The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-19
The Fate of the 0ppressor.

The Fate of the 0ppressor.
There is not one among toe judgments of
God that has not been visited upon the op-
pressor. The record Of what lie did Tor Is
rael in BONDAGE, stands the perpetaaI witness
that the cry Of the oppressed does not fall
upon ears that will not hear when they come
up before God. Though He may tor time
grant immunity to the lask-nastsr, until
great pyramids rise from the desert and vast
national prosperity becomes a landmark III
history still the day Of wrath Is only post
poned and His vengeance will smlte the guilty
with all the more fcarfal violence. With what
blindness has our nation gone on IN The SID OF
human chattelism As people, We have
fastened TO cover up IT'S enormitles, defend
it's inlquities, and strengthen with fresh but
tresscs the areary prison house OF four million
slaves True, we read how tn Egyptians
were punished with bitter woes for the very
sane sin. but in our blindness we have carried
our shame openly before the world, and de-
med that there was any parallel between the
old Egyptian taskmasters, and those who bay,
and sell and drive in the fields OF cotton and
cane, Gods own image, III the plneteenth cen
fury. With II bIasphemy, that IN better
age men will wonderinsIy recall, "e have
even dared to claim that cur Slavery Is "a
missionary work, bumaDizlug and Christian
izihg those who otherwise we're saVages IN
their own land.
All this we have done as a people, and this
while the cry OF these four million slaves has
gone up to heaven in bitter wallngS. 1t has
been IT,, voice OF manhood robbed OF all that
elcvates humanity. OF womanhood wronged
and outraged by system that 10 the black
race denies m.li.u purity aud the sweet re-
lations OF wife aud mother. In the middle
OF our career OF prosperity, the vengeance
long delayed has fallen. 1t comes as Judge
ment OF the Almighty, Furnishing the sin OF
the oppressor. 1t comes in this civil way
wnicn has arrayed the STAKEHOLDER against the
! government.
Every lite lost at pittsburg is Il penalty
for our national sin-a sacrifice TO slavery.
This bood.stained field, with its heaps of
slain, the precious dead over which the North
lnourns, the terrors OF the battle, its dread
encounters OF sci ricd hosts where brother met
brother, u d in that fiery rain OF shot and
shell fell side by side, al this speaks to US at
testing that God has not forgotten the OPP
pressed nor spared Us from the doom OF the
oppressor. The waling and lamentatlou
that is now going throughout the land Tor
first born slain, the gret that will be carried
into thousands Of homes and rest its black
pail upon many thousand hearts, all find their
parallel in the records OF Egypts crime and
trial, all speak to this nation as God spoke
to the land Of Pharaoh, Let my people 60 !
Bind is your nation, indeed, and reserved
for ia, more fearful punishment, ii we heed
no, this warning. IT our Congress iail tc
comprehend the issue, if our churches are
slow to see that God speaks to US from out
the thunders of these battles, If the people
their hearts wrurg with grief at the visitation
still cling to that which is its cause, the evi
day is yet to come upon US. compared witt
which the present is but day of prosperity
God has barred his arm in behafo Of the Amer
lean slave, and ha, Sc. the great question
and problem of thu age before u.s. Shall W.
let his people go' Shall Legislation shield
slavery now that it has rebelled against thu
government Shall speclous and hollow
compromise be restored to, to delay il pos
sible little longer the end which must come
for God will work his purpose in behalf o
the oppressed.
While We write this we must not forge
; the encouraging tokens of the time-.he Mes
sage OF President Lincoln, by which emanci
patton 10 recognized ~ the head OF the ma
tionaI government, the freshly dscreod free
dom to the slaves in the District of Columbia
the many proofs Of better anu purer pubic
sentiments For all these We thank God bu
much yet remains to BIZ done, and in :h
meantime let us recognize the hand Of Go'
in our national Affections, aud see that He is
in all this, working for the removal OF on
great national sin, and the punishment of th
nation that has protected and defended it,
, Northwestern Advocate.
I The NJ E. Church South, and the War.