Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1862-06-06

count lying, stealing, murder, and trea.
son as praiseworthy acts; to bring upon
their own heads The horrid desolations
and incalculable miseres of war; to burn
their own villages and cities, destroy
their own works of internal improvement,
and commit 10 the flames vast amounts
of their own wealth; to load themselves,
/ their posterity, their states, and the whole
land with an intolerabe burden of tax
ation,-what is it but patriotism run
mad what is it but patriotism intensi-
i fed, seetonalized, and narrowed down to
a point: fiery, excessive, bigoted, intol-
Grant OF everything except what relates
to the emolument and exaltation of that
small part Of the earth which it regards
as native land? Here we see on a broad
scale, what immense evils result from
patriotism unchecked by Christian bal
ances and uncontrolled by Christian prin-
clpIes. Pampered to excess" says
Robert Hail, sit loses the name Of vir-
tue, and is the bond and cement Of gull
ty confederation" 1t needs to be liber-
allied, 50 that mo pent up Utica" nor
eve" '"o Oou"u'eSs CONTINENT sAaii
contract its powers, and the whole world
'oa'' come "''N'n It's scope; 1t needs 'ol
DC Chris'IanIzed, SO that While It Is care
lul 10 render uhlo C@sar the things that
are Caesar . 1t Is much more careful to-
render unto tod the things that are
1od $. It's sentlmen; must not be "Oar
country, right or wrong but "Our coun-
tfyi Il hght to be kept right; II wrong.
10 oe made righ'.
/. Christian patriotism distinctly re-
coGnlzes the great truth that government
IS divine Institution. Taking the word .
OF God as It's guide, il cannot believe
otherwise for that word teaches no truth
more distinctly aud emphaucaIly than
this, that all government is Of Divine
origin and authority, in respect 10 It's
substance, and its right to control the cit
zen. There IS no power but Of God II
The powers that be are ordained Of God : 1
from the beglanlng, and made
part o' Tue eternal constitution oil
-nihgs' governments 90 not derive
'"e'r just powers from The consent OF The
5o'''' ''s'' ou' ''o'h goa n'n'se'' Hu'
n'a" agency anu human consent are con-
-s'''7u o"'S !" 'he production oil 'hose
'Pec'lc IoIh' uhuer "h'ch government .
sHiS'S IN d'i'efent countries God Or
ia'nea neither oHsarchy nor democracy ,
neither monarchy nor republican; but &
'e did ordaIn the power which men have ,
noided INTO these ana various other Z
oFth9 OF government lie made govern :
heh' natural necessity, by constituting T
nan Soc'a' oe'nS' ana rendering society r
.ssehIiaI' ho1 only 10 ms happiness, but r
o MS very existence p
"l'hou' government Tn ere would a
'e either anarchy or individual ISOLATION
nd IN either case society would be des-
royed. Government Is the instrument >
y which society perpetuateS itself, and
y which God carries forward His pur- u
,oses for the material, social and politi- o
al Improvement Of man. The form is .
ot essential 1t may be patriarchaI, =
democratic, monarchaI, or mixed. 1t .
lay change with the changing circum Il
iances OF n people, and their advance +
lent in intelligence, civilization, and re- II
ources. The government Of the chit L
ren Of Israel changed from a theocracy St
a monarchy; that of Great Britain a
ON an absolute to limited monarchy, W
nd that of our own country from a con. ly
sderation Of States to a government by o
re people. But, in whatever form, and NJ
trough all changes of form, it still is Of g
)iyine origin and authority. AS 10 its II
iteror substance and binding force, it is u'
d ordnance OF 0od while as TO It's eX- Id
rna' Iorm ana manner oi administra- p'
0n' II Is an ordnance ot man. 1t Is p'