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Show 202 Fales Henry Newhall. In solemn eonfc:rcnce n~seml>l e tl, the Chnn.:h gatheretl nround him, look d Oll the sign of the pl:tglt l', :mtl mildly nppri cd l1im, in enutious, d:tinty phr:tsc, tl1at until rid ol' lti:-:; '' impediment," he would uot be• nct:cptaLlc as a presiding ollicer. The Slave Power (':tught the wonls, rose iu wrath, lnid its talons on the J\lcLhodist Church :wd broke it in twain. And all this i:3 consistent with it . Ycry gt:nius. ln onl<'r to live it mu ~ t be as un 'Cntpu1ous a. Satan llims<' lf, rel 'nt les · as J~tte, cruel ns the grave. Kidnnpping in Afi·i ('a or America, Kan~ a · outrngc>., I..<'<'Ompton m 'ssngc's, Humn ·r assault.'!, Dr ><.I Scott decision.-,- all thc~ c thing:; arc uccctis:.try to the very existence of Slavery. And b it r emember''<! that in still a not her ~cn ..:c it is n national instil ution. The whole nat ion has s itar •tl its j)I'O£its. Northem avarice and <:oYetonsnc:s are int<'rcste<l in its pr'rpetuat ion. Northern llH.' r('h:mts and <'apitalists have IOO Of'ten lt~ken lhc )ion's :-;!Jar of lh<•s' WHgcs Of' ~ ill, tltiS pri('e of blood. ~'-:lavery is loved in Boston as well as in Sa \·:mnnh, in N('w York n~ well :1s in New Orl(•:ut:-;; it has tro11g f(>l'tn!tis<'s in Htatc Street :111<1 in \Vall Stn·d. The nation lta: Htufled <'Otton into it.· tar:-;, and refu:-;ed to Jtc<u· th' el:lllk of' the f'eUcrs, the lonn· :~·rouizinrr wail oC bn;·tkin(J' \:) I? 0 ' 0 h 'art s. An<l now,- tltese wonls may I'O tltHl awtul in your cnrs, but tltey come from my heart, - if' God had RCilt pl<1gne, chol 'ra, f~1minc upon those citie, who·e wealth ha been coined li·01n the , incws of the slavt, we coul1l hut bow in mc<'kne·s aml ~ay, ''It is just." Ilatl xod mn<le the gra. s to grow in Btatc Htrcct; haJ he made !11<.' wh<li'VCR anJ warehou ·c. to rot that kwc be •n pi l ·u with the products of unrequited toil; had he lovell •d the granite piles which our merchant princes have built, anti {illeJ up with the ruins that harbor where once the accursed Acorn lay ; 11ad he made those pavement I' tones Rli ppcry with l>loou over which Anthony Burns was marcl1cd back to tiC1'vitu<.lc we could but ' Fales Henry Newhall. 203 say, "0 God! thi~ 1 ~ 1lrc~ulful, but thou art ju. t ! Thr cnp of trembling whi ·h we and our father~ minglc<l for other~, is it not pressed to our own lips?" So is that p:1nie tln·adl'ul in which th whole South palpitate. to-duy. J have' no di~po ilion to j m;t anu HIH' '1' nt it ns <lo many. It is ri <1iculous to us, but fearfully r al to them. Virginia. moth<·rs clasp their bal.> 'S to their l>osoms with . hricks of terror nL tl to sound of nn unexpccl <1 footfidl by nigltt; 'very m<·kor is a l>nttlc ignal; the mountains and f'orc~ ts are ]H'opil'd with plmntom wnrrior::;; l hey ~co the rotl of' tlu• dcsl1 oy<T t n•mLling on high· th<'Y s ·e the iingvrs of' a man's hatHl writing MENI·~, rENt•:, on the wall of' their lmnqu<'t ch:unlH· r. Uo<l forbid that I :-.llould d •ride their te rror:-;. But arc the tears of that plante r's wif'e a11y more pr ·cious .in tho sight or Gml than th' tears of that sla\·e WOlllan who sinks lllld(' l' the ()V('l'SCer's lash close by? \Vhat though the fir;-;t born sltoul<l fidl Alain on v ry IH·arth that lta , bc<•n l:lid in the bloo<l of tho slave, and from every one of' those llollles there :-.huuld go up one morning a grcn.L ancl bittc·r ery like that of old, wouhl it stir any deeper sympatby Oil ltigh than that which k,,., been rising unite d ·<l through all these y ·ars, from pl:wtalion, swamp, aml cabin? F or y ars and g 'IH'rations Uotl has been bottling th 'SO tcar8, and if he r 'tu rns th!' ll1 to W:l in showera of blooc..l, who will dare to murmur at his j11sti ·e? 'The t ':11'. and the blood of 1 he Rt rong antl or the w ak, of the white and of' th bla ·k, arc alike to Him "who ltath made or one blood all nations of m 'n." In my mind the qnestion wheth ,,. ,fohn Brown did right in drawing the sword in Kan:..;a. is in ·luded iu that oth •r qu<· ,_ tion,- Is it ever right to fight.? Admit that it can cve1· be ju ·tifial.>lc to c..lraw the sword, anu it will be hanJ to 11rOVC that John 13rown did wrong. Kansas was thrown into a . tate of civ il war through tho disgraceful imbecility of the National Governm ' nt, :ltHl iL:i shameful subserviency to the slave power. The peaceful set- |