The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-04-14

track. They, doubtless. mistake the name,
Of it, but by no means the fact. RetributiOp
and crime must SEINE day lock each other in
the face. Pharaoh thought oppression ssfs
but the plaques and the Red Sea revealed HI,
disastrous error. There is a strange ubiqutv
and Immortality in justice.
alfalfa, the queen mother of the Hebrews
thought she had destroyed it when, in her
lust for power, she arose and destroyed oneby
one the seed royal !; bat, to her utter dis.
may, justice rose up from the foot of the
altar, when trembling with alarm, she fed to
it for protection. The proud monarch Of
Babylon thought he had dethroned and muir.
dered justice when he defed the Holy of Hol.
ics seized the sacred vessels, overthrow the
walls of the temple and the Holy City, muir.
dered or enslaved the innocent in uncouuted
thousands, and returned in triumph to his i'm.
perial palace. Beshazzar had no idea Of
any living power that could punish his heaven.
daring crimes when he brought out the sacred
vessels to minister 10 the pleasure Of princes
courtiers, lords, and ladies. But an armless
hand traced his doom upon the wall, and his
knees smote together. Herod thought he had
beheaded justice when he beheaded John the
Baptist; bat he saw the flash of its sword
when he met his doom at the close of bis proud
grafton, amid the wild shouts Of the populacs.
Crime is timid because justice will not die.
This is the reason why the guilty start when
the wind rustes the leaves behind them. They
think that the ayeDger of blood is on Their
track. Judas saw the blood on the thirty
peices of silver, and threw them down upon
the pavement in alright. The murderer sees
blood on his hands, and in vain be cries, Out
damned spot or mournlully complains that
: there is not rain enough in the sweet heav-
ems to wash it out This is the ubiquity
and Immortality of justice.
Guilty offenders against the laws of this
free republic are terror-stricken now. 1t was
all well when government was insulted and
and de6ed in the persons of numberless vic.
Tins, to whom it was no protection to cry |
am an American citizen 1t was all well
when the lash and the bloodhound were solely
in their power. There was no danger il thC
could blow up or seize our forts and arsenal,
and treasures and arms, and fire the south.
ern heart from Charleston to the Rio Grande
from New Orleans to Washington. But to
day the terror of insurrection haunts them
by day and by night Millions Of the OPP
pressed seem now to be suddenly armed with
the sword of avenging justice. God forbid
that the Innocent should suffer with the gull
ty May this land of oppression never be
visited by the scourgo of servile war, which
subjective guilt has rendered feartully object
i've. But the decree of justice brings the
glad news of liberty to thousands Of the en-
thralled, and it is their heaven.born right.
The Gospel OF justice probably never had
more literal rendering in human Language
than in tho words of the great proclamation
But the spirit of kindness could not evoke nor
express this gospel. Remoustrances, appeals
and tears were alike powerless in this conflict
The wrath of man alone was sufficient to
call out and send out, sounding Ger the
world, the gospel of justice. Thus has the
proclamation realized the divine decree.