The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-12-11
FIR. Lords Sermon.


The Rev. Mr.. Lord of this village, preached a
discourse in his church Thanksgiving day, on
+" the things that remain discussing to some ex-
tent the state OF the country. The sermon has
baen published in the Watchmcn, and We make
the following extract from it as printed:
gHlt again. oar country ,oW remain. It's peo-
pie, its individuals will! remain. When the civil
var has dcne It's worst, and laid away in bloody
graves hundreds Of thousands Of the most valiant
and noble sons OF our land, yet It's people will not
Ne appreciably diminished. We shall give up the
doctrine OF determination end retaliation, a, the
poorest imaginable political economy. Cur homes
and domestic rights and comforts will remain.
Except in those narrow regions Immediately de-
yastated by war, the channels Of household l;te
will still continue 10 flow as Of Old time. We
shall give up the doctrine OF an universal cofsca
ton, as the poorest method CT carrying en- a war
to a successful issue or bringing entire States
composed OF our own flesh and blood, back into a
loving and peacsaoe Union. Such thing as
turning whole people, eleven millions OF men
and women and children, out into the cold, I'M
sheltered and penniless, however it might be
dreamed of in the passion OF the strife, would
never be considered when the angry blade is
saeathed, and the spirit Of God again hroods over
the face of the waters. No. til IRE will be great
loy in heaven and earth hen tbs war is over,
and it will repent us of the things which in our
haste we have proposed to do, as It repentsd
Israel respecting the tribe Of Benjamin in Gibeah,
and we shall swear, as they did, "Surely there
shall rot be tribe wanting in Israel. We sill
give them of our SONS and daughters to marry"
and there shall be glorious bridal after all this
great crushing sorrow is over, bridal blessed OF
God and Of men. For people that can fight so
well, can love better when the passion has all
gone out of their hearts, and the mlsts out OF
their eyes, and the iaisehoods out of their minds.
All, the time is coming when the King of the land
shall weep over his rcoel child slain in battle, and
over all his loyal children lying there in their
blood and his ire shall kinde against the political
Joabs of one side, or the crafty Ahithophels of the
other, whose hands are red with the gore of these
many gallant and beautiful sons that are lying
in cold graves, from the crimson fields of Ante
tam to the sunny plains OF La Fourche.
The above passase-and the same objection is
as good against the whole sermon-seens to u,
to be obnoxious to the change of making no dis
tiuction between the North and the South, be-
tween loyal men and traitors, between those who
are upholdiDg the government and those who are
doing their utmost to overthrow it. This appears
to be unfair, to say the least, toward those who
are fighting for the government, and toward those
who are giving their treasure to the same end.
Those who are in arms against the national
thorities are either doing right or they are doing
wrong; and, in our judgment, they are doing an
infinite wrong, and are guilty, both in the eye OF
the civil law, end of that higher law, of which
Mr.. Lord is minister. If this be- so. We thixk
we are not called upon to treat them with
much consideration, either ia the pulpit or out OF
It, and we regret that Mr.. Lord should have spo-
K EN- of them with so much tenderness and res
pect. At least we should have been better pleased
i some word of special encouragement Of those
who are aiding the government in its efforts to
suppress treason, had found place among the
polished periods of the sermon.
Mr.. Lords opinion of the Confi'cation measures
.esoitsl to by the government in its war upon
rebellion, are not peculiar to himself being shared
pretty generally by the latteT-day Democratic
politicians. There was no need, however, in our
Judgment to substantially misrepresent these mea-
sures, as is done in the sermon. The conf. cation
is not universal 1t is only Of the property o.,
ebels IL cannot in any event tnrn whole