Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-04-07
From tho Syracuse Chronicle, edited by Mr. Raymond,
Baptist Clergyman
The Presidents inaugural.

1t is PuE.in Shef,daMs Comedy OF "Iht
Critic" (isit nori)twbssays, "Of all the
cants tina, are caiiied ID This cantng aye
save US from thescaat Of criticism" And
truly, cant, the habitual and conventions
parrot-like repetition of phrases, themselves
expressive OF important meaning or the at
tending circumstances of the utterance, Oh
the life and action Of the speaker, betray
lack Of all due sepsVaad iee''"g OF the sen
,;me,,--i. a, al So and on every subject
z;;sif: s, 'ui q aII'o'her cAnts
that are caned lh~E&canting age, we are
about ready to say, save as from the can,
of your pious pollticiad, who formally refers
to God, as his souree Of Inspiration while
deliberately and perSstentiy setting every
vital precep' of Coos law, and the whole
splrI, of Gous love. -a defiance.
When the IeadI pglpen oethe tolden time
wanted to- ds rA dow's, houses" they
got up " long "a ersfor asprefense," aud
every aggres'ioa oE The happiness of the
poor or the rlgKtl q he helpless, from that
day TO this, hax perpetra.ed in The
""'"S w '"" ""u ,&AhH' 10 tiicIc all eulCt
OF oppression put NJ III our own times,
and not sealed v the sacred name of a
just and tyrantR 8 Godl Is there a
power-bloated, H stained wretch ON a
European throne, " Nay, whpis not also a
Defender of the I'd Z Louis Napoleon,
Arch-usurper and he Chief Burglar of
France, has never zen step in all his
career OF murder aflfraud, not proiesse div
dictated by Providee, and consecrated by
prayer 1t was m Christ and his holy
church that he oyeNrew the infant lber-
ties Of France, iottkng indeed, but still
struggling for Institutional foot.hod
among Republics ind tho cannon that
strewed the streets Paris with the blood
and brains of men, ksmen and children, on
the ID OF Decembe1 were loaded with pl-
GUS 3enedictlons dpl discharged in the
name "fplylng Hebn. 1t was AIl.drec-
ting Wisdom that LEI him by mysterious
steps to make qusa Of The woman, who
refused to be his ml4ess, and still eveiy
new ut'erance of hIsEceuiuI mouth to the
people, whom herl zen night
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tnan that of the 8 he red
hand, is rounded W 10
Deity as his especfS =
taking his seat
nation, which has
ing on the world
DreseulinentIy il,aI sI3
handing o. his coQ( Wien "lot reluc.
tant, but cheertul acquiescence in laws
intended to operal&h ali time to come, IN
enslavlng innocent Hid helpless men, sun.
derlng families, btghg women to the
lash, and children The auclion-block, aud
all the other numb1fess abuses of Amer.
can slavery-nay, fauIrlng of those who
have hitherto been hide6ed with this in.
iqulty, an active AID hearty co-opertion in
II, by hunting aud returnIng to bondage
those who have one escaped, why should
not President Piece, after putting forth
this requ'sltlon IN ne strongest terms, and
without no much asthe fantest ulterance of
a reg, ct as at paafa nsesssity. conclude
by resting his hope Thai this work of OPP
preston and cruelgaplght go,on undis.
turbed by the sensitive conscience of the
nation, in its "nwble, acknowledged
dependence upon God and his over-ruling
Providence 7" ~
We greet this address with certain sort
of satisfaction. LIS well written. and so
no, d,s,as,eful to od bride of national re-
|, is @.fpoten aud explicit,
and so neither open she reproach, nor
did not expect professions of FreesoIism
from Mr.. Pierce, weYould dIstrust them if
he had made any ~ ID and always has
been, consistent opponent of every liberal
principle, except wkaa'ay be comprised in
the narrowest sort of Sew Hampshire Loco
Focoism.--the msauss school of the mean.
e., ism 10 creation. We are quite willing
The sng-song Of the I glorious union, "-at |,
so IA