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Show 62 TilE LIBERTY DELL· that this course is effective, volunteer tlwir disinterested opinion oguinst it,- and persons, whether friends or enemies, who arc too far removed from the scene of action to understand the movements of the opposing parties_ unite in declaring that the effect of such plain speaking, though by no means slight, is adverse to those who use it. The editor of the London Times, a fair specimen of the class last spoken of, has lately mentioned as a great fault in" Uncle Tom's Cabin," that it" will irritate instead of pacifying the Slaveholders. He nssumes that emancipation is impossible except by the voluntary action of the masters, and snys "Let the attempt be made imperiously and violently tc dictate to the Slaveholders, and from that hour the Union is at an end." It jg very easy for tho editor of the Times te talk of tho benefits of a Union of the evils of which he has no experience ; but if he, and every mem· bcr of his political party were liable to bo tarred and feathered, or bung to the first tree, the moment PERSONALITY. 63 they set foot in Ireland, under the operation of a code of laws formed by the joint action of that country and their own, and defended by the bishops, judges, army, and navy of the United kingdom, they would probably form a different judgment of the blessings of Union, and might shout for "repeal, as lustily as any Irishman now does. But tho case above supposed is literally and exactly the condition of those who arc practically opposed to Slavery in tho United States of America. The so much vaunted Unt'on formally withdraws all protection from tho liberty, the property, and the lives of those who spoak against Slavery in a Slave State. Arc such antagonists tc be pacified and mollified with soft words ? Such a proceeding would be soft in more senses than one. Slavery is to be abolished without the consent and against tho will, of tho Slaveholders. Tru: the voluntary, immediate emancipation of eac~ Slavo by each master would be the better way, |