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Show 4'2 nizc tho pointed, sarc3Stic emphasis of Horace Mann,_ tho noble Christian argument of Charles Sumner. Let us thank God that Massachusetts hnd two such sons, to send to the National Councils; two, of whose scholarship and manly power, of whose various accomplishment and deep religious sense of rigllt, the oldest State of the oldest continent might well be proud. Mcthinks if I had seen Charles Sumner t• seize his right," if I had heard those calm and noble words fall well and wisely from his lips, I should hnvc felt as if one of the Fathers of the Republic bad risen from his grave, to shame her with the bitter fact of her degeneracy. I could have wished to share his privilege and utter words that a century hence will be all that is remembered of the session of 1851 and 1852. As · Abolitionists, let us thank God, that with a clear conscience, bo could stand there before tbe nations, and lift up a. protesting Yoicc. Let us thank God that words were spoken there and then, containing tho vital truths of the AU-Father, words .\ DII~J;ZJ: ~'HOM L.\K~ ONT.\JHO. 43 tlmt however it may seem to us, or them, will do their work before tbcy die, with every man who heard them. I belie\'e with Mr. Sumner, that the framers of the Constitution would have disowned the idea. of framing a Pro-Slavery comptlct. I believe with l\Ir. Sumner that the great men whom tho nation first worshipped, were tmo to the ideal of freedom. I follow in perfect sympathy every one of his statements with regard to the framing and tho interpreting of all the articles in question; but what does this avail us practically ? Of what consequence is it, that "\Vashington tlnd Jefferson, 1\Iadison and Franklin were true men, if their descendants in the third generation have proved false? Of what usc to have an Anti-Slavery constitution, if it receive nothing but a Pro-Slavery interpretation? And last and saddest, what :wails it, t'n lite present, to speak true and noble words in the Senate Chtlmber of the Union, when there are none but Pro-Slavery men to net upon these words ; none but the prcju- |