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Show 64 TILE LIDEllTY DELL• f both parties, nil tho Abolinud tho best way, or tionists have always said. But since the Slave-holders refuse, not only to do this, but to commence t towards emancipation in any way, any movomen it bccouleB a waste of time to delay any longer for their consent. The thing must be done irrespective of their wishes altogether. Tho means of effecting it are twofold. The most important agency to this end is lobe created by diffusing through this country and civilized Europe, such exact and full information of the wickedness and cruelty inherent in Slavery' of the degradation of the Slaves, of the deterioration in mnnncrs and morals of the masters, of tho corruption diffused by this influence through the church, and of the increased profligacy which it bas developed in the political and theological press, and in the prncecdings of political and theological parties, as will unite the hearts and the hands of all who love liberty, morality, and religion, in the dctermi· 1'ERSONALITY. G5 nation to act in every practicable way against Slavery a.nd for Liberty. The second point is to direct into proper channels the energy th.us genora.tcd, and bring it to bear, with permanent and steadily increasing force, upon the commercial, political, ecclesiastical, social, and personal relations of Slaveholders, at homo and abroad; to make each Slaveholder and each apologist for Slavery sensibly and acutely feel that wherever he appears beyond the circle of his accomplices, he excites such feelings and such manifestations of aversion and contempt as if his close cropped hair and motley dress proclaimed him a. fugitive from some houso of correction i to uncover so thoroughly to tho public gaze their peculiar position of wickedness intensified by meanness, their preeminence as grinders of tho face of the poor, and oppressors of the widows and fatherless whom they have made widows and fatherless, that the highwayman who robs only tho rich shall 6• |
