Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-02-17
TIL E FIR L L Nj A N.
For the Green Mountain Freeman.
Our Cause and ifs obstacles.
Not more than half the Clergyman Of Vermont
PrO-,Sl0yeryI

Not more than half the Clergymen Of Vermont
PrO-SlaUgy!
am told, sir by friend of the cause, whose chart
ty is pretty enlarged, that have overestimated the
number of Cergymen in the State who have thrown
themselves as Obstacles into the pathway of the
slaves deliverance that not more than one half of
their whole number in Vermont should have been in
cluded in my computation. Most gladly, sir, do
stand corrected in this matter Would that my friends
estimate could have truly exCupated the other half
from their deep and burning degradation. Only one
| half Of the Cegymen IN d State pro slqueyM Infamy
enough that, without more! Only ha!f the standard
bearers Of the glorious Prince of Peace transformed
into spiritual hyenas, prowling and digging among the
filth and pollution, and dead mems bones and all I'M
ceanness, of SLAVERY Infamy enough! Enough
that one haf Of the appointed leaders in the great
warfare against SIN, should turn traitors to their high
trust and sell themselves to work out with greediness
the vilest drudgeres of Satan Infamy enough, that
one hnlf only Of the Heaven commissioned ambassa-
doris of mercy to lost world, while they are proclaim
ing their messages Of glad tdings to Earh's afflicted
and sorrowng oncs,-only one haf of them, while
they hold up the love of the Cross as the unfaiIing
cure of earth's maades, the sovereign balm for its
oes,-Ony one haJf of them, they thus stand be-
tween the living and the dead one huff ony are
sadng with the cold iron of their heels grinding down
into the mangled necks of three millions Of theiI
neghbors" the PROSTATE images of God' in chains
One HALF! In Gods name nfamy enough.
Hencetorth, We pro-sayey teachers Of a religion
the choicest Of whose heavenly precepts ye daily sci
at nought in pructice Ye who worse than the prizes
and Levte day after day look on turn aside and pass
codly by your "neighJorS, who have fallen literally
among thieves" Ye who 60 up annually to Liberty.
temple and instead of oeGring incense, like true wor
shippers to the God of liberty and heaven, bow your
selves down ignominously with your hands on YOU
mouths and your mouths deep in the dust of sefde
basement and lmpiously sacrifice millions Of perishne
souls to the God Of Slavery Ye, who do all ye cal
by your political influence to prevent the appointment
OF the only nstrumeutaity under God of hberatns
your neighb0rS" from the thraldom of perpetual rob
berry, and of pointing them into the way which eadctI
to the skies! Ye, who are rapidly identifying your
selves IF not already identiied) with those self-.gh
teous PERSONS of whom it was said by one who knew
whereof he spoke, "they neither enter the kingdom o
" Heaven themselves nor suffer those who would tt
" enter in !" Ye, who have dedicated your temples o
worship to the God Of the .4nglo Saron and have in
scrbed upon the posts of their doors, and upon hei
sacred affairs the impressive motto: A RELIGION uY
ADULTERATED WITH HUMAMTYm IIenceforth "
and those portions of your little blacks, which follow
your teachings when at some future time We chance
to look around you to see how far We have travelled il
that blessed pathway which the vulture's eye hail
not seen, the lions whelp trod" and how much fal
Their ye must journey, before ye plant your weary foo
upon the upper CanaaEs quiet shores, and Just as "
are fondly fancying that ye hear in the distance thu
mellifuous strains that flow from harps that Angel
strike to swell the HaIlelujah song when at this poin
the startling fact first flashes upon your sefdarkenet
vision, that instead of drawing near the objects of you
waking dreamings, yo find yourselves cropping you
blind and crooked ways down by the cold waters O
Babylon, with your harps unsrung and on the willow
hanging, and with lank, haggard wolteyed tiger jaw
ed lranness preying on your souls, then and fror
thencetorth, o. We proslavery teachers, whoever Y
are-be calm! be patient! charge not your conditio
to any mysterious dealings of Providence, but consol
yourselves with the reflection which We have often In
cucoted for The benefit of Others that whatsoever
man so'ceth, thai shall he also reap"
(Io be Continued