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Show Edwin M. Wheelock. IIi - m1 s1on was to inaugurate f:bve insurrrction a. the divine wc~pon of the anti-~·d:1\·e ry C'anse. Tit , chool of' insurrection is the only chool open to the slan~. Rol>lwry, tab 'rnnclcd in the :fl c~h, has clo~c d ·very other door of' hope upon him. This it cannot clo~ c. Do we .. hrink from the blootL;hed that would follow? Ah! let u~ not forget that in SlaYery blood is alux rys flowing. On the cotton, and sugar, and rice fi elds, more of our people arc yearly 'lain by O\·crwork and f' tarvation, by the bludgeon and the whip, than fell at ~Vatc rl oo ! I · their blood " d i tc.:h-wat c t' ? " Is the Llood of insn rrect ion more terrible than the same blood hed daily Ly wicked hancls on the plantation? Good 111 n who speak of the" crime of' di:;turbing the peace of ~ l;wcry by ,·iolcncc," speak of that which nr vcr ean exi t. Slavery kll ow:; 110 JWH ·c. Its primal COIH1ition or Jil'c is IItllllanity di;-;nrm cd, di:'ln cmher<•d, throttl ed. Its sullen calm is the peace of the vc ..: ;s<'l c:tptnrell in the 1\T:dayan sc:t:..;, \rhcn res i ~ tan ce ha ' ccasct1, when tit<~ pirate knife ]H'C's:-;p ;:; again t the throat of e,·ery pro." trate man, and the women cower f'rom a fat e worse than death. It ' tranquil ... tate i ' a worse war than the worst in urr cetion. Slavery is n. pcrpC'tual war :vrain. t drcn, unarmed, helplc;-;s, and bound. men, women, and chilInsurr 'ction is but a transirnt war, on more equal term::;, and with the weaker ~ itle • • r:1pable at least of flight. \Vho can ~ay that" the last state is worse than the lir~ t ?" A true peace is ind r<'d bl es~ c·<l. The peace that comc•s from knowing God, and lo\'ing GoL1, and doing the will of God, - that i:..; the mo~t desirable. But the peace oC insensibility, the peace of stupcf:lCtion, the sleepy peace of tltc freezing bocly, thn t is not desiraulc. \Vat· is b(~ tter than that: a11y thing is Letter than that ; for that is death. No tyrant cvt'l' , lll'I'I~ IHl <'r.., his powc'l', t'X<'C'pt untler the rod. The Lcniulc log ic of history teaches that no su<.:h Edwin M. Wheelock. wrong was eve t· clean. •d by ro~e-w atPr. ~Vh t n higher ag<'nci<'s a rc fai th l Ps~, r \'il i!1 u. e<l by Go11 to r'l'o\\'(1 out worse e\' ils. The !axe, who vni ll ly tries to :-.halt' off hi:; f!'tt<· r.:', is schooled by cv ·ry. uch <'ffo rt in to fullC' r manhood. No race ever hewed ofT' its cha ins 'Xccpt by in:..;urreet ion. E very nation, now free, kts gr:u.l uat<·c1 througlr th:lt fi ery school. The annal::; of ouc Snxon blood, from ' Villiam of Normandy to 'Villiam of Orange, jg a r •cord of instHT<·rt ion, cloaked Ly history umler the name of' civil nn fl n ·ligiou:-; wars. All our noble fitth ·t :-; wcr " tntitors," Crom\\·(• 11 wa:..; a " fanati c," 'Va~ hin gto n the chief' of' ' rc l> t' l~ . " " JI ,·:l \'t'n," say~ the Arabian proph<'t, " is bc·1wat h a C'Oil<':t \' (' of' tnrords." Let us r emc•mht'r that fonr million:-; of' our nation till the soil of the Sou th, ancl that th ree hu ndr<·<l tl rou...;:tnd JH' r:.:;ons hold tht·m in robbe r/ l>O IHl:..;. But G<Hl h :1 :-~ sa id, '' TIH· :-oil to him who tills it." An<l the North \\'il l be a l'tr rn aee of insnrr rctions till the '· Hight (·onu·s uppPrmo:·d, :111<l .J tt."tiee is don<•." Tire slave has no t only a right to hi ,· freedom - it is hi-; ditty to be fre . And C' \'<' ry 11orth ern man Ita:..; not on ly a right to help tit slave to Iris f rl'<'dom, it i - his religion:-: duty to help !tim, caeh clwo:..;ing his own mt•an:..;. God h<' lp the sla\·' to his freedom without. shedding a drop of hloocl ; Lut if that cn nnot br, then upon the ft·lon soul that thl'tt:-: ts hirn sP if' hC'twcen Gocl' ~ 1mnge and the li berty to which Go1l i :-~ ever ca lling him,- upon !tim, I say, rests a ll the gni lt of the fierce confl ict that mu:-.t follow. In the Yan of en.•ry 1-' lave insurre ·tion marche - " the Hngd of the L onl,". miting wi th pl;1gue the opprc::;, or, " till he k ts the people go." Go1l gmnt tha t the American Pha raoh may not hnrc1en hi: he<1rt :1 gai n ~ t the warnin ~s of h e~n' c' n, till, in the . even-fold flnmc of insu rr •ction, the f ·tt r t" oC the bon<ln1an shall be forg<•d into ·word:;. But if tlwt. drc•nd alternnti,·c shoul<l eonw, aml Free<lom :111'1 S lavc' ry j oin in c1<'at hf'ul (l llt'l, ou r· duty st ill is pl ni n. At orl<'t' mttst til <' 6 l'<'at North st<'p lH'twc·pn, eithe r to Jl l'l' \ ' Cill the st rucrcrJp if we can or ::;lrortcn it a.s Lc t we may, Ly '~ brcak-oo ' ' lG |