Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-01-11
Our next duty is not to regret the vic


ever acts the part of a champion against
strong evils must expect to receive blows
and wounds in the strife, though he over
come. We are in some danger of being
appalled, at the cost of victory; Of wishing
for peace and union with the old malign
ascendancy of oppression, rather than the
truth and right and progress and deliver
ance, with connection and distress. But
such epochs are seldom ushered in, in hui
man story without the din of conflict and
the shedding Of tears and blood. Christ
himself came not to send peace on the
earth, but sword. The union of the
States for the purposes originally contem-
plated-the settling, ciyilizing and Chris
TANNING of our portion of this continent,
and scattering the seeds Of light and life
| to the remotest corners of the earth--is a
great and precious good. Separation is
fraught with many and great evils to our
selves and humanity the world over; but
make the price of peace consent to acrong,
cement the Union with the blood of our
brother man, drawn forth by cruel stripes
let dissolution and strife be the cost of
adherence to right and justice and the law
of lovc-and no true man will falter in his
election.
"For myself ] say to day." continued
the preacher, "and | hope and believe |
speak not for few of you, not peace in
fellowship with the iniquity of oppression,
! if it must be so: or union with that hor-
rible cement, if that be the only cement
that binds. regret not one vote cast for
freedom, and righteousness, and humanity
rejoice in that victory. THANK God for
it, whatever may come of it. And | re-
member to-day that black clouds are not
always charged with thunderbolts; that
they contain full often only windy tenn
pest though for time they may make
the sky look wild and confused with smoke
and dust the face of the earth"
Again as to our duties, we need not has
ten to sacrifice and stihe freedom of speech
l..
here in our Northern homes. That is a
bold and dangerous experiment. If it
succeed it silences takers, but converts
them into conspirators. 1t proves re.
pris Is in kind when majorities change
ideas. 1t is the first step toward anarchy,
trying and deciding moral questions by
force II is true tat liberty of speech
may degenerate into license, but there arc
laws moral and civil that apply to the ex-
crcise of this franchise. The speaker con-
tended eloqucntly and forcibly for freedom
Of speech, each mans conscience being the
sole censor of his utterance contendine
that when harsh, maddening untimely
things are said, they should be met by
personal influence, sound argument, earn
est speech, the grand auxiliary of the
press, and contracting associations, not by
the tumultuous interference of mob. L
the issue of free speech is to be raised
here in the good city of Boston, there arr
no radicals who will take a part in i
against mob law. The speaker declared
that if those who claimed the right O
free speech we're to be martyrcd for tn,
exercise of that right, he wished to be in
Guided in the list. He would shoulder {
muskct if need be and stand up for thu
light, whoever the person might be, blacl
or white, who was denied it. al
Again it is duty we owe to ourselves
to see that we are right. If we are fount
occupying any position by our past legis
lation or present attitude toward the gen
cral government or toward any sistc
State, the force of our protest for freedom
and humanity is immeasureably damaged
We cannot plead for Righteousness VIII
cover unrighteousness beneath our shell
tering wing. We cannot reach fortl
stained hands to steady thcark of Liberty
We must be unimpeachable if we are t.
rebuke either oppression or treason. Tn
"bcam," first if there be "beam' thel
the "mote' in the Scripture law.
There are those who believe that til
acts on our statute books, framed to guar,
our own fellow citizens from the grasp Q
lawless avarice and the doom of hopeless