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Show 148 your large cities we see mobs after mobs, and all directed to an odious purpose. W"hen we speak of liberty, its enemies reply to us by pointing to America." The persecuted abolitionists have the sympathies of the civilized world. The country which persecutes them is covering itself with disgrace, and filling the hearts of the friends of freedom with fear and gloom. Already despotism is beginning to rejoice in the fulfilment of its prophecies, in our prostrated laws and dying liberties. Liberty is, indeed, threatened with death in a country, where any class of men are ~tripped with impunity of their constitutional rights. All rights feel the blow. A community, giving up any of its citizens to oppression and violence, invites the chains which it suffers others to wear. CHAPTER VIII. DUTIES. A io'l!:W words remain to be spoken in relation to the duties of the Free States. These need to feel the responsi bilities and dangers of their pmsent position. The country is approaching a crisis on the greatest question which can be proposed to it, a question not of profit or loss, of tariffs m· bank s, or any te.mporary interests, but a que~tion involving the First Principles of fL·eedom, morals, and religion. Yet who seems to be awake to the solemnity of the present moment? Who seems to be settling for himself the great fundamental truths, by which private efforts and public measures are to be determined ? The North has duties to perform towards the South am] towards itself. Let it resolve to perlorm them faithfully, impartially ; asking first for the Right, and putting entire confidence in Well-doing. The North -is bound to suppress all attempts of its citizens, should such be threatened, to excite insurrection at the South, all attempts to |