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Show Theodore Parker. J. There nrc four million slan•s in the t nikcl S!:ti<Js violcn! ly withhdd from their natural rigid to lif(-, li b<•rty, nnd th pur··uit of happirw·.. Now, they arc our fi:llow countr;mcn- yours and mine -ju:-;t as much n. nny four million 'White men. Of' cour::;e, you and I owe th em tl1' tlu!y which one man owe another of hi own n:1tion- the d11ty or jn. truction, mlvicc, and protection of nalurnl rights. If' thly arc starving, we ought to help fe<•d them. The color of t IH·ir skins, their degraded social condition, th •ir jgnoranee, ~lbai('S nothino...-., from their natural claim on us, or from our natural duty toward them. There nrc men in all the North •rn Stntrs 'rho f<'el the obligation which citizcn~hip impo cs on th('m- the dt1ty to h<·lp those slaYcs. Hence arose the ANTI-S LA VEKY SociETY, which ~ecks simply to excite the white people to pt' rform thcit· natural duty to their clark fellow-conntrymrn. I l<'nre comes CAPTAIN BnowN's ExPEDITION- an attempt to help his countrymen enjoy their natural right to lif\ liiJ rty, and the JHlr ~ uit of Jmppinc . lie ought by Yiolcnce what the Anti-SlaYcry Society work for with other weapons. The two ngn•e jn the end, and differ only in the means. l\Ien like Captain Brown 'rill be continually ri ing up :1mong the white people of the Free State::;, attempting to do th eir natll-ral duty to th eir black countrymen- that is, help them to freedom. Some of these efforts will be ucccs ful. Thus, la,t winter, Captain Brown him elf escorted cle,·cn of his countrym ·n from bondage in 1\li, souri to freedom in Canaua. lie did not snap a gun, I think, although then, a more recently, he had hi.' fighting tool.' at hand, and would have used them, if necc sary. Even now, the Unclergmund Hailroad i in con. tant and bt'n eflcent operation. By-an<l-l>y it will be an Ov<:rground Hailroad from 1\:Iason and Dixon's line clear to Canada: the only tunnelling will be in the Slave tates. Northern men al;IJlaucl tltc brave conductors of that Locomotive of Liberty. Theodore Parker. 79 'Vhcn Thomas Garrett was introduced to a meeting of political Frce-Soilcrs in Bo. ton, ns "the man who !tad helped e ig ht een hundred s lav e~ to tl1eir natural libe rty," even that meeting gave the righteous Quaker three times three. All honest Northern hearts b •at with aJmiration of such men; nay, with love for them. Young laJs say, "I wi~h that heaven woula mnkc me such a man." The wi ·h will now and then be fath er to the fact. You and I have had opportunity e nou gh, in twenty years, to sec that thi · philanthropic patrioti -m is on the increase at the North, and the special dircc.tion it takes is to\vanl the liberation of their couutrymcn in bondage. Not many years ago, Boston sent money to help tlte Greeks in th eir struggle for poUtical .{1·eedom, (they nev r quite lost their ]JC1·sonallibert,ij,) but with the money, she nt what was more valuable and far more precious, one of l1cr mo:-)t valiant and he roic son~, who , taid in G rccce to figl!t the g reat battle of' Humanity. Did your friend, Dr. Samuel G. 1Iowc, lo e the c ·t em of New England men by that act? lie won the admiration of Europe, and hold:3 it still. Nay, still latct·, the . amc dear o1d Boston- Hunker" have never been more thart rats and mice in h ·r house, which she suff<'rs for a time and thc>n drive' out twelve Jnmdrcd of them at once on a certaiu day oC .1\larch, l77G,- that same dear old Boston sent the 'arne Dr. Howe to carry n.ic.l and comfort to the Poles, then in deadly s truggle for th ir political existence. 'Vas he di.'grae ·d because he lay even-and-forty days in a Pru. sian jail in Berlin? Not even in the eyes of the Prussian ICing, who afterwards . ent him a gold medal, who e metal wa , worth ns many do1lard a that l'h ilanthropi t lay days in the dc~pot's jail. It is aid, "Charity should begin at holll ·." The American began a good way. off, b11t has been working ltomewanl C\'Cl' since. The Dr. H owe of to-day would and ought to be more ready to h 'lp an American to ]Jersonal liberty, than a Pole or a Greek to mere political free- |