The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-09-14
For The National Era
VERD-MOET AT HOME.

1t is rainy day among our "NortherI
mountains" yet am glad of it. Music canDO
be dearer to me than the Kolian gushes of tn
storm, that drives the pattering rain drops il
showers upon the roof and window-panes, ant
all the flooded valley. Now, this might seem
cloudy fact to some, but as emphasized, a.
every power in Vermont ought to be) am &
natural philosopher, | account for it with nat
ural reasons.
"The powers of the wind and the ocean,
The rush of whose pinions bears onward the storm,
not only breathe the inspiration of freedom and
Joy to the plodding children of toll, but giVe il
to me, dearly-loved raindrops!
Have been reading the Nebraska debates
and freedom struggles in Congress-of course
everybody reads them. The spirit of liberty
so long latent in the hearts of our citizens, wa:
not dead-it Is rising. 1t is the peoples
now, as it never was before. Compromisers
Unionists, Wings, &c, aluos. without an ex-
ception, spurn the resolution of breaking down
the Missouri Compromise to-slGvery. And
this is not 80 much to be wondered at, for al
that the Free-Soilers are in the minority. Ill
claim themselves Free All think more or les.
for freedon-alss, that they should not oftener
act.
| But there is one creed or doctrine, impressed
on the youthful mind with the first rudiments
| of thought which--though good in its place,
like everything else-is nearly fatal to all gen.
erous, noble emotions of humanity. 1t is de-
UOtion to party. Doting fathers, whether Wing
or Democratic, teach their children, first of all,
that party devotion is the most sacred princi-
pie in politics. Veterans in ife's warfare,
"scarred by time, and hoary- haired" lift their
sunny-faced grandchildren on their knee, and
praise their devotion to party schemes, party
men, and party nominations, "good or bad"
And the principle of right, the heaven-born
principle of action, which should be the gui-
ding star of freemen, is smothered beneath our
miserable life Teachings; and the cid parties
are sustained for what they have done, as
though heg were the only palladium of safety,
and were Godlike, could no. err. In such an
hour as this, however, in the excitement of the
times, old thoughts and rules are forgotten
"the world must move on In some way and
tyrants often rouse the antagonistic power that
overwhelms them, by the very excess of their
greedines fer oppression.
Also, have just been looking over Tupper's
Martin Farquhar) works. Do you call them
"good!" In his sonnets, he says to Wash
ington:
-" Great, virtuous, modest;
Mature hath culled the best of Greece and Rome,
And moulding all their virtues into one,
Gave to her infant world Washington"
To Tell:
go, Liberty sweet Angel much maligned."
And again. in his Proverbial Philosophy " of
Subsection"
"Whence cometh the doctrine that all should
be equal and free? We are equal and free
was the watchword that spirited the legions of
Satan"
Beautifully harmonious poetiques, are they
notl And that watchword how must we
take it? All allow heaven an oppcsitive, as
far as may be, of hell-as far as light Of dark
ness, as good of bad then, of course, their
tOatchpords would not be the same, but opp0st-
tiUeS. Hence, the watchword that "spirits"
the angels Of God must be, eve are unequal
and slaves"
Indescribably beautiful halos of truth, loom
ing DER the sea from England's genius-son, are
they not? KARL GLoAMIN.
FerHoHt, 1854.