Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-12-28

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principle and every interest of heaven and
earth IN the scales Of asafice. and calcu-
lates their value accordingly = nation
which has trampled upon all justice. all
law, all government, all tfuth and right
eousness, in efforts 10 crushthe best friends
Of our common,humanilyA- analion which,
like the drunkard or the maniac, has lost
The power of seIf.recovery, and rs every
way well worthy of being made q prov
erb, a by-word, Kissing, and A curse !
among all the nations Of the earth
- We're they ashamed when they had
committed denominations 2 Nay,they were
not at all ashamed, neither could they
blush Therefore. they shall fall among
them that fall at the time that visit them
they shall be east down, saith the Lord"
+" Shall no, visi! for these things! saith
the Lord. Shall not my soluble avenged
on such nation as this r.
There is cerain class of medicines.
powerful but equal valuable, which,
when Administered 10 patient in whom
the vial Stamina is not materially injured,
Invariably effects a cure; but which, when
administered to one whose constitution is
Impercep!ibly, yet iriecoveraby impaired
or undermined by complication Of dis.
eases, have no other tendency than 10 de-
velopc the most frighltul symptoms-such
as deadly chilIs, violent commissions, and
raving delirium-and hence. hurries him
TO his tomb. The state Of this latter pa.
tient, | consider a just representation of
the moral. religious and political condition
Of this country, generally. Abolition
would effect cure, if there was enough
of vitality TO sustain its separation; but
fierce diseases having pertinaciously seiz-
ed every part, its only tendency is TO de-.
velope (not create) appalling symptoms of
. deep decay and speedy dissolution. The
violence Of mobs, the fury of oppressors,
l the viruIence and madness Of their pro,ec-
!. tors and spologists in Church and State,
are but the tremendous convulsions, the
fearful delirium, the dying lhroes of an
.lexpiring nation.
RI The signs Of the tines indicate clearly,
to my MUD. iha, God has given up the
J sects and parties. political and religious
Of this nation, into the hands Of 2erverse
. and lying spirit, and left them 10 fill uI
| the measure Of their sins. When this
measure shall have been complete, ! doub
1 not that he will thunder in his burning in
h Idignaiion upon them; and as each scath
!. ing round shall SUCCESSFULLY deInolish the
: various ecclesiastical and political slruc
' lures, all minds will instantaneously recu
! Ito the remonstrances and warnings repeat
: edIy given by those true friends of Coz
n and man, who would have made up III,
y hedge--who stood in the gap before tn
e Lord, for the land, that ne should not de
re stroy iI''-but who were thrust away, ant
ltrampled Under foot. Moral Reform
> Peace, Slavery, Anli-Sectarian, o
Il lany other phiiaEthropi: measures. wi!
(. never, BY themselves, effect their great Oh
n ircts Ooe design Of God in originating
!, them is. 10 prepare this nation 20 uuder
- stand. when he comes to judgment. wh'
= are the mighty sins which have kindle
:. his wrath against it. Observe how read
even a Bacons was TO refer to slavery a
= one Of the prominent causes ofdivlne Judt
!. ment in blasting the commercial lnteres
cfthe country. The late pressure W;
only iore-running presage OF what Il
-, is about 10 do. When the Lord revea
: himselfi ia flaming fire. all the facts, u
es arguments. appeals. rebukes. entreatle
hs " hich have been heaped around the abou
:, Unable, the whoremonger, the sorcere
:, the blood stained warrior, the vile o2rre
: sor, the bigoled sectarian, the sin -advocs
~ inc leviie, the perjured statesman, q
,.l will kindls like so many faggols, and bu
upon The conscience like the raging fir
o( n volsaoo
- look upon abolition as the create
Ca moral school, Instituted of God, now e
m. istlng-in which he'is discipllning ella
nal of noble minds for more tremendous c
80 sis than this world has ever yet seen
!, which, think. is nor-fAr distant | co
~ slider il as a voice from heaven 10 the be
;ch est.hearled. saying. Come We out fr'
H. among them. 4. e. all who are Jolned
IN; M their idols,) that We be not parIakers
A., thelr~ sins = that We receive not tn
~ plaques.n view il as holding SINH
relation to the Development of that kin
e-s dom which shall destroy all others, a
ex. never end, which John The Baptist held
The Christ in his first advent. II is not
tide revelation of the Lord from heaven,
The the voice of one crying in tue wild
en- ness, Prepare We the way OF the Lo'
md Make straight in the desert highw
49, fJr our God l"-Hence, | regard it
, of more consequence and of more advanti
~, than any other moral movement now
- ,ant. But all are not Israel who are
Israel; and God will, in his own Ii
ARA and way. institute winnowing proc
,unt which will send back many protested
he .na,si.' 6slooc As j. Gideon's arr
= tests will be successfully developed. WI
',on will discover and purge out the heartl
'.'u- temporizing. pusillanimous and sci
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