Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1858-04-23

not IKE that poor woman, SO lL-cldu anu
industrious. She will stitch her life into
the garments, working at starvation wa
ges, and yet will pay the fines tokeep the
street-drunkard out of the House of Cor
rection, where the city government hides
the bodies of the men it Stays. She tolls
till at length the silver cord of life has
got lJosed, and the golden bowl begins
to break. She goes to my atheist, and
asks, What comes of all this Am to
have any compensation for my suffering !?
And the Atheist says, Nothing comes of
it; there is no compensation. You are
fool. You had better have got IL
cense from the Mayor and Aldermen to
prey on other mems wives about you;
and then you might have had wealth and
ease and responsibility. You ought to
drink of blood, and not shed your own.
"Abels blood cries out of the ground;"
continues our Atheist, but there is no ear
of Justice to hear it, and Cain, red with
slaughter, goes off welcomed to the arms
of the daughters of Nod; the victims of
nobleness rot in their own blood booty
and beauty are both for him. The world
testers with the wounds of he hero; but
j, there is no cure for them the hero is a
fool-wounds prove it. Saint Catherine
has her wheel, Saint Andrew his sword,
Saint Sebastian his arrows, Saint Law
renee his fire of green wood Paul has
his castings, his watchings, his scourge,
and his jail, his perils of waters, of rob-
bers, of the city and the wilderness, his
perils among false brethren, and Jesus
= his thorny crown, his malefactor's death
Kossuth gets his hard fate, and Francis
the Stupid gets the Hungarian throne
the patriots of France broil in the tropic
marshes of Cayenne, and Napoleon, sur.
rounded by cultivated women who MAKE
merchandise of their loveliness, and by
able men who make merchandise of theil
intellect, Napoleon the Little fills his owl
bosom and the throne of France with hi
debauchery; Europe is dotted with dun
geons,-Austrian, Hungarian, German
French, Italian,-they are crowded will
the noblest men of the age, who there d
perpetual penance for their self-denia'
their wisdom, their justice, their affection
for mankind, their fidelity to God
These die as the fool dieth. There is n
hope for any one of them, in body with
out a soul, in an earth without heaven
in a world without a God. Does no
that content you?"
"AlI the Christian world over, Op
preston plies its bloody knout,-its PAL
l. metropolitan Priest blessing the scourg
before it is laid on. The groan of tn
poor comes up from the boys of IRELAND
d. and from The rich farms of England, an
% her crowded manufactures. Men max
u circumstances in London, which degrad
~ two hundred thousand people below III
n Cannibals of New Zealand, and starv
N the Irish into exile, brutality or DEATH
er The Styling Of the prisoner, breaks OF
IL from the jail or the tormentors who
ra -" Holds the body bound,
Butknows not what range the spirit takes
he "The iron grippe of kings chokes Il
. throat Of the people. Every empire
INF girded at the loins with an iron belt
10 soldiers, which eats into the nations fes
Siberia fattens with Freedoms mob
nd dead, and in America three millions
;s men drag out life in chains, bought
M cattle, sold as cattle, counted as cattl
TO only not prayed for in the Christi;
Ike churches, as cattle are and the lit
nj commissioners who kidnap at Boston, al
av the great stealcrs of men enact the ste
utes which make women into things, a
honored in all the Christian churches
the land. Most of q the great men,,
- the " citizens of eminent gravity" all t
- unimpeachable divines," are on the 81
Of wrong. Cry out, blood of Abel the
~ is no ear to hear you. Victims of mob
ness, rot in your blood it will enri
''0 the ground. Ye saints,-Catherine, A
drew, Sebastian, Lawrence, Paul, Jes
% bear your rack and gibbet as best Y
."o may Kossuth, stoop to Francis t
lay Stupid Ye patriots of France, kneel
ue- Napoleon the Little. and be jolly in t
!" Sodom which he makes. Ye that gro
"5 in the dungeons of the world, who star
'"e in its fertile soils, who wear chains in fl
America,-yield to the Jefries, the h
naus slave-hunters, and the priests
there is a body without a soul, an ca
without heaven, a world without G
Atheism is the theory of the Univer.
-, and there is no God, no Cause, no Mi
no Providence"
The Atheist looks on the lives of
7ry' noble men