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Show 5-t- Wend ell Phi tli ps. arc t wo 1.... ·rr 1 c] ~ of '~l cfcat. \Vhethcr in chains or in 1nurc1~, ] Jlllt• ~nTY, ].·.. 11 0 ' ,. , 110 t !Jillo~"" but Yidories. Soldiers rail Hunker Jli ll a u ·f ·at; but Lib •rty dates from it, though \Yanen lay dead 011 the field. l\len ay the attempt did not l:l ut·cecu. No man can ·ommanu -ucces . "\Vh tlwr it wa' well plannccl, antl d esen·e d to Uccccd ' we shall l>e aule to d •eidc when Brown is free to tell u · all l1e know . Suppose he ditl f~1il, 1· n one en e , ll<,' ll«'' ·S done •a bo -rcat deal till. vYhy, this j ~ a d 'Cent country to live in now. ( Laugllt.er aml che ' rs.) Ac- tua 11 y, m· ~1 1 11· · ~ou·1 orn of' our~· ' twenty-t\\'O m •n hav. ' been found ready to die for an idea. God l>e thank ·d for John l )>J '0WI1, tl 1:'.t l1e ll•'t , di •:: -;cov •red or cn·atcd them. • (Che •. rs.) I shoul<l feel . ome pride, if' I was in Europe now, 111 eo nfe~ - inn- that I wa::; an American. (Applau:::e.) \V e hav ' rc< le~med the Jon(')' infiully of' sixty year:-; of' :-;uuservienee. But look back a bit~ I · there any thing new about this? Notlti11c')' at all. It i8 the natural re ·ult of Anti-~lan•ry tt•aehing. F~r one, I accept it; I expected it. I c:1nnot :-;ay tilat I prayed for it; I cannot ,ay that I hoped f(H· it._ But aL t~1c same time, no f:anc mnn ha · looked llpon tb1 · matler f~t· twenty year~, and suppo-;ed that we could go through t_lus great moral connd:-~ion, the great classes of' :-;oeiety cr:1 ~hmg and jostling against each otlH'r like fi·ig:1t e.· in a. tonn, and. that there would not come . uch scen '' as these. In 1835 it was the otber wny4 Then it wa. my bull t11at goreu your ox. Then ](h·as came in confliet, and men of' violence, men who trusted in their own right l1and ·, men who believed in bowie-knives- ueh ackcd the eity of' J>hiladdphia ; such made New York to l>c governed by a mol> ; Boston saw it mayor , uppliant and kneeling to the chief of a broadcloth mob in l>roa<l day light. It wa all on that :-:>ide. The natural result, the fir: t n:sult of' this starting of' ideas, is like people who get hal{' awaked, and usc tl1e iir:-~t we:1pon:; that lie at hand. The first show ancl 11nf'olding ol' natioual lile, were the mobs of J t;:3.J. P eople saitl it served us rigllt; W cndcll Phillips. 55 we had no rio-ht to the luxnry of spraking- out· own minds; it wa.- too expen iYe; the. e la vi: h, procliga.J, luxurious persons walking about h ·rc, an<l actually 1-'aying what th ·y think. \Vlry, it, wa lik ' sp a king lon<l in the mid:t of the avalan eh s. To say "Liberty" in a loud tone the Constitution of 17 !) migLt come tlown- it would noL do. l3 ut now tiJings lmve chang d. 'Vc have ucen talking tltirty yrar:-;. Twenty yea rs we ll:t\'e talkt•d every wh n', under aH ·in·umslanc ·. ; we 1H1V ' bc•cn lllOUUCcl OU t of g reat citic. , ancl p •JU~d OllL of li ttle 0 1\ ('S; \ \' (' ha ' UC 1 11 ahus •d by g reat lll C11 and by little papers. (L:wg l1tcr an<l applan~r.) '\VJmt is th ' r esult? The tables hav(' uc n tumccl; it is you r l>uH that Jras ~ored my ox now. Ancl I11 Cn that still believe in violence', tlr fh·e points of who e f:tith arc the fist, the bowie-knife, fire, poison, and the pistol, are rang-ell on th ' s ide of Lib ·rly, a nd, unwilling to wait, for the f'10\v out sur , fit cps of t!Jought, Jay on God's a llar the L>e t tlJ<'y l1:wc. Y ou c~1nnot •xpcci to put a real Puritan Prr. bytc rian, a~ J ohn Brown is- a r co-,J!ar iromwcll ia11 <l11g up from two rc n I u r i e. - in tIt r m i cl:..; L of o 11 r New En~ Ian d c i vi I- izal ion, that dare not, say its fio ul is it. own, nor pr•o elaim that it i:-~ wrong to . ell a man at auetion, and not kwe him , how JJimsdf as l1c is. Pul a hou1Hl in lh(' prr:.:cnce of a <l<'r r, and 11<' :.:prings aL l1is tltroaL it l1e i · a. true hloodJJotmd. J>ut a Cl1ristian in th · J)I'C'fiencc of a ~ in, :md he will i'pring at its tl1roat it l1c is a. true Christian. In to an acid we may throw white matt er, but unless it i~ chalk, it will not produce agitation. So, if' in a world of , inncrs you w •re to ptri American Cliri~tianity, it wonld b calm ag oil. l3ut put one Chri ·tian, like ,John llrown of 0 .-;a watomic, and he mak s the wl10Ie crystallize into right ancl wrong, and mar. hal tlr ms lvr on one side or the othe r. God makes him the texl, and all he ask~ Clf' our cornpn rnAiv<'ly eowa)'(1ly lips is to prcat11 the scrllll) ll , :tnd l'ay to tile American people tlrat, whctl1 er tha~ old man suet· 'Cd('d in a worldly . en c ot· not, he tood a rrprc ·cntative of law, of government, of right, of j ustice, of r eligion, |