State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1831-1836, 1836-07-12


i'll which Protestants SO called are re-
doubling ITS horrors, and becoming clam
orous tor the perpetuty of its darkness.
In our own country, (so boastful of its liber-
ties) they not only withhold the Bible from
tbei brethren, but claim, and hold, and buy,
and sell their souls and bodies as goods and
'chattels PERSONAL They forbid 10 marry
and put asunder whom God hath joined
together. They expunge, not the second
merely, but every command of the Deca-
loguc, particularly the first, the fifth, the
seventh, and the eighth. They effectually
say to their brother, thou shalt have no
otherGod before thy earthly,master.+ They
annul the law of obedience to the pareut
aud of instruction to the child. They de.
clare the wife and husband not entitled to
the conditions of matrimony.' They sancti.
fly and !egalize Hhe lIighes! kind of theft, the
robbery of the labor of n whole life the
person Of the laborer himself They extort
not the unwilling 1.-THE Of the reaper's toll,
hut the hire itself, and the reaper with his
hire! They 'use their neighbours service
without wages, and give him not for his
work. They judge not the cause of thu
widow, neither doth the cry Of the needy
come before them.
Such, to an alarming extent, is the relig-
ion OF the nineteenth century, in America
- religion which claims 70 be the religion
of Protesants and of the Bible 1t prates
OF the horrors the inquistion, and erects
gibbos for the defenders of the truth-th
advocates of the poor! 1t builds the tombs
of reiormers, and accounts il insanity and
treason to ask for the oppressed American
the occupancy of so elevated condition as
that from whose degradation it was the la.
Dor of the Relormers to redeem the benign.
ted peasanlry of Europe!
/ a remonsrance has been raised against
/ these accumulated wrongs rebuke has
been uttered against these unparalleled
sins. Satan is reused from his seat, and
wages war against the throne of God aud
Of the Lamb. Lawless violence has been
welded by The boosted guardians ofthe law.
| I he National Constitution has been tram
pied in the dust, under the plea of preserv-
ing the Constitution. The bands Of society
| have been severed under the pretext OF pre-
venting disunion. The contemners OF law
have been clamorous for despotic legisa-
ton. A corrupted christianity looks conf
plaCen,ly on, and cautions the transgressor
not against his sin, but against its too sudden
abandonment! Its anathemas, so chnritably
withheld from iniquity, IRE Numbered
fiercely upon the heads Of its reprovers-
Instead Of calling to her children in the
confines of Babylon, Come out other, my
people, that we partake not her sins, and
that We receive not her plaques, she is
heard proclaiming that all who in any way
impair her powers are justly liable to the
highest civil penalties and ecclesiastical
censures.'
such is the crisis at which it is proposed
to publish, lin the heart OF our empire state
weekly paper to be ca led THE FRIEND OF
MAN Its object will he TO maintain the
equality and inalienabe rights of all men:-
To plead for the down trodden slaves TO
support republican freedom To assert
and exercise the right of free discussion
the right to investigate truth,-to proclaim
and practice duty. In this it will seek to
restore and promote The religion ofhe Bible
the religion Of supreme love to God, the
Father of all men, and, of equal and Impair
tial love TO all his offspring, without respect
Of persons.
The promotion of pure and undefled
! religion as defined by The apostle James,
we propose as the beginning and the ending.
the means and the the object of our labora.
Men will never walk humbly with Cod
while they walk arrogantly towards man.
! If a man love not his brother whom he
1 IdtI SSeiIp now Gun lie love NJO0, WnOfu
( he hath not seen" When the solemnty of
mans inalienable rights are daily appreciat-
! ed, then, and not until then, will men begin
TO conceive the nature and magnitude of
ms claims, in whose sight the nations OF
the earth are as the small dust of tho
balance.
Our lahors therefore will not he confined
TO the subject of SLAVERY. INTEMPER.
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of our race, closely allied TO slavery, and
demanding the ceaseless opposition of tho
Friend Of Man. Violence will Cypress
men, so long ms men avenge themselves by
violence. The dishonesty that coyets
wealth without earning it, and seeks gain
without an equivalent, is the same principle
that tattens upon the unrequited labor of
of the slave. And so long as our rulers
/ drink wine, and our princes strong drink
so long vii! they forget the law, and per-
vert the Judgment Of the afflicted There
is no escape from slavery, but by the free
dom of virtue-no charter ofhuman liberty,
but the law Of the Creator.
'THE FRIEND OF MAN by seeking to
cultivate and extend the religion of holy
love and of the Bible, may hope, in some
good measure, to escape the trammels of
narrow higotry avoiding at the same time,
the spurious liberalty that deems it heaven
ly charity to shake hands with sin. BY
supporting the principles of liberty and tho
practices of righteousness-by rebukng
lordly iniqnity in high places by thwartng
the selfish purposes of partizan rivals Of
every name, we may hope to escape the
pollutng infection Of party politics, and
(while seeking to secure the liberties Of the
people, afford some guarantee that we will
not become the tools of demagogues or of
men in power,
Onr dpnartp,ahtc Of ral;n;orn al