The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-08-01
NUMBER SO4


SIN ripened into sudden harvest of crime.
Violence staked into the Senate chamber.
theft and perjury wound their way into the
Cabinet, and, finally organized conspiracy.
with force and arms, made burgarious en-.
trance into chief stronghold of the Union.
That the principle which underlay these acts
OF fraud and violence should be irrevocablv
recorded with every needed sanction, it pleased
God to select chief ruler Of the false Gov
ernment to be its Messiah to the listening
world. AS with Pharaoh, the Lord hardened
his heart, while he opened bis mouth as Of
old, ne opened that of the unwise animal rid
den by curslng Balaam. Then spoke Mr.,
Vlce-President Stephens those memorable
words which fixed forever the theory of the
new social order He first lifted degraded
barbarism to the dignity of a phiosophic sys-
tenn. He first proclaimed the gospel of eter.
nal tyranny as the new revelation which Prov.
ldence has reserved for the Western Palestine.
Hear, U heavens and give ear O earth The
cornerstone OF the newborn dispensation ia
the recognized inequality of the races not
that the strong may protect the weak. as men
protect women and children, but that the
strong may claim the authority of nature and
OF God to buy, to sell, to scourge, to hunt, to
cheat out of the reward of his labor, to keen
In perpetual ignorance, to blast with hered;ta-
ry curses throughout all time, the bropzed
founding of the New World, upon whose
darkness has dawned the star of the occ;den.
tai Bethlehem
After two years of war have consolidated
the opinion of the slave States, we read in the
Richmond Examiner: The establishment If
the Contederacy is verify distinct reaction
against the whole course Of the mistaken CIV
lllzatlon OF the age. For Liberty, Equality,
Fraternity we have deliberately substituted
Slavery Subordination, and Government
With the hereditary character of the South.
ern people moving in one direction, and the
awakened conscience of the North stirring in
the other, the open conflict of opinion. was
inevitable, and equally inevitable its appear.
ance IN the field of national politics. For
What is meant by self-government is what q
man shall make his convictions of what is
right and expedicnt regulate the community.
SO far as his fractional share of the Govern.
mont extends. If one has come to the con-
cluslon, be it right or wrong, that any partic-
uiar institution or statute is violation Of tha
sovereign law of God, it is expected that be
VIII choose to be represented by those who
share his belief, and who will, in their wider
sphere, do all they legitimately can to get rid
OF the wrong in which they fud themselves
and their constituents involved. To prevent
opinion from organizing itself under political
FORMS may be very desirable, but it is not A..
cording to the theory or practice of self GOV.
ernment. e And If at last organized opinions
become arrayed in hostile shape against each
other we shall find that just war is onlv the
last inevitable link in chain of closely. con.
nected impulses Of which the original source
IS 10 him who gave to tender, and humble.
ana unoorruupted souls the sense of right and
wrong WHICH, after passing through various
forms, has found its fpa EXPRESSION in H. ss uss
OF material force. Behind the bayonet is the
Jaw slVers statute, behind the statute Is the
thinkers argument, behind the argument is tho
tender conscientiousness of woman-wom.n
the wife, the mother-who looks upon the face
OF Uod himself reflected 10 the unsullied soul
OF infancy. Out of the mouths of babes and
suckllngs hast thou ordained strength, because
OF thine enemies The simplest course for
malcontent is to find fault with the order of
Nature and the Being who established it.
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