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Show 82 TilE LIBERT\' DELL· d d years boforo tho ReF nearly five hun rc or. ' lace or building in England formntwn, wbnteH~r p d ' religious use, scrccnc was consecrated for any and at one time even murderers, from offenders, 1 and the sentence passed tl 'ustico of the aw, 10 J • . And the noblest boast of Eng· upon therr crnncs. d . that only men can trend land at the present ay lS ' her soil! Ilow different the case with us I We. ~o ~ot t oven for tho victim of lDJUShce provide a sane unry , N lace is sacred from the pursmt and wrong. 0 P Sl hunter Notwithstanding we surround of the ave · a spo t w1' th all the holiest and most sacred asso. - C.l al.t ons possl" bl c, a nd consecrates it to the worshlp of that Bem. g wh 0 . the Common Father of all, JS 1 "uue command we disregard if we do and w lOSC pr not lore one another, and do unto others as we ld have others do unto us, yet even from such won fu. t the notional arm stands ready to drag o gt· :i::Slave. And what is worse than all, the la~gc majority of th e Professed ministers of tbJS lowg U.BJmT'i1 SECTWNAL. Sr.AVEilY, NATIONAr •. 83 Father have either no word of rebuke to offer, or else openly defend the act. Of n1l the spots in our land which nnturo bas marked out as abodes of freemen, there is none which is safe. You may sec men and women whom the national law treats as fugitive Slaves in Nantucket, in a. cluster of houses overhanging the beach where for unnumbered ages tho Atlantic has ceaselessly rolled its waves. All sights and sounds there suggest thoughts of freedom. Can we chain the waves or bind tho winds? And yet the man whose soul will live countless ages after those waves will have censcd to roll, we can and do bind and return ns a fugitive Slave ! No! God be thanked, thoro is a law higher than any of human enactment. Slavery is supported in Nantucket, by the national law, but this law is rendered powerless by the sectional love of liberty. A ride up a narrow mountain-road entirely overlmng with trees, for about a milo and a half, brings one to the little farming town of 1\It. 'Vashington, |