Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1843-05-05

tho SINS Of the man For, am not informed TINT we
are furnished with two rules Of moral conduct two
codes oil moral law, that the strict integrity which
IS the GROWING glory of private character, has no
beauty no worth, no authority in public action IF
tne individuals that compose nation could be made
righteous, suspect they would hardly constitute an
unngheon, nation. If the Peace spirit could fully
possess individuals in their private capacity, they
would not be very strongly disposed to become, in
public relations, a warlike people. Did individuals
ABSTAIN, wholly, from the intoxicating cup do not
see how Drunkenness could become a national vice
u an elevated and unwaverlng honesty regulated the
dealings 'etween man and man, we should hear but
little, u is probable, of legislative Reputation And
Il mankind understood, felt and acted up TO- the plsn
but divine command Whatsoever We would thot
men should do to you do ye even so to them slave.
~ would soon be written down among the things
that were.
TEL me, i you can, the individual transpressions'
yidual which carry no suffering, no shame beyond
inc guilty agent. What man can lift his hand and
say-neilher my commissions nor my omissions have
tended to aggrnvate the public ,ransgressons of the
nation to which belong. Look at the smallest cir.
c'e' IN which we move from day TO day-does our in
uence 90 nothing TO shape its character? Does not
me character of that circle stamp more less of its
pecuiiarity on that community in which it is found
ana does there not go forth from that community.
directing, modifying power, which helps to make
na'lon good or bad I? Who then, that knows any
hng oil the reciprocal influence Of private opinion and
pubic sentiment, can wash his hands of MI particpa.
Ponsblll'y rests on HIM as oneofa multitude, when,
IN the common march unto evil he knows not how
many tread IN his steps because he follows others in
the long procession of folly or sin.
Passng from the present order Of things 10 future
STATE OF beng, we believe ourselves accountable to
righteous Judge, who will render TO every man nc.
cordlng to his deeds What are those deeds, and in
%hat capacity are they wrought? Do we perform
thefn as monks or hermts, and is the place of their
manifestation, The colsnr the cave? Are they the
use OF one only of the several talents committed 10
U.S. besides the personal is there not the domestic
me social! And what i, the family what is ,ciety
but the binding together of individuals for an all en-
bracing good, and The working ogeh for common
protection and common happiness Can accounta-
oilty, then, stop IN any one Of these, must it not
embrace all! Do we not perform deeds, as parent
and child husband and wife, friend and neiehbor 4
And will any one class Of these deeds be exempted
from judgment? Do we suppose that in the larger
brotherhood of the nation we placed above &C.
countabliiy for our acts and principles? Do we sup.
nose that the citizen with his rights md interests
h,s no cores ,ondine obligations, md will not be
Judged f,r what he may have done to add to the num-
her and weight of pubic ttanseressions' Do not
believe IT, There is right and wrong in political
relation and action, Which, do come under the one
moral law, end will not be forgotten in the moral
Judgment. lfthere has been public trnnsgresson
IN violn non OF the great Divine law and NE have NJ
tered moi n word-ed not finger in the wish and
effort 10 stay il let lay the l,,tering JUNCTION
TO our souls, that, as citizens are innocent If
murder. drunkenness, knavery, oppression darten
ana dehle the land; let not any m,n-be his place
and power what they may-who has horne no tcsti.
mony ngains them plead privilege of citizenship and
sheiterng himself under the supposed palliative OF
pubic transoression saw am pure in the light Of
God 'Inasmuch MS We did not 10 one of the least
of these, yc did il not to me-"