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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-09-25
A Question Answered.

Is il our duty 10 forgive those tchO trespass against
us, before they repent
Yes, | think so. Let the testimony be exam
ined. In the Lords prayer, Christ taught Us to
say, Forgive us our debts as we forgive our
debtors" He added, "For if ye forgive men
their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also
forgive you. But if ye forgive not men their
tresspasses, neither will your Father forgive
your tresspasses." Matt, 9th chap. Again and
on another occasion, Jesus said, " When ye
stand praying, forgive, if ye have aught against
any that your Father also which is in heaven
may forgive your trespasses" Mark 9;25.-
Again he said, Forgive, and ye shall be for
given" Luke 637. Peter asked if he should
forgive one who trespassed against him seven
times? The Jews taught that one was not to
be forgiven more than three times. Our Lord
answered. 81 say not unto thee until seven
times, but until seventy times seven." Matt. l0.
So much on one side Of the subject.
Now why should 1t be thought that we are to
forgive only on condition that they who trespass
against us repent? So far as know, it is be.
cause of one passage in which that is named as
condition. 6 If he repent, forgive him. Aud
! If he trespass against thee seven times in day,
and seven times in day turn unto thee, saying
repent, thou shalt forgive him." Luke 1884.
And then relative to the passage already named
in the Lords prayer, "Forgive us our debts as
we forgive our Debtors" it is argued that God
forgives sins only on condition of repentance
and we are to do in like manner. On this re-
mark that all sin, even that which is against
ourselves, Is against God,-is an infinite evil
vengeance is his-and he will repay. Mex
| observe, that we cannot possess the spirit
prayer for transgressors against us, If we fee
unforgiving and revengeful. Next, 1t is not 81
difficult TO forgive those that repent as to require
the positive directions of Jesus Christ for us to
do SO. And lastly, we are to "love our enc
mics" feed them if hungry, and thus do then
kind offices. Can we do these things unless W.
from the heart forgive them?
If the question is not answered correctly vii
not some one answer it correctly ?-.Morninl
Star
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-09-25
VOLUME VIII. NO. 80.
Conversation beteen Discipline
and Steeple.
Dis SteeuIe. what riobt have Won 70 h,

Dis" Steeple, what right have you to be ?"
Seeple.-" A foolish question, neighbor disci-
pline, in these days. The question is what is
expedient."
Dis" Are you not proud thing, sticking
up there so high"
Steeple.-" No prouder than the purses will
warrant that put me here"
Dis.-"Are you not ashamed of yourself for
your extravaganza
SteepIe.-"I only cost $7000,"
Dis" The price of good commodious plain
church."
StecpEe.-"A barn rather Who wants to
'--.r ----' A"'sa alch old fashioned
affair ?"
Dis" do. am old fashioned enough for
that | say give me plain, convenient, econom-
ical churches, to worship God and save souls.
All this splendid architecture is unconstitutional
if it is not wicked"
SteepIe.- Unconstitutional Fiddestick.
Dear. Mr.. Discipline, you've had your day. A
new order of things has begun. Why can't you
be civil and lie on the SHELF and wink at what
you cannot help"
Dis" This to my face? Thou audacious
pinnacle! All, it is such heathenish things as
you that have reduced my once simple-minded
followers from the Gospe-and now rich men
are necessary to them. No cannot be civil.
feel that have not long to live, but my last
breath shall be uttered in protest"
Steeple.-"Why you biggotted old canting,
snuffling, ethodistical-"
Dis.-Interrupting. "Stop, stop, you have
said enough, am methodistical, which you are
not. 1t is my nature. Once such a reproach
came from the world and cared not-now it
comes from my own household and it cuts me
to the heart"
ISteeple.-" Oh! get along. Don't whine !!
What harm after all? Fact is, times change,
we change too"
Dis.-"I suppose ought to change to be in
fashion, but l cannot. So must e'er hold my
tongue. But when see any children, gayest o
the gay, ringed, jeweled, and Haunting, when
see rich men courted, and plain meeting houses
despised, and sumptuous temples sought after
| feel that my poor sheep are being led back t.
Babylon. Wo! wo! wo!"-.N Y. Sun.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-09-25
A Curious Incident.

On Friday, August IS, Mr.. Catlin, the lndi =
an traveller, conducted the party Of Iriquois In
dians, now in London, to the Crystal Palace
showing and explaining to them the many won
derful works it contains, which excited their
highest admiration and surprise, and repeated
ly elected the war-whoop, attracting impossible
crowds around them. In the midst Of their ex-
citement and pleasure, they were conducted to
the statue of the "Dying Indian" in the Amer.
can division, which seemed to produce an evil
dent detection, leading their minds back most
probably, to the painful legends of their fore
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-09-25
lDoetrpA


The Han.
Is man bit the better
For his riches, golden gains,
For his acres and his palace
II his inmost heart is callous,
Is man bit the better?
And If the mans no bit the better
For his Golfers and his mines,
For his 'purple and fine liRen,'
POr lns vineyard aAs s3s yt6ssS,
Why do thousands bow the k nee,
And cringe in mean servility,
If the mans no bit the better?
Is the man bit the worse
For lowly dress ofIags3
Though he owns no lOIdly rental,
Ifhis heart is kind and gentle,
Is man bit the worse?
And If the mans no bit the worse
For poor and lowIy stand,
For an ever empty pocket,
And brawny working hand
Why do thousands pass him by
With cold and seOrnful eye,
If the mans no bit the worse?
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-09-25

DrLreENr IN BUSINESS, FERvENT IN SPIRIT.--
resove to neglect nothing to secure my eternal
peace, more than if had been certified that
should die within the day nor to mind anything
which my secular duties demand of me, less thar
if | had been insured should live fifty years
more-.McC Cheyne.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-09-25

A well-known political economist says: we
pay best, first, those who destroy us-generals |;
second, those who cheat us-poltlclans and
quacks; third, those who amuse us--singerS and
musicians; and least of all, those who instruct
us-authors and schoomasters."
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-09-25

franklin said, "When | see a house well
furnished with books and newspapers, there
see the intelligent and wel-informed children
out II there are no books or papers, the children
are Ignorant If not proagate."
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-09-25

Be always frank and true; spurn every sort
Of aifectaton and disguise. Have the courage
to confess your ignorance and awkwardness.
Confide your faults and follies to but few.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-09-25
What was Thought of Railroads
Forty Years Ago.

The Albany Journal publishes the following
letter, in reply to suggestion about railroads,
written forty years ago by Chancellor Livings-
ton, who had been associated with his brother
in-law, Robert Fulton in application of steam to
vessels -
ALBANY, March II, 1911.
DEAR SIR Il did not till yesterday receive
yours of the 25th February where it has lott
cred on the road | am at loss to say. had
before read of your very ingenious proposition
as to the railway communication. fear, how
ever. on mature reflection. that they will be La
BILE to serious objection, and ultimately more
expensive than canal. They must be double,
so as to prevent the danger of two such heavy
bodies meeting. The walls on which they are
placed, must be- at least, four feet below the sur
face, and three feet above, and must be clamped
with iron, and even then would hardly sustain
so heavy weight as you propose moving at the
rate of four miles an hour on wheels. AS to
wood, it would not last week. They must be
covered with iron, and that, too, very thick and
strong. The means of stopping these heavy
carriages without great shock, and of preventing
them from running upon each other-for there
would be many running upon the road at once
would be very difficult. In cases of accidental
stops, or the necessary stops to take in wood and
water, &C., many accidents would happen. The
carriage Of cOndensing water would be very
troublesome. Upon the whole, l fear that the
expense would be much greater than that Of
canals. R. R. LIVINGSTON.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-09-25
Gbe fireman

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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-09-25

Better witty fool than foolish wit.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-09-25

The following interesting particulars OF the
death of the brave, but rash and despotic Gen.
Braddock, are extracted from new work on
Western Virginia, by Willis de Haas, jast pub
llshed at Wheeling.-ED.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-07-12
What Is Q Union Man !

The Commonwealth gives us the following
definitions of the Union man, North
I'm the Free States, Union man par ercei-
ionce, by which we understand, doughtacc,
a bunker n silver -groy, processes as q cardinal
point of his creed that there must be no agita-
ton whatever of the subject of Slavery. lie
is indignant with the Free Sellers, not be-
cause they hold Slavery to be an evil, but be-
cause they act upon their faith, and try to pre-
vent the spread Of that evil, and Of the bad IN
huencc which it exercises, in the general gov
ernment. Such is tho Union man of the free
States and he is willing to make his fellow
citizens believe that as he is, so are all the men
in the slave-holding States who are known un-
der the same general appellation-that they
cherish no plans, not in unison with tho most
perfect safety and quiet of the community
that they are men of peace, acting merely on
the defensive and in protection OF what they
consider their proporty-and that il is the Free
Sellers alone who ought to be regarded as the
disturbers and disorganisers of every thing that
is good
Descriptive of the Union man South it
quotes the following from a speech of Col.
Hayno who was elected as Union man from
Charleston to tho late Convention in South
Carolina.
'Col. A. p. Haync, of Charleston, South
Carolina then took the floor. He roso to de-
fine his position with great difficcnce. He
would be found in the same attitude as Andrew
Pickcns Butler and Robert w. Barnwell.
have addressed myself TO my men in the field
OF battle, without restraint; but here l am un-
able tn express the emotions which overpower
me. lie could say, without hesitation, howov-
or, that whatever her course or her iate,ho should
stand by s. Carolina Colonel Hayne then un-
dertook the consideration of the Slavery question
as property question. Within the last three
months he had visited every slavcholding State
in the Union, except Missouri and Arkansas.-
lie could declare that the institution was upon
an adamantine basis it could not be overthrown
so easily and as for colonization, the civiliz-
cd world has not the means of removing it,
We stand stronger, this institution of Slavery
stands more firmly now than ever il did before.
IL we are in want Of an outlet, Cuba is coming
in. 1t is inevitable. Cuba, it has been said
can support thirty million of people. And
when Cuba is filed up, or before, there is Mex
ico-inhabited by an inferior race. They must
give way to the Anglo-Saxon. No, sir, there
is no immediate danger to slavery; and in the
future, rely upon it, the South will be united
when danger shall come. lie therefore recon-
mended patience and forbcarance yet a little
longer
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-07-12
The Carson League.

This is the name of now paper recently es-
tablished at Syracuse, New York. 1t is con-
Quoted with spirit Its object is the suppress
sion of the traffic in intoxicating drinks. 1t is
the organ and agent Of new association, orig-
mated by I. l.. Carson of Syracuse, whose name
it beares. Mr.. Carson and his co-adiutors arc
pressing their measures with great energy
What these measures arc will be learned from
the following preamble to their Constitution
and the accompanying pledge. The papcl
brcathes a hcathful spirit of fraternity for kin.
drcd relorms-Tcrms $l,Oo per annum:
We, the inhabitants of -, feeling that
our obligations as men, our duties as parents
and citzcns and our responsibilities rs chris
tans, imperiously demand that stringent and
effective measures be taken to suppress the traf-
ic in Intoxicating liquors as q beverage, gam
bling and other kindred vices, and also that
line of demarkation be drawn so definite and so
plain, that the community may know who arc
decided, acting Temperance men, and who are
not; and believing that the time has arrived
when such measures should be adopted and
prosecuted, do therefore
Resolve, That We organize Moral Mutual
Protection Company, which shall be entitled
the Carson League of --; whose mode
of operations shall be as follows Its first object
will be the establishment of Fund of --
Thousand Dollars or upwards, which shall con-
sist of equal shares of Ono Hundred Dollars
each. To raise this sum, every person becom-
ing member shall give his or her Note for one
share or more, without interest. The fund thus
raised shall be subject to an equal taxation, suf-
iicient to dcfray expenses for the suppression of
selling Rum as beverage, Gambling and other
kindred vices.
PLEDGE.
We, the members of this Company, hereby
publicly pledge ourselves, each to the other,
and to the world, that VIC will henceforth neith-
or make, buy, sell, use, nor give away, any in
toxicating liquor as beverage; and that we will
vote for none but Temperance men for any
Town, County, or State Office, and for such
temperance men only as are in some way pub
licly pledged to give both their personal and
official influence to the enactment and enforce
ment of Law for the suppression of the traffic
in Intoxicating drinks.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-07-12
From tho Louisville Presbyterian Herald.
General Assembly and Slavery.

In the year 1915, the Old School General
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, made
formal declaration of the principle that
they would not make the simple holding of
slaves n bar TO communion among their
members, principle upon which the Church
has acted from its organization. This de-
claration subjected the church TO much odum
in certain quarters, and the changes have
been rung upon the charge of pro-slavery-
ism ever since. We are happy TO observe,
however, that two other bodies of Presbyte-
rans have come substantially to the same
ground within the last few weeks. The
Cumberland Presbyterian General Assem-
bly,, at its late session in Pittsburgh, had the
subject of slavery brought up by number OF
memorials and overtures from inferior Judi
catories and churches. They were referred
TO committee which brought in report, in
substance almost identical with the report
adopted by the Old School Assembly. They
say, for example, "the church of God is a
spiritual body, whose jurisdiction extends
only to matters of faith and morals. She
has no power to legislate upon subjects on
which Christ and his apostles did not egis-
late, nor establish terms of communion where
they have given no express warrant"
After pointing out the evils Of agitating the
church courts on this subject, and the duty
of church members to regard their servants
as immortal beings, and furnish them with
religious instruction, they present the follow
ing resolutions, which were adopted, with
only two or three dissenting votes:
Resolved, That inasmuch as the Cumber-
land Presbyterian Church was originally Or
ganized, and hes since existed and prospered
under the conceded principle that slavery
was not, and should not be bar of com
munion: we therefore believe that it should
not now be so regarded.
Resolved, That having entire confidence
in the honesty and sincerity of the memoria-
lists, and chershing the tenderest regard for
their feelings and opinions, it is the convic-
ton Of this General Assembly that the agi-
tation of this question, which has already
torn in sunder other branches Of the church,
can be productive of no real benefit TO either
master or slave; We would therefore, in
the fear of God, aud with the most earnest
solicitude for the peace and welfare Of all
the Churches under our care, advise spirit
of mutual forbearance and brotherly love,
and instead of censure and prescription, that
we endeavor to cultivate fraternal feeling
one toward another.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-07-12
A Born Politician.

The Commonwealth has the following con-
corning Mr.. Winthrop, who is spoken of is a
probable candidate for Governor of Massachu-
sets.
lie is Constitutionally and by profession a
trimmer We mean that he is trimmer as
Earl Halifax, Lord Grenville and Sir William
Temple (the blood of whose families flows in
his veins) were trimmcrs. It's curious to OBJ
serve the descent of these anscestral qualities.
The Winthrops of Puritan times We know as
the Purtans of the Puritans,-the Puritan
governors of both Massachusetts and Conncc-
ticut. The Winthrops Of our day are High
Church-of- England men. The Winthrops of
the last century were, like the majority of peo-
pie of the day, loyalists and royalists. They
have since been, in proper rotation, rebels fed
eralists, democrats, wings, and We shall see
them free-soilers whenever our party shall de-
cidedly prevail
We certainly mako these remarks, in no
spirit of cavelling at man, whom personally
we respect, and who wo believe really unites
as much as can be done the character of a good
and honorable man, with that of professed
politician. To his credit with his friends, wo
can honestly declare that barque that can
show such remarkable alacrity, in coming
about well, deserves to be placed at the head
of their squadron.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-07-12

The New School Assembly have come,
practically and substantially, to the same
ground, though in so many words they do
not avow il. They admit Shareholders to a
seat in their councils, and treat them as in
all respects "recius in ecciesia." One of the
members from Kentucky writes TO the
Morning Courier, that "no previous Assem-.
bly, for years has spent so little time in dis
cussing this question, and that an overwhelm-
ing majority voted against taking any fhrtll-
err action on the subject. The members
from the North seemed as much opposed TO
any further agitation as those from the
| Soith-all seemed TO feel that there were
other and paramount interests claiming the
attention of the church. | was told by lead
ing citizens of Utica, that very decided
change had taken place in that region, in the
public mind in the last few ycnrs. Ultra
ism is dying out and the insane and treasOD-
able course of Garrison, Abby Kelly a. Co.,
had brought the sober and rejecting portion
of the community TO their senses. They
see the gulf to which such course leads
ending in open infdelity to God aud their
country, and often basphemous and traitor
Gus denunciation of both. There will he no
division in our church on this veXed qucs-
ton. All the Southern delegates seemed
fully satisfied of this at the close of this
meeting Our friends need have no appre-
tensions, and our enemies need cherish no
vain hopes. We shall long stand uni
ted body, though scattered over some twenty
different States, continue to throw the weight
of our influence in favor of the perpetuation
of our glorious Union"
The Free Presbyterian, by way ofreproach,
says of them: 1t will be seen that they
I,o, H., ,l. e Lee
years Assembly left il: that is in league with
Shareholders. Their christian character is
endorsed, and the entire weight of the As
sembly is given, to render their practice res
pectable."
Some of their leading men at the North,
DIR. Cox, for example, who few years since
were found fellowshiping such abolitionists
as George Thompson, et i'd omne genus, are
now fighting manfully to stay the current
which they once aided to set in motion. We
hope, then, that the conservative influence of
three such intelligent and influential bodies
of christians as these, will be very great at
| the present time in staying the tide of poll
tcal excitement, which bids fair to run very
high in our country. Our New School
brethren, it is true, have so large an infusion
of outright aboltionists in their ranks, that
they will still have trouble Ia managing them.
They have, however, started in the right di-
rection at last, aud if they will only exercise
the gift of continuance in welldoing, they
will soon be able to drive Gddings and his
party into the ranks of either the Free Pres
byteridn Church." or into independency, and
the more moderate party they can eventual
y so drill, if they will initiate the example of
their Old School brethren, and mantully
Nvow and defend the principles upon which
they act, as that they will finally fall into the
traces and work peaceably.