Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1862-08-15

S the tate impending over our loved coun
= try, which we call on you to avert. Ou
e whole people are not threatened wit
q death or exile, and the fearful calamitie
r that overlook the Jews. A darker rui
menaces US. If recreant to your dut
: you may become renegades to your re
r ligion, and apostates from the politca
S principles of your fathers. The darl
waves Of anarchy, error, oppression, AM
cruelty will deluge our whole land. In
: stead OF liberty, there will be slavery
! Instead OF schools and meetings, slave
pens and collles. Instead of jury an,
r suffrage, there will be mob-rule and stree
murders. Long will desolation SWEEP
: over this fair land. There is for Us NJ
middle course. If we fail, our fall will
be extreme as was our elevation. We
have been lifted up to heaven to be cas-
down to hell. From the very pinnacle
ot peace, power, prosperity and freedom
we shall descend into an utter abyss oi
misery. And whilst we are the scorn
and dependencies of European despots
the ghosts of subdned states, absolutely
republics will address this nation, and
say, "art thou also become like unto US,
art thou also made weak as we 2" 1t is
from such fate, family described by
such terms as that of peTishiog, and both
in its nature and continuance most like
to the misery oC the damned, that we
call on you to redeem whole land, and
that your own land. Is the death of the
body-short however painful-for a
momen. to be laid in the balance against
this: When prepared, by the grace Of
God, you lay down your life at your
eountry's cali, the worst thing foes can do
to you is the best thing God can DO for
you. Dying, you 60 to heaven; and by
dying you save the whole nation from
becoming hell.
II. We remark, in the second place.
that you should be ready to die tor your
country in this war, because that it is not
for this nation only, but for universal hu
manity that the children of God, which
are scattered abroad NAV be gathered
together in one"
l. This continent is a rendezvous for
the dispersed, and refuge for the no.
bIest and best Of every land. We, who
occupy 1t, are but trustees for the perse-
cuted aud downtrodden of every nation,
who all have one father. The Scandin-
aYians, the descendants of those old sea
kings, come over to navigate our great
inland waters, and according TO their
amphlblous nature, assimilate with the
sovereign people and are all kings on
land
The Germans immigrate here, and
find the nationality, unity and freedom
they have so long been vainly seeking
IN their own tather-land.
The gallant Irish, by the voyage Of a
few days pass through a change equiva-
lent 10 that OF centuries. They leave
behind them the feudal institutions of the
middle ages. They forget the beadle
and landlord. They escape from the
tyranny OF ruling class, the domination
oil loreign race, and the eXactlons OF
an odlous church. Under other skies,
and on this distant shore, they find new
heavens, and new earth, wherein there
dweIIeth freedom.
Our cause, then, is not only the cause
OF our country, but of humanity, and Of
God and every motive of patriotism,
Of philanthropy, and Of piety urges us
10 be faithful to death. VIII you allow
the boundless resources Of our continent
to be closed TO the Industrious and enter
przing of Europe? Shall the expecta-
ion of the poor perish for ever? Is there
40 door Of hope, no asylum Of escape for
he oppressed /? The men of every creed
and color, and class may so live as to feel
hat God is their father, and dwell to-