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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-03-19
Tunbridge, Feb. %, 1916.

WILLIAM B. SCOTT.

ResoUea That entire and persevering efforts for the
anticipation Of the enslaved is a matter of religious
requisite to consistent Christian character,
ana So'u DC fegiously enforced as solemnly binding
on the conscience"
This resolution was discussed at the late general
religious anti-savcry convention in Maine and odon
ed by Il rising vote unanimously Liberty Sta,ortd
Jar 20, 1916.
This is doing right. If active efforts for Christian
MISSIONS the due observance Of the Sabbath and the
temperance cause be matter of religious obligation,
requisite to consistent Christian character why is not
the same true respecting the emancipation Of the en-
shaved? Is one a benevolent object so is the other
Does the great law of love require the Christian to do
the one it also requires him to do the other If it be
humane to use means to save the drunkard why is it
not humane to use means to the Shareholder from
those crimes which expose him to the wrath of an
offended God Are not the souls of shareholders and
families as important as the souls Of drunkards And
are not the souls of millions ensaved in this land as
precious in the sight of God as millions in Asia
Why then should not charity begin at home? Why
should not every real Christian act as efficiently for the
emancipation and salvation of slaves as for any other
benevolent object? And why should not indifference
to the wretched slaves and their oppossors be as dark
sign against the credibility Of any mans religion as
Indifference to the temperance cause? | should like
to know why the love of God should not lead to the
one as well as the other? Who will come forward
and explain this subject? 1t is time this subject were
fully examined and righteous verdict given, If op
position or even Indifference in the temperance anC
missionary cause be criminal how can those churches
or minister's be nnocent who know the wretched state
Of millions at the SOUTH and yet make effort to save
them: Is this fair specimen of their reigion-o
the benevolencc of their hearts If so, may we no
well inquire How dwelleth the love of God them:
And how can they WONDER if the credibiliy Of thei
religion be greatly weakened, if not destroyed b.
such conduct By their fruits ye shall know then
Is it not written: q He shall have judgment wlthou
mercy, who hath showed no mercy" And do thos
+ show any mercy to the oppressed, who, knowing til
t death struggle now working, stand with folded arms
S and do nothing? Conscience, where art thou no,
r long sleepest thou?
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in wrath and Judgment to deliver them, and ayenge
their wrongs.
Shall we not awake before the evil day comes and
do all in our power to avert by timely repentance and
national reformation the dangers which surround u.s.
TINT the impurities of our fathers and our nqutes
be not visited upon this and future generations.
Let us think of the longings of the slave for liberty
his quenchess desire to be freehis innate unconquor
able anxiety to throw off his shackles and stand erect
as one of Gods freemen-the thick night of despair
which settles down upon him. and his throes of agony
when he thinks that there no hope for relief no pros
pect of freedom, and no chance for rest but in the
grave.
What though the slave may be treated kindly-does
he not feel in his inmos soul the depradotion IF his
condition? Poor slave when asked if he WIS ,,ot b,
Ply because he was favorite, and treated better than
those around him, answered with tears in bis o,,o
Me slave me slave" What volume or n,oo.
ing is contained in this eloquent answer. HE co,jd
feel and appreciate it in its length and breadth. O
that all could remember his bonds.
What though the slave may laugh and sing,
To "drive dull care away" let us not forget
GLOW oft the laughing brow ofjoy
An aching heart conceals'
How many pine, how many bleed, how many drink
the bitter cup of woe, and eat the bread of hopeless
misery, while life is one uninterrupted scene Of unre-
quoted TOLL unmcrted suffering, and cheeess dospon-
dency.
Remember that here in this vaunled Gland of the
free and home of the brave" this land Of Bibles and
sobbaths, ofboastod philanthropy and benevolence, Of
religion and jusce-nearIy three millions of slaves
groan in the most abject bondage There the lash
doscends on "woman's shrinking flesh Here it is
death in some cases for slave to strike white mani
Soon may the day arrive when those tcttered mill
ions will have their rights and liberties rcstored and
this foul blot on national escutcheon be erased
when slavery with its crimsoned garments will be
hurled to that pit from whence it originated.
Yours truly, A. II. B.
Enosburgh, March L. 104G.
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SIayehOIding Christians.

This term is frequently used in speaking Of south
em professors, but can see no more propriety at
the present day of light and intelligence Of calling
shareholders christians than to speak of chrstion inf
dels, christian robbers and christian murderers If
slavery is a sin which has not parallel in the history
of crime, and buttew dare deny it, how can men con-
nuo to practice this system of robbery that would dis
grace "decent devil" and yet be entitled to the
name Of christians? Well did Rev. James Smile a
Shareholder of Mississippi say in defending the sys-
pretending slaves with view to restore them to their
masters is direct violation of the divine law, and if
the buying and selling Or holding slave for gain, is a
heinous sin and scandal that verify theefourths ofal
rans in eleven states of the Union, are of the DEVIL
They hold, il they do not buy and sell slaves, and
without few exceptions, they hesitate not to apprehend
and restore RUNAWAY slaves, when in their power"
1t is high time that northern men who lay any claim
to christianity should take the south their word and
treat the southern shareholders as sinners before
God, and undesoving of the sympathy and fellowship
as christians ofall who regard slavery as violation Of
the divine commands and curse to all who practice
it. So long as their hands are red with their brothers
blood and they live upon the unpaid toll of the slave
it is mockery it is an insult to Heaven and disgrace
to the christian religion to regard such men as the
true followers of Christ 1t is nonsense to talk abou
such men loving God while they delace and crust
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else of equal rights, and the guarantee OF equal social
civil and religious privileges to ALL Let the southron
be dsquietcd and vent his spleen on the victims OF his
rage but witha let him remember that the blood OF
the martyrs is the seed of the church, and that God
hears the signing of the bondman, and he has promised
to visit for these things Recent events are Of such
nature as to lead the phanthropst to hope at least
that brighter day is about to dawn on the condition
of our oppressed fellow beings. The south are giving
up their long cherished notions of the infcrorty of the
coorod race and in many instances inquiring how
they shall restore to them their long withheld rights
and the north are holding not back those counslls
which, under God, are mighty to the pulling down OF
the strong holds of darkness, and thus inspired the
confident belief that ere long this cloud which has SC
long darkcned our moral horizon, shall pass gently
away and give occasion for the north and south tic
rejoice together in one general jubilee.
WILLIAM B. SCOTT.
Tunbrdge, Feb %, 1916.
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THE I7lG Z Z MAN.
9NYpELLER, THURSDAY, M4RcH19, 1916
New. Hampshire Observation-Disclosures
USed ND.

There has not been State election for many yea
which has excited so much interest," among all classd
as the one that came offn New Hampshire last wed
For seventeen years, democracy, so called, has he
undisputed sway; no one has dared to question
right to rule But, thanks to God the spell has bee
broken-the hitherto nvincbe clique has been route
which has made that State the pack horse Of SLAYER
hellish SYSTEM and committed acts Of serve meanne
in bowling to the slave power, that would disgrace ii
most debased lIottenot Was it not enough that
free State like New Hampshire, had been dishonorc
by " Gag Atherton," who was ready to sacrifice h
countrys dearest rights, cover his own name Wi
eternal infamy and sell his soul to please the SOUTH?
Had not enough been done to secure the favor of sa
holders, by bowling to their dictation and aboring
subserve their interests every occasionand by eve
member in the House and in the Senate for the la
fifteen years. without pledging the dominant party
the support Of Texas, and attempting to decaE
tate one Of her nobest sons, because he had t.
much honesty and manhood to bow his neck to Il
slayc-coar, do the dirty work Of few overseers of Il
God, on the altar of party and slavery? When Il
leaders OF the democratic party undertook to make
victim of John P. Hale to appease the anger of the
indignant slave idol and warn others of their fate wi
might dare to dsobey their wishes they nttempted I,
much Instead OF destroying him. they only sgnt
their own death-warrant And let itnovo no G,r,,,
ten that it was TEXAS and sIaray which, like mi
sonc has sunk the party in the dark ocean of its ov
seNiic inlaHy,
We'll may the shareholders weep over their blight
prospects, since their New Hampshire allies have be
routed and that unbroken phalanX, with AtherC
Woodbury., Hill, Burke and Hubbard at their hea
has received defeat from which it can never recoy
Let the granite hills lift up their rocky heads and
oice that the State is once more freed from the &C
troll of a pro slavery democracy. Let our own Gre
mountains send back the glad echo, since it is OF
the precursor of an equally glorious yictory--the
umph of Liberty over pro-slaycIy whggery in V
mont.
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have different natures and will act differently Hence
if see creature that looks like sheep feeding upon
flesh, and licking up blood, suspect he is wolf or
a dog which has drawn over him a sheep skin, that he
may deceive.
So man, who really hates slavery he is in his
moral nature different from the man who loves slave
holding; and they will act differently. Hence when
man bites and deyours his neighbor, or holds him by
violence as his slave, know the love of God is not in
him. His actions show that he is wolf In his nature.
And if he affects to be sheep, watch his actions,
and You will soon see the wolf under the Sleeps cloth
ing
Santa .4nnq- Intelligence from Havana states that
Santa Anna is openly preparing to return to Mex
ico
HOl0 ii IOas Done Mr.. Spencer, Senator in the
New-York Legislature, few days since, in speech
before the Senate, referred to the abolition of slavery
in Massachusetts, He said there was no specific rec
ord of its abolition. John O. Adams had informed
him ofthe probable manner in which slavery was abo-
ished from Massachusetts. It was in this wise:
a note had been given for the price of slave in
l767 This note was sued and the Court ruled that
the maker had received no consideration as man could
not be sold. From that time forward slavery died in
the old Bay State
Good Lalo for the Gils-By an ancient Act of the
good old Scottish Parliament, passed in the reign of
Margaret about 1888, it was ordonit that during ye
reign of her maist blessit Majestic k a maiden adee
bath high and low esait shall haze liberty to speak
We she likes elf he refuses to take her to be his
wifi he shall be mulet in the sum of an hundry poun-
dis less his estait may be- except and always gi
fhe make appear that he is betrhoht to anither
woman, then he shall be free"
THE Croup-Ifa child is taken with the Group in
tqnty apply cold water, ice waterf possible suddenly
ID freely to the neck and chest.
The amount of United States Treasury Notes out
anding on the ID instant was $546Ol4,38.
Yucatan, it is stated is DESTROYS of following the ex-
nipple of Texas and annexing herself to the United
tacs. The province has already declared its indie
enlence of Mexico.
The charge for transmitting communication Of if
cen words from New York to Boston, by tee graph
win be twenty five cents.
A meeting Of the Orleans County Common School
ssocation will be held at Bloomington, on Tuesday
IL
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Abbott Lawrence,

Cassus M. Clay has well-written article in
late number of his True American, on the
Letters of Abbott Lawrence, of Boston to Will
lam C. Rves, of Virginia. Here is speci-
men Of it.
Mr. Lawrence is to educate our children and
put wheels on our water courses, and then we
will fare as well as Massachusetts True, but
not the whole truth We would fare better
Just as much better, as our land is richer than
the land of Massachusetts, But why did not
Abbott Lawrence tell US that slaves were not
and could not become equal to Massachusetts
lrecmcn! and of course, education never would
become general, and wheels never be put upon
our water courses. Mr., Lawrence does not
fear competition in Manufactures from US. OF
course not; for he knows just as well as we do,
that slaves would not manufacture if they could,
and could not if they would
Now Mr. Lawrence knows, and w. C. Rives
knows, and we know, that any Slave State is
just now by slavery, what he predicts America
would be by the loss Of the tariff We are pro-
0incial, an agricultural people, without division
Of labor, and without capital, and must ever re-
main so through all time while slavery lasts.-
And we now before all America, since Mr.. Law
renee has presumed to instruct the South, put
the question to him and demand of him as
gentleman and an honest man. if our position
is not true! And if it is, that he say-yes
Mr., Lawrence may not be of that number
but we know that many Northern capitalists arc
who think slavery is a benefit to them though ;
curse to usl
We attempted briefly in our New York
speech to meet that opinion. We say in al
confidence, that the ground then taken by us il
true and incontrovertible What is the cont
nent with all its soil and minerals, without la
borl What sort of customers are the indians
to New York and Boston? Slavery is Hcarin!
out the soil of the South-'her millions are in
ert'-tane Indians. Give us free labor anc
we will manufacture much more than now, it i
rue-but still VIC will be in the main an arr
cultural people, because we have the soil am
the climate. We will have, by the energy ant
intelligence of free labor quradruple what W
have now to exchange for Northern manufac
lures.
We regretted to see Mr. Lawrence yiedin
to the Texas usurpation, with facility onwol
thy of the noble name he bears He may be
shrewd merchant and manufacturer, and Sc
new markets opened in Texas for New Eng
land enterprise. But justice and lasting pros
pcrity go in a long run together-reason prove
q it-history proves 1.-THE Bible proves it'll
$ undying promptngs Of the immortal soul prov
r. it. We tell Mr.. Lawrence in all humanity an
. reciprocal kindness, that he is receiving fror
4 the South the shirt of Nessus-such prosperit
h is the fruit Of crime-and madness, pain an
}. despair follow in its trainl When he sees M
d Rives, let him whisper in his ear, one word;
n is worth thousand of his letters able as the
d are Make Virginia. free
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Harrington the Express robber, has been taken
Cincinnati and brought to Rochester.

Harrington, the Express robber, has been taken at
Cincinnati and brought to Rochester
The Rochester egg dealers have recently sent tc
Boston by railway 2l97 dozen eggs which sold at the
latter place for IS per dozen.
DISTRESSING OccURANcE-.O the 10th inst. al
only child of Bartholomew S. and Eliza Ann Scribner
of this town. aged one year and nine months came tc
his death under the following circumstances.
A tub Of hot water was left in an adjoining room
occupied by uncle and aunt of the child while the
aunt stepped out leaving no one in the room for few
moments. The child went into the room, fell back
wards into the tub and was scaded so as to cause it.
death in about twenty -one hours.
There are two cases of small pox at Greensborough
The individuals had been to Canada and came home
and we're taken sick, and before the nature of the dis
ease was known others were exposed.
DEATH OF GEN. john P. VAN MSS The Nation
al Intelligencer confirms the rumor Of the death of
P. Van Ness He was President of the Bank of the
Metropolis
Riches takeo themselves Wings, S'c.-Two brothers il
Maine by the name of Rich have lately been married
to two sisters by the name of Wings and removed tt
Illinois.
at It's poor r,de that won't work both ways" as the
scholar said when he sent back again at the master.
head.
A lady, said to be beautiful, has been committed tC
prison in New-Yor for seducing another woman's nus
band.
Life haS,pmce.-The Rochester Advertiser says =
1--WE learn with satisfaction that Mr. L. T. Chadwick
whose death occurred on Saturday, had insured his Life
for $1,000 in the New York Mutual Life [nsuranc,
Company. This is another illustration of the benefits
of life insurance. subject which commends itse
very strongly to the regard of the prudent and the u
dicious."
The farms of Belgium rarely exceed five acres
which support family comfortably
Jesse Scott, of Elmore has been appointed Pos
Master of that town, in place of Abel Camp, resigned
Gen. Romaus NJ Saunders, of North Carolina hai
been nominated and confirmed as Minister to Spain il
place of Washington Irving, who has solicited his re
call
A wolf is a wolf, and sheep is sheep, The,
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Two men were lately cited to appear before Hard
shelf anti missionary Baptist church, to stand trial
The one was charged with drunkenness and the other
with the crime Of having joined temperance society,
The trial resulted in the acqua of the drunkard and
the accommodation Of the temperance man. The
reason assigned for this conduct is this the drunkard
acknowledged he had done wrong, but the temperance
mqa would make no such acknowledgement
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His image profess attachment to Christ and enslave
His representative, cleansed from sin by His blood
and still pressing the hearts blood from the suffering
slave, loving their neighbor themselves and yet buy
and sell their own brethren, if not their own children
wearing the easy yoke of Christ and yet imposing
burthens upon their fellow-mon too grieyous for a
brute to BEAR saved by the power Of the gospeandye
make it penal offence for one-sxh Of our citizens tl
read or understand it. Such christianity as this fully
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AGENrs.-We publish new list of Agents this
week, and hope that all we have appointed will do
what can be done to increase the circulation of the
freeman. Most of our Agents are entitled to our
warmest thanks for the efforts they have already put
forth. Money left with any ofour Agents, will be the
same as though it were sent to us. Agents may send
us money or new subscribers without paying the pos
tage
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REV N. DAYS ADnREss--This cry yaIua
BILE work has been ready for circulation nearly
2 weeks, but as Mr.. Day has not been here, Oh
left any orders to circulate Them this will act
count for the reason that they have not beer
sent out before to those who have subscribed
for the work. No time ought to be lost in pIa
cling them in the hands of every family in thu
State
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Convention may prove harmonious and energet-
ic, and give new impulse to the cause Of free
dom in our commonwealth, is the earnest wish
of thy friend,
Holm q WHITTIER
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Letter Of John G. Whittier

The following admirable letter was intended
for the Liberty Convention, but by an accident
was not received in season. Every word of i.
is golden.
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AS MIGHT BE EXPECTED.

The act recorded in the following paragraph would
be regarded as surprising indeed had it occurred in
any other than slave State:
The Democratic pioneer. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1845-1853, 1846-01-23
Poverty in England.

In this country we can form but faint
conception Of the pauperism 10 Great
Britain. According to a writer 10 Black.
woods Magazine the number Of pauPers
is d 900, 600, or one seventh part Of the
population Of the empire. The proper.
ton 10 as follows: In England l,5t0,0CO;
in ireland 2,30O, 900; in Scotland 10000
Since 1915, a period of only thirty years.
there has been raised for the relief Of the
poor in Eegland alone, upw ards of E2Oo,"
0OO. 900, or about enc thousand millions
Of dollars. On tho other hand. il has
been demonstrated, by the returns OF the
income, AK, ths: there are seventy thou-
sand persons in the Empire whose annual
revenue is E2O0 900 ,ooo. or about e..
500 each.
The Democratic pioneer. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1845-1853, 1846-01-23
BLANK CONSTABLE SALES, FOE
SALE AT THIS OFFICE.

DLANK DEEDS, for sale at the Dem
g - ooI attic Pioneer Office.
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Cherokee Nation.

We have news from tho Cherokee Nation
to the 18th uIt. The presencs Of tbs Unitsd
States troops had 10 q nsasurs restored
order. The murjerous Of Star and Rider.
on the moutain near Evansville, Arkansas,
had not dispersed. Companies ID and q,
Of the U. s. Dragons, arrived at Fort
Gibson from Fort Ouachita. on the 4ths
under command Of Captain Steen. and
proceeded to Evansville, the scene Of the
Indian disturbances, where they now are.
Col. McKissick has called upon Gen. Arb>
uokle, requesting thata company Of dra.
goons be sent to Beau tyi Prairie. Some
ofthe Cherokees who were encsmPed be-
low Fort Smith, were, at last aceounis'
returning TO the Nation,
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A man whose name is supposed TO DO
James Pollard, was frozen 10 death near
Middleton, in Logan County, ILL.,. on the
lst ut. He stopped before sundown, at q
house to enquire the road, and was at the
time considerably intoxicated. About
nine o'clock at night the team he had
driven returned TO the tavern without the
driver, and search being instituted, he was
found next morning dead ia a grove about
three miles oG. lie i. supposed to have
come from the State Of Ohio, and TO have
been a shoemaker by trade.
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Tho Second Advent Tabarnaols, At
Akron, Ohio, was badly shattered . few
days since, by the explosion Of a keg OF
powder. The pulpi, end ofths edfce was
completely blown down, the north wall
protruded out ofiine, and hanging by tho
corners, the roof unsettled, and the win.
dows dashed into fragments. The keg had
been placed Immediately in front Of the
pulpit, but by whom no ons could tail
The Bible, which lay on the pulpit, was
unharmed.
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loved aunt, will Mary receive the poor prodi
gal, and permit him to die At homel Home
blessed word!'
A week went by, and Mrs. Elicit smiled
quietly to see how anxiously Mary arranged
the little Theodosia in her most becoming
linery, and how familiarly the little cherub
talked Of her papa. A fine, quiet autumrr
evening, and Mary, almost sick with 'hope. de.
ferred,' strolled down the old wooP-path In
the opposite direction from tho approach, and
there, at the spring, by an old root sat Theo-
dore.