Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-08-06

FaithleSS,

Walden, July, 1876.

81 have not the least particle of faith, IN any plan
that has eUer gel been proposed for The removal Of SaUe-
rytTom this country do not think that any pan that
has yet been suggested, do the work. can think
Of no measure myself for its overthrow nor can
have ioa of confidence in what others are doing,
propose to do All that has been done for the last
twelve years, amounts to nothing more than firing
POp7gln against mountain. You may crOdk dUay for
ecer, and what good will it do"
So said very intelligent friend few days since,
and he an influential minister of the Gospel and be-
lever in millennium of universal righteousness on
earth! strange condition, this, for man to be in,
who is commissioned to preach the Gospel-heavens
fundamentally for reforming the world "No faith in
any plan proposed" and yet he has committed to him
"he POlCer of God unto salvation" and is sent to pro-
claim to the world that
"Earth hath no sonOws
That hedUen cannot cure"
"Very WELL but has not the Gospel been preached
in this country ever since it was first cursed by the
touch of slave ship upon her coast And all this
time the slaves have been multiplying from ship load
to three millions !"
No, my friend, the Gospel has not been preached in
the United States so far forth as slavery is concern
ed On most subjects, it has been preached and not
without proof that it the power and the wisdom of
God" But in regard to the great and iniquitous sys-
tenn of holding the bodies and souls of men in the
condition of property it has been dead and buried
Gospel. The Gospel can and will drive Slavery from
the earth. But it must be fully preached against it.
1t must be so enforced by the ministry, and pro-
claimed that it will make men thoroughly anti-savery
from christian principle This will lead them to war
against it at the altar of prayer in the pulpit, in all
their intercourse with men, and especially at the BAL
lot-bOr. Let men be ant-slavery from Gospel princi
ples in the election of rulers and the days of tyranny
bre numbered.
"All that has been done for twelve years accom-
plshes nothing more than firing popgun," &c. WE'LL
my Brother, we will 60 back some fifteen years and
see what this little popgun has been doing Fifteen
years ago, and how was it then? The great "moun
tan"-Slavery-wa here It's foundations laid as
deep as hell, it rearing is head to the very heav-
ems so covered with clouds and nsts that the people
scarcely knew there was such mountain here. In
word, the system was here with all its horrors But
the people scarcely thought of it. Ministers scarcely
dreemed that it their duty pray, and much less
to preach against it. There not printing press
in the land devoted to the rights of the slave 1t was
rarely if ever declared publicly, in any way that it
was system of blood, with which the \ orih has any
thing to DO
Then, too, such thing dnti-SldUe'y Uote, was
never thought Of North or South. True, Washington,
in his day. had said there is way to remove Slave
ry but by the right Of Suffrage" still no one seemed to
think that the time had come, to this weapon,
which the Father of country perceived to be the
only effective one.
Now, how changed. Slavery is The question Of qes-
lions before the whole American people. No other
subject excites half the interest Go to Washington,
it is the question there 90 to any remote of
the land there Slavery is the great subject before the
people. The pulpit is no longer the Sdnctum Salcio
rum into which the subject of Slavery must never en-
ter in any FORM 1t begins to speak, not as it should
IN many instances to be sure still it speaks All our
Benevolent Societies are gatet with the claims of the
slave. They must be, more and more. Public opinion
is fast being enlightened and revolutionzed. We
have anti-savery organizations, moral and POLITICAL
Above sixty thousand men have banded themselves to-
gether with solemn pledge never again to vote for
STAKEHOLDER, an apoogist for his blood gutness.
They have for the most part entered into this VOW,
from principle Their numbers are fast multiplying,
both in the free and the slave States They are send
ing their publications, like the leaves of autumn
the land Above fifty devoted exclusively to this
subject host of others are, i'll part, devoted to it
So much, faith or no faith, has been done. And if
Slavery is creature of public opinion, carried out in
law may it not must it not be destroyed, byIa revolu
ton of public opinion, carried out in corresponding
laws? Here is our work, and here our hope. Here
is the "mountain" before us. The clouds and the
msts are swept away. The eyes of the world are up
on it Now, if the weapons of our warfare,
pop-gm, let it rOacE a'oag" and be not thou faith
less.
Ell. COMINGS.