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Show Letters from Northern Men. a minister of Liberia, and also the writer of this farewell letter, preached the true gospel. You may be grntified to know that I 1·emcmbcr with intere. t your interview, some two years since, with the cordial friend~ of Kansn::; in thi~ city, wbile that injured territory of our common country was subject to the scorpion lash prepared for the hon c~ t atlvocutes of the ri~hts of man, and csp cially of that freedom which you Htruggl e<.l to estnl.lish. These, your New Haven friend::;, some of whom so ably and so kindly expostulated with our Chief )fagistrate in refer en ce to the wrongs of Kansas, remember you with ChriBtian sympathy in your present suffering . Take it to your heart that a God of Justice and of Mercy rules, nnd the Deliverer of I rael from their bondage in Goshen, has mercy in store for a greater number of bondmen and bondwomen, truly as wrongfully oppressed. lie has not granted you the full measure of your wishes, but he has allowed you the opportunity of conspicuously and emphatically showing your sympathy for the injured Slave population of our otherwise happy country, and of rreaching the duty of giving "them that which is just nnd equal." Forty years ago I went among the savages of Polynesia, and preached the gospel of Him whose office it was to proclaim liberty to captives. I plainly taught kings and queens, chiefs and warriors, thnt He that rulcth men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. I freely exhibited the opposition of God's lnw and our Saviour's gospel to oppression and every sin found to be prevailing thcrC', and aided my a sociatcs in giving them the entire Dible in their own lang uage, and in teaching their tribes to read it and usC' it freely in all the ranks of life. Though I labored with them a score of years, and have corresponded with them a score of years more, I have not, lest I should damage my mission, ever told them that I belonged to a nation thnt deprives three or four millions of their fellow-subjects of J ehovah's Government, of their dearest rights which God has given them - one of which is the free usc of his own H oly nook. l1ut when the story of your execution . hall reach and . urpri. e them, I will no longer hesitate to speak to my friends there of your sympathy for four millions of the inhabitants of our Southern tate::;, held in unchristian bond. in the only Protestant country on the globe thnt endorses Slavery. I cnn, next week, well afford to endeavor to give them an echo of that protest against the whole system of AmC'rienn Slnvcry, " ·hich 011 and from the uay of your execution, will be loudl'r in the rnr Clf 1 Iigh lleaven than its abettors have been accustomed to hl'ar; r; ~ ing f10tn Letters fi·on1 Northern M en. the millions of freemen in thi~ noble cordon of Free States. and other millions of now slavcholding freemen, and some slaveh olders themsci ves, in the 1 la vc 1 tates. Have you n kind mc.-;sagc to send to the Christian ro1werts nt the Sandwich Island'l, or to the hea then of 1\'ficronrsia, a month's r-ail bC'yond, where my son and daughter nn' labor ing to give them tlw Bible and the richc:-;t blessings of Chri~tinaity? I would gladly formud it to them if you have time to write it. And now, dear :-;ir, tru t in your gracious 1 nviour; forgive th o:-;e that have trcspa sed against you; l eave your fatherless children, (iocl will provide for them, and tell your widow to trust in Uirn, in 1 (is holy habitation. ''The hairs of your head arc all numuercd," and not one " shall fall to the ground without your H eavenly Fatht·r.'' Should a lock of your hair fall into my lap before the cx0cution shall help you to ~hake the pillars of the itlol's temple, it would be vnlued. The Lord bless you, nnd make your life and death a blcs:-.ing to the oppressed and their oppressors. Farewell ! Yours faithfully, II. JL FROl\I AN OLD 1\IAN OF DOSTON. l3osTox, Nov. 2 1. My Dear Tirother John Drown: I nm nn old mnn. 1 have for more than thirty ycnrs opposed Slavery in all its forms ; thotwh n ever with violence ! I deeply sympathize with you in your prc:cnt position, nnd commend you to that .Te:-:us who preached, what Isaiah proclaiml'd, seven hundred year~ before his atlvent. God forhid that I :-.hou] (l cc· nsure you for acting "delivcr:mcc to the raptive," wlwn it has the ~:mction of this "double -inspiration.'' ~Iy brother, I rrspect and lo~:o von ~ayoucl e:rpression. I have now a letter from my brother, now. I tr~t~t, m heaven. It was written in prison at Baltimore, by one whose lifo was sacrificed to Slavery's clcmnnd. . It .tells me what I believe is true, that during the last few ycnn; of h1s hfe, he gave liberty to more than four lnuulred slal'cs. I have tnk cu slaveholders to his monument in ~1~nnt Auburn where the enclttr inrr ' • n ~ar~lc tells that CHARI.ES T uR:-nm Tonm~Y, in the early merid ian of his hfe, was n martyr to Freed om. If you can find it possible to " ·1 itc m~ the smallf'sl lin e, that I mny pla('C at its side, to bequeath to my children os a most valued lcga('y, you cannot tell how much I :-.houlcl val~<' it. They nrc all Christians in the highctit scn:-;c of thnt word; then· abhorrence of Slavery is unquestioned. I have known you :111d J~ur sons, nml have hud the pleasure of taking your honest hantl in mme. Yours in Chri ·t, .T. N. B. Thnt I mny be under no obligation to T'irginict, I cnclo.se a ten cent stamp to pay for the paper you may u c. |
