Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1862-10-07

to make this matter Of religious conviction ;
! if they assume now that God has come to judg-
ment with this nation, and will, for their future
policy ask not MIR. Seward, What wilt thou
have me to do Mr.. Seymour, What wilt thou
have me TO do nor even Mr. Lincoln, What
wilt thou have me to DO? but, Lord, What
wilt thou have me to DO lit the Christian
public viii settle their duty N the ll5ht 0! eter-
nifty and the great truths Oh u0l 5 "ord-if
they will take thGsaye and bear him 10 Oalya-
ry and lay him down under The Cross OF Him
that gave his life for the poor ana Wretched,
and then, as the grea. drops TALL from the
wounded side upon his beaten ana DfalSe0 body
IT, kneelng down, they viii say Jesus what
wilt thou have me to do Tor tins poor ana OPP
pressed one and will settle it there under that
influence, have no fear We shall see Strug
giles aud 90 through deep and bitter TRIALS yet
but the future is bright, for where CHRIST SITS Is
daylight and morning And if the whole Chris
tan public Of the North set their faces toward
God and move toward Him they will move away
from night aud toward the day-a day that,
when it shall have arisen lpon this continent,
viii know no settlng-a day OF Christian llDer'
ty, the harbinger of universal liberty, OF a
world rogeneratod. God grant it,
As for me, | am determined by that same help
that has been youchsaied to me from the begin
ming to preach gospel Of liberty, among you
and 10 bear witness for liberty, as founded in
religion, to all this nation | will no, be ntIm
dated shall MT be persuaded am simply
calm, but intlexlblc. Come veal OF come wo
whether we are defeated and cast back again
on whether we 20 forward Immediately to the
prosperity Of an asGertained and settled liberty
as long as have life, and health and strength
mo breath, | will use them first last, chiefly
ANA only for the enunciallon Of that g0spg
which brings release to the captive and iIberr
70 man ! w0a be put down will not b.
stopped by MODS | will not be inundated b.
political threats and with me is thrice tel
thousand men whose hearts will grow bJIder %
m5n seek 10 STIR up the common people " pjilJI
cal acts out OF winch shall come intimidation
| -ay TO them land they may as well know
first as last) there is no power in hell. boug
you bring S eglons and It's monslrosltiCs up0
the earth there Is nothing that for one slngl
moment will inder or turn back this testImon
thaJ 900 nude man 10 be free. | III preach
for Che serving woman Tor tie day l46Jrer. 70
the white and for the black man. I'll praac
IT Tor the oppressed Of other lands-lor the lsh
man, the Dane, the llug.ishman, he struegln
Italian, the Hungarian, Tor every man--lor Go
hath made ali nations Of the earth OF one bloc
10 dwell together. own the brotherhood.
accept every man as my brother, inberiting III
right, and as long as claim for myself hbert
| II assert it for other men-l'll live for it an
die Tor 1t. applause in all parts of thehouse
J Ieel this is not my own individual expression
| am moved to this because it is the public sen
timent Of States and OF communities. am bu
the mouthpiece Of millions OF men, and say t
those that mediate treachery and tyrann,
" beware God has come to Judgment, but ii
has come to Judgment that will purify hi
people and make them peculiar people zellou
OF good works. We shall see a glorious ma
ton, restored constitution. We shall see
liberty in whose bright day Georgia and Masaa
cbus2tts will shake hands that never shall
separated again. There 10 Jo'e 10 De raked opel
vef No. shorc is ferceness Of hatred bu
here shall come concord, fellowship and union
and when this comes We shall have a Union tha
no foreign influence can break and no hon,
trouble shall ever mar again.