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Liberty and E quality,
JANUARY 1, 184(1
VOL III, NO. 1.
BY POLAND OliKiGS.
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Peace Ecpartme.it.
for the Gran Mountain Fretman.
Epitome of War.
A fair exhibition of war in its origin, its prog
ress and actual results, would be a startling con
demnation of the whole custom as apiece of su
icidal folly and madness. The Ettrick Shep
herd, in his lay Sermons, tolls the following sto
ry quite to the point :
The history of every war is very like a scene
I once saw in Nithsdale (Scotland.) Two boys
from different schools met one fine day upon
the ice. They eyed each other awhile in silence,
with rather jealous and indignant looks, and with
defiance on each brow.
" What are ye glowrin' nt, Billy
"What's that to you, Donnald? I'll look
whar I've a mind, an' hinder tne if ye daur."
"-"""To th's a hearty bow was trie return ; und
then began such & battle ! It being Saturday
all the boys of both schorls were on the ice, and ?
the fight instant'y became general. At first
v they fought at a (istance with missile weapons
such as stones and snow-balls; but at dength J)
coming hand to land, thoy coped in arajl, un,
many Diooay raps were noerauy given aid re
ceived.
i went np w try n i couiu pacny mem iov
by this time a number of little girls had joAed
the affray, and 1 was afraid they would be kil&d.
So, addressing one party, I asked, "What arc.
you fighting those boys fur ? What have they
done to you?"
" O, naethirg at a', maun ; we just want t
gie them a gue'e thrashin' that's a'."
" My remonstrance was vain ; at it they well
afresh; and after fighting till they were quit
exhausted, one of the principal heroes steppe
forth between the combatants, himself covere
with blood, and his clothes all torn to tatters
and addressed the opposing party thus: "Wee!
I'll tell you what weM do wi' ye if ye' 11 let us
alone, we' 11 Id you a'onc." There was no more
of it ; the war was at an end, and the boys scam
pered away to their Hay.
" That scene was a lesson of wisdom to me,
I thought at the time, and have often thought
since, that this trivial affray was the best epitomi
of war in general, that I had ever seen. Kinrr
W8 of state are just a set of grown-ut
Jildren, exactly like the children 1 speak oi
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fjirhtins out for themselves the needless quarrel
they have raised, they sit in safety and look on
hound out their iunocent but servile subjects U
battle, and then, after an immense waste of bloo j
and treasure, are glad to make the boys condi
tion "if ye'll let us alone, we'll let you alone
Here is the upshot, of nearly every
the
status rjuo ante bellum.
Geo. C. Bf.ckwith.
Boston, November, 1845.
THE FIRE-SIDE.
Character Formed in Early Life,
nY ruor. gausex.
The idea we wish to impress upon the minds
of our readers, and especially upon the minds of
parents, Sunday school teachers, and children
themselves, is this; that of all periods of our life,
that of childhood and yauth is by fir the most
interesting and important. Then character i
generally foimed then, the everlasting destin;
is not only begun, but often actually fixed, fo
Aveal or wo. What one is in youth, he w apt t
be in his mature yeari, in his old age, on hi:
death-bed, and for ever. His outward habit:
may be changed and modified ; but his hear
ordinarily remains the same. His future prin
ciples, feelings, and prospects, bear the sam
relation to those of his youth, that the stream
of a mighty river bear the source from which it
took its use, among the mountains. Reforma
tion, regeneration, conversion, are always possi-
ble; but they take place very rarely in old, a,I(3.
and eren when they do take place at that 'period
of lift, the habits and feelings of earlier Jays,
however changed and corrected, still color and
even' control the life. In this respect, what
Wordsworth says poetically, is true in fact :
, "The child is father to the man."
The day rests in the bosom of the morning;
the rose is bound up in the bud ; the oak lies in
the acorn ; summer and autumn are contained
in spring. So the life and destiny of the man
ars gcnciully wrapped up in tho henrt. of the child
or boy. That little fellow there, looking up so
pleasantly and gratefully in his mother's face, as
she tels him of Jesus and the great salvation,
is, perhaps, truly converted. Like Timothy,
from a child he may know the scriptures. His
little I eart, perhaps, has been softened by divine
love. , He does not know much ; but he can
love, 'ie can hope, he can obey. He giows up,
and fie world seizes him ; but lie can never for
gef hs mother, nor his mother's prayers. Her
imagt is before his eyes, even in scenes of folly,
upbniding him for sin. Anew the Spirit of
God touches his heart. He breaks away from
the world. He weeps, he prays, he repents;
and his child's heart, so soft, so calm, so satis
fied, o grateful and happy, comes back again.
In a Tord, he is converted, and becomes a little
child, and thus enters the kingdom of heaven.
(Befoit3, he ; seemed a full-grown mitn, with
all the strength and pride of a man ; cold, secu-
Jar, orldl u, Hidibg; ready to resent an in-
Sult.nnil quicK to repel tne arguments anu iq-
pealof the gospel. But he is a child, a Chris
tian j a subdued, grateful child.
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The Philosopher's Stone.
The eccentric, but brilliant, John Randolph,
once rose suddenly up in his seat in the House
of Representatives, and screamed out to the top
of his voice "Mr. Speaker ! Mr. Speaker! I
have discovered the philosopher's stone. It is
Pay as you go !"
John Randolph dropped many rich gems from
his mouth, but never one like that.
"Pay as you go," and you can walk the streets
with an erect back and manly front, and you
hve no fear of those you meet. You can look
at any man in the eye without flinching. You
won't have to cross the highway to avoid a dun,
or look intently into the shop windows to avoid
seeing a creditor. '
" Pay as you go," and you can snap your fin
ger at the world, and when you laugh, it will he
a hearty, honest one. It seems to us sometimes,
that we can almost tell the laugh of a poor debt
or. He looks around as though he was in doubt
whether the laugh was not the property of his
creditors, and not included in articles "exempted
from attachment." When he does succeed in
getting out an abortion of a laugh fur it. is
nothing but an abortion he appears frightened,
and looks as though he expected it would be
pounced upon by a constable.
" Pay as you go," and you will incet smiling
fact" at home happy, cherry-cheeked, smiling
children a contented wife a cheerful hearth
stone.
John Randolph was right, 'it is the' plihWi-
pher s stcne.
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tigrlcultuval.
Ejftrauts from Rev. Mr. Stone's Address before
the Essex County Agricultural Society.
Soiling. " Soiling, oi feeding milch cows
on green fodder, though highly approved by
many, is not practised to the most useful extent
in this country. Usually, every season, the dairy
suffers several weeks, in, consequence of 'parch
ed pastures.' The loss of income following,
may be effectually prevented by soiling in the
barnyard or stall, and a large quantity of manure
saved, that, dropped in the field, will be in a
measure wasted. An Essex Farmer, by this
process, kept up the milk of his cows during
the most trying period of the past summer, and
found ample remuneration for the trouble, in the
extra receipts of tho dairy. The product of a
single acre will suffice for ten or fifteen cows,
and 'give them their fill.' Farmers who are de
ficient in pasture, may, by resorting to gren
fodder, profitably increase their dairy stock."
Winter Dairy." If farmers, who have easy
access to market, were to raise larger quantities
of carrots, and other roots for their milk stock,
with a view to a winter dairy ,1 am confident they
would obtain a profitable return for their labor.
With a sufficiency of such food, and a pint of
Indian meal to each cow per day, cows that
'come in' in the autumn, (which they should do
for a winter dairy) will give a rich supply of
milk all winter and tho cream, under the man
agement of a skillful dairy woman, will produce
butter of fine appearance and flavor. Fresh
made butter, of this character, will always se
cure a quick sale, and a higher price than the
best quality laid down in June or September."
Hkai.th and Comfort. To prevent cold foot wash
them frequently, and nib them thoroughly with a coarse
cloth : this removes obstructions from tho pores, and
produces a healthy state which is conducive to warmth.
When tho feet appear ilean,the pores mnybo obstruc
ted and the perspirationiimpeded so us to produce dis
comfort, and in some miasurc injure tho health. To
prevent cold feet at nip in addition to the above demi
sing process, tnke offthi stockings a short time before
retiring, and rub tho feci bard until they are not only
warm, but begin to feel lot This will greatly add to
the pleasure of health with, in many cases, greatly de
pends on many things wich may to some appear tri
fling. To keep the feet try use good stout' boots or
shoes, and stuff the leather upper and lower, full of wa-1
tor proof composition. Tar'is a good ingredient, as it j
lXS'Z
'or boots and shoes. Apply it quite warm, und wwni
the leather that it may penetrate, ft s fanners arc fre
quently exposed to wet, they should be careful to keep
their feet dry and warm, for on this their health and
comfort in a great measure depend. There are a groat
many kinds of composition that arc good to resist wa
ter, preserve leather, and the composition may bo va
ried. Tar and tallow will nnswer alone; so will tallow
ii nd beeswax. Linseed oil is used as a (rood ingredi
ent in water proof composition. Neat's Foot Oil is ex
cellent and preserves the leather soft. Castor Oil has
been highly recommended for this purpose. ,
Biographical,
From the New York Evangelist.
Louis Philippe, Kin? of the French,
u BY REV. J. S. C. ABI10TT.
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( Continued.)
While Louis Philippe, under the name of Cor
, was thus engaged as teacher of a village
bool in an obscure valley in Switzerland, bis
leniics were making vigorous search for him
roughout Europe. At length he, alarmed by
'ic eagerness of his foes, resolved to embark for
merica, the asylum alike for kings and beg-
irs. Willi unit design no went to mmuurg,
it being disappointed in some funds he expect-
to have received there trom his friends, he
as unable to pay the expense of bis passage.
here was no safety for him in any part of the
uthof EtiroDC. As the only retreat open he
re him, he set out alone aifcl on fnot in friend-
sness and poverty, to traverse the dreary ic
ing of Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Lap
kI, eatinV the black crusts and sleeping in the
its of semi-barbarians, with all powers of re
citing France, like blood-hound:--, baying on bis
ick. And thus he actually pushed on through
n ices and the storms of those dismal solitudes,
itil he arrived at a point five degrees nearer the
do than any other French traveler had ever
:iched.
At length his mother succeeded in getting a
tier to him with some funds, and he immediate-
embarked for this country. Forty-nine years
bo, in October, 17, the youthful Duke of Or-
ms lauded upon one of tho wharves of Phila
:!phia, in friendless and almost penniless ex-
e. ue remained in Mis country anu me .rest
dies about four years. While here, he travel
extensively through the States of the Union,
cneiminlly r''ti"iij; i-amitt-.itir.aa IV.m F.nroDC,
fat times in a state of 'utter destitution.
c in this country, he passed some time in
111, boarding at the Old Province House,
a'l opposite the Old South Church. His li-
'"'(s while in America were so low, that bo
en snpported hiinseiv by teaching ci-i-vea iii
rench. It is said that at the present day he
oaks with gratitude of the sympathy and kind
ss he received from gentlemen in Boston and
evv York in these dark days of adversity. Arid
ion the walls of his palace may bo secu sus-
nded a painting of the Swiss school-house
liere he swayed the sceptre of authority over
s miniature realm.
From this country Louis Philippe went to
iglaiid, and there joined the surviving mem
rs of the exiled royal family ; their sense ofpo
ical differences being lost in their common
siortunes. J' or tfio'.iirli Louis rinlinne was ov
rth a Bourbon, and a foe to the usurpation of
ipe.le.oii, he always advocated republican insti-
tious.
):ie day the King of Sicily came into the apart-
cut where his wife and daughter were sittiiiL',
ith a letter in bis hand, lnloriniiior him ol the
mderiiigs of ibis unfortunate prince. Becoui-
ig deeply interested in his strange and perilous
(ventures, he proposed inviting him to his court.
he ladies, of course, acceded to a proposal in
Inch the claims of real benevolence came in-
ested with the resistless zest of the most chivnl-
ius romance. In a short time, consequently,
Louis was reposing in the palace of the Sicilian
lung.
In the romance of real life, as well as in that
of the imagination, there must always be a wed
ding. It was so in ibis case. Ii so happened
that the Princess Amelia, young, beautiful, and
amiable, soon found the sympathy with which
she regarded her father's illustrious gue deep
cuing into a stronger and more tender emotion,
and with the cordial approval of her parents she
yielded to the solicitations of Louis Philippe to
accept the title of the Dutchess d'Orleans, with
the necessary conlinn-eiicies. Tliniicrh r,m
lmnppewasa lnenulcss exile, driven from his
patrimonial estates, the Princess Amelia had the
good sense to see and appreciate his intellectual
endowments, and tho moral purity with which his
character was elevated and adorned.
lne lapse of a few months witnessed the Si -
. r1
ciiian court illuminated una rejoicing over their
espousal ; rare espousals m the courts of prin
ces, where the mercenary barterings of ambition
were unthought of, and youthful and congenial
hearts were wedded in instinctive svmnaibv mid
love. Thus the storms of past adversity were
unthought of, as (he tempestuous waters of his
life were lulled into a short and happy c;dln.
Soon after this event, Napoleon was defeated
by tho allied powers, and virtually imprisoned on
the island of Elba. The Bourbons re-nscended
the throne of France. The confiscated estates
of Louis Philippe were restored to Liin; and
with joy unutterable holed his happy bride, whom
in poverty he had wooed and wedded, to his na
tive land, to share with him h s princely estates
and his exalted honors. In the uniform of a
Lieutenant General of France, and at the head
ol the nobility of the realm, he again entered the
regal palace where his infancy was nurtured.
Halls of grandeur were again spread around him;
boundless wealth was emptied into his lap ; the
peerage of Europe felt honored by his hospitali
ties, and kings and queens were guests in his
princely saloons. He was thus living, in tho
enjoyment of the most perfect domestic tranquili
ty, rejoicing in the hope that the dark days of
his stormy life were terminated forever, when
suddenly the political heavens gathered new
blackness another tempest came careering on
with resistless fury, and he waa.driyen from his
- i - -
ml . . i j
regal m j-isnTi, fry... 4 aris, from France, and
;, jn foiniil i,jmsejf j )0Verty and exile. Na-
awning 1, is Lilliputian realms in EI-
ba, landed on the French coast, marched in al
most miraculous triumph to Paris, and his ene-
-inies were.'mattered before him like the herded
sheep, where the lion leaps into their enclosures.
The battle of Waterloo replaced the Bourbons
on thethro!i3 of France, and again restored Lou
is Philippe to his sequestered estates. Once more
he returni'd lrom exile to honor, from poverty to
the Palais Royal. Tired of revolutions, and
weary of t!;s strife of parties, he now sought re--.-.
-1 n -. i i . i
pose. Declining an connection witn political
movements;, ho devoted himself to the improve
ment of lib; extensive possessions. His hospi
table m.(i:-n became the resort of distinguished
men of all Rations and all parties, and especially
an asvhun br the victims of political oppres
sion. IS'ils was the position of the Duke of
.Orlcijrpjtuothor w:il pnrtjiquakc shook
France to in centre, and this time instead of
overwhelming Louis in ruins, elevated him to the
highest pinnacle of rank and power.
To understand this new event, we must for a
moment turn back the page of history.. When
Louis XVI. was beheaded diiriiiL' the French
revolution, his oily son was taken by the revolu
tionists and put cut to service to a shoemaker,
where he soon died at ten years of ago of inhu
man treatment. This young and suffering prince
while toiliiiT nt the shoemaker's bench, was still
regarded, by th? loyalists of Europe, as the legit
imate Kin" of France, under the title of Louis
XVII. The two brothers of Louis XVI. escap
ed to England, where they remained in exile du
ring Napoleon's triumphant career. Upon the
death of tho unfortunate child, Louis XVII. , the
loyalists proclaimed the eldest of the two exiled
brothers as King of France, with the title of
Louis XVIII. When the allied armies marched
into Paiii:, they took with them Louis XV11I.
and phiijeil him upon the throne of his ancestors.
The great majority of the nation felt indignant
and disgraced1 by having a king imposed upon
them by foreign powers. lint tho arm of Napo
leon was broken. They had no chieftain around
whom to .rally. The armies of Europe were
quartered in their eapital. Nothing remained
for thei .i but submission. Yet the luiid mur
murs of discontent were continually ascending
around the throne of the hated Bourbon. Louis
XVIII. remained upon the throne but a few years,
when he died, childless, and consequently the
crown passed to his surviving brother Charles.
In 1824, Charles X. with great pomp, but
tew and feeble acclamations, was cnthroned'King
of France. But his subjects could not forget
that he was?. Bourbon, that the nation had twice
driven bis family from tho throne. French pride
was tortured by the consciousness that after all
thai- lJ'in-t i'ries ; ,-.ifpr all their national
boasting and glory, hostile armies had con
quered them, marched triumphantly .into their
capital! robbed them of Napoleon the monarch
of their choice, and by their art illery and their
bayonets compelled them to submit to the sway
of a hated race.
' ( To be Continual.)
Religious.
From the True American.
All Appeal lo all the Followers of Christ
in llio American Union-
To nil tho adherents of the Christian religion,
Catholic and Protestant, in the American Union,
the wiiter of this article would respectfully rep-11.1
reseat, that h3 is hut a single individual oi hum -
ble p-1 ensions, striiLinr: with honest zeal
for t'ffiiberties of bis country and the common
rights of all mankind. He sets up no claims
to piety or purity of life, but whilst he is him
self subject to all the infirmities of our com
mon nature, be believes in an omnipotent
and benevolent God, over-ruling the universe
by fixed and eternal laws. He believes that
man's greatest happiness consists in a wise un
derstanding and a strict observance of all the
laws of bis being, moral, mental, and physical,
which are best set forth in the Christian code
of ethics. He believes that the Christian re
ligion is the truest basis of justice, mercy, truth
and happiness known among men. As a pol
itician especially does he regard Christian mor
ality as the solo basis of national anil constitu
tional liberty.' He believes that the liberty of
conscience was the autedote of civil liberty, and
that to Christ unity did our fathers owe the emi-,ri-.,,;,,,,
r.-. .... ii,,. m,i v,i.t ,i .m.v i
I iudeponuence in the .New. He believes that
j there n now a crisis in the affairs of our nation
; which calls for the united efforts of all too,1
I men to save us from dishonor and ruin
Slavery is our great national sin, and must
: be de,troyed or we are lost. From a small cloud
- ui-n'i t nuiu un. uiu i in uiiu uui liitinmm
not lar-rr
than a man's baud it has overspread
the whole Heavens. Three millions of our fel
low men, all (if our religion be not a fable) chil
dren of the same Father, arc held in absolute
servituded and the most unqualified despotism.
By a strange oversight or sell-itvenaini crimin-
ahtv ot our latheis, an anti-republican, unequal,
sham representation has' given the tdaveocracy
a concentrated power, which subjects the addi
tional fifteen millions of whites of this nation to
the caprice and rule of seme two hundred and
fftt) thousand slaveholders. They monopolize
the principal ollices of honor aad profit, control
ouriireigii relations and internal policy of ccon-
""'?' "u8,cs-- A,M-7 "ilve wrccH ,1S - j
justhvars-national bad fa.th-and large and un-,
nec ssary expenditures of money. They have j
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violited time after time the National and State
ConVitutions. They have trampled underfoot
nil olthe cardinal priucioles of our inherited lib-It
erty-4freedom of the press liberty of speech
I ;
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trial IV jury the habeas corpus and that clause
of tholJonstitution which gives to the citizens
of the Vv"a! States tho rights and privileges of
citizenW each State. They have murdered
our cili:ns .imprisoned our seamen and de
nied us 1 redress in the courts of national ju
dicature, forcibly and illegally expelling our
embassadors this failing in the comity obser
ved sacrcnbyall nations, civilized, and savage,
till now I AII this have we borne, ur niHgnan-
imous forbearance, or tame subserviency, till I God has never given m! How accursed was that ava
remonstrance is rewarded as criminal, and it has rice which said, How much will you give me and I
become the common law of the kind, in all the I will deliver him unto you?-and they covenanted with
Slave States, to murder in cold blood, and in a
calm and: "dignified manner," any American
freeman who has the spirit to exercise tile con
stitutional and natural, and inalienable rights of
free thought and manly utterance !
Now in the name of that religion which tea
ches us to love our neighbor as ourself to do
unto others as we would that others should do
untoi us to break every yoke and let the op-
Dressed l'o free, we pray every follower of
Christ to bear testimony against this crime a-
rniinst man and God : which fills our souls with
cruelly and crime stains our hands with blood
and overthrows every principle of national and
constitutional liberty, for which the good and
great-souled patriots of all ages laid down their
lives, and for which our fathers suffered, bled
and died.
' Yv'e b ay )od to sit ymK t'wc n.-.U.-t u'.l :(w
professed followers ot Christ, who betray him in
the house of their friends, and make God out the
founder of an institution which causes the most
refined, enlightened, and "respectable men" in
the State of Kentucky, where Slavery exists in
its most, modified and lenient supremacy, to raise
the black and bloody flag of "death to liberty of
Speech and the Press !"
We pray you in the name of liberty our
country our common humanity and the God
of all, who is no respector of person to come
to our help !
We know that in 1770 the prayers of the
Church went up from the closet, the itliar, and
from the field of battle to the Great Arbirer of
destinies of war ; we believe that a time of e
qual danger and awful responsibility is at hand;
and we now ask that the prayers of the univer
sal Church be uttered in the cause of Liberty
once more.
And as vve bolide that it is not only our duty
to pray but to act, we respectfully submit for
your serious consideration the following sugges
tions :
1st. That all ministers of religion, all over
the Union, either in their sermons or in their
prayers once on every sabbath solemnly warn
their hearers against the special sin nf Slavery.
2d. That in all religious journals a column
be devoted to slavery its economical statistics
and to moral remonstrance.
3d. That in all addresses of religious bodies,
oral or written, when moral conduct is touched
upon, that a solemn and special denunciation of
Slavery be made.
4th. In the exercise of the elective franchise,
that each Christian will honestly endeavor so to
use that great and responsible privilege as by all
honorable, just and constitutional means, to des
troy Slavery in this nation.
We suggest with great diliidcnce tor the con
sideration of Christians, a Board of Home Mis
sions, founded as follows : A common treasury
sustained by all sects of Christians, to bo lo
cated in the city of New York. From this shall
be sustained, at fair wages, as many missiona
ries, in the same State, as the funds of the Soci
ety, or the interest thereof, when invested in
stocks, will sustain. I. Let an equal number
of each sect represented bo elected. 2. Let
ministers living in Slave States be preferred if
they can be procured. 3. Let them be instruc
ted never to speak of Slavery in the presence of
Blacks or slaves. 4. Let them for the present
be confined to the States of Maryland, Virginia
and Kentucky. Let them be instructed to preach
Nin the counties where there r.retbe fewest slaves.
i ' J" ' lmm ut: ",L" ul a,'lm.v """ MUl
1 1'"'l,tic;li. -"t'li-sacrificiHg and well versed in the
political ami economical Hearings oi slavery as
well as in its moral influences, so that the v may
be able to show the non-slaveholder, bow Slave
ry impoverishes his family excludes them from
schools, churches, the honors of the State and
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the general advantages of civilization.
We believe that a scheme of this kind would
do infinite good. There could be no pretext for
violence on the part of Slaveholders, because the
Clacks would never hear. It would arouse a
generous shame in the bosoms of our own Cler
gy and force many to make sacrifices in the cause
of Religion and Liberty.
Now once more in great yearning of spirit
for the liberty of our country the happiness of
mankind and the glory of God, we pray you to
question each one his own conscience. Never
let it be said that our country called onus for
help, in great wo, and none heeded her voice 1
We ask all the friends of Constitutional l.ib-
Arlv nttrt nino f'hrUri:lltitV tr rriv( tho ,'ilinvp :in
' ' .i i i- " " l n i- it
insertion ill their Religious and Political Jour -
naif
a request never before made by us.
C. iM. CLAY.
Lexington, Ky. Dec. flth, 184").
T Ii Ii F IS E t: ii
For the Green Mountain Fretman.
Augusta, Maine, July 21, ISi't.
7'o my o'.d Frhnd, John I'enud:
Dear Sir: I can assure you it afforded mo groat 1
pleasure to hear from those so much endeared to me ; ! ry would ill stand the test of that ordeal of truth, to
and I rejoice to hear from my old friends in Vermont- j which he would subject it, and that it would wither be
imd also, of the onward course of tho nntlavcry cause, i fore tho irresistible power of his arguments, like mown
in which, I need not tell you, I still feel a very
deep
interest. Slavery is truly the sum of all villainies tho
vilest, the most barbarous, the most abominable, tho
most heaven-daring, the most God-provokintr, the most
devilish practice that ever walked the face of the earth, j
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It is the embodiment of all sin-a sin aminst God and
Minst Iwmanityagain8t hnawi and CHrth . sin a.
mlin,t T,v,,h, Sfm ml,i itw nimt. KWrvmnn.
Ltoaiis;!ind any person detected in stealinga sheep
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IjUIU JUSUSi V-Jll Ittl, UUW lIIUi;il UtJlLt'I JO a ilittil mull
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sheen.' Man is n priceless beiiiu. No man who con-
aiders what human nature is, and for what made, can
think of setting np a claim to a fellow-creuturc. What!
chain down to our lowest use n being made for truth
and virtue! convert into a brute animal that intelligent '
nature on which the idea of duty has dawned, and :
which is a nobler work ofGod and type of God than all ,
outward creation! Buy and sell a. man made in the j
imago of God, and but a little lower than the angels ! .
Assume a right or prerogative to deprive a man of Ufe,i
liberty, " and the pursuit ol happiness, whirl?
him for thirty pieces of silver. But now the trade u
greatly improved. Jesus Christ, in his representatives,
in the person of his members, embracing the entire
man, with his judgment, will, and affections the en
tire mon, composed of a human nature and an immor
tal soul, is the greatest object of traffic and specula
tion which mortals can engngejn; and the morn of die
atmosphere of heave-.i they can inhale, the more of the
divine Law go they bear, the more of the spirit of Christ
they possess, the better demand, Mid tho better price
they command in market This is what! call selling
tho Holy Ghost ; and then till; about communing with
slaveholders a ad their apologists. No, my dear broth
er, never, never, vuiio mo anu ureaui iuiosuub. iuu,
than belong ;to a pronlavery church, or commune with
slaveholders, or those who can commune with them, or
their abettors, I would live alone an exile in banish
ment vhiic I live on earth. I have come to a full and
lU'-'lll tiilliu l ir. c uu .itbii. utt.-j wu. ...
fV.n CQUcliuion, God being my helper end keeper, I
ncverViil iig-'uiflc-on Ara cluifn, o: ivV.-ut'oa, KS--v
convention, or missionary society, or unv other society, I
he it tract, or bible, or whatever, where its members
are unwilling to manifest un uncompromising hostility
against the sin of slavery. 1 feel, "I think, more than
ever, tho importance of approving myself to God, and
banrv if then mv Lord approve, thoth all besides
condemn. Hut I am sure I ought not I cannot com
mune with v. hat I know Cod hates. How then can I
do this great wickedness and sin against God? Does
God require that his people; to separate themselves
fiom all evil, and shun even the appearance of evil, that
ho may receive them, that he may dwell with them and
walk with them that he limy consecrate them a holy
temple to himself that the Lord Almighty may be a
Father to them and own them for sons and daughters ;
and has a voice from heaven been heard to say, Come
out from her, O my people, and separate yourselves
from this accursed society, that ye may not he partak
ers with her in her sins and share in her plagues.
And what were her sins? as recorded in R.ev. 18: 12,
13. What forms the climax of crime in their infamous
traffic in the very souid and bodies of men which were
by them sacrificed to their avarice und treachery, a
sin, tho very thought of which stings with distress a
system of tyranny a system murderous in its nature,
tendencies and ac tual results a sy.toin of robbery tho
most aggravated: robbing man of all his rights, person
al, civil, domestic and religious; his rights, corporeal
and intellectual; his rights, temporal, spiritual and eter
nal; and, too, it is robbing Cod of the souls lie has
made, that they might gratify Him and servo Him, and
for whom Christ died. No wonder God should say,
(and never let this solemn thought be forgotten,) Come
out, 0 my people, and ho separate. That charge, my
dear brother, 1 have dared to regard; and whether it be
right to obey God rather than man, judge ye. We are
often told that we are injuring ourselves, for churches
and ministers should never gp ahead of .popular public
opinion! 0 shame! shame! Just as though an ungod
ly world mu4 take the lead in the great work of moral
reio.-m: iit:r. this -a tbj jj.-iiiciplo that idrirches and
ministers, at the present day, act out; .md as it is, I
would sooner trust the advancement of tho anti slavery
cause with the -vorld than with the church; and I am
looking for. slaveholding States to become anti slavery,
before wo'can convert our northern proslavery people
to the sentiments of abolitionism.
Your.?, &c, J. VV. SAWYI1R.
lor llic Great .Vovnlain Freeman.
Messrs. Editors: Certain false reports having
been circulated with regard to Rev. N. Day, and cer
tain sermons which he delivered in this place last
spring, in order to correct the wrong impressions
growing out of these false reports, wo would respect
fully request the publication of the following statement
of fads.
Lithe winter if 1-13, Mr. Day held a protracted
meeting in the Congregational church of this place, at
which time bis labors were blessed by the conversion
of some one hundred mid fifty souls. As the church
was soon to be destitute of a minister, great exertions
w ere then made to obtain Mr. Day, and he was pressed
with urgent solicitations to become their pastor. All
were his friends then all loved him ; and to many a
renewed heart whs lie rendered doubly dear, as the in
strument, in the band of God, of his soul's salvation.
L'.st, spring be was invited here to lecture on the sub
ject of slavery. One ol' the members of the eame
church requested that he might be invited to preach in
the house where he had before labored with such dis
tinguished success. Although no formal notice had
been given lo this effect, yet, as soon as the report was
circulated that Mr. Day bad been invited to preach in
tho Congregational church on the subject of slavery,
great excitement, prevailed throughout the community,
and more especially among a largo majority of tho
members of that church. Menus were immediately
resorted to to prevent such an unheard of event from
tailing place ; tho windows in tlu hou.-e were sccurc-
!y fastened, the doors carefully locked, and tho keys
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noposi!.cu in saiu heeinir-. no w:i.i:ti, r-vo snori yeari
ago, they had thought almost an nnge! of light, and
whom they had well nigh worshipped, was now denied
I the privilege of speaking in the pace where he had so
many times lifted up the voice of earnest entreaty, to
w arn the sinner from hi.) u uk w ay and show him the
path of lite; and this, too, by those over whom he had
prayed and labored, and wort, and who were yet dear
to him, and from whom ho might have hoped a kinder
welcome. Rut thev knew too well tht the miserablo
sophistry with which thoy were wont to prop up slave-
grass beneath n scorching sun; and therefore, in this
desperate extremity-, thoy must needs adopt the ruling
motto of the age, "itfou can't pull down Ids vrguhients,
pull doit-n the. man.'" However, from some unforseen
circumstances, Mr. Pay was unoblij to meet the ap
pointment as was expected, and nil proslavery fears
were, for the time, quieted, and tho excitement, in a
measure', died away, f 'oon after this he wrote to Rev.
Mr. Driver, of th? Baptist church of this place, inform
ing him that ho should be at bis honso on Saturday and
spend the follow ing Snbbath with him. Early in the
morning of that Sabbath, one of the Congregational
brethren called at Mr. Driver's and asked Mr. Day if
ho would preach any part of the day in the Congrega
tional lioupe. Said Mr. Duv, "it seems that you have
shut your doors against mo." This led tho way for
further conversation, in the course hf which Mr. Day
said that ho hart no choice ns to which house he should
preach in, but hn wished to have it understood that, in.
cither placo, he must have the liberty of choosing M
own text and illustrating it in his own nii -V -
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