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lllillVVU AO, iOlAiPopular Religious Leaders and Reform* The ** Vermont Baptist Journal*”Jn accordance with a call issued in (he specimen number of this “new paper,” a Convention was held in this village, on Wednesday the 16th inst. The public meeting was held iu the Baptist Vestry. The call was addressed to “the Baptist Churches of Vermont,” from a Committee who used language calculated and designed to give the impression that they had been appointed by the Convention of delegates from “the Baptist Churches of Vermont.” By this deceptive flourish they got together, besides the attendants from Brandon, the whole and entire number of seventeen persons—a majority of them of the 11 popular clergy ” of course—from three Associations out of tb* nine. Those who attended from Brandon were of various classes and descriptions. The aristocrats and monopolists of the Baptist church attended for the purpose of helping on the enterprize. The Telegraph has disturbed them sadly in their corruption and despotism for the last half dozen years; and they are ready for anything that will do it an injury. They know and feel their inability to make any headway against it with truth and fair dealing— and this remark will apply to all who are engaged in the crusade—so they will cut off its pecuniary resources if possible. To be the more effectual in this way, they were bent on transferring the publication of the paper from Middlebury to Brandon. In this they have the sympathy and co-operation of their brethren aristocrats and monopolists of other denominations, some of whom were present and looking on with anxious solicitude. Several, of other classes, were in, merely as spectators. Communications were read from a number of individuals. One
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Brandon Vermont Telegraph
Brandon, Vermont, US
Wed, Mar 23, 1842
Page 3
Full Page
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