Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1862-12-16
Green n4t. freeman
MONTPELIER, VT.
Tuesday Morning. Dscsraber 10, 1862.
Mr.. Lords Sermon.

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The Rev. Mr.. Lord OF this village, preached .
discourse in his church Thanksgiving day on
"the things that remain" discussing to some ex-
tent the state OF the country. The sermon has
been published in the Watchman, and we make
the following extract from it as printed:
stu again, our country uM ru.1n. Its peo-
pie, its individuals vii! remain. When the civil
war has done its worst, and laid away in bloody
graves hundreds Of thousands Of the most valiant
and noble sons Of our land, yet lts people will not
he sppreeiably diminished. We shall give up the
doctrine OF determination and retaliation, as the
poorest imaginable political economy. Our homes
and domestic rights and comforts will remain.
Except in those narrow regions Immediately de-
vastated by war, the channels OF household life
will still continue TO flow as Of old time. We
shall give up the doctrine OF an universal cofsea-
ton, as the poorest method Of carrying cha war
to g successful issue or bringing en- tire States,
composed Of our own flesh and blood, back into
loving and peacsable Union. Such thing us
turning whole people, eleven millions Of men
and women and children, out into the cold, I'M
sheltered and penniess. however it might be
dreamed Of in the passion Of the strife, would
never be considered when the angry blade is
shsathed, and the spirit Of God again broods over
the face of the waters. MOI there viii. be great
Joy in heaven and Garth when tbs war is over,
and it will repent US Of the things which in our
haste we have proposed to d. as it repented
Israel respecting the tribe Of Benjamin in Gibeah,
and We shail swear, as they did, Surely there
shall not be tribe wanting in Israel. We will
give them OF our sons and daughters to marry"
and there shall be glorious bridal after oil this
great crushing sorrow is over, bridal blessed of
God and Of men. For people thst can fight so
well, can love better when the passion has all
gone out Of their hearts, and the msts out of
their eyes, and the alsohoods out Of their minds.
An the time coming when the King of the land
snail weep over his reoel child, slain 10 battle and
over all his loyal children lying there in their
blood, and his ire shall kindie against the political
Joabs OF one side, or the crafty Ahthophels of the
ether, whose hands are red with the gore of these
many gallant and beautiful sons thar are lying
IN cold graves, from the crimson fields OF Ante
tam TO the sunny plains of La Fourche.
The above passase-and tho same objection is
as good against the whole sermon-seems to a,
TO be obnoxious 20 the change of making no dis
tinc!ion between the North and the South be-
tween loyal men and traitors, between those who
are unfolding the government and those who are
doing their utmost to overthrow ii. 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 nationa au-
thorities either doing right, or they are doing
wrong and, in our judgment, they are doing an
infinite wrong, md 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 think
uc are not called upon to treat them with
much consideration, either ia the pulpit out of
il. and we regret that Mr.. Lord should have spo-
ken Of them with SO much tenderness aud res
poet. A. least We should have been better pleased
il some word OF special encouragement Of those
who are aiding the government in its efforts to
suppress treason had found a place among the
polished periods Of the sermon.
Mr. Lords opinion Of the conh,cation measures
resorted to by the government in its war upon
rebellion, not peculiar to himself being shared
pretty generally by the latter-day Democratic
politicians. There was no need, however in our
judgment to substantially misrepresent these mea.
sures. as is done in the sermon. The conGscatou
ia not universal. 1t is only Of the property Of
rebels. 1t cannot in any event tnrn "who
people, eleven millions OF men women and chill
dren GU, into the cold, unsheliered and penness,
inasmuch as there are not so many people in the
rebsous districts to be thus unhoused. The en-
tire white population OF all the seeded states i,
but FIVE and one half millions, one half Of Mr.
Lords figures and counting in Maryland, Dels'
ware, Kentucky and Missouri, the population
amounts to but a tribe over eight millions. W.
certainly think the con6sca.ion measures nigh
have been fairly represented before they were thu
sweepingly condemned.