Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-02-03

sending men to fight the battles and raising money to
supply the armies
Why my friends, it is national wrong, and the
whole nation IS responsible for it. We, my friends,
are like passengers embarked upon common ship.
! lhe voyage Is prosperous, if the gales Of heaven
oloW propltously upon us, and carried to the
maven OF peace, we have one common safety, But if
on the other hand, storms come and overwhelm us,
common ruin befaIs u.s. and we cannot separate the
destiny which awaits all And my friends, that this
might not be a common attrocity it was done in the
name OF freedom! 1t was done in the name OF eX-
lending our free institutions, because we were free
ana Christian people, Aye, and we are sending our
msSonarles abroad and ! suppose that you have in
this city, famed for its chares-I suppose that YOU
have agents OF missionary societies that come among
you and ask for your charities of your wealth or your
Fehury as the case may be, to send the gospel off to
heathen lands, that have not got any free Institutions
! Hear hear'l Well, my friends, when they come a.
gam ana make suchan appeal to you, ask them to what
pace ueV propose to send their missionaries Task them
what place is 50 lost and SO reprobate as to require
missionaries to teach them Christianity from such a
goVernmentas ours Ask them whether they have
found in any island of the ocean, or between the ev-
ehastng mountains of Asia, in valley, or lin the
deserts Of Africa people so lost to God and to every
noble impulse OF humanity, that they are stretching
out their robber hands to take rome other nations land
solely Tor the purpose of extending human slavery. Whv
my friends, II they have got such place that, give
them something, but do not give them more than half
,hat you can spare Save half for your home missions.
Send missionary to Washington and let him teach
the departments and agents OF your government that
gospel the first principle Of which is the deliycrance
othe captive and the opening of the prison doors to
them that arc bound.
| bud, iny jrends, wonder low it would have sound
ed to the good people Of Massachusetts, if the Gov
ernor OF your Commonwealth at his annual thanksgv-
ing, when he called upon the good people ofthe State
to thank he God of the harvest for the abundance with
winch he bad blessed them to add also another clause
that he had been pleased to make US the humble in
suments in his hands of extending the foreign iudu-
ence5 OF slavery. ,Cheers) And why not, my friends
fl it be as our government has said calamity to pre-
vent the extension of freedom?
lfthrough the agencies that We have put forth tho
tears OF the victims Of oppression still darken haven
why shall we not thank Him that he has made us the
instruments Of such great good to the world. Why
my friends, the thought is almost too impious, but it il
carrying out the suggestion of the government Few
calamtes could betaI the nation more to be lamenter
than the abolition of slavery in Texas" Here then
my friends, is the position in which we are placed
Here Is war confessodly upon its very face, prosecu
ted and carried on for the purpose Of promoting thi
calamity. And ook my friends, to the development
Of but day or two since. See the letter published b,
the Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate Of tht
United States, that he IS unaItcmby opposed to tht
WIimot Provlso, for that lis inevitable consequence
would be an instant stoppage of the supplies Wha
IS that but saying that the war is carried on for b
extension Of slavery. And the moment that YOU 81,
that the slave territory is not to be extended that ma
ment you have peace. And if you want to know thu
remedy, why, my friends, let the people ofthe Une
States be lndocrlnated with the notion that no more
slave territory is 10 be added, and our armies will b.
called home, as by an enchanters wand
Well nv friends have the people of the free State
any interest in this matter? If You have each an
every one of YOU any duties to perform in this matter
is there anything due to the memory Of your anclen
and better days? Is there anything due to the plight
cd faith which Won have written upon voar constittl
ton and embodied in your public acts, years gone by
over and over again? If not my friends if all this
FORGOTTEN if al this is to be Of no avail lot me as,
there il arv nur,osc left for the noone Of N,ssacbn
sets. Hive thew anv moral senso have thov any,
thng left II bov can 500 tho notonol waolt and n
national resources aIl nIeJqad to srch aggression =
This and tbev NOT wake nm n nvncl md rof9rno IN
rovor,roent That oro car,l;nr ont thosa ,oo,sI,ros
,ot me asl, Won NV friends what is nncossqrv-- +
what extent mugt tho Government 90 vyl,7+ nnrnosn
mnsthov disclose What now, sahoInn3 ln,s t,e sot ~
foot to wake nm the soenin,, ENERGIES If thosc VIII
saw il is NOT outo tin,a f., risn3
confess nv friends. do not know. 7 cannot SO
tllQU the future tI1n that which q
welcomes rs the Docv now carried ont and tbo moan
and measures now employed to carry if out conf.
that have not ontics to roach dcan rno,rh into III,
bIacl nit Of inlanv IN SEE n nont whore yyo wi
vaIn m
knor INV friends tb,t, doc4rino nro,,,;,s ovtor
syov onon,yn ne that cnnderns al incpirios Io mi
o+ flo ,,r,soT'+ lima md sot, IL J,,, ~, ltso h,.
we are engaged in war; II is adn,ted that in t9o
r nc,ce Won nav ecrnt,n;qo-ond err1finiyo with III
rro.toSt oyor;tra,orrtb;rcr tbot ror crororr,o,
r doos nnrnoses and nronosas Won NAV boId ,bon,
tbe strictest occonntahEtv That Won CON noss;b ;,
or conceive Of Won NAV canvass tbeir deojs w
nav Iet the frccdom Of the nrrss RIM ns i wore int
centionsness and stI if The country ;s nt nooro
/ f,n,f is 70 he fonnd
But il is conenI,l that in tiroc of war 5,,ro,
rule prevails. That them M sound Of abo
be heard, no voice should 90 M but raRns OF prIs
and no shouts 90 IN bnt Of those who hive nlnnro
the country into war do not so understand nv DIT
do not so read history Because read that in 70
ner days when the country from which we emirrate
! wagcd war upon our forefathers the pures in thu
q country were loud N their denunciaton of the wa
: which was hostile as they believed to the genius
i the government under which they lived. And thos
names will forever live sacred and dear in the hear
Of patriots, as long as the love of liberty finds restn
Place in the human bosom.
= The names Of these DISTINGUISHED men that n,oo