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Show 322 J atnes Freet.n an Clarke. meaninp:, not t11e four million Slavr~, nor the. ix million Non~ Sla,·eho1dvrs at tbe outh, but the thr e humlr •d thousand S !:we hohl<'r · only. But lo~i c is too !'t rong for phra cs. Tho. e who wi~h to po:;tpon ' tlH· deluge till th eir time i ~ pn. t, and to l<"ave it as a l<·gnry to their children and grancl C' hildren, find th<•msdY<·s more and more h e lpl es~ in the inc1~rasing eanwstn<'~s of the ]1our. The two pnrtic.·, con· isting of those wl10 belit~vc Slavery right nml tho;-;e who believe it wrong, arc like the upper and tlte nether mill;:;ton •; ~mn ll, compared with the grcnt bag and hea ps of corn lying n<'nr them, but destined to go round nnd ronnd till th y have gronml it all to powder. Those who believe Slavery right, labor to fo rtify extend, and ~trcn gth c n jt, They h:we passed the Fugit ive Slave Law, defeated the 'Vilmot Proviso, repPaled the 1\li. !-!On ri C01npromisr, obtained the Drecl RC'ol t tkeision, a1u1 have detrrmine<l nrxt to re-open tlJC Af'l'ican SlaYc Trad<·, :mtl annex CulJa. No pl1ra~ col ogy about" Our ~outh •rn Brethl'Cn," or "~ aft•ty of the rnion," c;m <.'011('<':11 thc·s' fit('!s. On the oth cl' hnn<l, there is a p~lrty which bold Slnxery to be wrong. Th y hohl it to h a wil<l Hllll g uilty fantasy that man ean claim property in man. "\Vith ~John " ' c:-:1<-y, they consi<l<'J' Slavery to h' the . nm of nil Yillany. Holding I hi., they belirn1 that the Slave ha. a right to as:-:(·Jt hi:i fr(•cdom wllcnC\'Cr he cnn do .·o; he k1. a right to tnke po., c~:-~ion of l1im. elf with the trong kmd if he can. That whi h he has a right to clo we may 1a.wfnl1y help him tlo, if we Yiolnte no other right. in doing it; and we cannot lawfully oppose his doing it in nny case. For the Slave cit her lwlongs to his mn. ter Ol' to himself. If he belongs to his ma. t t>r, he is a thief if he tries to c. cnpe. If J.e belong:-l to him -elf, ]lis rna ter i!:l a t hicf if he tries to kc p him, antl we arc kidnnpping if we n:sist hi · mnst r in taking him. 'Vhen Anthony Burns was taken down ~tate Street, and the people on .. James Freeman Clarke. each siue hoarsely t-on r '<1 " lCidnapp rs l ki<lnapp<'rs !" at the soldier who guankd him- their fit· ·s ~h o w<·d th ~lt they fi: ll the tru th of the charg •. "\V e tn:ty w •nr Oil our hut thv ('O('kndc of the United ~tat J\Iar ·hal, or we may L>e ·a iled 0 111 as a military company, cover >d with feathers and goltl Ia ·<·, but that doe ' not ,.a ·ate the priueiple. ' Ve nrc kidnapp •rs :u1<l man- teal •rs stil l. II ere is the irr<'fH. •. ·il..>le conflict- which may be cotwc•al<·d under 11 ·aps or words, smothered L>y fin. phra:-:<•:-:, hidd<·n by th e.·ig ·nei 'S of' tradt·, of party po liti('~, of' sc ·tal'ian ('<'<'l<·sia ti ·ism- but whi('h, like fire which you try to put out wi th mountainous heaps of ::;tra~\', hurns on and on till it breaks fo rth at last in a. wide, d stroying flam •. IIerc i , th · f'untlam(' nt al and prim:uy <·nt lse of the TTarp<' r's Ferry affair- the antagonism h<' twc·cn Slav<•J'Y and Fr •edom. Any one who U<'li 'Y •s that ~lavery i:-; rig ht, mnst logically r<'gard ,John Brown ns a robber atHl urigantl. But tho ·c who b ·Ii •ve Slavery wrong; who justi(y th · Anwrie:\11 Revolution; who admir' \Va~ hin~t on for eonl <'nding with sword and fir' ngain::-t the gov •nmwnt of' Britain to f'ree an opprc . etl people; who ·ulogiz' Laf:tyett f(H· <'Oming to ai<l us in that truggl ; mu:--t beli '\'C tTohn Brown to b · a IH-ro, and the martyr to a principl '· The only ground on whi ·h they can find faulL with him i~ for attem pting pr mnturely what he had not power to accompli~h; that i:-:, for an ' ITor of judgment a regards m ·ans. J t i:-1 true that no man ha n. right to encourage in any way a Revolution unless til ·rc is good rca on for b •lieYing that it will succ '<'d. The best cau c will not authorize Ji f'e to be n <'<ll<•:;;.;ly thrown a wny. If a mnf1 thi11k he enough good in pro~pc ct to justify him jn throwing away hi· own life, 11 • may do o ou hi' own respon ilJility- L>ut he ought not to waste the Llood of other ·. But Brown did not menu to act rcckle ,sly- his cbnraet )r forbid. that suppo ition. lie wa: mi ·taken then- l1e t-'rred in judgment as to what he could effect. lie did uot inlt'tH.l |