The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1866-03-30
The President and Congress.
a WORD WITH THE CONGREG RATIONAL
CLERGY


! Of DR.. Nehemiah Adams. a wish to which
every good man has responded, ''that We
might have Sabbath OF rest from the
slavery agitation," is denied us None
will feel this disappointment more keenlv
than the Puritan ministers of the land.
Compelled by clear sense of duty to Pc
Si>t the assaults which the so-callel Dem
ocratic party has made for years upon the
law Of God and the rights of men. as
well as to rebuke the pu-iIlanimity of their
political opponents in the stupid compro-
misses they made with their toc--me;lSlreS
which already are beginning to stand out
in history rs the verlcSt tomtoOicrv of pol
iticS-our ministers, Notwithstanding, had
no taste for this sort of work When,
therefore. our late President at last >aw
his way clear TO issue his proclamation of
emancipation, and the successful close Of
the war ratified the act, and put the iron
seal OF an irrevocablc destiny upon it,
there wis a universal feeling Of relief \
di>ta>tctul job was finished. Books on
slavery. debates on slavery. sermons on
slavery, congressional documents full Of
shallow paiitude~, ecclesiastical reports IL
Illustrating. bv innumcrable dexteritie>. the
art of how not to say it-ln fact, the
whole literature OF a discussion about a
truth which we had soicmnly pronounced
in our organic law to be seIt-cvidcnt Was
gathered together. and either committed
to the flames or stored in great bundle,
under the slopes OF ancient atics, to gath
cr dust and iced mice, Newspapers
ceased to be documents of Importance. \
few minutes after breakfast devoted TO Il
Glance at news headings. the reading of
the first two or three sentences OF the cdi-
!orial>. with Il dip here and there INTO 4
congressional speech. was enough for the
men OF our tol>omr profession. Three
things were regarded ;l> settled. The
saves had been cmancipatcu by Lincoln.
the saveIloIdn9 ;,ri>t"rracv had been prat-
,ically rNlclmlnalcl by the war. and the
freedmen We're to he protected, at least i'll
their rights OF person and property. by
Johnson. These three things being Sci
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