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Show 6 In all great movements of mankind, there are three special works to be done, so many periods. of work, and the same number of classes of persons there1n engaged. First is the period of Sentiment. The business is to produce the right feeling, - a sense of lack, and a forefeeling of desire for the special thing required. The aim is to produce a sense of need, and also a feeling of want. That is the first thing. The next period is that of Ideas, where the work is to furnish the Thought of what is wanted,- a distinct, precise, adequate idea. The sentiment must precede the thought; for the primitive element in all human conduct is a feeling: every thing begins in a spontaneous emotion. The third is the period of Action, when the business is to make the thought a thing, to organize it into institutions. The idea must precede the action, else man begins to build, and is not able to finish: he runs before he is sent, and knows not where he is going, or the way thither. Now, these three special works go on in the antislavery movement; there are these three periods observable, and three classes of persons engaged in the various works. The first effort is to excite the antislavery Feeling; the next, to furnish the antislavery Idea; and the third is to make that thought a 'rhing,- to organize the idea into institutions which shall be as wide as the idea, and fully adequate to express the feeling itself. I. The primitive thing has been, and still is, to arouse a sense of Humanity in the whites, which should lead us to abolish this wickedness. Another way would be to arouse a sense of indignation in the person who suffered the wrong,- in the slave,and to urge him, of himself, to put a stop to bearing the wickedness. Two things there were which hindered this from being 7 attempted. First, some of the antislavery leaders were non-resistants; they said it is wrong for the black man to break the arm of the oppressor, and we will only pray God to break it: the slaves must go free without breaking it themselves. That was one reason why the appeal was not made to the slave. The leaders were non-resistants; some of them covered with a Quaker's hat, some of them (pointing to Mr. Garrison, who is bald) not covered by any covering at all. The other reason was, the ::;laves themselves were Africans,- men not very good at the sword. If the case had been otherwise,- if it had been three and a half millions of Anglo-Saxons,- the chief antislavery appeal would not have been to the oppressor to leave off oppressing, but to the victim to leave off' bearing the oppression. For, while the African is not very good with the sword, the AngloSaxon is something of a master with that ugly weapon; at any rate, he knows how to use it. If the Anglo-Saxon had not been a better fighter than the African, slave-ships would fill this side of Sandy Hook and in Boston Bay; they would not take pains to go to the Gulf of Guinea. The only constitution which slave-hunters respect is writ on the parchment of a drum-head. If the three and a half millions of slaves had been white tnen, with this dreadful Anglo-Saxon blood in their bosoms, do you suppose the affair at Cincinnati would have turned out after that sort? Do you believe Gov. Chase would have said, No slavery outside of the Slave States; but, inside of the Slave States, just as much enslavement of Anglo-Saxon men as you please ? Why, his head would not have been on his shoulders twenty-four hours after he had said it. In the State of Ohio, when Margaret Garner was surrendered up, there were four hundred thousand able-bodied men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five; there were half a million of :firelocks in that State; and, if that woman had |