Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-12-26

this American Uniah. But how what Glove a
asunder the greatBdsish Party--one nation once
in America and Enghnd Did not our fathers
love their father.hnB Ave. They called 1t 4
home, and were lO,M with abundant fealty.- :
There was no lack II pirty for home. 1t was :
the attempt 10 makeOld English injustice ne"
England law! VIA did Il? The British peo-
pleF Never-therhands did no such sacrllege
1t was The merchanls Of London,wlth the " Nav
igution Acts" the bolticians of Westminster,
wnh the "Stamp Actp the tories Of America
who did not die " hut issue-who tor once
and Its gold would lid keep kings unjust
commands 1t was who drove our fathers
into dlsuniou agaih seir will. Is here no les
son? We love Law, all Of US love lt--out true
man loves it only a n safeguard of the Rights OF
Man. If it destrovs those rights-he spurns 1t
with his feet Is here no lesson? Look far
ther then.
Do you know how empires find their end =
Yes, the great States eat up the little as wl'n
fish so with nations Aye, but how 90 tne g!eo'
States come TO an end2 By their own lhJuS.lIG'
and no other cause. They would make unIisn,
eousness their law, and God wills not tnat II oe
So Thus they fail, thus they die Loon az az
those ancient States--the queenllest queens VI
the earth. There Rome the widow OF TWO CIV.
ilizeations the Pagan and the CathoIlcL.hey
both had her and unto both size pore oaughIe's
and fair sons. But, the Niobe Of natlons' sue
boosted that her chiaren were holer and more
fair than all the pure IDEAS of justice, truth and
love, the offspring of the eternal God And now
she sits there tranCormed into stone, AMID the
ruins of her children's bones. At midnight
have heard the Owl boot in the Coliseum and
the Forum, giyingGyoce to desolation ; and at
mid day Ihave seen the Fox in the palace where
Augustus gathered the wealth, the wit, the beau
ly and the wisdom d conquered world, and the
Fox and the Owl interpreted to me the voice OF
many ages which came to tell this age, that
THoUsH HAND JOIN IN HAND THE WICKED SHALL
NOT PROSPER
Come wstA me my friends, a moment more
pass over this Golgoha of human history, tread
ing rcverenlly as you 60, for our ieet are on our
mothers grave, and our shoes dehe our fathers
haowed bones Let us not talk of them &c
further on look and pass by. Come with me
into the Inferno of the nations, with such poo
guidance as my lamp can lend. Let US olsqule
and bring up the awful shadows OF empires purl
ed long ago, and learn lesson from the IomO
Come old Assynu, with the Nlnevltlsh Dow
upon thy emerald clown. What laid thee 10"
| fell upon my own injustice. Thereby NINE
veh and Babylon come with me to the ground.
Oh, queenly Persia, flame ofthe nations, where
fore art thou so fallen, who troddeSt the peopl'
under thee bridgedst the Hellespont with ships
and pouredst thy tempe-wastng millions on th'
western world! "Becanse trod the people un
der me, and bridged the Hellespont with ships
and poured my temp le-wastlng millions on IN
western world Eel by my own msdeeds."
Thou museikc, Grecan Queen, fairest OF al
thy classic ssterhood of States, enchanting ye
the world With fly sweet witchery, speaking
art, and most seductive song, why hest thou Their
with beaueous yet dshonored brow, reposlng o
thy borken harp? " | scorne'l the Law OF God
bantshed and poisoned the wsest, justest men
loved the lovehness OF flesh. embalmed in Pa
rian stone; loved NE loveliness of thought an
treasured that in nipe than Parian speech. Bt
the beauty OF IusticS the lovelness of love,
trod them down N srth !! L.o, therefore have
become as t""'N Noarlan States--as one
item !"
On manly and maies,ic Rome. the seven-f o
, mural crown, all oroten at thv feet whv ort thr
, here Twas not iinstice hrou1bt thee low
f for thy great Book q Laws is prefaced wi
these words, 'Justcs is the unchang'ng, eve
. lasting will to give each man his Right! :"
was not the saints ideal, it was the hypocrltt
nations under me. Their wealth gilded my pa
' aces.-where thou mUyest see the fox and he
I the Owl, - it fedmy courtiers and my courtezar
Wicked men were my cabinet councillors ii
flatterer breathed his poison in my ear. Milo
# of bondmen wet the soil with their tears al
: blood. Do you not hear it crying yet 10 Goo
j. Lo here have reccompenSe, tormented wi
n such downfall as you see Go back aud e
g the newborn child, who stitch on the Allegani
= laying his either hand upon tributary sea,
1t crown of thirty stars about his youthful brow
tell him there are rights which States mu
Is keep, or they shall suffer wrongs. Tell him III
l there is a God who keeps the black man and Il
q. white, and hurs to earth the loftiest realm III
or breaks His Just eternal law Warn the youI
Empire that he come not down dim and dsho
of ored 10 my shameful tomb Tell him that Ju
tice is the unChangng, everlasting will, to g
W each man his Right Bid him keep 1t and
in safe !"
er God save the Commonwealth" proclaims Il
to Governor! God will do his part, doubt not
nd that But you and must help Him save Il
II. State. What can we do2 Next Sunday wi
of ask you for your charity to-day ask grea
N, err gift, more than the abundance Of the rich,
es the poor widows long remembered mites Las
10 you for your JUsTIcE. Give that to your na,i'
in land. Do you not love your country? kno
70, you do. Here are our homes and the graves
y, our fathers the bones OF our mothers are und'
Ike the sod. The memory Of our past deeds al
1T fresh with US, many farmers and mechanic
ms son inherits from his sres some cup OF Mann
Ie- gathered in the wilderness and kept in memol
tie of our Exodus some stones from the Jordan
re which our fathers passed over sorly bested ar
he hunted after some Aaron's rod green and blo
Do solning with fra. rant memories of The day
it'll small things when the Lord led us-and all thes
attach us TO our native land. We love the gre'
ideas of the North, the Institutions which the
cb found, the righteous law the schools the churcI
W. es too do we not love all these ?-Aye.-
ne. know well you do. Then by all these, al
nm more than all, by the dear love of God, let |
,ry swear LHAT WE WILL KEEP THE JUSTICE OF TIL
MI ETERNAL LAW. Then we are all safe. W
go know hot what day may bring fourth, but VI
". know that Eternaty will bring everlasting peac
n High in the Heavens, the pole star OF The wor
q shines Justice placed within us as our gult
Ike thereto is Conscience Let us be faithful
Tho that.
w. (which tho il trembles as ii owy lies
18th Points to the light which changes not in hea
IN en-"
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