The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1857-10-22

tarn the balance Of power in favOs OF
slsyery.
VIZ. Datns judgments are denonnc-
cd againsf oppression.
When thc people of Judah resolve up
on continuing their servants in bondage
and accounting them as property, Jeho-
YAK says, "If ye oppose not the stranger,
the fatherless, and the widow, and shed
not innocent blood in this place, neither
Talk after plher goods to your hurt ;
thep | will cause you to dwell in this
place, in the land that ! gave to your
fathers forever and eyer. Execute
judgment IN the morning, Cor betlmes)
and deliver him that is spoiled out Of
the the hands Of the oppressor, least my
fury 90 out like fire, and burn that none
can qucnch it." AS they resolve TO go
on; he continues, " Execute ye judgment
and righteousness, and deliver the spoil.
ed out Of the hands of the oppressqr !;
and do no wrong, do no violence to the
stranger the fatherless nor the widow,
neither ahod innocent blood in this place.
Is not this the fast that ! have chosen :?
10 loose the bands of wickedness, to undo
the heavy burdens, and let the oppressed
"a free, and that We break every yoke
But if We will not hear these words,
swear by myself, saith the Lord, that this
house shall become desolation. Then
Zedekiab made covenant with all the
psspie which were at Jerusalem, to pro-
claim liberty unto them" Brethren,
just such covenant did our fathers enter
into in 1916. But, witness the sad re-
suits Of political wire-working. The his
tory goes Oh to say, :" Now when all the
princes, and all the people which had en-
tered into the covenant, heard that every
one should let his man servant, and every
one bis naid-servant, 90 free, that none
should serve themselves of them any
more, then they oheyed, and lot thsM
60. But afterwards they turned and
whom they had let 90 free, to return, and
and brought them in subsection for ser
ga4ts and for hand-maids Therefore
the WORD Of the Lord, came to jeremiah
from the Lord, saying, ye were now turn
ed and had done right in my sight, in
proclaiming liberty every man to his
neighbor; and ye made covenant be-
fore me in the house which is called by
my name; but you turned and polluted
my name, and caused every man his ser
nAnt, and every nam his hand maid,
whoa he had set at liberty at their pleas
ure, to return, and brought them into
subsection, to be unto you for servants
and for landmarks. Therefore thus saith
the Lord; ye have not heaFkened unto me,
in proclaiming liberty every one 10 his
brother and every man to his neighbor
behold, proclaim liberty for you, saith
the Lord, to the, sword, to the pcsti-
1ence, and to the famine and | will
make you to be removed into all the
Kingdoms Of the earth" No sooner said
than done. To the sword, pestilence,
famine, and captivity they went 4ud
we find the abused, prosecuted, weeping
jeremiah bitterly lamenting, Judah is
gone into captivity, because of affliction,
and because of great servitude."
Time would fail me to give descrip-
tion of similar judgments upon Babylon,
Tyre, Rome and other nations for their
oppression,
had thought of asking you to ponder
upon the inevitable fate of these United
States, if the present slave extending
policy is to be pursued. will content
myself, however, by quoting feW lines
from Jefferson, the apostle of democracy
and civil liberty. He exclaims: What
a stupendous, what an incomprehensible
machine is man who can endure toll,
famine, stripes, imprisonment, death it.
self, in vindication Of his own liberty,
and the next moment be deaf to those
motives whose power supported him
though his trial, and infict on his fellow
ynsn i bondage, one hour of which is
fraught with more misery than ages of
that which he rose in rebei1ioa to oppose.
And can the liberties of a nation be
thought secure when we have removed
their only firm basis-a conviction in the
minds of the people that these liberties
are of the gift of God =? that they are not
to be violated but with his wrath? In
deed tFemble for my country when l
reflect God is just; that his JUSTICE Gan,
pot sleep forever; that, considering mum.
hers, nature, and natural means only, a
revolution of the wheel of fortune, an ex,
shange of situation is among possible
events; that it may become probable by
supernatural interference! The Almighty
has no attribute which can take side
with US In such a contest"
Our respoaHbi1ity is greater than spe,
rested upon people before
RULERS, in former times, decided such
questions; but now it for each individu
nj to say Yhether you will have SLAYER,