Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-05-07

.NcsSrs. EditorS-The extract which follows
taken from a letter written by very excellent
tian brother in Maine, and will thank you to publs
If such remarks could be brought to bear on he
renewed by the Holy Spirit, they would be softe
though admit that they may make hard hearts ha
and blind eyes binder.
"You ask, whether have a heart to feel for
poor down-trodden slave? | have, and likewise
the suffering American church, paralyzed by slave
and for the disgrace and sin of great many of
American clergy, in regard to this NATTER Will
see the in6del point with so much advantage the
ger of scorn. And though my name has been enr
ed amongst the abotionists since our first convent
in 1884, have heart to feel for my own sin, hav
voted for our saveholdng candidates till 1910.
have been severely tried on this subject in TAX
our paper, the Christian Mirror, and finally could t;
it no longer. 1t seems to me on that subject like
glass that have seen when boy. have stood a
puddle in the road and down there was the sun, tt
a fence, and a little boy standing, but they were
turned right upside down; and have for conscienc
sake, ceased to support the American Board of N
sons. Yet, dear sir, love the church, and say,
forget thee" &c. love her sabbaths, her minist
and can say from the bottom ofmy heart, How be
tiful on the Mountains are the feet of them that br
good tidings, that publish salvation" it is not
men that can set aside the divine law to make 70
for the innocent commission of organic sin8-it
those, that say unto Zion, Thy God reignelh, that
vere
| have read number of letters over your signatr
with much pleasure particularly that respecting 4
Minor, and the evidence that the Apostles did not
init shareholders into the primitive church, was
cold water to a thirsty soul.
There must be something radically wrong, bot|
the religion and policy of our country. When j
sent two of his disciples to Christ, saying: cart Il
He that should come, or look we for another" he
rected them to what they had seen and heard.
Now think that a good text. For 500 years
Bible has been taught, and for Co. our present pol
has been pursued and all the time slavery has incre
ed. Instead of 10000 in 1856 there is now 10000
-seventy-fve times as many. Is this the religion
is this the policy that will emancpate the world?
State Fast to-day-have just returned from meet
Sermon from "Remember them that are in bon
as bound with them" The preacher dwet on the
of slaveholdng-sald nothing of our PARTICIPATING
it. Our politicians and many of our divnes, have
plan of making the Shareholders think they are on tn
side, and the people of the North that tey are an
slavery but this seems too much like double deali1
o when shall the trumpet give certain sound in tt
matter?
The cause of Freedom is slowly onward in Lincc
County. We had the most interesting meeting |,
fall have seen here. There were many ministers
different denomination, and some of them could gi
an understanding answer to the question, Watchm
what of the night" in regard to freedom, If t
Lord WILL we shall succeeds ifit is necessary to ma
our beloved country one more example of the folly
slavery, we shaA aye done our duty. Onward
our country slaA b onward, as we have done, uni
las they say) IN " should cure ITSELF have he;
to feel for the woes Of posterity when just and he
God shall mingle for them the cup which we ha
mingled for our poor brethren of African descent"
ask those who understand the SIGNS of the time
whether there be no danger, when such complaints a
daily ascending to God from the poor of his flock :?
Those who think gain is goodness, may push with s
and shoulder, and glory in their strengths but let
be numbered with those who sigh and cru for all tt
denominations, that done in this guilty saveholdil
land.
KIAH BAYLEY