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Show ) 188 Edwin iVL Wheelock. slavery cause. To moral agitation will now be n<ltled phys· ical. To argument, action. The di:;;pen~at ion of <loctrinc will be super.~cded by the higher digpen:-ation of' f'nct. The appeals of the North will now l>e applied to the t 'tTor:-; a well as to the con cience of this Great Barl>ari::;m. Other dcYoted mt•n will follow in the wake of Brown, avoiding his error, aml will carry on to its full r esults the work he has begun. Slave propngandism we have Lad. long enough. 'V c arc likely now to have orne liberty propagandism. I rejoice to ee a man who'e banner bears no UtH'<'rtain sign. The North wants no more corn-. talk generals, but a r eal general, one who is both platform and party in him ·r lf: lie is a Crusader of Justice, a ICnight Tempi r in Chri:3t'.s holy war- a war which hall nov ' 1' cease but with the nap of the la t elwin link. !lis glory is genuine. Like tlwt of vVa, hington, it will stand the test of time. Of the American masses, he, and such as he, arc the salt : nnd the suOicicnt an wer to all criticism upon him i l:is example. l3ut he was "uefcated;" yc ,, anu all first cla ,S vietori 'S, from that of Calvary downward:-:, are defeat. ueh inv c~tmc nt.· do not u ually yield ''semi-annual di vidcnds." All Gotl's ancrels I") come ju t as he comes: looking mo ·t forlorn, marked with defeat and death, "de pised and rrjcctcd of men." 'l'rne he "failed," but to him who works with Gotl, f~tilurc, fetters, and public execution ar~ kindly forces, and all roads lead him on to victory. lie had a live r eligion. lie believed that God spake to him in vi ions of the nig ht. Yes, incredible a it may seem, this man actually believed in God! 1Vhy, he must have been "mad!" 1Vhilc ecole ia, tic:; mourn a '' u. pen ~c of faith," nncl teach that the only wny to clean c America from her . ins i. to instantly drc .. up the church in a eeond-haml uniform and cocked hat, this . aint of the brorHl church did not take up the "slop traue," nor cry" old clo'" in the court of Zion. lie was at his apostolic work, "casting out devils." Clearly the Edwin M. Wheelock. "suspens of faith" had not rrarhccl him. It wn. the doctrine of John Brown that Wl' ~houl~l int 'rf<'l'C with the ~lavchold< · rs to rc ~c ue the . laYc. I hopl' no a11ti-:·dav 'ry man will ha\ e the weakne::;: to apologize for, explain, or (lt'ny such a !=ielC-c•Y itlt•nt truth. lie could not :<·e that it wa~ h 'roic to fi ght again .... t a petty tax: on tea, and ·ndurc sev ' 1\ y ars' warf':u·<' for a political right and a crirne to light in f'a \'Or of rc~storin g nn outraged race to tho ·e Divine birlhright · of which they had been for two centuries robbed. lie knew that ' very .lave, on eYcry plantation, has the right from hi Gocl and Cr a.tor to be free, and that he could not devote his lif'c to a nobler aim than to forward th i r freedom. Every one feel thnt it is noble. Any man with the golden rule before him should. be nslwmcd to ~ay less than this. He i. true to the logic of Lexington and Conrortl, and no American i~ so loyal to the meaning of the Fourth of .July as he. lie j ' one of God's nobility, who lwd outgrown selfi~h an<l pri,·atc aims. And his last act is so brn.Yc and humane that politician. . tand aglta. t, one party hrieking a - if noi ~e was "the chief nd of man;" while the other protc~L with both Jwnds upraL ed, " 'Ve didn't help them do it.': Of cour e they didn't; it isn't in them. Ah, the principle of the Declaration of '76 is utterly dying out of our minds. It i boldly sneered a.t as '' a, glittt>ring generality" by. ome, and Llisrcganl 'd by all. Thrre is to-tln.y not a State, not a party, not a religion~ !=iect in the nation that accept that Declaration:- only one old man in a outhcrn pri;-;on dares believe in it. The cause of human lil> 'rty in thi ' lan<l need=' speechc and prayer~, eloqu nee and monry; but it has now on the banks of the Potomac, for the second time found what it needed more than the. c; what the IIel>r '"' Exod' us found in 1\'[o es; what Puritan England hn1letl in Oliver Cromwell; what r evoluLionnry France has soughL in vain-A 1\[AN! And. let no one who glories in tile r e,·ulutiouury iltruggles |