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Show 32 of that element no wrong, nor . "tlization for the sake I. . 'he will surrive c1v • ' can hurt nm · f tl nor circurnstancc, ' . I . the world o streng ,, . ·, ·ut. So now, the arnvn tn of the and ploy Ill> P· . I tl e Haytian heroes, or . such men as Toussaint, anc ~~ d Jamaica, outweJ.ghs . · B·11 bauocs an . leaders of their race Ill l '. . d American hutmunty. 11 tl En.,hsh an I in oood omen a Je o ld . d~tst in the ba ance o f tl c whole wor , IS . The anti·slavcry o 1 . ·I css and ncrvousuess, . or squcamls 111 . I . before this, -Is a po ". I e is the anti-S ave. I ·,rht arc here. JCr . . the mioht and lle "o bhck or whttc JS an ,., d if you have man, ' t Who here is man: an . tl t is miraculous . insi('m. ficnnce. The Int elle. ct,- JU I tl ey 1• nd bones thoug 1 1 " I r ~man . hts s {Ill a ' I r has it, has t lC ta b ·. . . s )::trent, nnd t IC eve - I r of ntohl, ate tJan.J B l a were of the coo o . I ttractive beams. u ]astinO' stars SI1 1· ne tl l rouoc h ' W. Jl 1 " ' l cannot be use fu I or o . hat whieh IS not nne • ' compusSJon for l f "I All the songs, and ne\\s- ]o\•ely' . I I"~~ and uti e. . f h IS c egr:u II o . . . d vituperation o sue y subscnptwns, an f I papers, and _mone.- will avail nothing against a act. as do not thlllk wtth us, If black or white, man or Y to you, you mus t s(a ve yourse ' ~ the occasion of t Iu" s sa I I . s none. I esteem woman . other lC p I . t I at the black race can ' d diScovery, 1' · 1 J"ubilee to be the prou . the "real anthem whtc' . I I ·hite. that, Ill " contend Wit 1 t le " . ' rts and vast compass, . ptece of many pa we cull lustory, a I and subdued accom- . I 0' time a very ow ~ after playtng a uno . I t' arrived when they can I CC!VC tIC llliC . paniment, t ley per ter's part in the musiC. . . I ft" t and take a mas I . strike tn Will e cc , . I d tlrtt pitch that llCif f I world has reac Je ' , d I The civility o lie . indispensable, an t te · is becoming ' ., 1 • more moral gent us h I for itself. I• or lliS, . is to Ue onorec quality of tlus race . d I crts in rice·swamps, vcd Ill san y c cs ' they have been preser !on . now let them emerge, in l<itchens and shoc·shops, so g. . . 1 · own form. 1 · 1 clothed and "' ltetr . d on side ration w JJC 1 . tl very ele,·ate c t There remams Je . '- I o to more abstrac b t whtch ue onos . T the subject opens, u . tl . namely that the CJVJ tty views than we are now taking, llS ' 33 of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest, and of the newest philosophy, that, man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympntl1etic injury to all the members. Arncrica is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous. These considerations seem to leave no choice for the action of the intellect and the conscience of the country. TIJCre have been moments in this, as we ll as in every piece of moral history, when there seemed room for the iufusions of a skeptical philosophy; when it seemed doubtful, whether brute force would not triumph in the eternal strugg le. I doubt not) that sometimes a despairing negro, when jumping over tl1e ship's sides to escape from tlw white de,·ils who surrounded him, has believed there was no vindication of right; it is horrible to think of, but it seemed so. I doubt not, that sometimes tl1e negro's friend, in the face of scornful and brutal l1undrcds of traders and drivers, lms felt his heart sink. Especially, it seems to me, some degree of despondency is pardonable, when he observes the men of conscience and of intellect, l1is own natural allies and champions,- those whose attention should be nailed to the grand oojects of this cause, so hotly olfended by whatever incidental petulanccs or infirmities of indiscreet defenders of the negro, as to permit themselves to be ranged with the enemies of the human race; and names which should be the alarums of liberty and the wutclnvords of trutlt, are mixed up with all the rotten rabble of selfishness and tyranny. I assure myself that this coldness and blindness will pass away. A single noble wind of sentiment will scatter them forever. I am sure that the good and wise elders, the ardent and generous youth will not permit what is incidental and exceptional to withdraw their devotion from the essential and permanent characters of the question. There have been moments, I said, when men might be forgiven, who doubt-ed. Tlwse moments arc past. Seen in masses, it cannot 5 |