Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-08-19

soul is aroused to enthusiasm, and the public
heart on fire with the conception of the OBJ
ject to be attained, its accomplishment is in
evitable. Such are the orators, who speak
trumpet tongued to nations ear, and the
writer's, who play upon the nations heart
strings by their stirring appeals. While we
owe to the greatness, and learning. and sa-
gacity of our Washington, and Jefferson,
and Clay, and Webster, and Lincoln, and
other clear-headed, strong-minded patriots
the debt of eternal homage for the foundation
and perpetuation of this most benehcent and
republican government; who put standard
bearers in the world of letters, with hearts
corrupted by evil principles, could have been
instrumental in devising, and executing,
those Internal schemes which eliminated in
all the horrors of the French Revolution, de-
luglng Paris in blood? Who but intellectual
and ambitious rinains could have brought up
on our own loved land, those horrors and
miseries of the Great Rebellion, to which the
Massacre of st. Bartholomew land the barbar-
tiles of the Tuilleries, are insignificant in
comparison?
While intellect is power, all must per
ceive that principle and moral rectitude,
are equally essential in the ruler, in order
that his government be not turned to worse
than anarchy, by his ambitious and unholy
schemes.
During the more prosperous years of our
Nation s history many citizens were in dan
go of forgetting their obligations to partici-
pate in political affairs, and rulers were
chosen who too often forgot their obligations
to that higher than human law, which while
it stoops to harmonise and govern the affairs
of mankind, controls the vast and boundless
universe, and has its seat in the very bosom
of natures author.
Let MS learn from the sad experience of
the past, lesson for the future, and take
care that our legislators and rulers be men
whose intellectual attainments, are only
worn an ornament to their integrity,
patriotism, and virtue; thus recognising and
encouraging the moral power which is sill
emily and steadily at work in the earth. Let
us never neglect to discountenance and dis
courage, by our influence anu our votes, the
eleva ton to Office of men like those, who,
from the earliest history of the world, have
brought trouble upon their subjects, and up
on themselves the curse of highest heaven.
Above all let remember that while the
great Ruler of the Universe is the source of
all power, those higher attributes of mans
nature which make him but little lower than
the angels, are most essential in our Office
holders, in order to extend the influence Of
that power which has been felt through all
the ages ofthe past, governs and overrules
the world ever-changing succession Of wars,
enterprises and revolutions to-day, and is
destined to have sovereign control, = Sub
De- throughout the countless cycles of
eternity; until peace and good will shall
pervade the earth, and universal prosperity
result.
- Then the sword that moistened in days gone by,
The frutless field with its crimson dye,
The rich-laid furrow turns deep and wide,
And the unplumed chief Is the powShare'S guide,
Nature all grateful in beauty glows,
And the desert blooms like the garden rose
f. DE- SARGENT, NJ. d
Mortified, Vt, Aug 10, 1868