Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1861-06-07

work OF the revolution. One man or age
doesn't complete a revolution. Moses
was unable to lead the chosen tribes into
| the land of promise. The English ma
ton needed to wander forty years in the
desert, after leaving the house of bond
age. So the leaders in our revolution
saw the good land, and were ready to en-
ter, but the people were not. God, we
must confess, is just in making us both
sharers and instruments in the punish
ment of slavery, because of our compile
ity in the sin. He is saying, Cast out
the bond woman and her son; for the
son of the bondwoman shall not be heir
with the son of the free"
6. The hand Of the Lord of Hosts,
who is the God of peace, is visible in this
war. The wise have been taken in their
own craftiness, and the counsel of the
froward carried headlong. Like the play
Of Hamlet, with the part of Hamlet left
out, they plotted to establish a govern
ment and form a union, without authority,
union or freedom. But they have only,
by their open attack on the American
flag, succeeded in uniting he North
against them, as the heart of one man.
All party channels are lost before this
mighty wave of patriotism. The peo-
pie willingly offer themselves" What
King by taxes and conscription could at
once raise such men and munitions of
war? Who restrained their impatient
ardor until the proper moment 1t is
related that at the battle of Waterloo,
the Duke of Wellington, commanded a
body of his men TO lie down, the better
to shelter themselves from their enemies
fire, and await their near approach. As
they suffered terribly courier after couri-
er was despatched to hasten the order to
charge. None the sooner for that, but at
the critical moment, the voice Of the "Iron
Duke" was heard, " Up Guards, and at
them !" The result decided that worlds
battle. So at the decisive moment, the
was issued at Washington; and
there sprang up an innumerabIe army,
that had been hidden from their enemies
view. Those who first so conquered
themselves, can afterwards conquer eve
ry enemy. The ocean lashed into fury
is sublime spectacle; but not so sublime
as this for the depths of old ocean are
always calm, but lower than those depths, .
down in the hearts of the people is this /
storm. They seem to form but one body, /.
and to be actuated by a single spirit
Tor populi, Uor Del. The voice of the
people is heard, like the thunders of the .
and their arms will soon be
elt like the bolts of His wrath. Let
slavery hear the knelI of her doom this
5 the beginning of the end.
There was once a premier over a hun
lred and seven and twenty provinces,
Who had honors, riches and dependents
more than enough; yet all this awaited
lim not, so long as there was a single in
lividual having so much back bone, as not
o bow down to him. He therefore plot
ed his destruction, but was foied in his
irst attempt to effect it. Upon this he
vas warned, that if his enemy, before
ghom he had begun to fall, was of the
eed of the Jews, he could not prevail
gainst him. So he found it, when hung
imself, upon the gallows he had pre-
ared for Mordecai. The slave power is
this wicked Haman." Long has it
uled this sisterhood Of states. Yet all
bis availed it not, so long as there was
he anti-slavery sentiment which would
ot fall down before it. We see as the
esult of its first application to the sover-
ign power, to destroy it, this same de-
pissed anti-slavery sentiment which be- q.
,re had sat at the gate, clothed with the
obes royal and symbols of authority, and
reclaimed as that which the people de-
ght to honor. And all this, the more
} mortify them, they are compelled to
o, who were applying FOR its destruction.
would advise them then, as a friend, to
lquire if it is not Of the seed of the
'uritans, for if it is, they will certainly :
Ill before it, ill they are utterly cast
own. Their Unsuitable revenge extend
i to the whole people connected with it ;
ut it is not New England tina; will be
1T out of the reconstructed republic, nor
that will be brought under
le ban of the Union. Let them beware ; n
icy will only gibbet themselves, for the n
,uthern people are already informed f
bout that gallows fifty cubits high. So r
uch pride must have a fall, and Nor
scai will make better premier than his |
redecessor. On the whole, l am rather e
the opinion, that the stock of the Pu- |