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Show , Henry Ward Beecher. of that judicial blood hcd which, doubtless, ere long, will fol. l<.~w,- for w~lCn was cowardice ever magnanimous. If they kill the man 1t will not be so much for trea on as for the di 'clo urc of their cowardice. Let ~1o man pray ti~at Drown be spared. L et Virginia make hun a martyr. Now, he has only blundered. IIi ~ so ul was noble; llis work miserable. But a cord and a gibbet would redeem all that, and round up Brown's failure with . heroic success. •1 One word more, and that is as to the insecurity of tJ1o:-c States that carrv powder as t11ei1· chief CaJ'o-o D " b • o you sup-po e that if tidings had come to New Y 01+ ti1at tl U · 1 \. < w tll tee States Armory in Sprinbo-field had been se ized bJ' 8 , , even te en men, New IIavcn, and Hart ford, and Stamford, and \Vor·ccs-tcr, and ~ew Y_ ~·k, and Bo ton, and A Ibnny, would have been thrown 11lto a fevet· and panic in con. cqucnce of the event? \Ve searcely sJwuld haYe r ead tl1c par1crs to sec wh"t 1,, f · r \V (( uecamc o It. . e should have thought that it wa a matter wllich the Sprrng£ield people could manage. The thought of <.lan ~rer would not have rntcred into our ll l"tcl '1"'1 c . 11 ~ < • • 1 l e wou ( not ~lave been any danger. But in a Stntc where th ere is such mflammable stuff a: ~l:wcry, there 't:s thno-c,· 'lrlcl tile I f ~ . • o ' < pcop e o the South kuow It; and they cannot h(•]p it. I do not blame them so mueh for being nfi·aid; there is cause for fear where they have sue! • I · : l • .1 popu atwn ns they 1utve down ~lt the bottom.of.soc~ety.' But what must be tiJC nature of Stnte ant! dome trc IrL tJtutwns whic·h keep brave men at the oillt of fear all th eir lite 1on0'? P o· I tlo not propo ~e , t tl · t · I . ~ ' <~ us Jme, to express my opinion upon t 1e general sub1ect of Sl • . I 1 de lt.u erately utte" red m t a \ tC' I Y· RUt YC el .'C whcr c ' nnd ofte11 ' Y es 1111011Y· cfl cctwn and experience only confirm my J.Ud~'rm , t f · . d b en o 1ts 1mmea m·able ev il~ . It is ouble-cdO'c<l evil th t t b 1 1 o ' a cu s ot 1 ways, woundinO' master and s ave ; a pe.:-:t to o-oocl n .. I ~ . . b . . b 101 a::,, a con umptwn of the industrial vu tues; a burden upo . t . . 11 socJe y, ll1 Its commercial and \\ lwle Henry Ward Beecher. economic arrangements; a political anomaly, a nuisance, and a cau. e of inevitable degradation in r eligious idea ... , feelin g~, and in::;titution . All other causes of friclion, put together, derived from the weakness or the wickedness of men, are not half so mischievous to our land as is this gigantic evil. nut it exi ts in our land, with a broad prcad, and a longcontinued hold. The extent of our duties towards the slaYc and towards the master, is another and separate que.-tion. Our views upon the nature of Slavery may be right, and our views of our uuty towards it may be wrong. At thi , time it i peculiarly ncces ·ary that all good men should be divinely led to act with prudence and efficient wi dom. Because it is a great sin, because it is a national c ur~e, it does not follow that we have a right to say any thing or do any thing that we may happen to please. vVe certainly have no rio-ht to attack it in any manner that will gratify men's fanciebs or passions. It is computed that there are f' our m1'I - lion colored la\·es in our nation. These dwell in ftft c(·n different Southem States, with a population of ten million whites. These sovereign States are united to us, not by any federal ligaments, but by vital interests, by a common national life. And the question of duty is not simply what is duty towards the blacks, not what is duty towards the whites, but what 1s duty to each, and to both united. I am bound by tlw great law of love to consider my duties towards the slave, nnd I am bound by the great law of love also to consider my uulics towards the white man who is his master! Both are to be treated with Chri -tian wisdom and forbearance. vVe must seek to benefit the slave as much as the white man, and the white man' as really as the slave. 'Ve must keep in mind the interest of every part- of the slave them elvcl:', of the while population, and of the whole brotherhood . of. State : ~cderatcd into national life. And while the pnnc1ples of huerty and j 11• tice arc one and the amc, always nnd ever~ wl.H·~·c, the wisest method of conferring upon man the bencftt ot lib- |