Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-07-10
VERMONT TELEGRAPH.
BRANDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1889.

BRANDON, WEDNESDAY,J JULY III, 1869.
THE GLORIOUS FOURTH OF JULY-PERvER-
SPONTANEOUSLY HYPOCRISY. Sixty three
years ago our fathers set forth to the world I
the solemn declaration that all men are
created equal, and endowed BY their Creator
with the inalienable right Of LIBERTY !
They then threw off the tyranrs yoke, call
ed on God for help, and pledged before
earth and heaven their lives, their fortunes,
and their sacred HONOR in support of this
glorious cause of LIBERTY! Every year
since, the murderous cannon has been made
to roar, throughout the land-fustian orators
have detained ministers have preached
and poets have sung, in honor of this glori
Our birth dag Of LIBERTY!
! And yet-strange and hypocr;tical as it
may appear on the page of history this
very nation of boastiLg treemen, and con-
temners of tyranny, have all the while
stood with iron heels on the necks of myri-
ads of SLAVES! Their very liberty
poles, many Of them, have been erected by
the hands Of their own SLAVES! And
now, while they have just been celebrating
their great anniversary for the esd time, they
; have had the astonishing hardihood, ef'ront-
, cry, and callousness, to appear before men,
; and angels, and the great Jehovah, with
/ murderous hands at the throais of nearly
, three millions of SLAVES? Does the
e history of fallen man furnish parallel fol
abominable mockery and egregious hypocri
sy?!
: Lattesly this notable day has been exceed
) ingly perverted. The motives TO this per
/ version have been various. Some have
7. been sickened at the fatal results from tht
{. childish use Of gun-powder-o others eschev
the physical, mental and moral dissipation
inevitably resnlting from the common prac
!, tees of that day-while otheFs still har
/ been disguised and mortified at the n7nsi
= of slavery Ginning with the melody Of lib
- erty the cIanking of chains and hand
p cuffs intermingling with: the gathering c
re drums and the roar Of cannons-the groan
of and death-sighs of SLAVES coming up wit
II the shouts and huzzas of Jreen7en-8tart
o. holders! But there is, quite recently, stl
: another class. Since the Anti-Siaver
=, movement commenced, there are those VII
are ready to start any scheme Of actio
l. which can by any measures be rendere
e, popular, with view to turning away after
at ton from the cause Of The slaCe on the da
81 consecrated to The cause Of breaking til
: woke of expressions The class IS nume
a Gus. I, consists, very much, Of the arisfot
rocy, who shut their ears against the wal
re ings of The oppressed, and decry those VIII
g plead for them and Of the priests and L.
o. vites, who hide their eyes from their oW
flesh, mangled and down-trodden, and pas
p by on the other side-too pions, and 10
much devoted 10 the work Of beneroIent
to take any heed to the cause Of the poor
: also Of those who commit the keeping {
f. their consciences TO the latter, and thoz
IS who stand in awe of the former.
ID Under all these, aud other influences, tn
AZ poor slave has been strangely forgotten
: sadly neglected, at the very time most PRO-
=, er and favorable for making known Ii
le wants and his woes, and presenting b
r. claims for the sympathy and assistance
d. the free,
u But one speaker says | chose my sui
lg iect, or others chose it for me, and it did nj
- ~ admit Of my touching upon the cause
70 liberty or slavery Another, whose lot
is was to pray in some public assembly q
en- that day, says, the arrangements of Il
RI day forbade any alusion, in my pray
as. the claims Of the slave
CT How praying man could refrain fro
giving vent TO a single breath Of prayer
he behalf of oppressed millions, on day ke
lrd In memory Of the release of our fathe
-ed from under the yoke of oppression, is, to m
IS utterly unaccountable-especially if ne |
~ one who processes to care for the sufferir
ar slave. Which of these praying men fo
at got, in their public prayers, to give thanl
EST, for the emancipation of our fathers fro
be British bondage, and to pray for the cont
es- uance Of liberty to those who now enit
lne liberty in our own country But how m
sic, =
Take an instance. 4 prayer meeting for t
cause of the slave appointed to be held in Il
village at 4 o'clock, the morning of the 9TH I'M
ant. 4 professor of religion started OPPOS
1ION PRAYER-MEETING manifestly with t