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Liberty and Equality, Wti's c omm o n hi r t hr i g hi, God's richest g i f t f eli gion and Li ate theirdefence.
BY POLAND & BRIGGS.
MONTPELIEll, VT, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1845.
VOL. II, NO.-46.
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Temperance.
Temperance and the National Welfare,
We find in the Albany "Citizen" the follow
ing statistics, setting forth in a startling manner
the tendencies to poverty through the use of in
toxicating drinks by the people of this country,
or rather the advantages and general prosperity
which would arise in a National point of view
(as well as individual) from the prevalence of
total abstinence principles. The article is drawn
up with much care, by one thoroughly acquain
ted with the whole subject of which it treats;
and we think we do not err in attributing it to
the pen of J latard C. Djlivan, Esq. who, more
than any other man may he justly styled the
"American Apostle of Temperance." What
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shadowed forth, can hesitate toattich itself t
the high and holy cause of Temperance?
Cost of tippling in the UivUd States. It has
been ascertained from the data believed to be
correct that the consumption f intoxicating liq
uors of all kinds in the United States y. t amount
to ovet jive gallons p-r tin.xiui to ewk man, wo
man and child. At this rate, and taking our
population at twenty millions, the consumption
would be one hundred millions of gallons yearly!
(England consumes over 530,000,000 of gal
lons of strong beer alone ye.uly.) This quan
tity, at the retail price of three cents for each
glass, would cost the consumers two hundred
millions of dollars, but as only a part is drank at
the glass price, the cost to the consumers may
be estimated at one cent and a half for each
glass, which would reduce the first cost of tip
pling to the people of the United States to one
hundred millions of dollars yearly.
Let us see what the expenditure of this sum
would do, provided tippling should cease :
It would furnish every family on the globe with
the Bible. It would build and endow 1000
Seminaries of learning at $100,000 each, or 10,
000 at $10,000 each.
It would build 500.000 miles of rnainetic
telegraph, at $200 a mile, forming a perfect net
work for instantaneous communication with all
parts of the Union.
It would in a singe year build a city of 50,
000 tenements, at a cost of 12,000 each, and
accommodate 300,000 inhabitants six to each
house.
It would be five dollars to each individual
and twenty-five dollars to each family in the Un
ion. Or it would purchase
8,000,000 sheep at $1,25 each $10,000,000
400,000 fat cattle at $25 each 10,000,000
200,000 cows at $20 4,000,000
40,000 horses at $100 4,000,000
500,000 complete suits clothing men at $20
10,000,000
1,000,000 " boys at $10 10,000,000
juu,uuu women
1,000,000 " girls
1,000,000 bbls Hour at $5
1,000,000 bbls beef at $10
1,000,000 bbls pork at S?15
8,000,000 lbs tea at 75 cts,
10
5,000,000
3,000,000
5,000,000
10,000,000
15,000,000
0,000,000
16,000,000 lbs coffee at 12 1-2 cts. 2,000,000
20,000,000 lbs sugar nt 10 cts. 2,000 000
16,000,000 lbs rice at 5 cts. ,(!(! CC0
8,000,000 galls molasses at 40 cts. :?,',W,CC0
$100,000,000
Ji. F. Butler, several years since estimated
the loss to the nation from the use of ardent spir
its alone at one hundred and forty millions of
dollars yearly.
The saving of this one hundred millions of
dollars yearly, now worse than wasted, in a drink
which never benefits, if expended for the general
good would make the nation one vast hive of in
dustry not a man, woman or child capable of
labor need be idle or want. Let universal to
tal abstinence prevail with all classes and con
ditions, and there would be an increased vigor
given to the human frame and intellect which
would give great increased value to industry.
Besotted England cannot enter into competition
with our cold water artizans. Unless she adepts j
the principles which we hope will be adopted in
every work-shop in the Union we can drive her
in our manufactured articles from every market
on the globe where we are admitted on equal
terms. Let total ab.-tinence prevail universally,
and life would be greatly prolonged, greater econ
omy would be produced, better calculations made,
quarrels and litigation greatly lessened, the love
pf justice and truth increased, and the demands
on the public purse to support poverty mid pun
ish crimes would almost entirely cease. With
all these advantages, with the vast pecuniary
gain, it appears to us surprising that an iiitelli-
gent individual cau be found yet willing to con -
tinue the evils resulting from spirit drinking. If
the loss for one year is as eutcd, let us look a -
head to ten, fifty or one hundred years, with a
rapid accumulation ofpriucipd and compound
ing (if interest.
The benefits to be derived from abstinence to
jndividunls and the nation are attainable; let
each individual in the nation do his part, and
jhe work is done, and this mighty drain upon
he wealth and cri 'rgies of the country will at
once be stopped. Lei all men of this great
country examine the subject in all its beatings.
Let the twenty thousand clergymen of the land
proclaim the truth to their millions of hearers,
that intoxicating liquors are always injurious as
a beverage., Let the Chief Magistrate of the
Nation, his Councillors, all Governors, Judges
and Legislators, also examine the question and
follow it out in all its relations and advantages,
and they will find it to transcend in importance
many if not all the great political questions which
require their attention. Boston Sun.
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ff7Intemperance seems to have been the pe
culiar curse of literary men. ' Pope was a very
hard drinker. Goldsmith was frequently intem
perate.. Sir Richard Steele got fuddled when
ever he Went to the club. Pamell was conspio
uous for. his debauchery, Dryden killed him
self with ardent spirits. The gentle Cowley
got drunk, took the fever and died. The im
mortal Shakspeare fell a victim to intemperance.
His last spree was with Dryden ajid rare Ben
Johnson. Sheridan, too, was addicted to intem
perance. Byron lived on gin, and Campbell, it
is said, was too intemperate to be a decent com
panion for several years before his death.
iteligious
A Time to Die,
AN EXTRACT. I1Y TUEOFIIILUS FISK.
Look at that smooth and bloodless brow
one of earth's loveliest daughters, born back
of
to
in
her natal bowers from a long pilgrimage,
search of the lost treasure health. Like a p de
j perishing blossom, she is laid in all her fading
beiutv, down in the home of lier guileless iuf ni
cy, amidst the h ppy sorties to which her mem
ory fiudly clung. The hopes th it h id nestled
m the lie irt of in my a ftithl'u! friend, had one
by one departed as they in irked the hectic spot
up m the wan and p dlid chee,, the tlim aitenu
ated fingers of the tiny h ind, the f iltering step,
thif sunken eve these told in s ileum lingu ige
that the time wis rapidly approaching when they
must prepare the cullin and the shroud.
A few short months only had passed since she
stood before the altar, a laughing, blushing bride,
her slight mid fragile form surrounded by troops
of admiring fiends. Her name is changed, she
returns to her father's house but to leave it for a
land of strangers. Ah! little did they think, on
that day when tears and smiles were mingled
when they looked upon that bright face with its
beaming joy and youthful pride, that its glow was
lightened with the fevered breath of the treach
erous disease consumption. Little d d the fond
father think when he left a tear of mingled joy
and sorrow upon her cheek at parting, that she
was so soon to be borne back to the home of her
youth in comfortless sorrow.
Death regards not a father's love, nor a hus
band's grief she is laid in her shrouded beauty
beneath the spreading cypress of her native bills,
in culm, unbroken, painless sleep. She has seen
the moonlight resting upon her native valleys for
the last time the sun to her gilds the hill tops
no more. The spirit emancipated from the hea
vy shacklesof mortality, has joined the great con
gregation of the ransomed ones in the paradise
of love. Why weep ye then as those who have
hope that there her darkness is changed to day
that a sun has risen no more to set that the
fetters of earth have been exchanged for robes
of light and life that the dirk portal ofdeath has
been unclosed which opens upon an endless day
that the music of another voice is added to that
unceasing song in a world where pang and part
ing are known no more !
Tears may fall when the beautiful and the
good are called away; but there is unfading
consolation in the darkest hour. The oracles
of truth point the mourning soul to the land of
perfect bliss, where the spirit never dies, and
pain never comes.
An Oatii reflected upon. Mr Romaine bear
ing a man call u,;on God to curse him, offered him half
a crown if he would repeat the oath. The man star
ted "What! sir, do you think I would curso n y
soul for half a crown?" Mr llomama nnsvvcred,"us you
did it just now for nothing, I could but suppose that,
you would for a reward." The poor fellow was struck
with the repoof, and said-"May God blows you, sir,
whoever you lire. I believe you have saved my soul.
I hop-j I shall never swear again."
Teacc E'cparditeiit.
Social tendencies of the times.
It is cheering to the heart of the philanthro
pist to contemplate the social tendencies of the
present age. That " God hath made of one
blood all the nations of men to dwell on the
earth," in peace and fraternal concord, seems to
be the revelation of science as well as inspiration.
It is a truth self-evident, and self-working out of
every thing in nature and art. It is the supple
ment of that other truth, to be written yet on all
the handiwork of man. ," Holiness to the Lord."
The devil's private signet is to belaken off from
human ingenuity, and mechanism, and things
made of iron and steel, shall be made to save life,
not to destroy it, as when all the mechanical
genius of the world was expiessed in the ma
chinery of murder. The plow-share is yet to
come out with illustrious divinity, over all mar
tial instruments; and iron giants, that can
"pluck up the seated hills," shall be peace ma
kers, and wear on their frontispieces, "God hath
made of one blood all nations of men," ns they
walk over the seas and ihe dry land. With their
long arms, tbev shall seat distant nations s dc bv
1 side and face to face, and, with the great speech
f their steam lungs, tell them that they ate
, brethren. And ponderous bars of railroad iron
shall corroborate their brotherhood, bridging
deep, hi ick abysses of "n atiinl enuiit)" and in
tern itional hatred, strapping hostile countries
together, and t iking Out of boundaries and air
line Iimit9 their malignant nationality. To the
seer who saw in bis prophetic vision, a better
d ly for humidity, it wis rev c Jed, as t he dawn
ing light of that day, that "miny should run to
and fro and knowledge be increased" on the
earth. This day has the gospel commenced to
be fulfilled in our sight. Such a running to and
fro as the prophet could scarcely have compre
hended, has begun to fraternize the nations of
Christendom. And kings and queens are com
ing to be the nursing fathers and mothers of this
social movement. It is well that they, too, have
begun to run to and fro, and to have their
knowledge increased of great facts, pertaining
to the welfare of mankind, and the: everlasting
peace and prosperity of their subjects. : This in
terchange of social visits among the leading
sovereigns of Europe, is the most impressive de.
velopeinent of the times. It is more than a
Congress of nations for the prevalence of univer
sal peace, for it teuds, not only to adjust, but to
prevent questions of international controversy.' It
throws its sweetening leaf of peace into the
heart-fountains of national character and' exis
tence, purifying their issues in the source, and
acting as a prevention rather than a remedy
Adv of Peart.
Give me, says Stebins, the money that has been spent
in war, and I'll purchase every foot of land on tlie Globe.
I will clothe every man, woman and child in nn attire
that kings & que ns would be p oud o". I will build a
school house on every hill side, and in every valley over
the habitable earth. I will supply that school house
with a competent teacher I will build an academy in
every town, and fill it with able professors I will crown
every hill with a church consecrated to the promulga
tion of the gospel of peace I will support in its pulpit
an able teacher of righteousness, so that on every Sab
bath morning the chime on one hill side shall answer to
another around the earth's broad circumference and
the voice of prayer, nnl the song of praise should as
cend like an universal holocaust to 1 leaven.
Young Mens'' Etcparlisai'iil.
Councils for the Young.
Never be cast down by trifles. If a - spider
hreikshis threid twenty times, twenty times
will be mend it again. Make up jour mind to
do a thing, and you will doit. Fear not if
trouble comes upon you ; keep up your spirits,
though the day be n d irk one.
Troubles never step for ever,
The darkest day will piss away.
If the sun is going down, look up at the stars
if the eaith is dark keep your eyes on heaven !
With God's presence and God's promises, a man
or a child may be cheerful.
Never despair when fog's in the air I
A sunshiny morning will come without warning.
Mind what you run after ! Never be con
tent with a bubble that will burst, or a firework
that will end in smoke and darkness. Get that
which you can keep, and which is worth keep
ing. Something sterling that will stay
When gold and silver fly away.
Fight hard against a hasty temper. Anger
will come, but resist it stoutly. A spark may
set a house on fire. A fit of passion may give
you cause to mourn all the days of your life.
Never revenge an injury.
lie that revenges knows no rest ;
The meek possess a peaceful breast.
If you have an enemy, act kindly to him and
make him your friend. You may not win him !
ovcr at once, but trv again. Let one kindness
be followed by another, till you have compassed
your end. By little and little, great things are
completed.
Water falling day by day,
Wears the hardest rock away.
And so repeated kindness will soften a heart
of stone.
Whatever you do, do it willingly. A boy
that is whipped to school never learns his lesson
well. A man that is compelled to work cares
not how badly it is performed. He that pulls off;
his coat cheerfully, strips up his sleeves in ear
nest, and sings while he works, is the man for
me.
A cheerful spirit gets on quick ;
A grumbler in the mud will stick.
Evil thoughts are worse enemies than lions
and tigers, for we can keep out of the way of
wild beasts, but bad thoughts win their way
everywhere. The cup that is full will hold no
more; keep your heads and hearts full of good
thoughts that bad thoughts may find no rocin to
enter.
lie on your guard, and strive, and pray,
To drive ail c il thoughts away.
The Mechanic. A young man commenced
visiting a young woman, and appeared to be well
received. One evening ho oalled at the house
when it was quite late, which led the girl to in
quire where he had been. " I had to work late
to-night;" he replied. " Do vol work for a liv
ing,' inquired the astonished girl. "Certainly,"
replied the young man, "I am a mechanic."
" My brother does'nl work," she remarked, "and
I dislike the namo of mechanic," and she turned
her pretty nose.
That was the last time the mechanic visited
the young woman. He is now a wealthy man,
and has one of the best of women for a wife.
The young woman who disliked the name of a
mechanic is now the wife of a miserable tool, a
regular vagrant about grog-shops; and she, poor
I and miserable girl, is obliged to take in washing
in order to support herself and children
Ye who dislike the name of mechanic whose
brothers do nothing but loaf and dress beware
how you treat young men who work for a living.
Far better discard the well-fod pauper, with all
his rings, jewelry, brazen faccduess and pompos
ity, and take to your all'ecticns the callous-handed,
intelligent and indnstricus mechanic. Thnir.
sands have bitterly regretted their folly, who
have turned their backs on honest industry. A
few .years of bitter experience tamrht them a se-
vere lesson. In this country, no man or woman
! who is in health, should be respected, in our
w y rl thinking, who will n;;t work bodily or
mentally, and who cm l their lips with scorn
when introduced to iiur working men.
Ifl i n i t e i' ' s Wives.
Minislei's Wives.
- The following article we find in the Western
i-.u . mj ,i i i- ,.
Christian. We do not know who is better pre-
p treu vo jutige in me requisite quuimcuuoii.-!
"minister's wives" than those who have experi
ence in ti c matter, and we think it will be read
by all :
Mr. EDiTon: You know that the minister's
wife is willing to do her doty" when she knows
what it is. To 'obtain this knowledge is often
very perplexing. I have "searched the Scrip
tures" for it, but in vain. The strange silence
of the sacred writers increased my perplexity,
until my husband very kindly explained it in the
following manner. "The scriptures," said he,
" do not descend to particulars. They lay down
general rule?, leaving the responsibility of ampli
fying, specifying, and applying them, with the
world. Therefore public sentiment is to be our
guide where the scriptures fail, arid one princi
pal thing for which ministers 'itre set apart is to
expound and enforce its precepts. Still, to clothe
Our teaching with authority, we observe the good
custom of taking a text from the Bible in all
cases." In a moment my difficulties vanish. I
open my Bible and read, "A bishop must be the
husband of one wife." 1 Tim. 3:2.
In this passage a general rule is laid down a
bishop must have a wife. But in determining
her particular duties, the scriptures fail. Hence
we turn to the other lulc of faith and practice
public sentiment: from which we learn that a
minister's wife should be,
1. Like Mary, always sitting at the feet of
Jjsus, in pjssessiun of the one thing needful, re
gardless of every worldly interest.
2. Like Martin, we should do all the serving,
yet without being encumbered by it.
3. She should be a little more prompt than
Sarah of old, have relrcshmeuts always ready for
those traveling angels whose visits at the minis
ter's house are not " few and f ir between."
4. Like Dorcas, she should "keep constantly
on baud a supply of ready made clothing," to
bestow upon poor saints and sinners in the com
munity where she resides, with a spare box for
the beneficiaries in college, and the servant who
h is escaped from the blessings of the "patriar
chal institution."
5. Like the prophetess Anna, she should "not
depart from the temple day or night," fur the
multiplied meetings of the church and benevolent
societies require an almost constant attendance
in the sanctuary, and " it is the duty, of the min
ister's wife to attend to them all."
fi. Like the widow of Sarcpta, she must have
the art of using meal out of one barrel, and oil
out of one cruise, the year round without dimin
ishing the quantity.
Lastly, she must be apt to please every body ;
"becoming all things to all men," women and
children. Grave or gav, refined or rude, intelli
gent or ignorant, affable or reserved, as suits the
company in which she may chance to fall.
REMjIRKS.
I. We perceive that it is the duty of churches
to set apart young women, and educate them for
ministers' wives.
2. When a cbutch is about to call a pastor,
they should appoint a special committee to visit
lis wife and ascertain whether she he able and
ujljng to perforin the labor of five ordinary wo-
men, without any compensation, except the
crumbs which fall from her master's (husband's)
table.
3. A minister's wife should be always at
home and always abroad; always serving God and
always serving tables.
Lastly, she must be a little more prudent than
our Savior, for he had favorites among his own
disciples, which in her is unpardonable. To pre
vent this, let a committee of the most jealous, Ut-
ing, fault-finding women be appointed to die-
10 'ler "hen. a,d how often she shall visit
each family.
O, who would be
A Minister's Wife.
Agricultural.
New Mowing Machine. Captain Wilson,
of Buffalo, has just succeeded in bringing toper
lection an article for the above purpose, which
deserves the attention of all who are in any way
interested in agricultural pursuits. The Buffa
lo Advertizer thus describes the invention:
" The machine -consists of a carriage on four
wheels, drawn hy one or two horses, xen, or
other beasts of burden, in like manner us a com
mon wagon, In the centre, at the bottom, is a
horizontal wheel upon an upright shaft, which
shaft and wheel receive a rotary motion, com
municated by gear from the main axel, which
revolves, with its wheels, ns the machine goes
forward. The diameter of this horizontal wheel,
with the addition of the knives projecting from
its edge, measures the width of the swath, which
is cut with the knives ns the wheel goes forward,
revolving radidly, and lying as close to the
ground as the nature of the case may require.
The apparatus which contains the cutting wheel
is so constructed as to accommodate its height
to any inequalities of the ground, and to give it
any inclination requited. The knives aro sharp
ened hy their own operation, without stopping
the machine. There is also attached to the cut
ting wheel or tub, wings, which gather the grass
as it is cut, and lay it in a swarlh regularly and
in a most perfect manner for curing it is most
simple in its construction, and by no means lia
ble to be put out of order."
Ointment for Inflamed Eyf.-mds. The following
receipt was obtained from the late Dr. II., one of the
n:oM. eminent physicians of Baltimore, end in our fam
ily with unfailing success:
T ike dr. whit: precipitate, end 1 oz. lard let
thee be well nibbed and mixed till there are no un
broken particles, but a smooth mass anoint the eye
lids two or three time in twenty-four hours, always
nidit and morning. 'The ointment is also useful for
co union sore3 which children have on the nose.
F.vory housewife should keep this ointment by her.
American Farmer.
Cure for a FocNnF.nEn Horse. A correspondent
of the Louisville Journal says, thnt if a horse is foun
dered over night, he may be cured in three hours if it
is attended to in the morning. Take a pint of hog's lard
and he it it boiling hot, and after cleaning his hoof
well, taking off his shoe, put the foot in the lard, and
Willi a spoon apply it to all parts of the hoof, as near
the hair as possible. This he savs, he has tried for
more than fifty years, and never knew it to fail. The
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jimi,
Ashes as Manure. On the farm of Daniel
Webster, according to J. Breck, of the New
England Farmer, on part of? a ten acre lot
of very light land, three thousand bushels of
English turnips were raised last season, with no
other manure than leached ashes, at an expense
of only seventy-three dollars, .
Agricultural Stutistics.-The Hon. T. D.
Eliot, in his address before the American Insti
tute at New York, stated that there had been
raised during the past year 729,000,000 bush
els of grain, 79,000,000 bushels ol which had
heen raised in Massachusetts; 17,715,090 tons
of hay; 756,000,000 lbs. tobacco ; 782,000.
000 lbs. of cotton; 111,759,000 lbs. of rice;
201,000,000 lbs. ol sugar: and 390,790 lbs.
of silk.
THE FIRE-SIDI2.
From the Ronton Cultivator.
Domestic Help.
Mr. Editor The following question has be
come a great question for discussion at the pres
ent day, viz: What is the cause of so much
difficulty in obtaining females for nurses, and to
do house work at the present day 1
Now I do not think this a "vexed question,"
nithtr do I deem it necessary for a person to
be skilled in logic, or philosophy, in order to be
able to answer this question. It r nly needs a
small share of common sense. 1 think the sim
ple relation of an anecdt.te will throw light c
nough upon this subject o clear away all the
mist that hangs over it.
A short time ago I visited your city, and du
ring my stay, I visited an aged man, who for
many years did a large commercial business in
the city ; but now has retired to Irs country seat
I in an adiointng town to spend the leinaiiider ol
his days upon the fruits of his past labor. Du
ring my visit he invited me to ride with him.
We called upon a friend of his, and after the
usual salutations, the lady of the house began to
tell her troubles. She was destitue of help. Her
girl had just left her. The girls were so un
steady now-a-days that she could get none that
would stay more than a fortnight. The old
gentleman listened with all the gravity of a
judge, until she got through, and then he said ;
"1 am glad of it. I hope you will never get one
until you learn how to treat your help." (The
old gentleman never carries butter in his mouth
to grease his words with.)
The lady exclaimed ; "why Mr. ,do
you mean to say that I don't treat my help well?"
" Yes!" replied the old man.
" Why not ?" said the lady.
Do you let your girls sit at the table with you?"
asked the old man.
' No indeed ! do you suppose 1 would have
kitchen girls at my table.''.'
" Do you ever have them sit down with you in
the parlor ?"
"No!"
" Do you treat them as equals, or inferiors?"
" As inferiors, of course !"
"Then, replied the old man, out of thine own
mouth will I condemn thee. Now, said he, if
you will listen, I will tell you my experience. I
have no trouble about female help. I have one
woman that has been with ine thirty-three years,
and another eight yeais. I have employed fe
male help fifty years, and never had one leave me
except they got married. Now I will tell you
how to manage. I always treat them as equals.
I have them sit at my table, and in my parlor
when their duties do not call them to the kitch
en, or some other place. They sit with me in
church, they come around the same family al
altar, and I trust they will spend an eternity in
the same heaven with me. I treat them with as
much respect as I would you, and I require it of
my children. If they are below me in any par
ticular, I strive to elevate them tome; and if
they are above me I strive to elevate myself to
them. Now if you will pursue this course, I
will warrant you will have no trouble about
help."
Now Mr. Editor, I have no doubt that here is
the secret. Gills ns veil as boys, have read the
old self ev ident tiiilli that "all men are created
equal," mid I rejoice that there is spirit enough,
in some at least to maintain it.
I he spirit ol caste has made sad inroads in
our country for the last thirty or forty years; and
should you think this text worthy of a place in
your columns, I may at some future time write
an article upon its pernicious moral influence.
JlOMOliENEOI'S.
Home Education. Education does not com
mence with the alphabet. It begins with a
mother's look with a father's nod of approba-
lion, or sign of reproof with handfulls of flow-
ers in green daisy meadows with creeping ants,
and almost imperceptible emmets with hum -
ming bees and glass beehives with pleasant
walks and shady lanes and with thoughts di
rected in sweet and kindly tones and words to
nature, to beauty, to acts of benevi lenr.c, to
deeds of virtue, and to the source of all good,
to God himself
T ii li V li K U 3
For tlie. Green .Mountain Freeman.
Messrs. Editors. My first object in writing
my late address to the churches in New England,
was, to disabuse the holy apostles of the slander
heaped upon them by ignorant or envious men,
charging thcin with patronizing Roman slavery,
and caressing, as brothers beloved, men who
held their Christian bicYhers as slaves, under
Roman laws.
Dr. Fuller had said, in bis reply to Dr. Way
land, letter G, lemark 4, " The truths thus re
vealed, however, affected every modification of
wrong, and served the apostles as weapons,
mighty, through God, with which to attack sin
in every shape. W ith these weapons they did
extirpate, at once, trom among Christians tne
Roman system of shivery, (and let me say, too,
that with these arms they are now contending a
gainst the southern abuses of slavery,) but slave
ry itself softened, and so entirely changed by
Christianity, that the relation between the par-
tics was one of justice and love they not only
did not attack, but permitted, both by their pre
cepts and conduct."
Now, I understand the learned Dr. as clearly
asserting two things; 1. That the apostles did,
at once, extirpate from among Christians the
Roman system of slavery. 2. That they did
not extirDate something else, entirely different ;
from Roman slavery, which the Dr. calls slaee-
rtj itself, softened, and so entirely changed, as
to be a" relation of justice and love between the
parties. ' And how any man who ever took
pains to read the Dr. can invent any other inter
pretation, I do not know. The last part of the
extract I supposed was a mere abstraction; but
made no serious objection tri such kind of
! slavery, if it ever existed Mv business with
the first clause, which distinctly, and unequivo
cally, without ifs or amis, stated that the apos
tles at once extirpated from among Christians
the system of Unman slavery. T'.;s is the tes
timony of a strongman, who had well studied the
subject, and had been set forward to defend, not
Roman slavery, as a conciete, but tlavery as an
abstraction. The voluntary testimony of such a
man, under such circumstances, must be unim
peachable, and should have much weight, unless
e'early refuted: at all events, it will be a gocd1
offs t against Drs. wh rppcir on the other side
of the qusti-n. When Dr. is pitted against Dr.
we hue a right to judge fur ourselves. Ifl
have made free use of such a witness to excul
pate the holy apostles from such a slanderous
charge, who can blame me? Can any man but'
an infidel pronounce slavery an appaling sin,
and then tell us that the apostles baptized the
sinner and took him into the church of God.'
Truly, if this were the case, I see not how the
old charge, that they were the ministers of sin,
craild be denied.
It will not do to say, that the whole drift of
Fuller's argument goes to support slavery, and
therefore I must have misunderstood his plain,
positive declaration. It is possible that even
D.Ds. may stagger and reel from one side of tho
road to the other. But in thi3 case there is no
reeling. Dr. Fuller understood his position.
He knew that the Roman system of slavery was
as black as the pit, from which it came up, and
could not be excused. His argument 3id not
require him to justify such a system of wicked
ness. And like an honest man he frankly gave
it up, and asserted that the apostles extirpated it
at once from among Christians. The Dr. shows
no disposition to fix upon the apostles such du
plicity and baseness, as some ethers seem to do.
My second object was to show the duty of all
Christian churches in relation to any system of
slavery, essentially the same as the Roman sys
tem. It will be conceded, that all churches are
bound to follow the example of the apostles, and
treat every sin as they did. Granting, then, that
the apostles extirpated Roman slavery froio a
mong Christians, then all churches must extir
pate from among them every kind of slavery, es
sentially like the Roman system, or they cannot
be apostolic churches. And as Turkish and
southern slavery are as bad as the Roman sys
tem, all christians are bound to extirpate them.
To support these views, and induce ministers
and churches to do their duty, aiguments were
stated which will not, I think, soon be answered,
although they may easily he disregarded.
I may now be told that the American Board
have decided against me. I am sorry; and hope
they will yet repent of what they have done.
" But great men are not always wise." And
when they have a point to carry, they can twist
arid turn as little men cannot do.
It will be recollected that my Address was re
fused admission into the Vermont Chronicle, on
the ground that I had misapprehended the mean
ing of Dr. Fuller. I am now willing to submit
it to all who will read, whether 1 did mistake
the Dr. or whether the Chronicle misapprehend
ed me. KIA1I BAILEY.
A New Mode of Warfare.
While the attention of the more liberal por
tion of the Whig party appears to be concen
trating upon Judge McLean, ns a suitable can
didate for the Presidency in 1843, the other
portion, still infatuated with the idea of putting
Henry Clay again on the course, are resorting
to various expedients to defeat their opposing
brethren. As it is proper to keep our readers
advised of the tactics of the parties, we may
notice some of these.
Wchb's Courier and Enquirer, for example,
noticing the elevation of Mr. Woodbury to the
Supreme Bench, rejoices over it, as an effectual
exclusion of this personage from party politics,
and the list of presidential aspirants; and he
adds, that public sentiment is fast settling down
upon the conviction, that the Supreme Bench
1 should he kept free fr;nn politics, and its sitters
lower not their dignity by descending into the
area of party strife, or presidential competitor
The whole paragraph is so w riled ns to point
direetlv to Judge McLean. The Eastern poli
ticians have no idea of yield. ng anything to the
West.
About the same time, there rppears in the
Richmond (Va.) Wbi, an anonymous commu
nication from King George, Va., reporting Judge
.McLean as utterly obnoxious to the South on
account of having married a Lady who is Presi
dent of an Abolition Society.
' If the nomination of Judge McLean should'
be made by the Whigs not a single Southern
Stale would support him, because they would
believe he was nt heait, if not openly an Aboli
tionist, and because they should be unwilling to
see a lady, openly proclaiming such sentiments,,
presiding in the Presidential mansion."
The sneaking author of this should first make
sure that he tells the truth. The accomplished
lady alluded to, though entertaining the same
feeling in regard to slavery, which every woman
worthy of being an American mother, cannot
but entertain, is not the President of an Aboli
tion Society, She is at the head of au associa
tion of benevolent Ladies, who seeing how
completely our laws had excluded the colored'
people of this State from the benefits of common
school education, and penetrated with the con
viction that common humanity as well as the
real interest of the State demanded that they
should be taught, have been engaged for years
in wise and steady efforts to establish schools
among them, and through the employment of s
suitable agent, to awaken tliem to the importance
of self-culture. And has it come to this, that a
man must be denounced politically, because his
wife has a benevolent heart? Judge McLean is
not an Abolitionist, and we are not' set for his
defence or the promotion of his interests ; but '
we would take this occasion to point the people
of the free Sta es to that rude, relentless, Argus-
eyed despotism, aiavery, wmcn m us desperate-
efforts to guard its usurpation,, respects not the
holiness of the household, spares not the shrink
ing delicacy of woman, or the sacredness of the
'most ..Winder of nil relation, This is the fim