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Show [oil an~ [rnst. TIIIS is the motto of all persons sincerely disposed to embrace the cross of the anti-slavery enterprise. The duty it imposes is two-fold; 1. 'ro toil for the spread of the truth; and 2. To trust to the dissipation of error. The most potent barrier set up against the opponents of slavery is made of the prejudices carefully instilled into the popular mind against them. I propose, in brief, to point out their origin. . It is sedulously inculcated: 1. That anti-slavery is a pure sectional feeling, and springs from jealousy of the South. Fifty years ago this idea might fairly have been entertained. Many of the arguments then used have no better root than political jealousy. But it is not so now. The ruling objection at present is, that slavery is WRONG, no matter where it may be found; that it TOIL AND TRUST. 129 is a moral cvi\ and an offence against religion, not less than a great political curse; that indilfcrcncc to it among good men encourages its extension among bnd men; and that nothing but resolute and universal condemnation of it in every form will stimulntc to its abolition. How far these views are from jealousy of the South, must appear obvious enough to all who reflect that those who entertain them, consider the rcsu1t to be arrived at as one which must spring from the voluntary convictions of those most alfected by it, that they are getting rid of the only serious drawback to their own prosperity. Of course) then, it is the best interests of the South,-their strength, moral, social, and political,-that anti-slavery men believe they arc promoting, by their course. 2. That the enemies of slavery desire to subvert the Constitution and to dissolve the Union. Possibly, a few impatient spirits may have got so far. They constitute, however, but a very small portion of the num her included in the term. N inctenths of these hold that neither the Constitution' nor the Union should be brought into question at all. They consiucr that the resort to them as a protection and safeguard to slavery, by ill-judging and rash 6* |