Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-04-22

and nation, set down In Gods book OF re-
membrance2 Is the flesh and blood OF
each and all registered as the property OF
Code
And yet, how has their flesh been torn.
how have these sinews and muscles been
mangled, how has this blood been spilled
And we, Americans, have done full
share of this human butchery. Look at
Bunkers' hill, hard by: on that hill more
than one Thousand men We're destroyed,
some pierced by the bullet, some severed
by the sword or crushed by the heavy
blow of the musket, and more than one
hundred thousand were thus cut and mu-
ltulated In the battles of the revolution or
festefed, became corrupt, and thus perish
ed in your jails and prison ships. Though
they were of oiden times, we have not for
gotten the masSacres Of the Indians and
the carnage O. the French wars Let Us
call to mind too, the cuts and gashes and
death wounds of your last war with Great
Britian-remember the battles Ola the Can
ada trontier-the work of destruction On
the banks of the Mississippi, think of the
decks of your ships slippery with human
gore trace cut tie uack OF The pr;vateer
by the bloody water which follows in her
wake,-look into the cockpit and hear
the shrieks Of the wounded, the groans OF
the dying. More than ii million have
persisted in your wars Bring together
before your magnation as distinctly as
YOU car, upon some vast plain, this mass
of suffering, this immense army OF wound
ed and dying men, side by side, extending
in every direction as tar as the eye can
reach-I dare not attempt the description
of such scene.
The hair upon the head of each ofthese
: was numbered; and though their bodies
J have become dust and ashes, though the
names of most Of them have passed away
from memory ofman, notwithstanding this,
every blow which was struck, every wound
which was given, is also set down In God 5
book of remembrance and the souls of this
million of murdered men now live, In an
i other world as memorial against those
e who thus marred the image OF God.
Il We hing him who, in passion or lus
or covetousness, destroys one OF his fellow
men--so intense is our Indignation at the
crime of murder. Now Tell me, have
u millions been murdered and does no sir
e attach itself 10 those who caused the
Or death is it not an awful mass OF crime
i Where then does the guilt fasten ltselt2 o
where does this soul-crushing weight c
! sin now bear
- Ga the nation? the nation has no sou
&c Men are not judged by masses, by armle
g in companies, before the bar OF Cod
Each soul stands alune before the judg
BY of all the earth the dread weight of $!
as cannot be borne up by united strength
M 1t bears down upon each and every on
:, who has muti.ated the body Of his broth,
man. know that the sin may be forgl
'u' en-, that the tears of penltence and u
OF blood of the Lamb will wash away Il
Ill guilty stains off the soul. so that it shall /
,rt- as white as the snow. l know that G
.o,- is merciful-blessed be his holy name
vet this takes not from the enormity Of I
crime. His mercy by the strong contra
with the cruelty of man adds TO the de
'ro- coors Of the carnage, making the petite
ple : Forgive US our trespasses as We torg
.ov- those who lrespass against u.s. mocke
1t it on the lips of unforglving men.
lus- But on whom does the guilt rest? I
the on the soldier only he is but the pass
r;ng instrument of death, a part ofthe machl
e. nv of war-often no more accounta
than the sword be yields. Ga the alta
~ 70 ing army--the enemy! The sold
sow, dressed in red bear no more malice
not those dressed in blue than they to tn
r in On the officers, the commander-in-ch
,cure not always for they are taught to f
iii from the pulpit, encouraged by pu
opinion, they are excited to the wor
0 oe- destruction bv the TIE Deum' for vic
use sung in your churches-by the tau
,ainst which your poetry weaves tor them
away, the monuments upon the fields OF blo'
e GER such as look upon you from the nelgf
;. e ing height. On civil rulers and m
trates? Let US remember that t&ey
.''s appointed for this very purpose.
'henh whom then does the heavy weight
may On him who teaches that christians
Import FIGHT: that the choice between III
act in governments outweighs the law OF
los ao Thou shalt not kill : that property
-, utation. glory are more essential ina
oiveness to enemies; that feiigt'
l'he ~ love and meekness and humility canr
ar own cure human rights and human happ
IS, can On those whose lusts and passions
piles Of the reign of the Prince OF reaee e
Ills earth; on those who speak OF sell ~
as a law of mans nature, torgetsin
. seh,sacri6ce is the law of Christ
n'ain Oh who do not lift up their hands; their !
Their voices agains. the shedding oI
,ject of blood on all who are contormed
Is some world, looking to public. opinion
my on- than to the gospel Tor q s'anua1 ,a =, -
i'm = on allgwho have no faith IN me Ia"
rs. who believe that there is no balm