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Show 188 W.IIAT liAS CANADA glory of God, or the hopes and destinies of the human mcc. w·c have to do witll tbis question, for it lies at the foundation of our own rights as a portion of tbc human family. 'l'hc cause of liberty is one all over the world. What have you to do with tbis question? '!'he slave is your brother, and you cannot dissolve that Union. IV bile he remains God's child he will remain your brother. IIe is helpless, and you arc free and powerful; and if you neglect him, you arc not doing as you would have othe1-s do to you, were you in bonds. Know you not that it is God's method to save man by man, and that man is only great, and honorable, and blest h imsclf, as be is the friend and defender of those who need his aid. You are dwellers on the same continent with three millions of slaves. 1'beir sighs come to you with every b1·ccze from the South. Oh, haste to help them, that this glorious continent may be freed from its pollution and its cursc.11 Extract from Barnes on slavery: "Slavery pertains to a great wrong done to our common nature, and affects great questions, relating to the final triumph of the principles of justice and humanity. The race is ono great brotherhood, and TO DO WITll SLAVERY? 180 every man is under obligation, as far as he has the ability, to defend those principles which will perma· ncntly promote the welfare of the human family. * * * * The questions of right and wrong know no geographical limits; are bounded by no conventional lines; are circumscribed by the windings of no river or stream, and are not designated by climate or by the course of the sun. There arc no enclosures within which the question of right and wrong may not be carried with the utmost freedom." Other answers might be given, but these are quite sufficient. |
