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Show 186 Edwin M. Wheelock. sible for a true man in Virginia. Did tl1e fi1rm crs who stood l>ehin<l the br('[l~t\\'o rk on Bu11k<•r llill " throw nwav th eir liv t>~"? " ... a~ .':aiT<'n a '' monom<wiae"? " ' cr ' th<·"' (•ig-hty half -ann!'d md1!1a, who fi tood np at L <'x in crton ('/TC'" Il ..... · ·t 1:"1 t"l ... <•!.?,.1 111::; tl11~ W<' ight of a grt':tt mon:1rchy, and " firetl the :-:.lwt j·,c<trd rotnHl the world," all rnndnwn ? I.~ <~ eath in a J(:at II CI' l>ed to bo mru1' the single test of ) ~<ll1Jt y ? Last year the \\'Ord i nsun·ectt'on a(feclt•d CYCil anti- ~-.... ~!!!!!!!!!!!!!~~~~~:;=~p==- , lavery men with a shudder; next y ar, it will l>c utt ·red in ' ' 'cry Northem Leg islature, as a thing of eourse. 1:-> that n.othing ? . Pharaoh may sit lor a while on the throne, Lut he ., ts tremblw,q. To hush the click of doll:l.rs, and th" ru. tic of ua11k bills 0~'<' '', th.c la.nd, if only f()r an hour, th<lt the still small YOi<"c of Uod :3 JU::illcc rn:1y be heard, - is the life tl 11·o\\'n away that Ita~ do1.1C so mul'h? Can our'' ~ane" }i,·es show a wvalrhi •r r •cord: IIi~ cJ, emc is no f~tilurc, but a sul entn : uecess. "\VIwr~m h? fa.iled, his foes have come to his aid. The gr<'nt- Il '~~ of tiH·1r f •ars r eveals the extent of 11·1 · t I.l· llmp1t. J o1m Brown ha ' not only taken Virginia and C~ overnor "\Vi:.;r, he lt:ts ·apturc:d the whole slave f~1ction , North and 'outh. All lt.1~ foe~ haYc turn ·d nLolition mis. ionarieA. They toil Jay and lllght to d'o hi:; bi(1uing, and no Pre ident ha so many crvants a , he. 1 he best Sharpe's rifle in all hi::> uand would . carcely throw a l>ull t a s· rrl' 'I b · • • < 11lo e m1 c, ut 111 cv '''Y corner of e,·cry .t own.-.h.i p of .t lur.t y.- tht·ce State" , the })l'CS, of' tile s 1a Ye party Is h~Jrlmg Ius llvmrr and inspired worcl -words fill ed with God s own truth aurl power, nnd o more deadly to dc.::potism than hosts of ann d men. Tl~ e Spartan band of chivalry, fift <' n hunclr d stronrr quaking on the hill;-; round IIarpcr'::> li""cn y, for a who!' <1~.;: un: able, •t o look the ol<l man m· t 1I C f'a e' ; th<•n mul'(l•ring a Jli J. on<' ' unamwtl allll l>ound hand and foot, who could lind in tl.lal ~l.lnml>lcs uo man, and out one woman to vainly pkatl for llls Jde · tb n blo v· rr fl' tl f: ' ' 11 \, o 1e ace of a man who cried for Edwin M. Wheelock. quart<'r; then hacking with seven wound.:; the body of tho gray-hnir<'tl leatkr r!f icr lw llad y/(•lded; then b ·fore the ryes of' rlt • Lwr<'a vecl antl ble<'ding fitt hr r, ·rowding the body of' hi ' son in to a ''box f'or di s. cet ion; " th n wi th ohs ·ene rnrrc ancl D thrC'nt · insulting tit ' ag<'<l ·lti ef n. he l:ly woutH!ed and maJJa-cleu, upon l1is col; th ' moek trial, ov ·rleaping \\'i lh indect'llt haste the anci<'nt form.· of' law; the hurric'tl He nt cuc • ; tlte must<' rin!r of huntlrC'd:-> of arm ·d men, Jillin rr with hor.;' 1oot ._, <.l ' ' ancl cannon, v •ry a venue to his jail; the whole South on tiptoe with apprehension; two great Stat 'S in tlll ecstasy or f ·ar ; Virginia. turning her:clf' jnto an armed garri:on ; the sln\· ·journals of the North shrieking in full eonc<· rL Behold on what a platform the in anc rage and f'ear or I lis foes has lif't •d this :mti-~-.lave ry Yele ran to th . tars! Strangling .Jolm Brown \\'ill not stop the carth rprnkc that h:ls 1ollo\\'ed ltis ~ h alterin g blow; or if it <lo<·s, science tr•acht's us tkt t when tlte <'arrltquake stops the volrano l><'g:in:;. Ili aim wns to render Slav ·ry ins 'Cure, antl he has succe<'ded. " lie has f(H'<' ,d the t c l q~rnph , the pre~., the st lllllp, the bar-room, tho parlor, to J'(' Jl<'nl li te uang('l'OW: ~to ry of instJJT('Ct ion in every corn ·r of the • outh." From .1\l<tryland to Flori1la, th<•r ' i ~ not a slave who do ':; not have the itlt•a or Fre<·<lom qui<·kcned within him by the outl>rcak of' Iln.q)(' r'~ F erry. J.,ike tho Drui<l f'ton ·, which the unitc<l force of' a ltuntlrcd men conhl not move, while a ·hi1d's fin ger rightly applied, roekt'<l it lo it:; bas', thi;:; dark . )' ·tcm or out rag > and wrong, which lms p, foocl fo1· thirty ycar:-i moYcl 'S. ngainst the politieal power of the North, n gain ~ t the wa rning:; of an in. ulr cd C hri ~ ti ~1nir y, and nrrainst the moral en I inwnt of the world now rocks and 0 trc mbl <'~ as th' fin gL'r of thi. God-fearing Puritan pre:-;s<" a gain ~ t its weak :-;pot. The fatal ~ene t h:1s now bt•<·omo pnl>lic news. Invulllerablc to all moral app(' nl ~ , it yi<' ld...;, it tli:-;. o lv e~ it dt'es, iJ •f(>J·e the on:;et of f'O I'('<'. Like the S wi s~ v:dlt')'~, the fit·~ t cla ·h of arms brings down the avalanche. From the martyrdom of llrown dates a new era of the anti ... |