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Show l'heodore Parker. Do you !'nppo!'e this will fnil to produ:e its : ffcct on the ] . ? The South mu. t e1ther gtve up keep-black man, one t ·'Y · . . . I 1 .1 Da)'" incr " or cl"c k ee p 1i m a ltttle more 11( epenucncc ' ' ' 0 thoroncr 11 f'n :s.1 l l·0 11. .1.\L."T"~ or is• thi s all: the S• outh• ern<.' t':'3 are con- . llb tmua y taun 1·m g the nccbr roe with then· mt erablc nat•u re. ,r 1 J1•1Jf hum·1n" !'H)' they, " not ca p~1hle of free- '' -'- on are on y ' ( ' · . . (1o m." " Ilnn y is bc rood for horses, llOt for hog;-;," ~aHl the pt1l l· 1o sopt1u • c Amcric··H l who now " r ('pr.e s<·n ts .t lw grea t. Demo.c - racy " at the courL of Turin. So, libe1.·ty I S fJU:)(l for wlute t } . . ?'cgroes llav • th r)' soul:-;? I don t know that men, no 01 ' • ' . · ·z'co1- non ·do "Contcmt)t " sny·s th e proYe rb, '' wlll cut 11H 1 • • ' throucrh the shell of the tortoise." And, one day, even the lucrcri'·h Afri can will wake up un<lcr the thred ohl ~timulu::; of ~~c F ourth of ,July cannon, the whip of the ·lavcholucr, and the Rting of hi hcnrtlc:::s mockery. Then, iC " oppr<'s;.;ion maketh wi~e men mn(l ," what do you think it wi ll do to African ~;lares, who are fa111iliar with SC(> IICS of v.iole nc(~, and all mann er of' cruelty? Still more: if the 11egro(' · have not general pow('r of mind or jn::-;tinct iv ~ lov~! of li!Jerty~ equal. to the whit e:;, they nrc much our ~tqwnors m power o.f cmuu ng, and in contempt for death-rather f(>t·nlidahh' qualiti , . in a servile war. T here nln•ady has l><'<:n "'e ,·<·nd ri ~in gs of lave · in thi: century; they sprl'nd f'Loar ~t!Hl con:-;tenmlion. The future will Le more terri ble. Now, in ea::;c of an insurr ection, not only is there, as Jefle!':'Oil :::aid, '' no a ttribute of the Almi crhty" which can take . ide: with tho ma:-;ter, but I'? th ere '1.0/·a be many white men 'who 'wt'll tal.;e part with t!te s{m:e. 1\f en like tlJC Lnf'ay ' ttc.' of the la, t ce ntury, and the Dr. II owes of thi:', mny gi vc the in;-:;urgt· nL necrro a · effectual ai<l a tl1at once r endered to America and Gr ' •ee ; and the public opinion of an enlightened worltl will rank them among :its heroes of nol>lcst ma rk. If I remember rightly, some of your fa th ers were in the battle of L exington, and that at Bunker Hill. I bclie, e, in the cour e of the war which follow ed, every able-bodied man Theodore Parker. in your town (Newton) wn in actual ~en· i ce. No,n Hlays, thf'ir ueficcnd::mt:; arc proud of the fa ct. One day it will be thought not lc. s he roic for a negro to fight for hi · JH't .. onal liberty, than for a wl1itc man to fight for political ind(' ]H' lHlcncc, and again t a tax of three pence a pound on tea. "\Vait a little, and thing. will come round. III. The existence of Slavery cndancrers all onr Dcmocmtic institution ". lL does thi · if only tolerated as an <·xee ptional mea:::.urc- a matter of pre~en t eonvt'ni <'ncc, and still more when proclaim •d a an in, tantial prin cipl e', a rule of political conduct for a ll time and every placr. L ook at thi : In 17DO; there wr rc c~ny) 300,000 ~· laY '.' ; oon tla'y make their fh·"t donuling, and are GOO,OOO; th <•n th eir cond, ] ,200,000; then their thinl, 2,.1 00,000. They arc now in the proccs of doubling the fourth timr, and will soon be 1,800,000 ; th en comes the fi f'lh dou blc, G,GOO,OOO; tll en the sixth, 19,200,000. Before th' year of out· L ord nineteen hundred, there v:ill be tw •nty million s la rc ~ ! An Anglo-Saxon with common en. c docs not like this Afri canization of Amcriea ; he wi: hcs the supr rior race to multiply rather thnn the inferior. Bcs i<lc~, it is plain to a one-eyed man that S lavery is nn irreconcilable r ncmy of the progressive development of Democracy; tlw.t, if allowed to cxi t, it mu t be allowed to Rpread, to gain political, ~ oc ial, and ecclcsia tical power ; and all that it gains for the slavcholucrs is just so much taken from the freemen. Look at this ! -there arc twen{y Southern reprcscntativeB who r epresent nothing Lut property in man, and yet their Yotc counts a much in Congre s as the twrnty Northern ers who tan<l for the will of 1,800,000 fr eemen. lav 'ry crives the South the arne advantage in the choice of Prcsiuent ; consequently the sb vcholcling South bas long controlled the federal power of the Nation. L ook at the r ecent act of the Slave Power! The Fllgitive ..... Slave bill, the Kansas-N ebra:5ka bill, the Dred cott deci ·ion, |