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Show Henry D. Thoreau. · ·1 1 ,. l d and nppru .e , n tly in!-'nnc _effort." As for the m1sgmt ct, " 1 f , , . ' • , • , I (lo not t hnnc ' to know )Cl':3 nud m:1gaztn c:--, herd o lH.nvsp.ll ·I ,. ll delibcrat 'ly print any th ing 1. . the country " tO "t an < ttor 111 1 . t ly ·md 1wrmnnently r e cl11CC the I . l 1 1· 10WS will u tuna c' • w nc 1 1e ....t • ,1..,1 , do not b ,liev' that it would f 1 · b cnbcr::;. ley number o liS su 1 they ]H·int truth? If' we do l' t llow t l Cll can be expcc ten · . 1 , ·rruc nobody will attend to ns. 1 'asant tlun rrs, t lCY .u n ,, . not say p c. ' . n t. ellinrr au ctioneer. ' who stng an A 1 they do ltke som uw o ' 1) nc so d. v n crowd aroun<1 th em. \.C-rr in o1·der to ta\ ob~ccne ~ono . 1 t their . cntence. r t'n.cly for t\IC bl. d'tor' obltrre< to g pu tcan c 1 . r t' n ' and oa ccustomec1 t 1 ol· 'lt ever y t hitw by the 0 0 '" ( . 0 mornmg ec i 10 '., 1 ·. ( on nor tru e: . orrow . . f l't' s cxr1re s no m mua 1 ' twtlwo ht o po 1 tc. . , " le1udecl f·a natH· .. " " · ·t· 1· but cnll thc.'C men ( ~s -. rots a ... en even", " in"anc " " . 1, It surrrr('sts what n snne f'et Ol' (' I az ( . I • on men .- .:~. .' 1.1 'ed with not "mi::<takcn men" ; who of cdttors we are u c s ' . 1 know very well on w 1n . c·1 l .s ide their bread l S buttcret ' at leaA~t. docs n brave and humane deed, and at onrc, on all man c• , . , I r 1 ' c1 't . des we hear people and partie d<,clanng, ' < tc n t o l,' SI ' z • to do it in any conceiYahlc way. It cant nor conn tena.ncc tll m ' J .r not t Ca.recr" 10 r one, am b f· · ·ly inferred from my pas ' · ' inet er,m s tc<l to hear you defin e your · · I do 1't I· now that p~ ttw_n.. I ... . . ' I ever wa~ , or ever. 1lc ·1l 1 be . I thmk It JS mer e cgott ~.m , or . t' t at this time Ye needn't take o mueh pam, to 1mper men " · ·n , e walt your skirts of him. No intelligent man Wl <' Yf'r "1 convinced that he was any crca t urc of )'O tll':~:; . II. w •n t an( , s he him elf informs us, "under the ausplc<'s of Johtil cam< , a 1 ot Brown anu.1 no1u, ot1 y el ·c·" The Re1)ublicnn party <o c5 n . perceive how many hi f ailure will make to Yot . more c~t-r cctly than they would have them. They ltave countc<l t lC votes of Penn~ylvant• a (o._~ Co ., 1u. u t tl ley h·a ve not co. rrectly counted Captain Brown's vote. lie ltns tak en the WttHl out of their sails, the little wind they had, anu,, t11 ey ma y •·1 s ·well lie to and repair. rVhat though he <lid not belong to your clique ! Though H enry D. rrhorcau. you may not ~1pp1'ove of ltis m 'llJOd. OL' hi prillciplcs, rccog· nizc hi:-> magnanimi ty. ' Vould you not like to claim ki ll<l rcd: hip with him in that, though in no other thing he is lik ·, or lik ·ly, to you? Do you think that you would lose your rcpu· tation 1-'0 ? \Vhat you lo·t at the spile, you would. gain at the Lung. Ir tlH'J do not mean all this, then they do not speak the tru th, and . ay what tltcy mean. They arc simply at their old tri cks . till. " It was always conceded to him," says one who calls him crazy, "that he was a con.-cientiou man, \'Cry modc:-;t in his clem ·anor, apparently inofTensi,·e, until the ·ul>j cct of Slavery wa · introdueed, when lte would exhibit a feeling of indignation unparalleled." The ~lave-~h i p is on her way, crowded with its dying vic· tims ; n w cargoes arc being addecl in mid ocean; a mall crew of :la velwldcrs, countenauccd by a hu·ge body of pa sen· gcrs, i:s f'motltering four millions under the hatches, and yet the politician as·ert · that the only proper way by wl1ich deliverauce i to be obtain •d, lH by " the qui et difl'U!:i iOJI of' the e11tim ·nt.· of Jmmanity," without any "outbreak." As if the sentim ent.· of humanity were ever found. una ·companied by its deed:;;, and you could di ~pc r~c them, all iinishe<l to order, the pure nrtide, a ea ily u water witl1 a watering-pot, and ~o lay the dust. 'Vhat i~ that that I hear ca t overboard? The bodie of the dead that have found d ·livcrnncc. That is the way we a rc " difi'using " humanity, and its entimcnts with it. Prominent and influential editors, accustomed to deal with politician:4, men of an it~finitcly lower grade, say, in their ig· uorane<', that he acted "on the prin<·iplc: of revenge." They <lo noL k11ow the man. They mu t enlarge them elves· to conceive of him. I have no <1oubt that the time will come when they will begin to sec llim as he wa::;. They have got to conceive of a man of faith and of r eligious principle, and 3 ~\~ |