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Show 272 Henry Ward Ececher. f G <.1 or tolcrntr<l with ill-dic::gll i, .d di. ernst. Can hou eo o ' . N('W Y ork( L et him be 1 , be 't ma~ou m . . the bhc '- m.m ' 1 ·very lri:.;h lover of hb •tty l J. ourneymnn, nnt < 1 employe< a · a 1 11 l"·n·c nt once, or compc . I l 1 or trow WOll <. ... . that carnes t lC lOl 1 be a c·1rpentcr? The re , C·m the blac c man " ' him to leave · ' . N ew York in which a jonr- 1 ... enter's ·hop m is searce Y a cal P ·. ·l- . fa black man was employed ll contmuc to wol ... , 1 " . nr.ym:m wou l · in the common in<lu -tnes . C tIe l>hck man engage in tt. an l . ' 1 ·n which he can cngnge. He ·r,,? The re 1=' scarce y one I ·, 11 of h c . . ] wn through the most ment,ll en - i - crow dctl <lown, down, <. o ' . 1 . bottom of society. . mg:.;, to t 1c c. to a1low their <"luldrr n to go l and then rc1u. c ' . 'V c tax t 1cm, ' 1 and then r cfu :-:c to s1t "1' 1 ol - 'V c tax t ' em, , to our pnu lC . c lO t:) . '"'r 1 cat> U[)On them moral ohlo- . G tr hou ·c. If c t c by them m 0 s 1 1 . . 1 the mn. tcr h eaps npon . . · than t tat w llC 1 quy more attoClOll . _,. 11 this we lift oursdn~.· up 1 . Amlnotwlth-tanumg a ' . . the s a-v e. 1 . b t the ricrhts ~1 nd ltbcrt 1es to t-tlk to the Southern pcop c ,\ ou {' . o 1' It i . true , 1 d . )eci·,11y the A n ('an ~ou . ;:, of the human ou 'an e. 1 .' . t ·tt ·111 certain that th ere 1 , ·y i , cruel. But 1 t 1:5 no ' , T l that ave! . tl ' South than in the ort 1. . . ' loYC to the race m lC ... JS not moi c 1 . . '"'r ] 10t own them, ·o we do l'Ol)Crty. IY C <. 0 1 • They love t lell p . 1' ' of the whit'S n"am t . h at all. The prC'JlH tcc . o . not lo'V c t em . t endure to ride or It Wlih . t . 1cr thnt they cnnno color 1s so tOI o • 1 · A a neicrl1bor 1 cr a they do not o?.on Hm. . . o ' a blal'k mnn, so 011 b . , ·ty tlwy nrc rnost . not to he tolerated ; but as pt opel ' , they ate 1 1 tl c c·:u-riacre t11C coueh · 1 . blc in the hou c, the c Iurc l, ' ( 'o ' l to cr.l 11 . A n erica . but 'ltnownec' The African owned, may dwe . m. t - b, . ncl· 'll to col. l ll . cmanclpatwn must c Jc , "' he must be cxpatrm e ' ._ · · z lation or . . 'I'hc choice criycn to the Afncnn 1~ p em omzatwn. b . • )('ndulum l ·,.., . Our Chri -tian pnblic sentiment IS a 1 . co on1-al1 on. . . . the )OOr in onr nlltl~t. swirwitw between O'lvmng or e.rpoJl ll1.fJ 1 1 tl Jo,, ... ·t the n o 1 ·l . towan . lC ._;-, ' vVhcncvcr we nrc pre pare< 10 ~ 10 '' • . " ·l . , ill ·ctc<l km,ln c~:--, Sll( l l)oore t and the most drs pl ~<'d , an una .. J l . <.1·1,.,_ · ' f 1 . t lay a -lue H b as 1ell Christ thou crh the L onl o g 01 y, o d t n nitics, and ta' ke otn1 ll.lll·.. .' ...:(~lf the form of a servant, an o a Henry Ward Beecher. ignominious death, that he might r escue men from ignorance and bondage - whenever we are pt·cparcd to do uch things as the. c, we may be nrc that the example of the North will not be unfelt at the South. E very effort that is made in Brooklyn to c tabli ·h chools and churches for the free colored people, and to encourage them to educate thcmsel vc::i ami become indep ende nt, is a s tep towards emancipation in the South. The degradation of free colored men in the North will forti(y Slavery in the South! 2. W c must quicken all the 8pring;;; of feeling in the Free States in behalf of human liberty, and create a public sentiment, bu eel upon truth and true manhood. For if we act to any good purpose on the minds of the South, we must do it. through a salutary and pnrc public sentiment in tlw North. 'Vhcn we have corrected our own practice, and set an example of the right spirit, then we hall lmvc a po ition from which to exert a beneficial public influ ence on the minds of Southern laveholdcrs. For this there mu t be full and free di::~cu ·. ion. Under our institutions. public opinion is the monarch, and free speech and debate form public opinion. The air mu t be vital with the love of liber ty. Liberty with u must be raised by r eligion from the sclfi hnc. of an in. tinct to the sanctity of a moral principle! ""\Y c mu L love it fot· ourselves and demand it for others. Since Chri t took man'::; nature human life l1as a Divine san ·tity . vV c must inspire in the public mind a profound ensc of the rights of men founded upon their r elations to God. The glory of intelligence, r efinemen t, gcniu , has nothing to do with men's rights. The rice slave, the H otten tot, arc as much God';3 children as IIuml>oldt or Chalmers. That they arc in degradation only make it more imp('rativc upon us to secu re to them the l>irthright which they iu jg norance might sell for a mess of pottage. These thing" must become familiar agam to our pulpits. Our children must be taugl1t to glow agam in our schools |