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Show 44 diced and unreasonable to bear them. As it was grn.nd to compel such to bear, it wore divine to compel such to receive. Farlhcr still, if they who listened in astonishment to those eloquent words, had been convinced by them, and instantly determined to act upon them, as men acted in the infancy of our Republic, of what avail had it been 1 Wo should ~ut repeat tho sa<! story of the last seventy years, re-enact tho tragedy of the nation. If we stood once more where 'Washington stood in theory, our acts of tho third generation would ng-J.in disown our noble ancestry. No, it will not do, to have a Constitution which is not opposed to Freedom ; we must have one that claims it with emphasis ; -it will not answer to have a Constitution which docs not approve of Slavery, we must have one that disowns and prohibits it everywhere i and, meanwhile, may God bless and strengthen those, who with true hearts speak true words, and try to rekindle on the long-desecrated national altar, the ancient vestal flame. Turning from Mr. A DREEZ}; FROY J,AKE ONTARIO. 45 Sumner's speech to ::.\Ir. Mann's letter to his con· stitucnts, which gives the history of the recent growth of the Slave power, our hearts ma.y well sink and die. Die ! that were too easy. God 110 longer demands a painful death of his saints and martyrs. Oh no ! Tho harder duty is now a righteous life. l\Icn and women of this century ponder upon its responsibilities. Not long ago, a gentle but true·hcarted daughter of Massachusetts, said through streaming tears, u I tremble when I think how much this country needs a national mis· fortune." As G-od is just, whatever this country needs it will surely have, and no reflecting man will disown the need or the desert. Toron\o, Canada, Sep~ 26, 1852. |