Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-01-19

ne sooner we thuk our OVID ln0ughls, ana 60
our own ways, accepting the destiny assigned US,
and aborlng IN the freshness anC yig0r Of dis
tinc and newly created life, the better for U.S.
lienceiorth we shall no more look over the sea
for our precepts and examples, but upward to
Him who has thus far led US, ant onward to our
6eld Of labor. And it is interesting to see how
God, who anticipates Il e direction Of the great
movements Of civilization, and raises up nations
putposely fttCd TO stand at tie ceners Of infu-
ence Gs instruments for The accomplishment Of
lii. purposes, has given to dis nation geogroph-
cal position, aud territorial greatness and wealth
as much surprising all other nations as its civil
institutions are 10 advance Of the oge. Time has
proved that Europe which Was thought to be the
center, is OILY a way station in the march Of civil
iz4tion to the Nea World. Our nation occupies
an area as large us q dlzen European djnssties.
The whole Of Great Britain might be easily sub
merged in our northern axes, and IN oil the
physical resources which constitute great nation
and put b. 10 cJllfc! Of the keys Of a worldwide
over, il never hes had, and never can have an
equal. To give % single illusratlau--a commit
tee recently reported IN The Parliament Of Great
Britain, that by extending the Grand Trunk
Railway 20 tie Pacific, England might reach
Oh 10 and her dependencies 10 the East, nineteen
days sooner than by her present routej and the
prediction BAs ytYturtd, that soon the vast COM
melce between India and Western Europe,
would PASS through America, in this way in-
creasing iI population, and maguiiylng It's pros
pecli,e ImpoHauca @ huudled fold. Thus God
has placed us as lig ut the conjunction of the
great streams Of influence be worlds high
ways meet ind cross here. snd iof generations to
come, those who occupy these seats Of privilege
viii be ca led upon 10 perform the work Of
free aud enlightened Christian nation. What
Germany was 70 the cause Of pure religion IN
the sixteenth century what English liberty was
to Christian civilization in the seventeenth cenlu.
ry-- that, and mere, the Federal Union now is TO
the word And vha. is ibis bu. the measure Of
the mora. "oH1 OF cur inalituuuusP God NAV
not love us, nor csrc 10 ssye Us for ourselves
but for the sake q our postenty and the great
future INTO which the boundaries Of bis kingdom
run, he w.l. establish the integrity, and secure
Ia freedom and maintain The honor Of this na-
ti9l. Tho doubts it ? The workmen iodeed
die, but the work goes Cn. Shall We, starting
thus Oh q new career with The sunlight Of gol-
den future on our ioreheaLs, turn back to conied-
erAC.es -ld despolisml ? 10 Ieudal arstocracies
aad slavery 80. COD lolb.d This lurid
light Of war, which flashes along the sky, Is not
the funeral pyIe Of American liberty but the
dawa.ng glory Of hel immortal youth
?. Our Federal Union honors civil liberty.
After generations Vi conflict government has
been unded under which man, IA the highest
and best sense, eau be FREE. Oh! how sweet
that word sounds. Llbeuy-Liberly-speak It
out, 40 man can harm you. Liberty let II
rng through every valley. Liberty let It
sound from ocean 10 ocean. For ages, men
have tasted il in the air, have smet Il IN tbe
moun.ans-hays heard It's music in the eaplng
nils, and nave been forced 10 boW down 10 chains
and slavery, and to die with the worm OF despot'
isu gnaW ing at thsir li.al. Bot here, while
the banner d our country floats over Us, We are
! FREEMES. There aIe none 70 question our
ughts. I'll. uue boom which QUO Un..u eoniers
without money aud without price, has cost the
world more lives thai the Uoion now contains.
Fox i, Europe has been lighted up with the fires
OF mauNdom, and her prisons filed With The
brave1 and nob.,st OF earth. For Il, her seal
fold. have been saaed silb gore, ana her battle
fields have drank Of human blood lAc the Spring
rain. And shal lae place 10 value upon cMl
liberty now? Shall We hold that Constitution
and Union which secure ~ as OF little mora
worth shall We ie. tuat iiiS which represents
it, be torn dom by tsl,oT us hands lhe fe'
q, sponse is "Oh! ,ae sacnic~-Oh. the blood II
will cost" And meme can feel more deeply than
+, II do, tie weight o! hat sorrow which pfesse'
upon the countless broken households Of our and
But is il the brave and suffering soldier whC
! complains, or those who, refusing to lend then
aid, I, main at home to find lault9 II men cal
mot shed blood tor freedom, aud make sacTlhc'
lof principle, they are born IN the wrong age
D and belong 10 the wrong nation. lhoSe "h'
n ore uov upho.dng the liag Of our country, can't
4 Iof race, who lor centuries have dared TO suhe
,or truth, ans even ha'e counted 1t sweet 10 on
for liberty. And now when "the sons oil uod
! are called together for one more struggle IN be
> talf of the GOOD old cause il any are loun'
~ among them counscling otherwise, u Is oeeaus
Satan has come also. know some WI! say I'M
nation, us whole, has not honored liberty
N grant II, and the thought makes my blood uns'
Is With shame to my fingers ends But nope
/. lulo field in the South OF Enghad, Teus
mill stone was thrown. Up through the noe 4
b. the centre, shot an oak il grew ull II hAeu 10
D. hole and raised the stone up WITH H. some luon'
it from the ground. The problem was, whethe
y, the stone would burst assunder, or the ue
ie would die. At length, in storm Nh'Vn u'e
y every fibre Of the trunk, The stone gave Way au
h the oak lived. Slavery has hung USea ml,'S'o'
re around our tree OF Liberty threatening 70 uesu1
ID it, Ill! the hearts OF good men have suhN N''u
ID them. But this war has cracked ne SONS ~
e. now the grand o.d rse, rising loiueI than 9e'o'
i bids fair TO brave the storms OF ihou'aAG WI
h ters. Our flag TO DAY, thank God means Lloe
Of "! And Sayery--to change the heuFe-"
at fnd this stone with which it sought TO oyerthr'
lg the Union, hanging around It's own neck I'LL II
cs sunk, Ike Nillon's rebel angels, ten ihousa'
OF athoms deep
81 .,In adamantine chain aud peal Ere y
w. and the nations Of the EARTH 6eholdlng, sh
,o shout Anelun Wills the smoke OF its tcrm'
no ascendeth up forever and ever.
Thus the most cursory view makes 1t evide
-. that our Federal Unio is the pledge OF th'
=. principles which are dearest to the heart oi mi
~ Its value to every one who loves the cause
oa humanity is above all price. ltembodes dou
! . less, in greater purity than any other goys
N. ment, oil those active forces OF Christian cNlI
fi tion, which ore placing this gge in advance OF
or past, and this nation, in the forefront oil
lin presents hence the battle shock which has &C
i've upon us. Had the moral sentiment OF this nal
in. been like that Of Spain for instance, we mi
mt have lived in peace. The Constitution OF
,pj country, interpreted according to the spir
,hs It's founders is the best fruit which the caus
ucb civil liberty has thus far borne The Declsra
led of Independence touched the "hgh water mi
NO, of the eighteenth century the Prochmato
nis. Emancipation, by President Lincoln, has reat
nm the highest point in the nineteenth Sh
/. this nation go down, man, as man, would
/. b ! nall The Lacralnn.a OF hia nnrsnnaLtr u