Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1908-06-05
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loved France. He removed bis hat with
the hnsl sslutaiion: Land OF the brave
I salute thee. Farewell, France, Fare
veil i" aud he wept without restraint
Such is the pain and sadness aud such
are the emotions Of Que who has lost his
country. lie lived a few wears alter
wards, hut his life was full of sorrow.
One without country is like BENEDICT
Arnold after he had proposed the sur
render of West Point. lie has commit
ted treason, he is an outlaw; and IT Is
the duty of the one who sees him first
TO shoot him down on the SPOT. Such
was the situation of John Brown, who
said on the day of his execution: 81,
John Brown, am now quite certain that
the crimes of this guilty land will never
he purged away but with blood. had,
as now think vainly hattered myself
that, without very much bloodshed, it
might I've done" No truer words were
ever spoken. This is worthy of the
prophet Elijah. 1t is as pertinently cpl
grammatic as the structures of our Divine
Master upon the Scribes and Pharisees ;
aud the predictions Of John Brown, in
regard to that terrible civil war, were AS
true as the predictions of Jesus Christ
in regard to the destruction of Jerusa-
lem. Yet the great prophet was hang
ed. Why? Because he seized the gov
. eminent buildings at Harper's Ferry
( and liberated the slaves in that vicinity.
/ lie did most merciful and humane act,
hut he was acting against organized gov
4 ernmeut. lie was guilty of treason. He
$ was without a country. You soldiers Of
D the civil war, fought more iiercely that
! YOU might not he without cou ntry
= You were willing to part with your wives
4 aud children and with your own life ia
: save great nation, priceless heritage
+ of patriotic devotion. The cause of oul
/ evil war had existed long before oul
: government was organized aud our bod,
$ polite had become so thoroughly inocn.
Z lated with slavery that it was tacitly
recognized by the constitution. IIistor,
will tell YOU. If am not mistaken. tina
d the first slaves were brought to Americ.
. in Dutch vessel, in 1919. In that loat
of wild men from the jungles of Africi
= lies a tale that brought more sorrow Il
the hearts OF weeping mothers and des
e titute children than has ever yet bee
o told. That load of slaves has cause,
= the rivers of our beloved country to b
: changed to blood. II destroyed tn
is flower of American chvalry and lei
e more widows and orphans than had bee
thus bereft in any other similar periol
e in the history of the world. The inst
4 tuition OF human slavery created an'
e nourished an aristocracy who despise
he work aud who became wealthy on OF
" southern plantations as II result of Negr
as labor and traffic in mems souls. TIL
r. generation that fred on Sumpter ha
t. been born to human slavery and to the
IS the property rights in slaves were as q
al cred AZ their broad acres. Along wit
Is human slavery, had grown mp the do
- trine of State rights which maintaine
ar that any state might secede from TIL
of Union whenever it should become :aoI
IN convenient. As the germs of a few
en- will become di fused by sewage, degene
acy was rampant, and the owners of h
,r man flesh and blood wanted to spres
OF their moral corruption and stencil amor
to the newly settled states Hence, the
to were fierce struggles in Congress to
,rt termine whether new states should
ell slave or free. For more than half a CO
at tury after our government was orga
lied, we were on the very brink of a pr
he cipice. don't believe there was ev
Id, a more gigantic struggle for pla
m among giant minds in the history oil, q
ng civilized world than was going on
America from 1921 to 1851. The STR,
of gle of Webster and Clay and 9th
Is great patriots in the U. S. Congress
of in the lives of Webster and Clay is
NO be found tremendous effort to ave
/ a the civil war. Theirs was gigan
on mental effort in which they endur
Or many laborious days and sleeplt
YES nights while yours was a great physic
are effort in which you suffered every XII
is of distress. These two men and tn,
var associates deferred the crisis of '6l
er, forty years. The conduct of these tv
its great statesmen and their colleag,
indicates the greatest wisdom and sho
of what governments will do to avert W;
MS The first compromise was in 1921.
his der this act Missouri was allowed to {
ter as a slave state bnt, upol, the {
tn press condition that, in all future cas-
ne, the states founded West and Northw,
his OF Missouri north of 80 degrees al
he thirty minutes north latitude sho,
It'll come in free.
the In 1850, another attempt was ma
ids to secure peace. Thirty wears had D;