Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-04-29

HIM who condensed one-half of the Great Moral
Law into this brief precept, 4" Thou shalt love
thv neiphbor as lhyseIf.D Moreover, you be-
long to the Nj. f. Church, and profess to be
follower of that John Wesley who has recorded
" words as hard as cannon balls" against all
sLoveholding, placing it "exactly on level
with man stealing" Still more. you are, or
mere. a class-leader in that church which says,
"No stakeholder shall be eligible to any cticlG
station, when the civil law will allow OF eman-
cpatiou, and permit the liberated slave to enjoy
freedom" Being minister in that same
church, and possessing the facts recorded aooVe'
claim the right to speak and should De 81
lent | should deserve to have "my tongue
cleave to the roof of my mouth"
But, what will you do with that man! WIN
you keep him in your brick-yard, where you
can be daily witness of his longing for free
dom, and of his agony while separated from
his wife and child? Or, will you send him to
the accused trader in humanity, and consgn
him to more wasting toll, and an early death
in some more southern locality? Once, if your
word can be taken, you humanely interposed to
save man from this latter doom. Yea, and
secured his freedom on easy terms TOR him,
though at some risk for yourself.
But whatever you do with Preston, charge
you to remember your conservation with me,
for ! have written it in my Notes by the
Way" which my children may read, and show
to others hereafter Nay, it IS written in the
book of remembrance" before God and you
will meet it "before the great white throne, u
when the dead shall be judged out of the
things which are within in the books" You
aud will Imeet them, and both here and there
ready to testify that you deniEd all right to the
man whom you have since so cruelty wronged.
At that tribunal you will meet that deceased
wife, who, according to your own showing,
died in the belief that the slaves which she I'M
willingly brought to you, would be freed by
your act There too, will the man Preston
appear, not in the relation which he now holds
to you, but OH level with yourself in station
and right And there will be seen the Cife
WIDOWED; and that chiid ORPHANED, by YOU
Possibly the Fugitive Slave Law will not then
be III force, nor extend its power into that king
dom where the Judge Of all the earth presdes
That unjust and nhuman enactment may not
then be advocated by Busted, and unJustly ex-
ecuted by Morton. And it is quite possible
that holy men who gave scripture for the
Decd" will have learned u better morality tina
they taught here which served as an oplate to
consciences like your own.
Bat leave you, and all your agents, and all
your sympathizers, whether North or South, to
Him who judgetb rghteonsly. | write under a
weight of mental anguish, which would lead
me to use harshness But | remember that
" the wrath of man worketh not the righteous
ness OF God" | will not even adopt the Ian
guage of the Archange, and say, The lord
rebuke thee !" But may and will say, the Lord
have mercy on you, before the time shall come
when he shall have judgment without mercy
who hath showed no mercy"
For the substantial facts which have stated
l refer you and the public to Rev. Elisha
Adams, Presiding Elder of Dover District
New Hampshire Conference. He was my
fellowguest at your house and though have
had no communication with him since the close
Of that General Conference, yet he shall be nv
witness. B. M. HALL,
Pastor NJ E. Church, Schenectady, NY.
.4priI, IL, 1859.