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Show Gilbert Haven. 11~n11y ::;ny, lon,we can ,, g-lookccl for h onr,- the death of SJ,1yr•ry? }'or two rea:-;on;o; :- . 1 ,... lt 1 .. t·tnrrl 1t the sl:lVC powr r 1t~ WC':tkne~:-:. N •vcr i[!':-.t. },\::-; l 0 \ T }Jas :-uch t reml.>ling slwk<'n their knee:) bcfor . <'\' l'l' has sul'h a thrill of horror made .·o many great S tat •s to quake. 0 ,. •r 1'11 't een (.:,~. .!'t ·\t =,- , 0\'Cl' ~n· million of ~(lUare miles, there has f··el1 " 11 cr one fe·u· one B cl:;hazzar sense of awl'nl guilt, 1'1111 one c o ' • ' ' an<l awful weakness, and awful punishment. That llnn<l-writincr on the wall of the great Southern palace ol' pleasure, ucetl<•J 110 slave prophet, 1 ike Daniel, to int<•rpret it. They unrkrstoo<l it ' meaning- they feared its instant :lteompli:hmcnt. Th<'ir action, or want of nction, in thi;-; conllid, has p}aCeL1 them before the WOrhl, HS totally inen pal~JC Of Lk fenJllliY thems lves against any moderately well-den:-;ed :m<l wcllcx~ cuted ri~ing of the slaves. Hall ,John Drowu been half as uec:es::;ful as he anticipnted - had but five hundred slaves joined him there - he eoul(l h:we marched to Nt>w Orleans, freeing all the Javes on hi · way, for all the ...lnYeholdcrs could have done to top him. IIi. folly appear: to he, not in countin(T on the wcnkness of the South, but in neglt'cting to 0 count on the trcngth of the F(\tl cral nrm. \Yell may they tremble. They nrc but men - men most guilty, and therefore most weak. 'Vc who nrc so f'rce with our gibe:::, would be palsied with equal horror and f<lintncs , if we sloo:l on the same rocking and cleaving oil, over the same mine which we had wickculy fill ed with ueadly explosives, ns we saw the torch npproaching it. " 'Tis con cicncc that mnkr. cowanls of us all." Supposing you hn<l stolen a mnn':-; wages from his youth, had tramplP(l OUt his manhoo<l, bent him oftpn :1 1111 el'lH.dJy, I'OUUCU l1im of his wife ancl cl1iltlren antl ~o1ll th<'m from hi:; nrm~,lww \Yo ul<l yon fed iC yon saw, or drcanwcl you :'HW, that man stand before yon, ri He in han <1 uemancling his freedom? This is tlH ~ir con<lition. They .·lcpt but little before, they Gilbert Haven. 129 will sleep Ie~ now. The planter~ in the vicinity of the outbreak dare not spend the night on th ir plantation ~. They flee when no mnn pnr~n cth. L et ns not r e vile th m. Let u · with larger, and o, tend •rer heart lnment thc·ir stat •, while we call them, by these ~ 'nrs, to rcpC'nt a nee. They may thus be led thither. The t(•rrors of the Lord have per. uaded multitudes of men to be holy. God surrounds all his laws with great punishment f-1, so that tho.-e who will not be led by love may be driven by fear. l\lay we not hope that this sense of he1plessn •ss, and dread of the ju. t veng :wee of their opprc~secl brethren, will per uade them to giYe th m that whieh i ju t and eqnal? IIad Pharaoh b ·arkc•n •d to his ~ ·ars, he would have eman-cipated his l>omlmen befor' the great wrath of God fpll so awfully upon l1im. So, if th C':-;e Pharaohs, wlH) have so long ro1nhinr<l again.-t the Lonl an<l again:-;t his <'hildrcn. will but heed t lH·s • feeling. of danger and powerle ssness that their loving Creator ha given th em, a.- vmrnings nnc1 incc•nliv s to duty, they will in tantly inaugurate the great \\'Ork of emanc·ipation. An Engli h writer (1\fr. Thackeray) has said that Great lhitain, in the H.evolution, never overcame the influence of Bunker's Hill. l\lu ·h lc~s will the slaveholt1Cr3 overcome Ilarper'5 Ferry. \Vhether bloodier ontbrrak. follow, or more peaceful conn~cb prentil, be nf's ured that the lc. f'ons of tlli:-) hour will not be lost on them. 'I'hcy may, for a cason, wenr tl1e bold face they han' so long borne. They may ~ till utt<:·r great welling wortl-. of vanity, and defy the armies and the truth · of the living God, but thC' ir heart · arc moved out of their placr, th<:•re is no ~trength in th •m. The march of th • great cause of emancipation iH far from being tayed by this affair. Crazy, and lll·oken with age and grief, ns e Y('ry body seems so anxions to paint the lcacler of this band, that th<'y may defend them ~wlves from all complicity in hi plans, he has taught the lmughty South what she cannot, dare not |