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Show 34 be disputed, th ere is progress in human society. There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly. The genius of the Saxon race, friendly to liberty ; the enterprise, the very muscula r vigor of this nation, arc inconsistent with slavery. The Intellect, with blazing eye, look ing th rough history from the beginning onward, gazes on this blot, and it disappears. The se nti· menl of Right, once ve ry low and indi stinct, but ever more articulate, because it is the voice of the universe, pronounces Freedom. T he Power that bui lt this fabr ic of things affirms it in the heart; and in the l1istory of the First of August, has made a sign to the ages, of his will. |
