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Picture Of Europe,

Let every American read the following melancholy
picture which appears in the French CONSTITUTIONAL
and then hauk the God of nations for the blessings
which abound in the free and happy land in which he
lives
Europe presents a sad spectacle. From the extrem-
ment through despair; and the old governments en-
ploy no other means of imposing obedience than mus
ket shots, Imprisonment, and the oxecutioner. The
kingdom of Naples, and the Roman States have lately
witnessed sanguinary executions. Lucem is u vast
prison, after having been field of battle Russia,
Austria and Prussia advance their soldiers to envelop
the Polish instruction, and to sprinkle with gener-
Gus blood the divided provinces Such arc the results
of the pretended conservative policy which prevails in
Europe. The governments, a moment frightened by
the popular movements produced by the revolution O
$780, soon recovered their peace of mind when the re
volt was put down.
They forgot that intestine wars are never terminal
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Supreme Love to God,

Why, o my God, must this mortal structure
put so great separation between my soul and
thee! | am surrounded with thy essence, yet
cannot perceive thee, follow thee, and trace
thy footsteps in heaven and earth, yet | cannot
overtake thee thou art before me, and | per-
ceive thee not.
0 thou, whom unseen, love, by what power.
full influence dost thou attract my soul The
eye hath not seen, nor the ear heard, nor hath il
entered into the heart of man to conceive what
thou arr: and yet l love thee beyond all that
mine eye hath seen, or mine ear heard beyond
all that my heart can comprehend, Thou
dweIlest in the nights of glory, to which no hui
man thoughts can soar, and yet thou art more
near and intimate to my soul than any of the
objects Of sense. These ears have never heard
thy voice. and yet ! am better acquainted with
thee, and can rely on thee with more confidence,
than on the dearest friend have on earth. My
heart cleavcs to thee, o Lord, as its only ref
uge, and finds in thee secret and constant
spring of consolation, speak to thee with the
utmost confidence, and think thy being my
greatest happiness. The reflection on thy ex-
istence and greatness recreates my spirits, and
fills my heart with alacrty; my soul overhows
with pleasure. | rejoice, triumph in thy in.
dependent bessedness and absolute dominion
Rejoice, O my soul, forever glorious and uncon-
trolIed is thy God. |, "a worm of the earth
would Join my assent with all the infinite orders
above, with all thy flaming ministers, who re
joce in thy Kingdom and glory.
love thee.-Thus far can speak, but al
the rest is unuttcrable: and must leave the
pleasing tale untold, till can use the language
of Immortality; and then I'll begin the transport
ing story which shall never come to an end; bu
be still beginning; for thy beauties, o thou fair
est of ten thousand will still be new and shall
kindIe fresh ardor in my soul to all eternity
The sacred flame shall rise, nor find any limits
till thy projections find period Amen
Mrs. Rowe
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Aug. l, 1916.


Mr. EitOr: tits so seldom that we have the opportll-
nifty of hearing sermons upon the subject of slavery
think when such privilege does occur, it deserves
particular attention Such was my privilege not long
since The sermon to which aude, was delivered
at this place July 26.
You may think strange that subject of so little i'm
porance in this country as American Slavery should
engage the thoughts of clerical minds; but when YOU
learn that the preacher attempted apology for the
institution your amazement will cease. He said how
ever that slavery was wrong and ought to be put away
from among us; yet it was not so ucy bad after ALL.
Washington was a stakeholder yet who would say
Washington was not christian and philanthropst
He thinks moral suason is the great instrument to be
used in the removal of the evil of slavery rather than
the misguided efforts of the Liberty Party; by which
suppose he has get to learn that there is class in
this world of that never have and never can be
reached by moral suasion
If rightly understand his doctrine, man has no
future account to rcnlel and though he be a drunk
ard thief robbcr or murder even, yet tits all the
same. Nothing will prevent a welcome admittance to
the joys of heaven. Such too are the arguments he
used against slavery. Do you think, Mr.. Editor that
Felix would tremble before such reasoning? Why
Henry Cloy's "inovtable laws of population" would
abolish slavery six thousand years before such preach
ing would begin the work. Like many Others he is
an a5olitionist but not political one. lie does not
seem to understand that Slavery is interviewer with
the politics of this country that man in order to be
an abolitionist must be politically He urges as
reason why he does not become a Liberty man, the
evil design of the leaders; and asserts that call they
want is power which if they had they would care nc
more about the slaves than the dogs" He introduced
that old miserable subcruge that "the efforts of the
aboonists of the North were rendering the condition
of the slave much worse" &c. BY this we infer thai
he looks through glass darkty. Who does not sec
that the abolition enterprise operates a safety valve
our country Those restless spirits which can, arc
finding their way through swamps and mrrequentet
wilds to Canada They know there are those by the
way who care for them and who are ready to chez
them on while they cXcain, " Give me liberty or give
me DEATH" Perhaps this Minister never read u bool
called jeremiah, where the word of the Lord says
No unto him that budeth his house by unrighteous
ness and his chambers by wrong, that useth his neigh
boris service without wages and gveth him not for his
work. That saith will build me wide house ant
large chambers and cueth him out windows, and is
celled with cedar and painted with vcrmilion"
Respectfully yours,
Al. MOREY.
East Randolph July 90, 1886
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Party Merits.
Spectfully yours,
A. J. MOREY.
East Randolph, July 90, 1916.

In $780, there were six slave States properly cal
led. In 1886 there are fifteen slave States, nine new
ones having been added to the Union.
In the year 1900, the Senatorial strength of the Free
States represented by 49, that of the Slave States
by IL. In the year 1916, the Senatorial strength of
the Slave States is represented by 3d. that of the Free
States by 70
In the year 1850, the Slave States comprised an area
of 223 600 square miles, in 1916, they comprise an
area of 100000. The Slave States added to the Union
since the date of the Constitution embrace an extent
of territory two hundred thousand square miles great
er than was included in 1870, within the bounds of
what are called the thirteen original States and
their is about equal to that of all the present Free
States and the six older Slave States.
In 1890, the Slaves numbered about 600000 in
1886 they number more than twenty-five hundred thou
sand
Behold the blessings resulting from the government
of the two great parties for half century!
We charge that this government has been welded
as an instrument of the dark despotism of slavery -
this must be true unless indeed the theory be adopted
that these parties, selimpelled have voluntarily devo
ted their energies to the extension and aggrandzemen
of slavery. But this fit could be proved, would only
aggravate their guilt.
! No! they have not been the prime movers in ths
wickedness they have been the degraded instruments
TOOLS if you will of despotism which they ought t,
have trampled upon, They may deny this as indig
nantly as they pleasein SO doing, they but add thu
guilt of falsehood to the meannesa of servility.
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VOL. III, NO. 80.

What upholds slavery in the District of Columbia;
and spreads the wings Of the national eagle over the
slave-hells in Washington? Who license the coast
wise savetrade? The Wing and Democratic parties!
Who admitted the State of Arkansas with Constitu-
ton that orbids the STAKEHOLDER 20 manumit his slaves
without the consent of the Legislature, the legisa-
ure to abolish slavery without the consent Of the slave
holders? The Wing and Democratic parties. Who
voted forty millions of dollars to break up haunt for
runaway slaves il, Florida? The Wing and democrat
c parties Who admitted Florida as a State into the
Union with Constitution authorizing the Legislature
to imprson and to eDsaye free citizens OF some OF the
Northern States: The Wig and Democratic partles'
The only opposition made to the obnoxious clause
was by Wing Senators, but a majority of the Wing
members of both Houses voted for it.
But to speak more particularly Of the party to which
the Enquirer beIongs-a party pre-emnently guilty IN
this matter Who, year after year, in defiance Of the
constitution, in contempt of their own convictions of
right voted against the right Of petition and attempt
ed by cunning and violence to suppress freedom of de-
bate on the subject Of slavery in Congress? The
Democratic party Who have boosted continually Of
the fidelity OF the party to Savehodng interests, and
IN times Of political excitement reminded shareholders
of the necessity of Democratic alliance for their pro-
lection? The lenders Of the Democracy at the North
Who pledged himself in advance to veto the will of a
majority of the people, expressed in any act which
might be passed by majority of their representatives,
for the abolition Of slavery in the District of Columbia
"A matter within the constitutional power OF Con-
gress, as he himself admitted? Martin Van Buren,, d
Democratic President Who made arrangements to
defeat the course of Justice in the Amstad case, and
sent United Suites vessel TO be in readiness to con-
vey the brave men who had recovered the borty Of
which they had been robbed by pmtes) back to Cuba
to be hung on Spanish gij5et? Martin Van Buren,,
a Democratic President Who, in his place in the u.
s. Senate reminded the Shareholders that the DemOc-
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THE FIRE-SHDE.
10 Mothers,

The faults Of children hOv to bc hcatcd-
1t may be well to drop hint against the folly
and improperly of making the faults of your
children the sub ect of conversation with other
people. Nothing can be more unkind and in
udicious. If you wish your children to reform
or improve, you must throw shield round their
character However foolishy they may have
acted, let them see that you are anxious to keep
open the way for their return to propriety and
responsibility. Many youth has been harden
ed and driven to reckless despair, by being
tauntingly upbraided, before strangers, with
misconduct which never needed, and, therefore,
never ought, to have been known beyond his
own family.
On the other hand, many wanderer has
been encouraged to return, by observing, in
those most injured by his folIies, generous
readiness cordially to reinstate him in their es-
teen, and shield his reputation from the re-
proaches Of others. 1t is not wise for moth
er either to boast of the excellence, or to pub
fish the faults of her children; but rather to
ponder them in the heart; to mention them on
ly at the throne of mercy, there to implore grace
to confirm what is right, aud correct what is
wrong, and, in all things, to make plain before
her face the way of her own present duty in ref
erence to them.-S s. Jour.
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The Little ChiIds SOIiIOquy,
OR THE FUNERAL OF THE FLY.

Children cannot be too early taught their own
Immortality, nor too soon have deep and abb
ding impression made on their young minds,
that there is another world besides this, of hap
pier cImes of purer atmosphere, and of unen-
ding and cloudless day. We love to say any
thing to children to fix in their minds the idea
of such word--the heaven where God re-
sides. The following soliloquy Of little boy
who had been thus taught, has some philosophy
in it much nearer the truth than some modern
writer's on the resurrection. The story is by
Elizabeth Oaks Smith
! sat INDUCING in one Of those long reyeries
peculiar to the sick, in which | stroVe to faith
ON the mysteries of the eternal world, and fell
an almost unconquerabe desire to know its re-
alties, to penetrate its sublime obscurties, and
to be admitted into that glorious that exalted
state of holiness and enfranchiscd intellect
which the mind figures to itself in its lonely mu
sings. We wrong death when we call him the
"king of terrors" He may be so indeed, tt
the guilty, the irreligous, and the skeptcal
Rbut to the mind taught faithfully to perform it
duties of love and kindness here, and to alb
stract its best and purest affections from cart
t and place them upon heaven, to him that turn
| from the physical suferings and conyulsive sob
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-08-13
R ELIG Il GU S..
RELIGION is Love.

Religion is pure, and like its author, lovely
and loving 1t never lessons attachment to one
another, chilling on affection, and drying up the
spring Of charity, and sympathy, and fine feeling,
that feed the river of the milk of human kind
ness in the breasts of man. The religion Of
Christ warns, but never chils us.
The bosom where it resides feels an influence
and mparts one, too, which angels would recog
nize as kindred to what they inhale in their own
Eden. Who can love the misanthrope, the pool
curtailed animal, once man, but now less thar
the noble being who is stamped with divine fea
lures and born for social enjoyment
When the Great Teacher was upon earth, hi
first lesson was love; of everything good ant
high, and noble, and extending itself over worlc
of intelligence. Its first manifestation at tn
Throne of God, and its last, were for man.
This is the lesson we are to learn, if we wouI
be taught by it,
While we exercise this principle, we came
go aslray. 1t is impossible We shall stand
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broad place covered by the canopy of Jeho-
YAH And instead of becoming slaves of SUI
perstltion, or the tools of party, we shall rev.
erence the image of true religion, find it where
we will, in the palace or in the cottage, beam
ing from the face of the Indian, or shining on
that of the African. Be the man of high or low
degree, Juggling at the oar, or CALLED by the hand
of slavery, religion is the same in all.
As she goes forth clothed in the lovely regala
of her order, innumerable blessings attend her.
The tears of the widow and the orphan are wip-
ed away. Over the turmoil of life she spreads
her hands, sitting the rude rough surges of sor-
row, and arching upon the mourner, eyes with
the beautiful colors of peace, while around the
world she scatters the bright ornaments of Sc
renity and joy.
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MONTPELIER, VT, THURSDAY, AUGUST 49, 1885,

CHRONICLE Such is the disgraCeful and wicked an
tpathy to ant-savery journals (where only can be
found any feasible plan for removing slavery that null
ttudes even suppose lin their honesty of SOUL thlt
this great American charne house is to be battered
down by resolutions. Others as honestly believe that
prayer alone will bring about this result; Ind still 9TH
ers imagine, that the Shareholders will all repent at
some future day and emancipae their slaves, and in
this way the system will terminate. v lille many very
learned men will freely admit, that they are expecting
that bye and bye, in the penltude Of his Mercy when
the propitious time shall arrive, God will open up a
highway of deiverance to the captive.
once heard a very excellent clergyman in Fast
day discourse, advance the idea that prayer the
great and almost only weapon, through God to abolish
slavery. And while he was beaboring the point with
all becoming ZEAL Ia zeal without much knowledge by
the way,) came very near laughing outright in the
worthy mans face at the recollection of transaction
which took place in the early days Of New Hampshire
1t was this Among the honest Irish settlers of Lon
dondcry Il think there existed laudable custom OF
asking the minister of the parish around upon the sever
al farms, after the seed had been deposited in the
upon the seed sown, that it might result in goody
harvest. In accordance with this usage, blunt old
Scotch parson one afternoon invited some five Oh
six miles out to the farm of parishioner. After the
usual sauations with the family the parson followed
the parishioner up quite ascent to the top of dry
Yellow sandy, barren hill, where the and potatoes
had been plantedand after surveying the field over
till he had got olerabIy accurate idea of the practi
cal nature of the SOIL all at once Gust as the farme
thought the customary exercise was to commcnce) the
Scotchman abruptly broke forth" IIoot now manlr
would be mucke better for this land, than prayer"
At a future time will endeavor to show what nus
accompany prayer, in order that the latter avail an
thing toward advancing the greatest moral and reli
gous enterprise of the agc-the disenthnmont of tn
slavo,-or in other words rha has got to be done, be
sides talking in order that slavery die.
Your very obed ent servant,
PHILEMON.
Aug. |, 1916
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ed by force, and that in this sense there never are de-
cisive victories. Arrangements alone reconcile ma
tons that have risen even with triumphant power
10 govern, is to enter into arrangements The Euro
pean governments, with the exception, perhaps, OF
Prussia, appear more opposed than ever to all arrange
ment, Every where dcspotlsm has become more op-
pressVe and intoerant Rome far from keeping her
promise, still recent demands the eXtradition of those
unfortunate men that aimed at obtaining moderate
liberty the Jesuits divide Switzerland Austria sends
to the pontlfca government counsels OF despotlsm
and the ultramontane party of Switzerland counsels
reaction. The Emperor Of Russia has waged war; moi
only on the remnant Of the Polish nation, but on am
y affections, remembrances creeds and consciences
The French government which represented on the con
tnent liberal and moderate IDEAS and which ought tc
defend them has completely abandoned its mission. i
has become conservative, ultamontane, reactive as
is possible to be in France. 1t makes common cause
with the European conservatives who refuse all ar
rangements and struggle against all progress.
1t is surprizing that under the influence Of this pol
icy-olten oppressive, always uninteligent- several
States of Germany are in movement for religious o.
political reforms; that the Italians and the Poles en-
counter death to escape from an insupportable yran
ny; and that Switzerland is ptrpetually torn by cyi
war? In Poland much blood is about to be shed. Dc
the old governments, which are about to spill it, be
eve that they will there drown liberty, and that they
VIII be dispensed with entering some Day INTO arrang
ments with her?
Whatever may be the result of this Instruction
(says the Natonel) all Europe will deem it holy, hero
c, sublime. Martyrs may be made but there will bt
no criminals All those who do honor to a devoted
love of country-all those who bear hatred to savag
despotism, will grant their warmest sympathies t.
those noble struggles of people whom overpowerlnl
numbers may crush, whom violence may decimate, bu
who will ever continue to protest against the wrong
done TO them; who, though beaten down and bleeding
will still look in proud disdan upon those pretende
free governments who cowardy look on and see a no
bic nation nassacred
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