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Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
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The editorial announces Rev. Orson S. Murray's appointment as editor and publisher of the Vermont Telegraph, a Baptist paper in Brandon, VT, praises his pioneering abolitionist work despite opposition, and recommends it for denouncing slavery, lewdness, war, intemperance, and other vices. It quotes commendation from the New-England Spectator.
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Our abolition brother, Rev. Orson S. Murray—a name familiar and dear to our readers—has become editor and publisher of the Vermont Telegraph, a Baptist paper published in Brandon, Vt. He has been the pioneer of the abolition cause in that State, and has long borne the heat and burden of the day in its prosecution; but his success has been great, in despite of the most formidable opposition. Apostolical evidences of his worth have clustered around him wherever he has travelled, pleading for impartial love and righteous liberty; for he has been assailed as a seditious and pestilent fellow, his name cast out as evil, and missiles of all sorts hurled at his head. Now that he is an editor, he will speak through the press to a larger audience than he has been wont to address. Lewdness, War, Slavery, Intemperance, and other prevalent vices, will be resolutely met and consistently denounced in the columns of the Telegraph. We would commend the paper to the patronage not only of our Baptist brethren, but of all who are lifted above the meanness of a party and sectarian spirit. It is published weekly at $2,00 a year, payable within four months, or $2,50 at the end of the year. We find the following commendatory paragraph in the last New-England Spectator:
VERMONT TELEGRAPH.—The first number of this paper, in the hands of Rev. O. S. Murray, we have received. It is but little to say we are much pleased with it. Mr. M. exhibits an uncommon degree of editorial tact and talent. We hail brother Murray as an able co-worker in the cause of human rights, and the total and immediate abolition of all iniquity. We hope those of our Baptist brethren who have it in contemplation to establish a new paper in New England, will look at the Telegraph before they proceed.
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Commendation Of Rev. Orson S. Murray's Editorship Of The Vermont Telegraph For Abolition And Moral Reform
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