North American. [volume] (Swanton, Vt.) 1839-1841, 1839-10-02

INTO Thy native lnsignifcance!
And 10 the rich man OF nv country,
would say:-Forget not your origin in the
common clay of which God created man.
u born rlcN, abuse not the blessing, and
be grateful to God who bestowed it upon
you: u born poor, still be grateful to Cod
Tor raising you from poverty and obscur,y
to wealth and distinction; unless indeed
you leei conscious that your path Ia wealth
and distinction has been the path Of iniqu-
W. But seek not, whether your wealth
and standing have been Justly or unjustlv
acquired, Ia trample upon the liberties OF
your country: For whoever shall attemp;
that, viii find, 10 his confusion & disgrace
that II his countrymen are poor in purse,
they are rich in spirit He will indeed find
too soon for his vile purpose-and Lexinp-
ton, Bunker Hill & Saratoga, Monmouth,
Germantown and Yorktown, attest The
glorious tact-that there is spirit in the
bosoms, which will make him feel, that he
has TO encounter
" Men, high minded men
Men, who their duties know,
But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain;
Prevent the long aimed blow,
And crush the Tyrant while they rent the chain -
Thus much would say both TO the
poor and the rich man: And would at
the same time, sincerely exhort You, my
hearers, and all of our fcIlow-countrymen
never Tor moment to suffer intolerance.
bigotry, false pride, or party spirit, to blunt
your feelings Of humanity or benevoIence:
but make Truth alone the guide, and Ii
6erty alone, both temporal and spiritual,
the object, OF all your political, moral or
religious conflicts. Well indeed might the
patriot muse Of France, in the !eryor Of
generous sentiment. exclaim--
90 LIBERTY can man resign THEE,
Once having felt thy sacred fame ?
Can dungeons, bolts, or bars confne THEE,
Or whips thy noble spirit tame %
o! how sublime and beautiful, in its
proper sense, is the very name of Liberiy!
Liberty, the gift OF God, the glory off
men, Of saints and Of angels; the terror OF
,yrants; and the theme of that song which
was sung by the Morning Stars, when all
the sons of God shouted for joy! O! what
a scene for God and good Angels TO behold,
was that, when Freedom had her birth in
the councils of Jehovah; when the vaults
Of Heaven resounded with the song of herl
Iriumphs to come; whilst He'll trembled TO
is foundations, and Lucier, the father of
Kings, Tyranls, and Monopolists, Sc grin
ned horribly ghaslly SMILE" and flew to
hide himself in the deepest recess oc his
lark domain; there to bewail the fall of his
power, and the inevitable fate of his w..
-annc offspring. from Nebuchadnezzar
iriven by God for his crimes and corrup-
lions, TO herd and to feed with the beasts |
If the field down TO Napoleon his modern
Representative, exiIed by the same Divine
for the same crimes and cor
options, the same hostility to this country
and to mankind. In comparison with these
wo Tyrants, whom God so Justly doomed
o destruction, the present Monarchs of
Europe are but the dwind!ed and ipsgnic. |
cant pigmies of the old Satanic brood.
Still, they are the same enemies to free
lom and humanity; the same enemies OF
heir people, and oil the human race: And
moreover, they are at this moment plotting
he ruin OF this country, because il is the |
,ny abode OF Freedom on earth, and they |
Tread the example it holds out to mankind |
But thanks be to God, storm is now |
gathering, which will sweep them all, not,
hope, after Northumberland and Napo- |
con; but into the ranks Of private life. !
where, uninfluenced by the arts of their old |
master, and yielding to purer and hol-
er spirit. they may redeem their lost time. |
by repenting of their crimes, and praying
or acceptance at the Throne of Grace
For there the blood of thousands OF mar
yrs, like Warren and Montgomery; Bris-
et and Roland; Emmet and Fitzgerald;
Lount and Mathews; Won Schoultz and
pe:raut; Abbey and Woodruff; still cries
loud 10 Heaven for vengeance, and will |
Dc heard: For never yet did the Almighty
urn deafear TO the cry Of innocent blood. |
Yes, repeat it, from The tombs of these
martyrs, and of thousands of other mar
yrs, 10 the sacred cause of freedom. a /
lame is now ascending and spreading, from
: the Towers of Julius" in the modern
Babylon, 10 those Of the Tyrant Turk on
he banks of the Euxine; and from The
Palace ROYAL of Madrid, to that Of the
Northern Autocrat, upon whose soul the
.uit OF destroying the liberties Of Poland,
md butchering her heroic defenders, now
presses with a weight, which divine grace
lone can prevent from bearing il down 10
he dark realms OF eternal perdition: And
hat flame, BY the blessing of God, shall
weep all Tyrants from their blood-slained
Thrones, and consUmmate and consecrate