Windham County Democrat. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1836-1853, 1853-10-05
From the Penn. Freeman.
Gods Time to Abolish Slavery.

Wait" saith the Quaker. and "Divine wisdom
will do the work" "Pray," saith his Calvinistic
neighbor, ''and the Lords hand shall be stretched
forth for the slaves delivorance - and while ,s
waiting praying the power Of the oppressor grow
eth the number of his victims ifcreascih The cruel
ties multiply, and the heart Of the nation haren like
Pharaohs under the cdhtihhed preparation of niqu,y
Such walters and prayers, however invouniarily
they may be So the less the efficient auxil-
iaries of Slavery, the hindrauces of emancipation,
sort of non-conductng inertia between the fire of An
ti-Slavery truth and the evil it would Consume I'm
susceptible of conversion and incapable of much ac-
tivity for any reform, it has little to do but TO pass
over or by them, as best it may to the promotion of
its object
1t is amazing that this class of opposers never real
ICES its obligations TO those activities which it depre-
Gates standing in the focus of the light of time en-
loyng the fruon of the world S life and labor for
centuries il does not perceive that its advantages are
but the aggregate result of the labor and suffering and
sacrifice of men who proceeded it, whose prayer was
that of action, and whose waiting was reverent
wachfuness for opportunities TO promote human wei
fare.
Even the material progress of the world is marked
by immense expenditure of human energy and trea-
sure and often of life. The great discoveries or in
ventions which have wrought eras in human condi-
tions-the art of printing the use of gunpowder, the
needle the steam engine. the electric telegraph and
the caloric enginewere all the result Of toll and sac
rifce, while the stupendous changes in the moral
world alike the consequences of ceaseless activity
of the greatest heroism and of continued suffering
Prophets, Disciples and reiormeis, have gone fortl
with their lives in their hands-have toiled and fallen
until literally the path of the is among the tombs
of its martyrs; but their warfare has made the victory
nearer and surer and the last battle must be fought
by the same means and with equal energy.
Gods time is that time when man seeks to Danish
ungodly things and to inaugurate Divine Laws into
power, and apply them as his laws of life.
There is pro-slavery detestable and hurfu
as that which, having seeming sympathy for the
slave, is yet in positive hostility, whining conscien
tous excuses for its attitude trying TO escape the u
UNIVERSAL obligations of humanity by pleas of specia
exemption disappearing God by attributing TO hi;
providence the existence and continuance of those in
EQUITIES which man has created and which it is hi:
special business to remove.
Ant-Slavery has this large class to contend witt
and will always have it, for such people are constitu
tionally labor and sacrifice and it is easie
for them TO await the Providentia overthrow Of evi
than to 'work in faith for the deverance -; this elias
will live to wait the Lords time" for the remova
of war or some other evil long after slavery is abol
ished, and in the meantime Ant-Slavery will contin
NC its warfare, aggressive truth, active tn
Heaven, until the victory is and the nation is re
stored to the likeness of Freedom. P.