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Show Tlll~ UOLOEN llOL'H. XIV. MERCY, AND N OT SACRIFICE. 1 t 1 bccl1 said there is no need that we AFTER w 1a 1as ' d 11 tllc obicction so1nctimcs offered to an shall we upon .J ' ed1· ct of · cmanCI· P '.--" .tion , that it ·would cover t.h o South with a cruel servile insurrection. Even if it were true, the objection is absurdly bl . . f tl 0 cruel white insurrection which is now 0 lVlOUS 0 l . . . . . tl e South to say nothing of 1ts 1gnonng ragtng 111 t ' . . 1 tho c 1rOn1· c an d perpetual insurrection aga1nst the ri<rhts and happiness of a whole race, which Slavery b essentially is. But the history of every nation \Vhich has dared the guilty experiment of holding lnan as property repeats tho warning of Schiller,-~' 1\·cl~1b1e before the man who has not yet broken lus chain : tremble not before t l1 0 f rcc1natL " Thourrh 110 insurrection of slaves can po ·ibly co1ne b • • to do for us in this ·war what an edict of cmanc1pat10n alone can do ; though for a generation, or generations, the slave may serve his Southern master; yet, if that institution be allowed to survive this war, the South is deli vcrcd up as to tho ovcr-n arrowin g circles of a ·whirlpool, which must bear it into its vortex, unless another war may once more give tho nation tho power to rc:cnc that insane section. For these slaves must MERCY, AND NOT SACRIFICE. 83 multiply until their onslave1nent becomes itnpo . .-iblc . .Any 1nan, whoso opinion is entitled to be listened to knows that this institution is in tho cncl a doomed' insti tution. But we know·, also, that .'lavcholclino- like b) any other bad pas ion, grow· \Vith what it feeds 011 and has thus been a 1nore dcterrninccl thing in tho' South with every successive year. If, then, in this Golden IIour, ·when \VO have the means already prepared and ready to proven t any evils \vhich could occur, we do not, ·what is there in the future but a certain fearful looking for of j udgrncnt and fiery indignation ? Arc you qu ite sure, 0 yc who arc so fearful of servile insurrection, that, at any other pcrioc1, if the outh shall cry, IIclp,- as site surely vJill,- we shall have a million 1ncn ready on the instant to shicl<l her froru carnage? The social system of the outh has been undermined by the hand of God: when , in eternal wisdom and truth, he laid the foundations of the world, he loved the human being for which all was a 1nansion too well to pcrn1it any \vrong to go on without retribution; and under the foundation of all inju tice he laid the trains \Vhich mu t in some vray lay them in ruins. The fu cc to that undermining is now in our hand : we tnay now fire it with fire fron1 the altar of God ' which can work no incli criminate ruin ; but who shall tell tho horror if in the fu ture that fusee shall be set on fire of hell ? |