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Show " . ~ · '''· ..... - 232 A LETTER TITAT help lon.tl1ing the system, tl1c instant he saw iL jn Hs natlvc meanness. rrhcn, in order to keep l!is own sclf-rcspcct,-to gratify the love of the good and true in his own soul, he must express that loathing. No disinterestedness about doing right, for nobody can he so much interested in the act as the doer of it. \Vroog-cloing is the only possible self-abnegation, of which the whole range of thought admits. All the humiliation and agony of the Saviour himself, were necessary to himself. Nothing less could have expressed the infinite love of tl1e Divine nature; and in working out n. most perfect righteousness for those be loved, . he also wrought out a most perfect happiness for lJimsclf. 'l'bc eternal bw of Gocl links the happiness of all the creatures made in IIis image in an electric chain, united in the Divine love; and llc, who has "a fcllO\\"fecl. ing for our .infirmities/' has given usn. fcllo,v-fceling with the sufferings of each other. So that no soul in ,Ylllch tbe Divjnc image is not totally obscured, can know of the misery of another, without a sympathetic throb of sO.lTO\L rrhe trnc henrt in :1.Iainc cannot know that the sb.vcmoLhcr in Georgia is weeping for her children, torn SrEAKs FOR ITSELF. 233 from her arms by avarice, without feeling her anguish palpitating in its lnmost core. It is the pulsations of the sympathetic heart which stretches out the band to int01-fcre between her an<l Lor aggressor ; and abolitionists arc just seeking :1. soft pillow that they may "sleep o' nights." It is selfishness, I tell you, all selfishness! The great wltale when she gives up her own large life to protect her young one, and the little wren when · she carries all the nice tit bits to her babies, arc as true to tbcmscl vcs as the olcl pig when she shoulders all her little family out of the trough. 'l'hc whale enjoys death, and the wren her little fellows' supper, with a better zest than an old grunter docs lJCr corn, and \Vm. Gildersten in spending money and ln. boring to prC\·ent any more scenes of brutal violence in l1is Btate, by punisLing the one past, gratifies his own loves and longings quite as much as Judge Grier in grunting out his wrath against all lovers of liberty. The one would enjoy being banged for the cause of God and Ilumanity, more than the other would the luxury of hanging him, even if he could have all the pleasure to himsclf,-be not only judge and persccu- |