Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-07-17


extracts to show the mighty force with which
he used the English language. The Fugitive
Slave law had been enacted by Congress, and
Boston had just delivered up her second vic
tim in the person of Anthony Burns. Mr..
Parker preached sermon thereupon, in
which he handled the government and officers
| of the law most roughly. but was particularly
severe upon Judge Loring-a judge of pro-
bate in Boston. then acting Commissioner
under the Fugitive Slave Law. In the course
of his sermon Mr.. Parker gives an account
of the persecution and death of number of
Christian martyrs who were tortured by
every conceivable method, and at last nobly
died in ancient Gaul in the year I7S. After
detailing the history of this terrible murder
of the Christians, he continues
So things went at Allobrogian Vienna, on
the second of June, sixteen hundred and
seventy-six years ago last Friday. The muir
der of those Christians was Just as - legal =
as the rendition of Anthony Burns. 1t would
be curious to know what the - respectable "
men of. the town said thereupon to see the
list of fifteen hundred citizens volunteering
their aid to read the letter of nine hundred
ana elgntY- men llldnkInS tue 0Oiliinlo-
sioner for touching their consciences. The
preaching of the priests must have been edi
fying Il would drive q Christian away
from my own door | would murder nv own
mother =
Doubtless some men said. The statute
which commands the torturouR murder of
men. women and children for no crime but
pietv. - if constitutional, is wicked and cru
ell And doubtless some Heather " Chief
Justice Parker - choked down the rising
conscience of mankind, and answered
= " hether the statute is harsh one or not,
it is not for US to determine.''e No it is
not for the bloodhound TO ask whether the
victim he rends to quiyering fragments is a
sinner or a saint the bloodhound is to bite,
and not consider: he has teeth, not con-
science. The Fugitive Slave Bill Commits
sioner Is not to do Justly, and love mercy,
and walk humblv with his God he is to
kidnap men in Boston al ten dollars head
The Pagan murdor of Christians at Vienna
under Aurelian, did not differ much from the
Christian Kidnapping of Mr.. Burns in Bos-
ton. under Pierce. But alas for these times
it is not recorded of the Romans that any
Heather Judge of Probate came forward and
volunteered to butcher the widows and or
phans of the early church Then the tor
mentor worshipped Mars and Bellona now
he sits in the church of Jesus Christ.
Boston chose fit day TO consummate her
second kidnapping. St. Pothinus was
/ Christian preacher, so was Anthony Burns
a minister of the BAPTIST denomination"
= regularly ordained " Commissioner Lor-
| ing could not have done better than select
this time 10 execute his '' decision On St.
/ Pothinus's day, let Anthony Burns be led to
a martyrdom more atrociousi The African
churches of Boston may write letter to-day,
which three four thousand years hence
will sound as strange now the Epistle OF
St Iren;eus. Sixteen hundred and seventy
six years hence. it may be thought the Mar
shal's guard = is fair match for the bull
lies who tortured Bladina. In the next
world. the District Marshal may shake hands
/ with the Heather murderer who put the boy
Ponticus to cruel death. | make no doubt
| there were men at the corners of the streets
who clapped hands, az one by one the lions
| in the public square rent the Christian maid
ems limb from limb, and strewed the ground
with human flesh yet palpitating in its sew
cred agony. Boston can furnish mates tor
them. But the Judge of Probate, the teach
/ er of Sunday School, the member of
church of Christ. he may wander through
all Hades peopled thick with Roman torment
ors nor never meet with Heather guafdian
/ Of Orphans who can be his match.
But he did not always use such sarage
Words, though In TINS case none olhers Wouiu
have been appropriate.
He breaches - Sermon of Old Age in
which, to illustrate the tendency of age to
return to the tastes and loves of childhood,
he beautifully tells this story;
An old poem of the North tells of a brave
| boy, who in his earlier days found his moth
ers cottage too narrow, mourned at tending
the goats on the mountain side, and felt his
heart swell in him like brook from the
melting of the snow. when he saw ship
shoot like an arrow into the bay. He ran
from his mother and the goats The Viking
took him on board. The wind swelled the
sails. He saw the hilltop sink in the blue
deep, and was riotously glad He took his
father sword in hand and swore to conquer
him - houses and land by the sea-" He al
so is Viking He has been all over the
Mediterranean coast, and conquered him
- houses and lands by the sea now, in
his old age, his palace in Byzantium is a wea-
riness to him. and he longs for the little cot
tage of his mother. He dreams of the goats
all day the kids bleat for him. He enters a
little barque; he sails for the Scandinavian
coast, and goes TO the very cottage too narrow
for his childhood, and eats again the barksn
bread of Sweden, and drinks its bitter beer
bares his forehead to the storm sits on the
| rOCks. anu tHSTe uc ulCe.
But | must not quote more for want o
space Mr. Parker had some eccentricitiei
which seem curious in a man whose minc
SEEM. to have been ,choliy engrossed in seri
: Gus matters. yet which served to divert hin
l for an occasional moment from his incessan
2 toll. One was that he took a strange fame,
/ to bears. / presume l saw more than fft,
2 pictures of these animals about his house, a
< which / made second visit, by invitation o
r Mrs. Parker TO :" call again, as mer
f matter of civility. 1 suppose, but which
4 accepted, as my first visit was very short
for felt as if was robbing humanity in dc
: tanning Mr.. Phillips, through whose kind
y noss-prompted partly, perhaps, by my lov
d for the "Old Saint u had been introduce
c to this hallowed spot. AT my second visit
: remained longer, and was shown not only in
IS to the library, but into the drawing rooms
b into the room where Mr.. Parker slept, an
l. all about the house. The inevitable bea
g turned up in every nook, and in every form
'e There were engraved bears, and painte
e bears, and wooden bears, and iron bears, an
n soap bears, two of the latter having bee
l. given to Mr.. Parker by some children j
~ Reference is here made to the words used /
in Commissioner Loring in his " decision citing Il
words OF she late ChiefJustice Parker