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Show So 1~hcodorc Parker. dom, nn<1 woul<1 finclmorc> men to furni!'·dt ai<l :111<l cornlort to our O\\'ll <·ount rynH'n, <'\. (' It if' thc·y were bl:wk. 1 t wotd<l not surpri:-:;o nw if tltc·r ' we're othn :llld wcll-plHnn<·d a ll <'tnpts in otlwr St:tt(•s to do wl1:1t Cnptai11 Brown ltcroica11y, if' not succe. ~f'ully, tried in Virginin. Nine out of t<'n m:ty f}til- tho t<•nth will . ueccr.?d. The Yidory over G<'neral Burgoyne more tltnn made np for nll the lo~ ses in mnny n pn·vious dd(:at; it wm; the beginning of the <'tHL Slav<•ry will not dit' a dry tleath; it may have a:::. many lives as n <"at; at 1a~t, it will die lik n. mad dog in a Yillage, with on ly th<• enrmies of the hnman kind to lament its ft\te, nnd they too eowardly to npJwnr ns rnourncrs. li. But it is not m rely white mrn who will fig-ht for tho liberty of American ; the nrgrocs will take thc·ir <lc·fi·nct into their own hand~, especially if they enn find wltitt' nwn to }C'a<l thcrn. No doubt the African rncc is great ly infi.-rior to the C~tuCf\, ian in grnr l'al inteJ)CCLUal pOWf r, atHl :1b0 in that in ·tinct for liberty which is . o strong in the Teutoni · fiunily, ~nd just now obvious in the Anglo-Snxons of' Britain and America; be::; id e~, the African r:H·c have hut liHh~ (1e:-;ire for vengeance- the low(' ·t form of' the love of' ju~ti<'<'. li<·re is one example out of many: In Banta Cruz, tht> old slave laws were the most horriblr I think, I ever rcncl of' in modem times, unless those of lite Caro1inas be an ex('ept ion. If a slaYe cxcitecl others to nm away, for the firt't ofH·IH'C !tis right leg wa to be cut off; for the , ccond offe n<'(', his other leg. This mutilation wa not to be done by a surgeon's hand; the poor wretch wn. laid down on a 1og, and ltis ]c·gs ebopped off with a plantation nxc, and the lump. plungecl into uoiling pit~h, to . tnneh tlte blood, an<l , o . :we the properf/J from ent1rc de. truction; for the live 'l~Hso of a Rlave might serve a. a warning. No action of a court w:1s rrqui:-;itc to inflict this punishment; any ntaf'tcr eoul(l tlms mutilate hi · bond· man. Ev(·n from LS:>O to 18-1 G, it was common for owners to beat their offcn<.liug victims with ''tamarind rod · " ·ix feet Theodore Parker. long nnd an in ch in t hiekncss at tlw birrcr('l' ·nd ro<l tl · 1 t . 1 bn ' - S IIC ( SC With urr,y thor11s. '\Vlten that. proce~.· war-; ovet·, th<• Ia ·crated l.>a('k wn: wa::;IH•d with a <1 'coetion of the 1\Jan<"hine<'l, a poi:on tr ·c, wh1c~t made the wour~tb fester and long r •main opc:u. 1 n J ·Lb, the m•c~rop.s w •rc in " rebellion " · 1 1 ) . • • n ' .lilt ()()( po·ses- SJOn of the Jsland; tl1ey WC' re 2;),000, the whit '.-; :3000. But tltc ula~ks did not hurL the hair oC n. white man's hcn<l; th.cy got th~·tr freedom, but they took no rc\· •ngc! l')upposc 2:>,000 ~uwncan s, hehl in uondage ~y 3000 Alg •rin cs on a little 1:-;lnnd, should gc•L th<·ir masters into th •ir hands, how many Of' tIt ' 3000 \VOtd<l S('' tbe next RUn go down r No doubt it is through the ab~cnce of' thi~ t1<•sir' of' natural vcllg<•:tn<'<', that tit ' Afritant; have been rcd11c ·cl to bondHrr • I I 1 • • b ) an< '-C]h 111 Jt. But there 1·s a hm/t l'l'C'n to the uC'.rp·o's f orbearance. San Domin go i:-; 110~ n great way on: Tltc ]' \'Olution which clwng(•d it::; black inhabitants from tame slav<'s into wild mt' n, took place af'ter you had c •a::;ed to rail your;-;elf a boy. it slwws 1lll((t ?ll(l!) be £n Aman·ca, " ·itlt no w!tito man to lwlp. In the Slav' ~ tate· there i. many a po~siLle San Do1ningo, which may bC'come actual any day; and, if not in 1 GO,. th ~n in some other "year of our Lord." Be~iue~, Amen ca offi·rs more than any other count ry to excite the F\lnv~ to lov of Liberty, and the effort for it. \Ve a rc always tnlkr r1g :-~bout " Lib •rty," boa:·ting that we are "the free t pcopl<· in the world," <kthtring that "a man would di , rather than be a . lave." \Ye con tinually prai ·c our }'ath r ' "wlto fought the Re\'olution." \Vc build monum nt.s to commemorate even the humbl ·t beginning of that great national work. Once a year, we top arl ordinary work, and giYc up a whole clay to the noisi •:t kind of r<·joicing for the 'Var of Independence. II ow we pra.i:c tltc ''champion of' liuerty!" Jlow we point out 1he "infamy of tiiC Tiritish opprc :or ! " "They wotdd make 011r F<ttl1ers ~l a\' e::;," say we," nnd we slew the oppressor- St"c semper 'l'yranm·s I" |