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opinionwith m* on that subject. One ! pies should be suited to promote the pietyIV0 other things .vere up, in general U1s, od which I expressed myself not ly settled- I should thick the priuci-j 0BO touched church-building,so called, i tliis point 1 have since expressed my ioion more fully in the Telegraph, than ri* then prepared to do in any way. I 1t reserved nothing. In the course of econversation I told brother Freeman, I have from time to time manifested ll? in the Telegraph, that sectarian pities set lightly upon me—that with tllwss more to serve Christ than to fttany sect or party—that there was Hsufficient elbow-room for me in secia-trices—lhat I felt bound to keep my-dlfreeand untrammelled, ready always ^ey Christ and speak the whole truth til fidelity, although it should clash rlf sectarian interests. After he had got ,rough his questioning, and I had an-and edification of our churches.! Joseph Freeman was appointed chairman of that Committee, which appointment, together wkh the facts I have been relating as to what transpired previously, sufficiently indicates the part he acted in getting up that meeting and securing its results.— Now if such a meeting was to be held, why, afier all his professions of ingenuousness and friendship towards me in the matter, and the agreement for correspondence between us as individuals, did he not have at least the magnanimity and fair dealing to notify me aad allow me to be presei.t if I chose? The course he has pursued ever since will answer this question. yhe phrase, “ spirit lt;$• principles,” standing as it does, and emphasized as it is, in the first paragraph of the Circular put fortn by the Committee, the words, without doubt, being from his pen os fered hitn with all possible frankness J chairman and leader in the thing, suffi-pd ingenuousness, I turned and asked j ciently show why it was not desirable to p,n,humorously—brotner Freeman,what, have me present. They wanted to vilify ire 500 going to do about it? What is ' the Telegraph and lay a plan for dealing ;0or object ia questioning mo? If you 1 surreptitiously with its publisher. Several ,!Sb to discuss any of the points that have j weeks afterwards I received a letter from (offbeenup, the Telegraph is open for Jjs^ph Freeman, not as an individual 0. Or if yoU wish to make use of any- correspondent, as agreed on between himling that has now passed, in this room, I and me, but as Chairman of the Commit-a less public manner than in the public j tee, asking (or my best terms of sale.— nets,* to the prejudice of the Telegraph, i Things having taken this shape, I mental to know it, so as to know whit to tioned the affair to my Brother, who, having learned that John Conant of this village was one of the Committee with JuS?ph Freeman, wished 1 would suspend an answer until he could have a consultation with the Committee, and see if he could r.ot yet secure the paper, thro’ the Committee, to himself and brother Brown. I wailed some time for that, and then answered brother Freeman’s communication, giving to him the terms on which I would sell, reserving to myself as many subscribers as should choose not to be trans. ferred. Without another word from bro. Freeman, either for himself or the Committee, the next thing 1 heard was, that they were getting out a piper at Middle-bury, to be called the Vermont Baptistrequire it, on the principle that the end j sanctifies the meant, their tone is changed —their altitude is directlv leversed towards me. The object they have to gain now requires that £ should be charged with concealment. They are hard to be suited. Strike high or low 1 can not suit them. The truth hurts them, whether laid on upon their shoulders, backs or heels. I can rxJt help it. It is their own fault, not mine. Cohcealment!—Disguise thrown off, forsooth ! I call on the .vorld of mankind to divulge the least and the greatest of all the things they ever knew of being in iny bead or heait. Spare me not a whit, in regard to any sentiment I cherish. In doing this,make use of my most intimate friends and my rrton inveterate enemies. But this is not what my opponents want. Investigation is what they shun, by all possible means. Insinuation, cant and unsustained charges answer ihei purposes, as they reckon, far better. But they will find that they have tailed in their reckoning, amazingly.[To be concluded next week.]looking for and be prepared for it, kin equal good humor, after express* I much satisfaction at my frankness and bin dealing, ussured me that he had no irmlul intention. He said he had had a hire to know what ground | stood on ; he was not disappointed. My con-ration with him if feed well with what had learned from the Telegraph. He umarked in his expression of gralifica* iat my openness and unreserve in all afs. One particular expression he lie use cf was,—I like you, because dways know where to find you.” things nre mentioned here, not to ge self-complacency, buUo be made ass for what they are worth in meet-;ihe vile and unfounded charge of con-ikent brought against me in the letter which I am replying. The cooversa-ent on between brother Freeman myself until it turnM upon the Tele»ph. Something was said about the op-S ABB AT A RIANS.I used this word somewhat incorrectly, two weeks ago, applying it, generally, to the observers of every seventh day as holy time. Webster, I perceive, confines its application to those who observe the sev enth dav.that bad at different limes been fested towards it in that part of the where he resided. I think he spoke movement at a certain liine, to see if wc compromise could not be niadu with but they fiually gave up the project* oat the conviction that it would be a less undertaking. I told him that I «t\vsre that there was dissatisfaction riih the Telegraph in the minds of some -that the occasion for such dissatisfac-3.1 had been manifested would probu not lessen, but rather increase that I uist follow my own convictions of truth duty, which would probably not less-but widen the breach between me and ho made inetr sectarianism para wont. I finally told him that I had ol-wd to sell the Telegraph to brother W. Brown and my brother D. S. Murray-wanted to know if I would sell to him r to him and others, ns it might be. told him I would, with the understand* that I should publish another paper, said it should be done if we could H. Iu the morning, it wa3 agreed t the conversation of the evening should kept, until the matter was further ma-*d, by writing, between him and me; was understood that he was to be-e corSS^ondence soon. After this tment, he and I being by ourselves, quested the privilege of mentioning object to brother J. W. Sawyer and or two otheTt—speaking of brother at the same time, as one of my I consented ahat it should beJournal. And io, and he hold, in a short time the paper appeared, sure enough and full enough, too, ol assumption, insinuation, and falsehood. These hove already been pretty fully exposed. It is proper to state here that, subsequent to all this, in the meeting of the Convention to promote the interests of that piper, held in the Baptist Vestry in this village, Joseph Free:nan, during a little discussion that came up from an attack made on the Editor of the Telegraph,” fully, frankly, and voluntarily acquitted me, before the Convention, of anyihing unfair or dishonorable, in what had taken place between him and me on the subject, previously to the appearance of their paper which con lained their Circular. I should be happy in reciprocating the compliment if I could as an honest man, but cannot.This detail of f cts has been exhibited, not because it was supposed that it could be interesting to the reader, otherwise than as completing the developments of the case. I should r.ot have given it uiv der ordinary circumstances.' But my assailants, in their desperation and recklessness, have driven me to straits, by their false and foul charges and more false and foul insinuations. I am charged with having acted in disguise ; and it is insinuated th* I hold some awful sentiments which I conceal, but which they do not pretend to designate, point out, or in anyPersecution Begun Iu Good Earnest.Stephen S. Foster, of New Hampshire, has been thrown into Amherst jail lor obeying God rather than men. The account he gives of the mailer shall be copied into the Telegraph soon. The moral and religious world has' approached an eventful crisis. The powers of darkness are shaken, and about to be overthrown. The faithfulness of those who profess attachment to Christ is going to be severely tried. LA him that thinketh he stand-eth, take heed lest he fall.” “ Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. But beware of inen : for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues. And ye shall be bro’t before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gen-But wheq they deliver you up,take no thought how or what ye shall speak, for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. For it is not ye that speak, but ihe Spirit of your Father which spealceth in you. And the broth er shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child, and the children shall rise up»against their parents, and cause them to be put to death. And ye shalfbe hated of all men for my name’s sake : but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.”Brother Milo Frary has removed from Guilford, Vf., to Richmond, N. H., and wishes his correspondents to direct to the latter place.Freedom's Clarion.—This paper is to be forthcoming, soon—as near the first of June as circumstances will permit. The Committee have secured the labors of C. C. Burleigh, as Editor, for the year to come. He will also lecture, more or less, through the State, during the year. The press is to continue located at Montpelier. In the hands of Charles C. Burleigh, the Clarion will give a sound that will send terror throughout all the ranks of oppression.way expose.' next that I heard of this matter 4 wbat rumor brought to my ears after Inched home at Brandon, as mentioned former remarks on this subject. |rlt;1® «n intimation contained in an ex^1 which brother Myers took from n ®unicatioo received by him from one• telf-coostituted censors, as published ks Telegraph two weeks ago, it wouldthat the ‘‘brother J. W. Sawyer ^•oeoriwo Others,” some how or other i into “ 25 or 30.” Be that as it• it since appears that several were together at brother Hotchkiss' sod a Committee was appointed take arrangements for supplying, to “embers of our denomination in this \ a religious newspaper devoted to r ii.itrcsu, whose spirit and princi-1 am determined t ow that^Uwoiura• that opposition to l raised: shall be seen and known where the disguise, concealment, and corrupt tenti-ments are. They commenced with plotting together, in ministerial conferences and other clerical conclaves. This they carried on for years, before they dared to bring the matter to light. And the thing they conceived in the darkness of the pit, they have brought out clothed with iniquity and fraud. These are they who now accuse tne of keeping back my sentiments. But, what is most astounding io tbeir inconsistency, they are the same ones who hare all along before, faulted me for publishing my views—for not concealing them and not Tteeping on disguise — for dealing out plainly, frankly, unreservedly and honestly, my sincere convictions—for allowing my mind to progress, and for making known its progression. It 1 had been hypocrite enough to have kept along and concealed my real principles, and consented to be the pliant tool of a party, supporting them in what was wrong as well as what was right, instead of speak-ing out and publUhing^earlewly my own fast and settled convictions, as an individual, on my own responsibility, all wou.d bare been satisfactory- But now, for the sake of the effect, when their interestsPopular.— Some may have apprehended, from the connection in which I have found occasion to use this adjective so frequently of late, that I would always use the word and have it used, in a bad sense. Not so A thing is not necessarily bad, or necessa rily liable to -odium, because it is popular On the other hand, ia a communiiy tba moves and is moved by numbers and ma jorities, while the world remains as corrup as it is at present, the bare fact that any thing is popular is no certaiu proof of it soundness or correctness. Majorities an numbers are not what they have been ac counted to be. The great question shoul be—“ what is truth ?” Truth, popular c unpopular, is the only thing that will bent fit minds and souls.Apology.—’The Telegraph shall noth burdened every week with as much edi orial as the present number contains. S« lections and correspondence shall hav more room.GgNERAL INTELLIGENCE^Accounts from Washington state that rencontre took place between Wise an Stanley, as they were returning on hors hack from the race course, on Satunh afternoon. Stanley rode Was Wrise thought designedly. 1 hereu on, Wise strnck Stanley on the head wt his slick. Some offensive language pa* ed beet wen them; somebody interfered, ai they were sepatated. What coorageo fellows. A duel is expected to follow.
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Brandon Vermont Telegraph
Brandon, Vermont, US
Wed, May 25, 1842
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