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Show Gilbert Haven. or dr af, as the messenger I have s 'nt? '' You do not ~hrink from applying your formula to Itnl y,.and France, nncl Ireland, and every where, . ~we to your own countrym n, who~e fath <' rs were as valiant as ours, :n that g reat in.~ urrccti on agnin.'t Britain. But we dare not say that wi cked thing and , in ngain, t God. 'Ve dare not affirm that any chihl of .Adam, nny ehild of God, has not the same right to him. 'if that we hnxc; and if he can secure it, without bloollsh 'tl, hns a right to take it. If he can obtain it only by blood ·heel, it is not for u ~, with our cea 'lcs prai:e · of Ko suth, and Garibaldi, and \Va::;hington, to :::ay him nay.* God help him to his rights without the hedding of a drop of human blood! God help him to hi , right::~ if~ like I srael, he hall · e lit to have him tht·u ·t into freedom by the terror-.. trickr n, . OITO\·V-. trick en ma::; tc't" ; made so now, as then, by the Angel (Tehonth, the Lonl J c~ us Christ l1imself. There will be no such r edemption, for tl1c .. la,·c has no thirst for r evenge. Great and numcrou · a~ are the tcmptatiom; to it , no ·uch cry has ever leaped in hi ' , oul, much le s from hi: lip:-;. Some there may be, of the many L t'grcc::;, that may have comm nded to their lip: th ~ chaliee of agony the')' have EO foully forced upon their brethren. Bttt the:-c revenges will be rare. No uch tl <:'::ign m o v e.~ the heart-; of th ·it· fi)'mpnthizcr c::. lie who l1a ~ gone farth est in thi · work of neighborly love and duty, expr •:-;:-.ly and l'C'JWflt ('dly denies the intention of creating or nllowing a Lloody in:;urrcetion. "I never did in tend," he !" ay~, "murder or trea. on, or the de tt·n ction of property, or to xcite or incite the sla ve. to rebell ion , or to m:1kc in, urrccti on. I never cncournged any man to do so, but alw:1y di::;cournged any idea of that kind." *. Arr ~ " t on~ <mlogirs, nnd st~ttu cs. nnd monumr nts of Wnshington - the porul!ltJ pnsswn nl our l1lllc -<ll•s i ~JH' d hy l'rm·ideucc to prepa re us to wvltOllle that Ul·t•ntet· l~mll \\'a.:~h i n gto u, who may yut ttri ~o f rom Lhc o p1>rc s.:~ou mcu to lead tli cm to 1! rocdom ? Gilbert Haven. Let us r efrain from rh<wging the. e ch'nd nncl <lying mr n, who h:w e i'U.Cl'ific •d their ]i\'CS f'or the frC'rclom of' a dt•spi::;cd lwopl <', witl1 nny ~ u (' h imputation. Let u ~ n ·j oiec that otlwr human agents arc in thi :-~ work b c~ id , Phnr:wh ami hi::; uon<lmen, and tl1nt their ex t ·rnnl ~y mp:ltlli c:~ and e n e rgi <'~ will pcaccf'ully melt the iron from these Jwc k ~ . 'Ve l1ave only said that, in the dread nlt •rnativc of freedom throurrh blood t? ' or perpetual slav ry, we have no ri ght , ns men or as Chri ;;;- tians, to d 'c ide for the lntt r r. F or <'O n ~ i<l r, that on· qu a rt <· r of a million holu fOlll' millions of inllO(' 'Ill JH'op\ ' in <·h:lillS. By our Ame rican arithm •tic the majority rule:-:. A pply the rule he re and let it peac<'ably work it:.;e\f' out. H vioi<' JH'e attcml its working, ask your::. ·1(' whic·h is the lwtt er- th <' ~ h o r t but violent confli t t oC tweh· · m ' n, with their one pn·tl'nd<"(l owner, or the viol·nt . ubjugation of those men antl th ·ir po:' tc rity. On the on hand some mast 'I'S slain, . omc matron:-; di:·il lOnor 'u,sonl<' l'ah .: ly ri ch me~d ' poo r, and th en libert y, equalit y, frate rnity in a ll w·n 'rations; 110 chain. , no wl1ip:-;, no pollution, no forc<!d, ttncon=-enat ed ma rriages of' lo vl· r~ , no st'pnration of famili ·:-, no robLv ry of a man':-; labor :md it:; r 'w:mb, of all chanc<•:; of' elt·,·ation, . oci:dly nnd nwnt :tlly, or all the rights whi('h <Ill men re:-:pect and ~tri v, af'll'l'. On the oth 'r ll:lntl, gcncration:i upon g<·ncration: of th e:'e million · su{T'e ring Ull:-'JW:lkablc lo:'~, aud ..:.ham \ !4, nnd ago11i ' .. ·The re will be no war nor blood::.hcd, thank to tl1c great Northem, the grc·at Chri stian sentim ent ; but if th ere were, God ha-; oft l'n bl<;::::::.ctl it. and mit!'ht a ~ain. 'Ve ha,·c dwelt on th<· g n •at <.:<'ntral g rouncl;o; for our hop<·:::. The rooming conwth, il' night y •l bang:; blaek nnd blnC'kt•r over us. 'Ye eannot clo:-'C without mherting to a fi.!w ~ u bsitliary bl<!:>;;in g:; thi · mournful C\ ' •nt will prod tiC' : - h t. It will lead to a more orr e ncral r ·cooc ·nition of our one-n c~. of blood an<l cl e~ tin y with the d c~ pi ~cd race. The pa-: t m o ,· e m<·nt ~ of tbi ::. grc·at reform han• made a:- toni :-. hi ng change::; in the Northern reeling. The colored race to-uny arc 12 |
