The native American., 1839-07-06
THE UNIoN-ABoLITIoNIsM


contains most eloquent and impressive appeal.
Let the Abolitionist read, relent, and reform:
Let those amongst you, who choose, bewall the
existence OF slavery as malestrom IN the bosom
of the southern society; but if they touch it
with pragmatical. with forbidden and infatuated
hand they render it malestrom TO engulPh the
Union. Be adiured, therefore, by the veal OF
this and Of coming ages-by our own and chill
dren's good--by all that we have, and all that we
hope Tor, in the gores Of our land, to leave TINS
subject OF slavery, with every accountability
may impose, every remedy II may require every
accumulation Of difficulty, or OF pressure It may
reach-leave it all to the interest and the wisdom
and the conscience of those upon whom the pro-
violence Of God and the constitution OF your coun-
! try have cast it. Leave it to them noac and TOR
er, and stop, before step is impossible, the furious
headway of that destructive and mad philanthropy
which is lighting up for the nation itself the fires
of the stake; which is rushing on, stride after
stride, to strife and woe that may bury us all on
harder and wickeder slavery than any it would
extinguish. Nothing but bitterness--nothlng but
aggravation Of heart and of lot has been brought
upon that unfortunate man whom rash and PeInl-
cious attempts, the promptings of this blinded and
balefu spirit, have been put forth to benefit They
have broken down the footing he had reached
crushed the sympathies he had won, embarrassed and
accursed the fortunes theywcre interposed TO control
The generous and elevating influence Of our free
institutions was relaxing his bondage, bettering his
condition, lifting up his character, turning upon
him the public anxieties, and the public councils
as great object OF provident and public provision,
was changing at all points the aspects of his fate,
when spirit, sent Of heaven, as it insanely i'm
agned, came from abroad to scourge him with
demon visitation; to wrench him from the arms
Of his only true and only capable benelactors-to
throw him back again upon the earth thousand
fold more suspected and more separated than be-
fore; nveting upon him every teter it would
loosen-poisoning every blessing it would bestow,
and filling his case with elements of hopeless
ness, explosion, and evil which the heart sorrows
whilst it shudders 10 think upon.
Why, them persist Why abet the growth Or
the daring or the power Of spirit which wisdom
and mercy plead to you with all their tongues to
silence and to stop2 Will any daughter in this
assembly, the cherished and defended Of parents
love, blessed TO the uttermost with the holy peace
Of perfect security-sheltered to the uttermost
from the apprehension and approach Of every
wrong, with no enemy to dread-no hand to in
ure-no terror to atfright-safe in her reposc, safe
in her innocence at every hour and in every place,
will she do that, which all vaueless for its object
will yet be all powerful to send wakefulness and
watching and danger and anguish, perchance, to
well as to the barred and bolted chamber Of her
southern sister? viii any mother here, as she
soothes her infant to its rest and looks upon its
balmy sleep, and pressing it to her heart bows in
gratitude to God for his mercies to her child
thanking him that its life is safe-safe from harm,
from the hand Of violence and revenge, and that
all its slumbers are guarded by nations power
will she OH can she, as the consequences of her
acts, bear to behold the southern mother startling
and shuddenng, at every foot fall, and at every
noise which breaks upon the silence of the night,
and flying from her pillow Of wakefuness and
wretchedness to kneel and crouch upon the cradle,
weeping and sobbing in the agony Of her soul over
the murder and horror that surround it? Will the
father and the citizen hail us and greet us and
press US to their bosoms, as better brethren and
better men, when we shall come up with our
hands all red and reeking with the blood they have
made us shed But, if not, then abjure the cause
which involves the crime, and the disciples who
support it. Friends of the slave they are strip
ping him of the wrctched remnant OF liberty he
has left. Friends Of humanity they are cruelty
and recklessly stalking it upon means OF massacre
and convulson Friends of the country they
are rapidly becoming its iron homicides- -cleving
down its institutions with murderous hand, and
tearing it limb from limb. If you would see the
practical working Of the spirit that is spoken Of
the woe and ruin it can occasion, go to the quiet
and passive slave Of the South, pour your insur-
rectionary sentiments into his ear, parade the worst
of his condition in artful and in pictured horror
before his eye, then trace the progress of the poi
son-trace it through his murmurs, his resentment
his resistance, his passions growing deeper and
darker at every STEP under the discipline he pro-
vokes, until anger and liberation and agony of
spirit have done their work, and revenge and mur.
der have become the companions of his bosom;
then see him leagued and banded with others as
fell and furious HIMSELF the vulture at his heart,
the dagger and the torch in his hand stealing into
the silent and midnight chamber, and standing
with horrid and uplifted weapon over the parent
and the child they slumber for the blow; see
him-let the shrek, the gasping struggle, the CORY
blade the blazing dwelling tell out the deed that
is done. For one moment, one palsied moment,
a shvering and Convulsive horror siezes upon the
heart Of millions of our people-in the next a
dreadful wrath driven on to dreadful retnbution.
But the blood of our people is ever thus to stream
in our dwellings, and oose from the very bosom of
the soil that feeds u.s. it will cry from the ground