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Show The President, Mr. GARRISON, thus introduced Mr. PARKER to the audience:- "LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,- The fanaticism and infidelity and treason which are hateful to the traffickers in slaves and the souls of men must be well pleasing to God, and are indications of true loyalty to the cause of liberty. I have the pleasUl'e of introducing to you a very excellent fanatic, a very good infidel, and a first-rate traitor, in the person of THEODORE PARKER, of Boston." S P E E C H. MR. PRESIDENT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, - After that Trinitarian introduction, in which I am presented before you as one antislavery Nature in three Persons,- a fanatic, an infidel, and a traitor,- I mn sure a Unitarian minister will bring his welcome along wjth him. And yet I come under great disadvantages: for I follow one whose color is more than the logic which his cause did not need (alluding to Mr. Remond) ; and another whose sex is more eloquent than the philosophy of noblest men (referring to Mrs. Blackwell), whose word has in it the wild witchery which takes captive your heart. I am neither an African nor a Woman. I shall speak, therefore, somewhat in the way of logic, which the one rejected; something also, perhaps, of philosophy, which the other likewise passed by. Allow me to say, however, still further, by way of introduction, that I should not weary your ears at all this morning, were it not that another man, your friend and 1nine, Mr. Phillips, lies sick at home. Remember the threefold misfortune of my position: I come after an African, after a Woman, and in the place of Wend ell Phillips. I shall ask your attention to some Thoughts on the present Aspect of the Antislavery Enterprise, and the Forces which work therefor. |
