The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-06-10
DR.. Baxter went from the northeastern
part of this state in the early part of the
war as surgeon of regiment.
COMvIENDATORY.

ESTEEMED FRIEND GLOBE Verify, ]
am moved to write thee again, for thou
pleasest me greatly in thy late article in
the GLOBE touching that other conflict"
which thou fearest is upon us as a people,
now that the great sin of slavery Is put |
away from us. As thou dost truly init |
mate, slavery existed because the rights
and energies of the many were controlled
by the power of the few. And well dost
thou inquire SIS there not the same dis
position now to concentrate in few hands
the means of the masses, and to disregard
their rights ?" My friend-therc is the
same disposition" now in the unregenerate
human heart, as formerly. Oppression has
always the same end in view, but its meth
obs and means are various. The form OF
personal liberty may, indeed, be given to
people. while the essence of 1t may be
withheld from them. And depend upon
it, nothing so much contributes to the pur-
poses of oppression and injustice as when
the forms of law are used to carry out the
designs of evil-minded men. II is by law
that men in power steal by millions, and
rob by method. Did not even Ulysses 5.
Grant add one hundred thousand to his
present four years income by single
scratch of his pen? 1t is the big stealing,
too that goes UNPUBLISHED. because that it
is done by law. and those who make the
laws. whereby they can steal, have only
justice to mcte out to little sinners who
don't understand those crooked ways where
by to do evil. and at the same time men
ton their responsibility among men. In
deed, in these degenerate times, the cum
ming ones of the land. who get rich while
the masses grow poor seem to wholly dis
own the divine ordinance which says 'By
the sweat of thy brow shalt thou earn thy
bread, and they say one to another, let us
forsakc our workshops and our farms-lct
us no longer tarnsh our hands with honest
labor-but let us hitch ourselves to the
pulling of wires and to the getting of Office
let us get into Congress let us get char
tered rights let us get our wheels within
wheels; let us monopolizc the good gifts of
God let us exact tribute from every man
who salts his porridgc or swcetens his tea
let us keep the people so busy at hard work
to preserve their souls and bodies united,
that they won't have time to think how, or
by what right we make them our hewers of
wood and drawers of water, and so shut
out the light of knowledge from their eyes,
and thus, and as Il reward for our ingenuity,
we will eat and drink and be merry, sitting
under our own vine and fig tree, while sad
ness, like mighty shadow, rests upon tho
millions doomed to toll and suffering, with
out any vine and fig tree of their own.
Truly, my friend, thy words of warning
are fifty spoken-like apples of gold in pic
lures of silver. 1t becomes us to bcstir
ourselves-whilc it is yet possible to pre-
serve both the form and spirit of liberty
and equality, lest God, with the bosom of
wrath shall smite our land, and the sun of
our national glory shall go down at noon,
and go down in blood. And besccch thee
as thou seemest to have clear understand
ing of the evil tendencies of the times, and
the corruption of our great men, neglect
not the gift that is in thee, to show unto
this people their dangers, and, peradvcn-
ture, it may please the All-gracious Ruler
of men to grant us long to live because of
our turning from our evil paths to those
ways of heavenly wisdom, where the bless
ing is commanded, even life forever more.
Thanking thee for thy timely testimony,
| am gratefully thy friend,
TIMOTHY BRoADBgIM
Dated at the Friends Retreat, of the
year Of grace 1873, the fifth month, and
the Both day thereof.