Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-03-07

TO their interiors, who follow them at a humble
distance. The church is composed of men alike
interested with community. They are prone to
frown upon any movement that obstructs the way
of obtaining their object of desire. Hence, too,
the minister must withhold the messages of divine
truth, aud pass over the most glarng denominations
without rlbuke, lest his church be broken up and
his salary lost Nor does this evil, slavery, fail to
effect every official department of State and the
fountains Of learning and education. Free discus
sion is suppressed. Youth are trained up to both
principles and habits detrimental to society Pride
and haughtiness in principle, and idle and profit
gate in habit, the natural propensity is fostered,
not subdued, aud grows with his growth. In both
sexes in all the departments of life these traits are
increasingly discoverObIe. What effect has M ar
ticle of our constitution, which says: Govern
lnent Isl or ought to he instituted for the common
benefit, protection and security of the people, ma
ton or community" What is the institution of
slavery but an aristocracy, formed for the sole ad
vantage Of a set of men Numerically opposed
to every principle OF repubicanisn, and will fOrev-
er create collision and strife. The Declaration of
Independence declared liberty to every being hu-
man, black and white. The constitution is found
cd on these principles and bound the states by the
most solemn vows to God and each other and
with what contempt are they trodden under foot
and declared to be visionary dogmas; that God Gre
ated part Of the human race ''wh structure and
coIor TO be under, and that the liberties and en-
dowmen given by God himself to one is inconsst-
ent with that of the o,her God has made man to
serve and obey him., not the tyrant God has Civ
en- us laws and rules to effect bis own ends and
purposes Shall we obey them? VIII not God
take care of results springing from obedience to
his own commands The whole jewish history
shows the want of this confidence 10 be their sin
Our own articles of Christian faith declare it to be
fundamental principle. Slavery is violence and
oppression-the sin of the old world and the new.
There is no sin so often denounced in the bible
none to which human nature is SO prone-none
which so effectuaIly opposes the advancement of
Chrst's kingdom, or contrary to his nature and
government. Slaves were an article of merchant
die of the whore of Babylon and believe this
is the only place where the word " slave" Is men,
toned in the Bible Her merchandise was "wine,
and brass, and sheep, and horses and SLAVES and
souls of men, pa striking resemblance of Wash
ngton, the capitol of our nation Shall we suffer
pride, aud pom p, and avarice, to provoke God 10
drive us from our beIoYeh land, as he did the stub
born Jews from theirs and the devil and his adj
herenS from their native heaven? If these ro-
marks are true, and spoken with candor if my in
r terences legitimate and correct let US think on
these things. | do not pretend to advance any
new dca but those which have been sanctioned
and sanctifed by the legislation of God himself for
more than six thousand years.
ABOLITIONIST.
Hampton, ~ Y Jan IS, l945.