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Show 4 MASSACHUSl~TTS IN 11lOUR~ JNG. I a.m thankful {Or all this. 'Vonls arc nothing-we h:wc been surfeited with words for twenty years. I am thankful that this time there was action also ready fOr Freedom. God gave men bodies, to li"c and ·work in; the powers of those bodies arc the first things to be con:;ccratcd to the Right. J rc gaxc us higher powers, also, for weapons, but, in wsing those, we must not forget to hold the lower ones also ready; else we m.i::;s our proper m<mly 1ifC on earth, and lay down ouT means of usefulness before we haYc outgro-wn them. " Render unto Co-csar the things which arc G.csar's and unto God the things which arc God's." Our souls and bodies axe both God's, and resistance to tyrants is obedience to llim. If you meet men whose souls arc contaminated, and have time enough to work on them, you c~m deal with them by the weapons of the soul alone; but if men array brute fOrce agai11st Freedom-pistols, clubs, drilled soldiers, and stone walls - then the body also has its part to do in resistance. You must hold yourself above men, I own, yet not too far above to reach them. I do not like even to think of taking life, only of giving it ; but physical force that is forcible enough, acts without bloodshed. They say that with twenty more men at hand, that Friday night, at the Boston Court House, the Slave might have been rescued without even the death of that one manwho was perhaps killed by his frightened companions, then and there. So you see force may not mean bloodshed ; and calm, irresistible force, in a ~ood cause, becomes sublime. The strokes on the door of that Court llouse that night for instance- they may perchance have distm·bed some dreamy saint from his meditations, (if dreamy saints abotu1d in Com·t Square,)-but I think they went echoing from town to town, MASSACHUSETTS IN MOURNING. .5 from ]~oston to far ~cw Orlrans, like the first drum beat of thl' Re,·olulion- and each refcrbcrating- throb was a blow upon the door or every Riavc·prison of this gui lty Hcpuh1lc. That fir~t fitint throb of ·Liberty was a proud thing for Boston ; ]3oston which was a scene so funereal a week after. 1\lcn say the act of one Friday helped prepare for the next ; 1 am glad if it did. If the attack on the Court ] [ouse had 110 greater cfiCct them to send that Sla,·e away under a g uard of two thou~and men, instead of t"'O hundred, it was worth a. dozrn lives. lf we arc all Sl:tvcs indeed- if there is no 1aw in :\lassachu.sctts except the telegraphic orders from Washington- if our own mi litary are to be made Slave-catchersif om Governor is a mere piece of State ceremony, permitted only to rise at a military dinner and thank his own soldiers fOr their readiness to .shoot down his own constituents, without even the delay of a riot act- if 1\[assachnsett.s is 1nerely a conquered pro,·ince and under m::utial law-tAen I wish to know it, and I am grateful for every additional gun and sabre that forces the truth deeper into our heart~. .T4ower, Jjfassackusetts, lower, kneel stilt lower! Serve, Irish :Marines! the kidnappers, your masters ; down in the dust, citizen soldi01y! befOre the Irish :JHarines, and for you, 0 GoYernor, a ]ower humility yet, and your homage must be paid, at second hand, befOre the stained and soiled" citizen soldiery." [ remember the great trades-proce:;sion in Bo.ston, a !Cw year:; since, in honor of the Yisitors from the J\Torth, from the free soil of Canada. Then all choice implements, which :Massachusetts had inyentcd to suppl)f the industry of the world, were brought fOrth lOr cxhlbition, and superb was the show. This time we had visitors from the tiouth- the South which uses tools also- and imports them all, "hoes, spades, |