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Show 60 creature can be so injured withollt taking terrible vengeance. He is terribly avenged even now. The blight which f.1lls on the soul of the wrong doer, the desolation of his moral nature, is a more terrible calamity than he inAicts. In deadening his moral feelings, he dies to the proper happiness of a man. In hardening his heart against his fellowcreatures, he sears it to all true joy. In shutting his ear against the voice of justice, he shuts out all the harmonies of the universe, and turns the voice of God within him into rebuke. He may pmsper, indeed, and hold faster the slave Ly whom he prospers; but he rivets heavier and more iunominious chains on his own soul tl1an he lays 01~ others. No punishment is so terrible as prospemus guilt. No fiend, exhausting on us all his power of torture, is so terrible as an oppressed fellow-creature. The cry of the oppressed, unheard on earth, is heard in heaven. God is just, and if jllstice reign, then the unjust must terribly suffer. Then no being can profit by evil doing. Then all the Jaws of the universe are ordinances against guilt. The>1 every enjoyment, gained by \Vrong doing, will be tumed into a curse. No laws of natllre are so irrepealable as that Jaw which binds guilt and misery. God is just. Then all the defences, which the oppressor rears against the consequences of wmng doing, are vain, as vain as would be his strivinas to arrest by his sinule arm the ocean or whi7-lwind. He may disa~m 61 the slave. Can he disarm that slave's Creator? He can crush the spirit of insurrection in a fellowbeing. Can he crush the awful spirit of jllstice and retribution in the Almighty? He can still the murmur of discontent in his victim. Can be silence that voice which speaks in thund er, and is to break the sleep of the grave? Can he always still the reproving, avenging voice in his own breast? I know it will be said, "You would make us poor." Be poor, then, and thank God for your honest poverty. Better be poor than unjust. Better beg than steal. Better live in an almshouse, Letter die, than trample on a fellow-creature and reduce him to a brute, for selfish gratification. What! 1-la ve we yet to learn that " it profits us nothing to gain the whole world, and lose our souls?" Let it not be replied, in scorn, that we of the North, notmious for love of money, and given to selfish calculations, are not the people to call others to resign their wealth. I have no desire to shield the North. 'Ve have, without doubt, a great multitude, who, were they slave-holders, would sooner die than relax their iron grasp, than yield their property in men to justice and the commands of God. We have those who would fight against abolition, if by this measure the profit of their intercourse with the South should Le materially impaired. The present excitement among |