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Show MASSACHUSETTS lN MOURNING. axes, politicians, and ministers." So the last new implC'mcnt~, for her usc, were to be exhibited now. There were twenty .. one specimens of ]3o~ton military companies. There were the two hundred more confidential bullies, fOr whom the city ,,·as ransacked, men so vile, that it was sa . id the police had no duties left, for all the dangerous l)ersons were emplo:'-·cd as policemen themseh·es, - men whom a Police J udge having inspected, recognized criminal after criminal, who had been sentenced by himself to the ] louse of Correction ; these came next. 'l'n 1ly as there is joy in heaven o,·er "one sinner who 1·epcntcth, so there was joy in ]3oston that day, o,·er oue sinner who had not repented, :__ over every man in whom the powers of hell were strong enough, aided by public Lrandy, to fit him for that terrible service. Those were the tools marshallccl forth for exhibitio11. But why were these only shown? \Vhy were the finer, the more precious implements kept invisible that day, the real engines of that Slaveholder's triumph? Why not make the picture perfect? Place, 0 Chief 1\Ia.rshal, between the Slave and the guardian cannon, the crowning glory of that sad procession, the Sla\'eholder in his carriage, and chain, on the one side, the )Jayor of Boston, nncl, on the other side, the Governor of the Commonweal th, with the motto, "The Representative j\fen of niassachusetts, - These tools she g ives, Virginia, to thee! " I mean no personality. The men who occupy these offices, arc men who (I have always thought) did them. honor. I sup .. pose that neither would own a. Slave, nor (personally) catch one. No doubt they favorably represent the average of )Iassaehusetts men. But I introduce them for precisely t!tis ?"Cason, to show the tragedy of otu American institutions, that they take a\'erage Massachusetts men, put them into public office, and MASSACHUSETTS IN MOURNING. 7 then, demanding more of them tl1an their education gives them manliness to meet,-usc them, c1·ush them, and (.IJ·op them, into the ilishonor with which these hitherto honored men arc suddenly overwhelmed to-day. If such be the influence of om· national organization, what good do our efforts do? Our labor to reform the North, with the whole force of nationalized Slavery to resist, is like the efiOrt of Sir J ohn F ranklin, on his first voyage, to get northward by travelling on the icc. lie travelled toward the pole lOr sL'( weeks, no doubt of that ; but at tile end of the time he was two hundred miles farther from it than when he started. The icc had floated southward- and our ice float! southward also. And so it will be, while this Union concentrates power in the hands of Slaveholders, and gives the North only commercial prosperity, the more thoroughly to enervate and destroy it. IIcre, for instance, is the Nebraska Emigration Society ; it is indeed, a noble enterprise, and I am proud that it owes its origin to a ' " orcestcr m:.m - but where is the good of cmi~ grating to 1\T ebraska, if Nebraska is to be only a transplanted :Massachusetts, and the original :Massachusetts has been tried and fowHl wanting? VY.ill the stream rise higher than its source ? Settle your Ncbn1ska ten ye~u·s, and you will have your New England harvest of corn and g rain, more l ux w·iant in that virgin soil ;-a.h, but will not the other Massachusetts crop come also, of political demagogues and wire-pullers, and a sectarian religion, which will insul'e the passage of the greatest hypocrite to heaven, if he will join the right chuTCh befOre he goes ? And give the emigrants twenty years more of pr~sperity, and then ask them, if you dare, to break law |
