Green Mountain Freeman

For the Green Mountain Freeman.

Signs of the Times.

Messrs Editors,—I love to notice, and to see noticed in your widely circulated paper, all the signs of the times that seem to indicate the approach of that blessed day for which I trust you are successfully laboring: when the true christian patriot's heart, shall never again be wrung with anguish, and his cheek crimsoned with the blush of shame, by witnessing the spectacle of the human chattel marching before the "soul driver," under the floating banner, in front of the proud Capital of his loved guilty country, clanking his chains, as he raises his manacled hands towards his insulted Father in Heaven, singing, "Hail Columbia happy land!" And if I am not mistaken in my observations, we have a striking instance of these signs in the "Vermont Chronicle" of the 4th instant, containing an extract from a sermon by Rev. Albert Barnes, of Philadelphia.

That this extract, and a correspondent's remarks upon it, should have found their way into this paper, which has so often, and so recently too, expended so much labor to prove, that to hold and use a man as a "chattel personal," was not "under all circumstances sin:" is to my mind, worthy to be chronicled, as cheering evidence, that abolitionists have not hitherto labored in vain.

And if, Messrs. Editors you agree with me in this, I hope you will give at least, the closing paragraph of this extract, and the excellent remarks upon it, by the Chronicle's correspondent, in the "Freeman." I opine the day is not far distant, when converted slaveholders to gain admission into the Churches under the care of the American Board’s Missionaries, will be required as one evidence of their fitness, "to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free."

S. J.