Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1862-03-07
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masters throat. And now when Itthink
of the Despotism of slavery. and it, an
tagonism to that liberty for which our
fathers so nobly fought. bled. and died
and above all when l think of Broao'a
and LoUg'y, and the host of noble
martyrs, that have already been sacrificed
to this insatiate moloch, in our own boast
cd +" Land Of Freedom" the very demon
of war is reused within me, and am not
only ready to fight but also to die in this
struggle to sustain liberty, and our free
institutions. against the worst form of
despotism and oppression the world has
ever seen.
| know that others entertain, or at least
protess to entertain. very different views
of slavery and of this war and its causes
from wha, do. But let scheming politi-
cian7 think what they please, and let in.
terested cotton spectators say what they
please and let conservative parsons dis
course as learnedly and eloquently as
they will, on the Beauty" and mutual
benefit, of the "socred' and Peculiar
institution" | know you, dear father.
kneW.-and every one who has studied
the history Of our country for the last
few years, and who has the intellectual
ability to trace the relation of cause and
effect. knows that slavery, and nothing
but Slavery is the cause of this cursed
war,
tS1uoery has ever been very mpas i'll
our Natiou,--withering and blighting the
fairest and most fertile portion of our
land. and destroying with its poisoning
influence, our social and fraternal rela-
tions, till at last it has plunged us into
a bloody fratricidal war; And our glori-
on Union, formed for the preservation
Of our liberty, and cementcd with the
sacred blood of our " Patriotic .Stres" is
tottering on the very verge of dissolution.
And yet my dear father and sister; much
as love peacc--near as | once was-and
even now am, of being disciple of the
Learned Observation-Disclosures as | am.
right in the midst of the horrors of war,
and much as feel that war is to be dep.
ricated and deplored, ! hope, even as
hope for home, at last in heaven, that
this war; may never cease, that smiling
peace may never again bless our land
that the brave soldiers engaged in this
contest. may never return to cheer the
"loved ones at home" with their presence
till slavery shall haze been Jlotted out tor
erer, AMI our land shall have become ir
very truth what it has so long boasted O.
being" The land of the free" as well as
the home of the brave" Let us have nc
more compromises with this giganti,
: wrong-no more " Fugitive Slave Laws
enacted no more martyrs starved il
noisome dungeons; hanged upon pnbli,
gibbets; or shot from behind printing
: presses, in the vain hope of producing
! peace and reconciliation.
There can be no peace, no harmony, be
tween two such antipodistical elements al
freed m and Slavery. They are diametri
cally opposite in every particular, anC
| can never fratcrnize and live side by side
: in the sane land and be prospered anc
= protected 10y the same government. On
or the other must yield, and it cannot
I mist not, shall not. be freedom. A few
S short months ago old Ossawatamie Brow
: was hanged, and slavery for awhile seemed
to triumph but his death served to opel
the eyes Of the blind. and hasten on tn
t day of rctrib,tiom" forsecn by the con
science stricken mind of Jefferson, uh
$ trsmbled fin, his country, when he looke'
Q upon the aDickedness Of sluve,y, and re
I. membered that God was just.
, Let us hope dear father that when thi
s war shall end, the great sin of our Ma
tion shall no longer stand in judgmen
e against us. go"