Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-09-18

in every way possible--c0mmil:ed Ia white anJ
black, BY temperament, by their whole lives, b
all the associations and pursuits OF their lives
so thai even selfshness necess lIalcs the righ
side. -
Oh. thou slave king Thy DAYS are nearly nun
beled "a eightd art thou in the balances AM
found wanting l hanks TO the dear God, ever,
fr. p SOU in this lard has heard IN The vest wind
the burden Of the olden phropiiecy Arise
for this matter belongeth Into thee he Of guo
courage and do it," Let the fu'l fact burst upon
US that $50 600 men, the entire number Of slave
holders, are keeping thirty millions in deadly
conmolion and leud fast ! aiding 10 civil war i
that une more inrh of United States terllloryl
given to slavery implies that every man, womaaI
aud child in the North is slave; that the Pro1
Slavery representation of Kansas. which is Iareei
than all New Engla would, should il be adnitl
ted, checkmaic all the Ani-Sayery rover ID
Congress for five centuries, and make the UpiodI
absolutely norrable. Let each man feel that
his ersona manhood is involved and that crawl
ing in the dust is not living. hat, yer be cul|
occupation, let rs strike The task and save the|
State. Let the Artist zee that he cannot be sd
good an artist nor find 81 much patronage as il
this was lled Let he farmer see that aborI
is degraded and ag ,cullure clogged. Let the
man Of letters see that the specili faculty isl
mixed and manned by these inldid spirits of duty
whose camur dIowns all other spirits. Let the
moralist see that it ia the fountain Of public and
private corruption; that in it the oden pr9pbesy
is fulfilled. s. Because iniquily doth abound, the
love Of m1ny shall wax cold
Thus each man, approaching the fact from hisl
own office by his own. door, shall fad that, ID
the form Of man carnnt be lnund on the sand
geologic plain with the vast extinct Iuoustet4
which needed primeval marshes for ih il elemeGx.
81 the highfsi spiritual manhood cannot coexis \
with this dIag n, p lsonlng the ain. Thus has
the lufnite Father Of Aft an and Caucasiau
made il one cause with theln. Ii tae North
should consent to Slavery extension, il would
now forfeit not only al nobility, which many
could yield because they have nom, but all their
interests which they cannot yield. Fv'ry spirif
whJh can be reused against it is now ro"""1
Nature is now in labor with g.. ...ul
hearts " hicll shall be sett on o. - rjY 10 his
guil, Analhema NaI4n1itli! " AL live in a
different country Of thai of six weeks ago. |
trust we have all und rgone The 9TH adapted to
the new conditions. What is the praise OF blame
when ii is nnlo'dcd = Il we are born to be or d.
One thing is row forever ed, that The sub.
jcct is 10 be definitely d. alt with. 1t is up now
and cannot he put down by any power. nor post
poned. llenceIorth 10 freeman is ever going to
be quiet. II is idle 10 think of it, Go to Mary
where she sits beneath the Cross VII reon her
only Son hangs, with five ghastly wounds and
bid her calm her grief. Never ill she secs him
arise from the Ienb shall she I've GAINED. So
we, sitting under The very shadow of the Gross
where tle dom hangs cucifed with those five.
bleeding wounds which The last len years have
gwen III each Of which i, ,ongGe Of Gre--huw
shall v2 he qUleed 1t cannot br Not Ii III
The tcsrrieclion morn Of FreednuI rises on our
f land s'm We Cease To W ep and pray and work
aud vaIrll by the sepulcher Ahead oh NV
brothers. heir the Halter OF the angels Wiuns
rs be comes to roll away the Stone and break III
sea OF the Slave Power
Let us all he ready, standing awaiting the
vcloN OF God Tn mountain is inde d h oh
and strong our strength is small onr might
weakness. Bot if each one surreuders himse #
this d'y and hencelorlh 10 be The passive inslru
lneht OF the best instinct striving ia him. his
acIs " III ceast To be h work of mere man
and MS to the grandeur and influence Of direct
acts "l God, Each can now be workman
l"i Il d, his visib fnger entering the moulding
and alfrs of men. beseech you, . Christians.
yield Jourselvt thus. Lend hand to the great
cause God and men and know that success
is c 'rlain. The tongue of God bath SPOKEN il.
Mt by might, nor by power, but INV spirit.
saith the Lord 1T hosts Who AIT thou, great
mouhtllu, before Zerubblbel thou shalt become
pan"