Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-08-19

HSu'S ~ Slod WHICH, lG SluulDlGlH lCSL Ut lOIu
see 1t and be displeased." We ought not to de-
size that either army may be successful in the
work of slaughter, but that they lay down their
blood-stained weapons, and strive for peace.
"lt was but yesterday that two nations met
In battle dire, and each, with Gods great name
Upon its lips, went numbering all the day;
At eve, the victor, full knee-deep in blood,
Cried "Glory, glory " to the ~frightcnd wind,
And I'll his people, with an idiot smile
On their pulled cheeks, cried glory to the stars
That %shuddered at the sound"
Victory a glorious victory! are among the
ordinations which have been reverberating thro
the length and breadth of the land. Let the
bells be rung fire your hundred guns! thuador
nightly ye cannon from every hilltop and valley!
clap your hands and cry hurrah, We mighty men
of war but know that He, (Which sitteth in
the heavens" is looking down frrownngly upon
such a course, and will have you in derision.-
He will "laugh at your calamity and mock when
your fear cometh." Truly "the head of this
nation is crazed, and its heart is w~eIl-nigh rotten"
Save US, great God or we are everlastingly ru-
ined
Where, Q where are our ministers of peace
that they do not lift up their voice like a trnm-
pet! Where are our phiIanthropists and true
patriots! Why does not the press, which has
so long flooded the world with moral and reli-
giou5 light, utter its voice in tones Of thunder !
Thank Heaven! but few Of the religious editors
of this nation countenance or apologize for the
war. / know Of none. Yet why do they not
speak out in stronger terms and make the officers
of government feel the criminaIity oftheir course
in thus bidding defiance to the will Of God and
the veal of man.
A stage or railroad accident, a steamboat dis
aster, a few lives lost by the visitation Of the
Almighty, a murderous alray in which some
half zen are killed, or even onc-as the muir
der of Parker at Manchester during the past
year, the burning of a theatre with a score or
two of men and women perishing in the flames,
will send an electric thrill of horror through
the whole community while on yonder battle
field a hundred fold greater loss of life seems to
excite but little attention. A short time since
the newspapers were teeming with notices like
the following Horrjbh catastrophe. Drta4fut
disas'@r. Hcmt-rending c%alamity. Terrible
loss Of Hfc-the Atlantic steamship has been
wrecked, and forty passengers drowned. A few
weeks prior to this melancholy shipwreck some of
the very same papers announced the loss of life
IN Mexico, and their announcement were head
ed with, "a glorious oictory. Splendid mhicc-
mcnt.-The enemy are defeated about one
thousand Of their number have been killed, while
the loss of slain and wounded on our side is only
four or fce huadred." o what is man! what,
but a bundle of Inconsistencies!
O! my brother oh say "what mystic spell is
that which blinds US to the suffering of our
brethren'' when slaughtered by hundreds and
thousands ? which makes US deaf to the wall Of
disconsolate widows and fathetlcss babes? Be
hold that scene see the mangIed bodies of the
dead and dying about to be shovelIed into rude
graves, or left as a prey to hawks, %vullures and
hgenas; and say fthe sight is not sickening
aud appalling. Hank! | fancy that I almost
hear weeping aud sobbing among heavens inhab-
ltants; methinks that tears are falling like rain
drops from the eyes of angels as they gaze down
upon the scene. | don't know but the idea may
be an %irrevent one, yet if g%lorided spirits ever
weep, it must be at such a time, in view Of such
a destruction of human life. But bark again
methinks a hideons laugh is uprising from the
mouth of ell-demons and devils there arc
holding a sort of carnival, and cIanking theil
chains in fendish gIee.
And are not those engaged in mortal combat.
while exercised with feelings Of retaliation and
revenge, allied to the spirits of darkness? D.
they not sympathize with Satan, the most maIig-
nant ofall beings? SAYS CoIeridge, eff a man
is not rising upwards to be an angel, depenC
upon it he is sinking downwards to be devil
lie cannot stop at the beast. The most savage
Of men are not beasts; they are worse, a grea
deal worse"
Now | have but one brother according to thC
flesh, and probably | cherish as much affection
for him as ever did brother for brother | IoyC
him as my W soul, bat | should rather Sc,
him drop dead in the streets this very day, and OF
the morrow follow his lfeless remains to the n4r
row house appointed for all living, than to hay,
him volunteer his services in the present war wit
Mexico. Shall our young men, our abled bod
led men, our fathers and brothers, who might b,
blessings to themselves and the world, leay
their peaceful New England homes to enlist il
an enterprise which is unparalleled in wickedness
and s~acrafice themselves as whole burnt offering
upon the bloody altar Of war! Heaven il
mercy forbid! Would that the wives and chill
dren and fathers and mothers of those slain nigh
be allow ed to speak, while clad in the hablIi
ments Of mourning, and demonstrate against tn
war. My friends, | again ask, is this in reaIltl
+ the nineteenth century aud shall men continue
to murder and be murdered, and no voices b.
raised to enquire, why all this waste of humaI
life I Well may we shudder at the thought O
the wrath of which our nation is heaping up t
itself against the day Of wrath. O my Lord
'shaII the sword deyour ~forever!' Shall me-
made by thyself, redeemed by thy Son, and de
signed to be temples for the Holy Ghost, b
transformed into tigers and blood-hounds, an
tear and rend and destroy each other ?
Blessed be God, a day of universal peace
yet to come, when the gospel Of Jesus shall hav
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