Brazil. Furthefmore'for the
melioration of the laboring man's condi
tion throughout the whole of the tropical
region ; the state of things at present be
in r such that the men and women of that
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zone are nein in oonuage to ucwie me
palates of northern men and women. It
has always been a lustful appetite of some
kind which has subjugated nations, but
A' e seem now to have arrived at the very
imparted to us at the present moment, and
now to generate a new. order of outward
existence commencing with ourselves.
New pure beii.g is wanted, not merely a
reformation of old impurity. The surer
hope, the quicker certainty dwells in gen
eration of goodness, not in regeneration of
badness. Let us conserve the holiness,
the purity we have ; or rather, let us give
up ourselves to holiness and purity. Let
each do this in his own heart. Let me
stand on ground a little di y, if I cannot
reach the perfect standing, before I hold
out a hand to draw my neighbor from the
ditch: otherwise 1 may involve him
deeper.
It is doubtless a beautiful object to be
hold the most talentful men, the giant
minds of modern times, rising above their
own depressing circumstances, and strid
ing over the battle field of wrong doing to
1 Letter from H. W. Capron.
The letter below is too good to suppress. At
the time I received it I laid it by, not know ing
whether it wou'.d do to publish it, inasmuch as no
permission was given. But on reviewing it, I
cannot be persuaded that it ought to be kept fix ni
the public eye. I am unacquainted with the
writer, except by this communication, and anolh
er whih I received fiora him. If he doer not
want to be published, he must say so, when he
.writes such articles as this. It is high time that
such a genius' and spirit be publicly enrolled cn
the list of reformers.
Walworth, N. Y., Nov. 12, 42.
Brother Murray : I have obtained but
two subscribers for the Telegraph. I see
the difficulty: The subject of reform is a
suljoct but little heeded here, except it be
to scandalize those who engage , in it.
Those to whom 1 have generally shown
the Telegraph are strong sectarians I
have preferred this class. 1. Because
it would be apt to set them to thinking,
silered him a base' young man, and being
ihi son nf nn honorable father he thought
him more bise than those who have no as stated by Mackenzie or testified by the
ins Pn (1 nf I hn rrvri mnnlr r nnrnrw! rp!5
, ,i i j I i . r pettiest cause lor servility and wartare
it. Public teachers, above all our nublic
writersshould incessantly call the; alien
tion of every individual, especially the
ttmtlies to Disgrace by their conJuct. He I witnesses. But, in stating this, L doubt not hopeful and the young, to their o.vn indi
i.ien .i a n ,1 f n r rvi r i t rw r m n ur 1 1 ri rvi cu- j . - i -
.. i '.l .1 "xt ii " wnat 1 naVenOW written appears in print.Oe UYhether U hrt nPtrro slavery or rn'tnn-
u m.i v u lue i.ivy. I I -j
D) we not here discover, on the part c('Mnotaoiy acquiue- oy a ivar mill slavery, whether it be temperance or
f-,r1AnlM nn ahmrt in nrpnns the " " ' . r j . ion.nes:siance, in snort wtiatever may
curt before who-n he was to be tried in lar $hare o( l,,e The Course be the proposed object of reform, we
lis favor: and to instil into their minds ue l00K immLU u" U9 i4'M u' Ul Pouia te ieU 10 sce Unt ihe -greatest good
' i i- -t t i : - . !. i . . . .
the same nmudice a-ainvoun? Snencer 1 orK lo CJU5U le ,c,u'" l'P"8 lu any one can rei.uer to the cause :s by be
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that hd himself had imbib.-d I And all P3" ever.Vin!n7 conia.neu in u.s report com.ng in himself Iree from those enor-
..:. u..r.. : i . u:. that could be dj up against the character mitie3 which he deprecates in others. If
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, i i . ... e .i I oi younjr opencer, u iia.c a ituututy i use no a u. e wnaiever wnci is tro
te l. nnd tvhn if was imnimih f For tlu I 1 J r
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accused Spencer to be present and repel 10 Pr0(juce ims euccu 1. luavKr.r auceu oy ine a.u 01 negro .aoor 1 prooa-
he charsre. For he lav .(eeD in the lS' ,n EOcne reetl? an " 1 ' ' U!y iioera e ai once ixvo cr mree persons.
I iiU'.ll Lnnwinir ho Ihnl hr.t rnnin'iiini I . I . T .1
bosom of the ocean buried" bv the unau- Vanecfthi V.im .tain.- ' - . uutull,a ue-ree i uiere-
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thorized act of the very mm who now in the first place put it out cf the power n7 cccomp.isn.ng n.ucn greater actual
hnd the assurance to rise up. and heap of Spencer to complain by tahing his life, good by my indiviJual proceeding without
infarnv on the memorv of the dead in an and then took this course to induce the ''s 01 l,me' Indn 7 ma.i.ng speecnes, or
fxpar'te trULcf his own creation! What public to prejudge his case. But whether y holding up my hand at public
had the charge of intoxication against I he will be justified by his Maker, by his um ormg auoui aner many
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Ojjl'l.tcl, tv 111 IC UVMUllglll IU llic uia.il I CUI15CIVIJV.C, ui ujf jju jiv f i jf .mil we . miiw
tqaadron, (whether true or false,) to do gether a different aflYir !
with the guilt or innoctnee of Mackenzie Mackenzie's real motive for taking the
in har.ging him, while on the Somers for life of Spencer I know not, unless it was
an alleged mutiny? The only evidence funded in prejudice, an ijnmanly fear, or
cf 'baseness1 he brings in the jbove fharge selfishness. Perhaps the following closing
is intoxication and if this renders a man paragraph of his report, in his own words,
base, perhnps Mackenzie himself, or even Vvill throw some light on this subject :
some of the members of the court who t it deemed that I have had any
trv him nr., I mnh itu.!- nf vminfT mn met it for the preservation of the Somers
1,!., Sn,n,,r hv Wn v,r h T nm Um the treacherous toils by.whcih she
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cnrrniir.J..il Kai h ainrp nnrl hefiirn her
reriod during their lives. But the only den,fture from the United States, 1 re-
evidence of intoxication even, that Mack- spectfully beg that it may accrue without
enzie brings, is hearsay. He heard Spen- reserce to my nephew Mr. Perry and
cer had beeu sent home for intoxication.'! that "e be placed in the situation
r t i V i " i- LEFT VACANT BY THE DEATH OF Mr
One question of morals, contained ,n the SpESCEtt. I pcd;?e myself for the en
above quotation, I leave for Mackenzie tire faithfulness and zeal with which. he
or his fripnds to settle or exolain that i.. will discharge duties 1" JrsTicE
...... - , .. - .
hfw if rnuld inrreastt Snencer's baseness
r Kevr World Extra.
because he belonged to a family or nap- The Publisher of the New World is
pened to be the. .'son of. an honorable a0lrding reading matter at a very cheap
father.'? . rate. They havejust published the ' Me-
Listen one more to Mackenzie's renort.
I have emphasized some of his express- interesting work. Price 25 cents single SuSarVn!ola?ses' orr or rU'n' r
ions considered most important: - . J copy five copies fjr 1. ,
'All these things, (he says,) I called to 1 ! as0. Letters of Mary, Queen of
which could enter the heads of any peo
ple. '..".'
The like course of reasoning applies to
every other moral reform. Each one has
to say, " let me not only think aright, but
be right, vnd do right in all practical
matters, as well as theological arguments,
and then, but not till then, am I realty
friendly to the proposed reform." Were
this the general conviction, were this the
general conduct, how rnpiJly would re
form 0 on. Rather would it not at once
be sueceStfjI. Contemplate for a moment
the fact of there bviiijj no sale nt Boston
for se"ar, molasse?, or cotton. What
will become of those turbulent sailors and
their sirls ? How shall the discontented
shiparigfiTs be pacified ? T-hese men
must turn to. their .''forefathers' purer pur
suits and grow their own corn and linen.
Then the cargoes may go back to Charles
ton or Now Orleans : and the slaves
must be set to spinning a little for them
selves, and planting trees, for no northern
lumber could be bought, and thus even
thesoil would be in the way of restora
tion to a fertile state. The fjctory gfirls
must go home, and . learn ihe household
duties, and respect fa.i.ily virtue, and no
longer call in the prkst to marry them
just at the last moment that will ensure
cri tical man.' I will turn to the best ac. spring s legmacy. racis ui uns
,nnr.t I nihlr can all that is offered : kinJ do no1 i,?Pear in printed commercial
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but I will require of myself the true mis- oies, DUl tney are printeu ,n aeep, otacic
sionary position of Wing, or of willing to ''-ers upon ine iair oosom oi socieiy, un-
the utmost to be that which 1 recommend til its purity is almost entirely lost.
to others. Before I can aid in the refor- ln olJ England it is not unusu .1 to see
roation of other roinJ, my own must be a number of town politicians r ssembling
in some degree, if not wholly teformed. redress their grievances or to resist im-
Before I can ask the slaveholder to liber- posts, and spending over their debates
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ate his bended fellow, creatures 1 must more money ur unnt an t tooacco man
learn to live happily without every article twice the amount of the payments they
which can possibly have been produced wish to escape. And this is about a fair
by the sweat of the negro's brow. If t measure of all noisy- patriotism. It is
dirty myself with Tobacco, if I consume more costly than the results are worth.
1 he Slaveholder is willing you sbou.d
the rescup nf nn nnnrfsspfl rare nr!n fall
' t 1 .1.. 1- .!. ... I .Ur.
nT na irn. Wp rnnnnt wnndpr that the 1 - . .
others. 2. Because there are scarcely
any others in this vicinity. Anc yu are
aware cf the fact,that, thoe who are
bound to political and religious parlies,
and who preach, pray and vote for the
butchery system, are such cowards, that
where any thing like the heaven-born
principles that Christ taught, such " as
Peace, Love, Charity, &c, are brought
among them they start back with horror
and say "away with that' paper : it ad
vocates Non-Resistance; end our very
nature cries out against it, our preachers
raise their voices against it in their pul
pits; and if this doctrine should prevail
we should be abandoned to the mercy of
other nations, and our neighbors would
rob us with impunity." Now they prob
ably do not see the ludicrous paradox
that this argument peaces them in. I
think that if this doctrine should prevail,
and we should become a nation of christ
ians, there would be none to rob and
plunder. One thing is very certain
that this nation never will be a christian
nation, so long as they content themselves
to bow down to the dictation of a mercen
ary priesthood. Neither do I think that
such a ministry will very soon make
Christians of the heathen, by colonization
or otherwise, so long as they continue to
go among them loaded down with the
tools of their profession, of Marder.B Jtch
ery and Blood and on theslightest prov
ocation resort to the use of these tools,
like the pious missionary who put a num
ber of buck-shot into the body of a chief,
whom he had been sent 'to. convert to
gratitude and applause of the relieved or
admiring crowd attending their steps.
But how much more beautiful is the sight
of such grea'ness, conjoined with equal
benevolence and purity, recalled to its own
inward state, and humbling its energies
and love, to self-reformation and self-'puri-fication.
If our best young men seek a
noble station, let them look in this direc
tion ; ifthey. would have a true reward let
them seek it here. If our young women
would fi.! their proper pesition, the same
course is free to them ; would they justly
command admiration, let them pursue an
inner life. Let boih sexes become faith
ful conservators of those talents and grac
es, which have been given to them for
the purpose of pure creation, or rather
which are not gifts, but loans which the
faithful steward watches not on barren re
forms, but sanctifies to holy, new forma
tions. ...
The old and vicious ins itutions of so
ciety can never be annihilated by the best
proofs cf their depravity. This is a mere
negative process, and an affirmative mode
is needed. What the well disposed have
to do is to build up new .and virtuous in
stitutions. The old ones will then either
reform, conform, or pass out of exis.ence.
But some customs must prevail ; some in
stitutions must exist, and there is in the
youthful a general disposition to adopt and
su pport the purest. The youtl.fjl relish
the purer habits, because their natures
are purer. By so much they are the
younger, by so much are they rearer the
Crea or. They are fresher from his im
mediate operation, and they can be more UChrisiianity. Are these the weapons
You Will understand I have nothinjr to
say against such public efforts. .They
are not to be neglected, but they are to
follow, not to precede personal reforma
tion. You observe very justly that the
talking about practice is not the practice.
I will joyfully accept every good saying
whether it come from a practical or a the
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.ouecuon, anu enueavoreu carcjuuy q arran.ed in chronological order,
review the whole conduct of Spencer. I otous' ''"' 8 ,
had treaud him precisely ns I treated oth- with an introduction by Agnt-s btrickland.
er midshipmen, though I had perhaps The above works are published in octavo
reproved him lessthantheolhersforslight nrm,o( C4 nags each, and illustrated
deviation from the ttrict line of his duty'. '. . Mm n,;.. n-
ta, nmrnl frm m n . ,- jt , .1 J with numerous engravings. Price io
1 his arose Jrtrn my conviction that then . , . P 0.
tould be but little hive of tsttiall tir. cents single copy five copies fir $1
ng one who had proved to be so decidedly j Addrvsf, J. Winchester, 30 Ann St, N. Y.
nis own enemy, i observed tbat Ae was . v. 6. M.
in the habit ot associating but little with
the other officers, but that he was contin. i Brother-Isaac Sawyer, jr., has removed
na y mtimaio wnn m crew. He was r c n v u , m-.-often
in th hahit ofioki.lZ ,i" :i! &n Deerfield, N. H.to Amesbury, Mass
iwti whenever he met them, with a4 and requesu liis correspondents to ditect
mile never kiown but on sucK occasions;l 'he, latter place.
rice, or wear cotton I have not an henest
face to show at an anti-slavery meeting.
These things are so easily done without;
nay, life is-so much the happier when
they are given up, that if I have not cour
age to make the trial, I can have no right
to call upon the Southern planter to make
trial of free labor. The consumer of these
articles puts th chains on his subdued
brother;, and the non-consumer takes
ihem cfT Thanks then to him or to her
who continually says no," when invited
to participate in these things. -
If I use none of the produce of negro
laKor "I have remarked thai I nrftmntp the
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talk against him as fiercely as you please,
so long as you are a crood customer for
his produce. The state oppressor is
equally disposed to hear with indifference
the voice cf the reformer, provided it
comes home to him on a breath thorough
ly saturated with the fumes cf tobacco or
of alcohol.
The. result of mature, dispassionate
consideration in every mind will benot to
wait for the reformation cf old abuses, not
to delay for the concurrence of a whole
community In any proposed scheme for
human redemption, but at once cooscien
tiouslv to act up to the highest principles
easily and perfectly kept in his hands than
the older members of the human family,
whose every added year may probably
have added but so much more vice or
knowledge cf vicious fic's. All fact khowl-
ge, as cootrasteJ .vun instructive rvis-
dom, is knowledge of evil. Our investi
gating sciences are, in a moral point of
view, Jiule more than an attempt to regain
univeisal wisdom through a knowledge of
details. An effort which is about as suc
cessful as the attempt to obtain an integral
gla?s vp s by patching the fragmenls.
There is indeed one fact which may
h ip us to the desired point : to which fact
I have already alluded. I mean that grand
fact so frt quently lost sight cf by our nat
ural philosophers,or else altogether denied
by them ; of man's divine origin ; of bis
interior and indissoluble connection, with
deity. If it we re possible to bring parents
or proposed parents to only the bare per
ception of this fict, or to the supposition
that it is true, so that they would in some
degree test its truth by actual experiment
in generation and education, there would
indeed be srrand hope for the world. If
not in one age, yet in a comparatively short
time," we should have m'any gratifying re
suits, or possibly a totally renovated race.
But at present few persons seem to be
lieve in universal love, even towards
their own rfiVpring. These are perhaps
the most unfortunate as they are the most
unhappy victims of partial and individual
iove. As they are at this moment the
most intense sufferers bv mistaken affec
tion, pejfhaps it may happen that they are
destined to be the first relieved. They
are the least guilty of the race, and the
appeal should not be made in vain to
that Christ's ministers are to be armed
with? Is this "overcoming evil with
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Is this Christianity? The
teaching of the popular ects of the day
proclaim it so. The laws of the land in
the same breath forbid, and command
mankilling ; and the whole of this church-
and-state law is "a house divided ainst
itself," and it cannot stand. They have
been weighed in the balance and found
wanting wanting in true religion arrd
true republicanism. The words to them
should be awav with vour hollow nro-
j j ... t
f-ssions your long prayers your relig
ious plays and performances: They are
gross hypocrisy, and are leading men
down to ruin. Come out from amonar
them and be free, and uatrameiled by par
ty or sect. Let not the padlock remain
longer on your lips; but, speak and act
like men that are not slaves. I. rejoice
that every year is adding its numbers to
those who wish for reform ; and tbat a
press can now and then be found which is
not fettered. r" ,
Yours, for Human Rights and Liber
ty. E. W. Capro.v.
We mean to have a greater variety cf
reading matter next week.
II A It R I E D , .
In Royalton. on the 10th inst., by Rev. Mr.
Fuller, Mr. Charles Fay to Miss Elizabeth J.
Marshall of Royalton. Com.
In this town, on the 10th inst, by AVm. A.
Miller, L. V. Rich, of Troy N. Y., to Caiista L.
Farr, of the former place.
towards their children, or at all events to
let it be overspread by that divine love
which would equally reclaim the parents
and conserve the Iktte ones to life, to wis
dom, to love. ;
But this thought, so vitally urged on us
all should be made the subject of a Separ
ale note, if you are able to allow the space
to be occupied by your sinrere friend.
Concord, Mass., Jan. 9, '43. l. c.
Orj- The Editor is absent while this paper goe
to press. . :
. ,Jy A J j
At his residence in Royalton, the 15th ult , at
the very advanced ngje of 97 years and five days,
the truly -v enerable Benjamin Parkhurst.
At his death he was the oldest person in Iowd.
He pasfed through this place before there was any
family in it, and his family was the third that mov
ed iuto it; and has ever since fa short time ex
parents to cease their peculiar affection pepted) resided in it. He thus witnessed its
If rocIll From if a (.irhcs. pnttimr.iInr.t
grpwih from its earliest commencement, to which
he very largely contributed; and he has largely
shared and firmly met and endured all the bard
ships, toils and privations, incident to the first
settlement of a country. For this, hi good con
strtulion, uniform health, and great personal ac
tivity exactly fitted him. Com. .
In this town, on the 4th inst., Harriet, wife of
Win. L. Bacon, and daughter of Elain and Rebec
ca French, in the 20th year of her age. Com.
njlHlS is to certify that I have given my
-"- son Ashel M. Claris the remain ler of
his time ur.til he is tvveniy one years of age,
and I shall claim Done of his earnings nor
pay any debts of his contracting after this
date. S. A. CLARK.
Brandon, Jan. 2, 1843.
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