Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-09-28
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For he Green Mountain Freeman.
A LETTER FROM REV. j. s. GREEN.

For lhe ureen Mountain Freeman.
A LETTER FROM REV. j. s. GREEN.
MAKAwAo, Maui, Hawaiian Islands,
June 3Oth, 1851.
Mr. Thompson, Dear &r:-In january l,s5
wrote and forwarded you a communication,
but as was then obliged to use my left hand,
have some fears that yoa could not read it*
Having measurably recovered the use of my
right one, hasten to prepare something more,
which hope yoa will be able to decipher.
would speak often with my Green Mountain
friends, though unsson for Igreatly desire that
you, one and AN, take the right stand on the
great and interesting questions Of the day.
Since | wrote you, the Nebraska iniquity,
(who could have thought it possible y has been
cOaccired; and see that men, base enough to
engage in any dirty business, are rendering their
services AS midwives And 80, too, that OIL
cious hands have been busy in preparing its
swaddling clothes. Still there is faint hope,
from present Appearances, that, instead Of a
child, tho labor will end in u contemplate abor-
ton, The Lord grant that it may thus prove;
for if it be born, you may all stand aghust, for
so monstrous a birth has not been known since
Milton S " Sin and " DcdM " were brought
forth in the fruitful Imagination of the great
poet. Without figure, let me say, cannot
yet believe that the Nebraska bill will PASS. |
have too much hope of my country as whole.
God grant that my hope may not be delusive
one. | admit that there is much reason to fear
that a holy God will give Up our beloved but
sinful country, as he seems to have given up in
diyiduals, and indeed large party, to unite
with Shareholders in tlcir deeds of yillainy. |
do not wonder that Shareholders made contd,nt
calculations on success in urging forward tie
Nebraska BILL They doubtless sui posed tlat
their sham eless leader, himself from New Eng
land, understood the state of things at the north
and west. They could not have thought, as it
seems to nc, that leader of the character Of
Douglas was so stupid lis to reckon without his
host, and lead them 10 support measures which
would fail, and thus cover them with shame.
Is il not deeply mortifying that SO infamous
bill should have been concocted by one who
once breathed the sweet air of our Vermont
hills And yet WHO but doughface could be
found ready to perretrate SO mean thing Oh,
shame shame When will the Northern apol-
ogists of Southern institutions learn that they
win, not golden opinions nor sincere respect,
but secret contempt and hatred! slrewdly
guess that the author of that infamous Nebraska
bill will be despiscd at the South even more than
at the North. /" Tie name of the wicked shall
rot" and trust that the lreemen of Vermont
will do as little as consistent to keep back such
, process. That the citizens of Brandon,
his native town, are ashamed Of one, WHO has
done what he could to disgrace them, am right
glad to see. should not regret to hear that
; they should do more still-even to the blotting
his Infamous name from the town records.
hope too that mothers in Vermont will tell their
sons of the shameful course of Stephen Arnold
Douglas, and warn them to beware Of the course
of demagogue, Of the infamy of a Benedict
Arnold Of 1854.
July 4.
must say word of the day of our country 3
Independence. am with you in spirit this
day, and earnestly desire that you may so Gel
citrate the day, as to secure the sympathy of the
God Of nations. suppose that ere this you
know the fate of the Nebraska bill, and this
knowledge will, Of course, give a shape to the
manner of your celebration of the anniversary
af the Declaration Of Independence, made by
our fathers. While long to hear the decision
of Congress on that subject, trcmble lest |
hear that your public servants lave been faith
. less to their trust, have given tile Genius of
Liberty the &c, crest stab she has ever received
. a stab which, but for the mercy of God, will
prove fatal. If the Nebraska bill has been
frustrated as pray God | may soon hear,
hope may hear also that this day. this ami
versary of our country's independence, has been
spent as Il day of devout thanksgiving and
prayer. In this deliverance of our country
from the chains of domestic slavery, forged by
our own fellow citizens of the North, from tho
terrible pit dug by traitorous hands, am quito
sure that yon will have more, much more occa-
sion for rendering gratitude and praise to the
God Of nations, than had our fathers in the time
of their struggle as colonies with the parent
country, when they declared their independence.
Does any one scout this idea as an cxtravagapt
one! Let me ask such an one to look at the
cause of the revolutionary war, and weigh it
with Slavery, an extension of which is the sole.
though thinly disguised, object Of the Nebraska
> BILL A small tax on tea, glass, paper, &c. 10.
a tax which could scarcely be deemed oppres-
: sive--was the cause of the war. Compared
with Slavery this evil was SO trivial as to mock
: al! attempts at comparison. Talk of the ever
lasting Hills in balance against the thistle down,
. or gossamer itself, and you much more nearly
approach comparison. Or, if it be said, as it
: very likely will be, that though the tax was in
u -
n +fhe communication nlluaed duly receive nd
published, and a copy mailed 10 your address.
y En-. OF FREENBg.