The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-16
Gbe Dailp freeman.
MONTPELIER, WI,
FRIDAY, AUGUST 1 6. 1861.
From the Christian Messenger.
National Safe ty.

National Safety.
The arm Of jehovah alone can prove ade-
quatc for National defense, and no govern
ment can expect to meet the Divine approval
in an attitude of hostility to God, and the
principles of His Government Rghtous-
ness exalteth nation, while sin is o reproach
to any people. God is 10 respooter OF per-
sons, and he cannot be Indifferent to the
wants of suffering humanity. If any Gov
ernment fosters corruption. oppression and
crime, we may anticipate that God will
frown upon it, This fact is apparent in the
history of the world. What nation has over
prospered in a forgetfuness of God, or where
its energies have beeu exhausted in pamper-
ing vice, or its ear hardened against the cry
OF injured Innocence? In a Republican
form of Government, the people rule, and
hence have the power 70 pervott the Govern
ment. and array Its strength in hostility to
the principles of equity. When this takes
place, We may safely expect national Judg-
y, onts and disaster The safety Of a re.
rubI;,, must depend to q greai extent upon
The virtne and intelligence Of the people, and
wherever vice predoninates, SHOULD be
marked as the po. OF danger,
Corruption is the .Asia'io cholera which
passes over republics ana leaves them !l: weak
making them an easy prey to ~- ''''''' w: ::
pot. The incorruptibil.ty Of the pecp4> =
the only safeguard against the overthrow Of
the Government It is not enough to stand
and cry out a. ainst corruption when it comes.
Demosthenes lid this, and yet Athens fell
Cicero did it, and yet Roman liberty fell. 1t
was done under the Stuarts, and under both
the Napoleons, and yet corruption and tyran-
ny triumphed, The morality of people is
thing Of slow growth, requiring pat, lent
culture aud eternal vigilance in ev" ,v house.
hold. The family is the Or. sure nursery
of virtue, Even religion must go there, if
it would achieve is greatest work.
! If any system cherished in our Country,
co,, debase the household it is that of Amer
;n,, sl.rs'v. 1t .trampes rudely upon
ou.h;a. doo. -, domestic life, and the
home of the Slave is open ''' ''oi0"'o
which avarice and lust can covet. " leaves
the tender years of childhood 10 the nurture
of those who have been debasod BY Slavery.
When We contemplate the nature and results
of the vile system, we may well trem6le
for our country, when we remember that God
is just" II our iniquities are calling for
the judgments of God upon u.s. our only
remedy is to repent and turn from our trans
gressions, so that iaiquity may not prove our
ruin
The present war in our country arises from
the hostility of Slavery to Freedom. We
have long prayed that tho oppressed might
90 free, and the iciters of the bondman be
broken, and the poor Slave amid his tears
and the burdens of his unrequited toll has
implored deliverancc at the hands Of God.-
1t is true, deliverance may come amid the
din of war and the shedding Of blood, but
shall We not say, " Father let thy will be
done ?" When we are free from Slavery,
then we shall have peace and national pros
perity. While oul Government has been
anxious to suppress rebellion, it has been too
willing to cherish the viper, that has so long
been fattenipg upon the hearts blood CT our
republic. Congress has recently given a
cold rebukc to the poor, stricken fugitives
who arc fleeing from the tender merces of
Slavery, to seek the protection OF the Fede-
raj army-they are to be driven away by
those Of whom they ask protection If we
do this to the Slave, we are not doing as we
would be done by-we are not doing as the
spirit of Christianity dictates, and God will
not bless us. We are confident that God de-
signs, in this national calamity the destruc-
ton of Slavery in our country, and just as
long as we seek to suppress rebellion without
seeking to remove the cause, Just so long we