The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-11-08

that he and your whole country do Lol
desire an early settlement; but we fer.
vently entreat, be mercifu with the fal.
len; they are your brothers-imagine
your situations interchangeable with
every representative having any rcasona.
bic authority, and thus prove your sin.
cerity for ending this terrible destruction
We feel assured that in this way oppor.
tunities will offer for honorable adjust.
ment, and those sure guarantees of peace
Freedom, Equal Rights, Justice In
violation of Human Liio and Brotherly
Love will be promoted.
No one can expect to escape rctribu-
tion for wrong doing, and for. all who
take up the sword, there is q heavy pen.
atty; and although you exact and receive
territorial or revenue concessions and
compensations, you cannot escape the
responsibility.
VIZ appeal 10 France, to every one
with any semblance of authority, to ac-
cept situation the natural consequence
of war-if not on one side certainly on
the other. Had you been victorious, you
would, have acted not very different from
your neighbors.
Heed the thousands whose lives have
been cast in humble places, and who are
the real sufferers The mothers, the
wives, and children, composing more than
half Of creation, who do not make the
wars, whose hands are tied, and whose
suiierings in indescrbable ways, are un-
heard and undecided. Do not sacrifice
that peaceful army of wo,kingmen, the
grand pillars of nations prosperity.
Think ofall, even if poor, who have an
equal right to life and all its opportunini-
ties, as any who may be in power. Think
too, Of laying waste what our Heavenly
Father has permitted to grow. You are
devout in your prayers: Give us this
day our daily bread" aud after rain and
sunshine have done their marvellous
work, you burn and destroy whole har-
vests of bounty, and then ask for more
Should our fields cease to yield, and
gaunt famine follow such hypocrisy and
wanton proAigacy, can we say such is not
our due?
We appeal to you. therefore, to do
your part to stop this horrid work.
Your position is understood, your chang
ed circumstances will not be disregarded
by the world and by a frank acknow-
ledgment, ignoring vain and false pride,
be brave enough to live for your coun-
try, and with manliness crowned with
Christian humility, throw yourself upon
the mercy of your brother man. No one
doubts your valor and love of country.
There is courage grander than physical
A surrender, for humanity is
A victory for conscience and civilization.
There is no dishonor when we honor God
and the works of his creation
We appeal N erery nation to use
Sindly influences of Intervention for the
adjustment of difficulties. Bring the sor-
'owful condition of so large a portion of
he human family to your own doors and
EEL "in bonds as bound with them" Be
open to conviction and learn the unerring
esson of the hour, that standing armies
ire standing repronches, making war i'm.
nlncnt and peace impossible, and redeem
his blight of the 18th century, of our
ooastful civilization and protessed Chris.
ianity by an immedja'e and uncondition-
Il disarmament.
LET the oppressed 20 free - Let the
people choose their own government BE
not jealous Of power or of holding on to
customs and forms, merely because they
ire sanctioned by antiquity or authority;
Tor it may be, and it undoubtedly should,
BE- that the experience of the past and
he tortures of the present, will open to us
higher and nobler positions, both in pri-
vatc and public affairs If there cannot
be u growth now, when can it ever be
expected
We appeal 10 all mankiAm to relieve
present suffering, and to adopt such prin.
ciples as shall tend to preclude n repeti-
ton of those horrible atrocities and this
patriotism 1t can be done by
putting love and reason in the place of
hate and armies BY discountenancing
military trainings and organizations, and
by each one refusing 10 do the war act or
paying farthing for war purposes Wo-
mans influence is needed in the crisis.
Let the power aud wisdom with which she
leads the child and makes our home our
ideal of peace, permeatc governments and
rsvolutionize armies
Surely it is time to inauguratc new
system for the settlement of national and
and International difficulties, if not to OBJ.
vate them altogether There can be no kind
unselfish and reciprocal deliberation while
tortifications frown with cannon, and the
drawn sword is at hand The might
makes right doctrine must be transpos.
ed to--right makes might-and being
right Morally right--there is victory
without the shedding of drop of blood,
or the humiliation or abandonment of a
single principle
On behalf of the Universal Peace
Union of America.
ALrutn II I.ovt. PrCSMicm.
lMcrctia Mott,
Aaron NJ. Powell,
II. n. Greene Butt, I jce-PrcWdents.
Elizabeth B. Chacc,
and others,
Thomas Garrett, President Delaware
Branch Jonathan Whipplc, President
Connecticut Branch Lysander s Rich
ards, President Mass. Branch, Levi X.
Joslin, President Rhode Island Branch
and others Robert +. Wallcut, Boston,
Treasurer. Henry T. Child, NJ. D.,
Secretary
Philadelphia, Oct 20, 1870.
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