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Show 14 MASSACHC3E'f'I'S lN MOU RNl:'\G. think \Vorccster County is free, say so and act accordingly. Call :1 County {)onvcntion, and declare that ~'OU lean· legal q uibblcs to lawyers, and parties to politicians, and plant yourschcs on the simple truth that God ncn.•r made a Hlavc, and that man shall neither make nor take one here! Over your own city, at least, you haYC power; but will ~·ou st:-tnd the test when it comes? Then do not try to aYoid it. "For one thing only l blush-that a Fugiti,·c has ~Ycr fled from here to Canada. ] ,ct it not happen again, l charge you, if you are what you think you are. No longer conceal FugitiYcs and help them on, but show them and defend them. ] ,ct the Underground Hailroad slop here! Say to the ~outh that Worcester, though a part of a Hcpublic, shall be as fre-e ns if ruled by a Queen! 1-Iear, 0 R~·chmoud! cmd give ear, 0 Carolina! henceforth IVorcester is Canacln to the SLave! And what will 1Vorcester be to the kidnapper? I dare not tell; and I !Car that the poor sinner himself~ if once recognized in om· streets, would scarcely get back to tell the talc. I do not discotu·age more peaceable instrumentalities ; would to God that no other were e\rer needful. }t!ake laws, if you can, though you have State processes already, if you lu<td officers to enforce them; and, indeed, what can any State process do, except to legalize nullification? Usc politics, if you can make them worth using, though a coalition administration proved as powerless, in the Sims case, as a Whig administration has proved now. But the disease lies deeper than these remedies can reach. It is ttH idle to try to save men by law and order, merely, while the men themselves grow selfish and timid, and arc only ready to talk of Liberty, and risk nothing for it. Ow· people have no active physical habits ; their intellects arc sharpened, but their bodies, and :o\IASSACIIUSETTS IN MOUltNINO. 15 even their hcruts, arc left untrained; they Ienn1 only (as a .French satirist once said,) the fear of God and the love of money; tl1ey arc taught that they mve the world nothing, hut that the world Ol\·cs them a E,·ing, and so they make a living; but the fresh, strong spirit of Liberty (hoops and dccayR, and only makes a dying. I charge you, parents, do not be so easily satisfied; encourage noble1· instincts in your children, and appeal to nobler principles; teach your daughter that life is something more than dress and show, and your son thnt there is some nobler aim in existence than a good b:ugain, and a fast horse, and an oyster supper. Let us have the brave, simple instincts of Circassian mountaineers, without their ignorance ; and the tmfaltering moral cotu·agc of the Puritans, without their superstition; so that we may show the world that a community may be educated in brain without becoming cowardly in body; and that a people without a standing army may yet rise as one man, when X.,rccdom needs acfenders. May God help us so to redeem tlus oppressed and bleeding State, and to bring this people back to that simple love of Liberty, without which it must die amidst its llLxuries, like the sad nations of the elder world. May we gain more iron in our souls, and have it in the right place; - have soft hcru.·ts and hard wills, not as now, soft wills and hru.·d hearts. Then will the iron break the Northern iron and the steel no longer; and "God save the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ! " will be at last a hope fulfilled. |