Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1839-03-21

rrnded macs of slaves. They know better,
though at the same time they believe pro-
csc of publication and elevation would com
mence, which. would gradually be productive
of the most beneficial consequence. The
question ofcivil rights Is one entirely distinct
from that of personal rights. Let the latter
be restored and guaranteed, and the whole
object OF the sbolitionisis, as such, is accom-
rlished. Political fights are alienable, per-
ronsl rights are not. Personal rights are Of
ten az secure under the government OF a
despot-Frederick the Great, Of Prussia, for
instance-as they possibly can be anywhere;
while ut the same time the subject has no
political rights. All we ask for the slave is
his personal rights-give him these and you
aow him-to pursue his own happiness in his
own way, provided he seeks 1t not at the ex
pense of others. If in this pursuit he be
comes The most viruous, the most learned,
the most eloquent, the most influential man
IN the United States, we see not how It Is TO
be helped, nor who has right to obstruct bls
course.
The above exposition Of anti-slavery prin-
ciples has been made at the request OF num-
berof our respectable citizens. In preparing
il, we have felt deeply our responsibility, and
have tren,bed lest through any inadvertcnce
TO be misunderstood, and TINS repel the minds
of those whom we wish to gain. In the cor
rcc'ness ofthcsc principles we have the most
mistaken confidence, and that they finally
will be properly understood and most nniver-
sally adopted by our countrymen,we have no
more doubt than We have that Washington
lived and Warren died to secure the blessings
Of civil aud lgious liberty. That they have
met with such determined opposition, and
brought upon their prominent supporters such
extreme manifestations of popular hatred, IL
partly and chiefly owing TO the fact that they
have been strangely misapprehcnded, and
partly that in their practical application in
this country, they strike, or are supposed to
strike. st self-interests Of great magnitude.
Until the sentiments and principles set
forth above shall prevail over the earth, the
world eau never be delivered from the bon
dlge under which it has so long groancd.-
They are the sentiments which, though often
times dimly and fecby apprehendcd, have
actasted the minds Of the great and good Of
every age, who have mourned over the de-
grhdati0n Of human nature, and have sought
to elevate it, by ascerlaining and securing
those rights of man with which his Maker
has endowed him. They are the primo pies
which actuated Thrasy bulus an Epamndn-
das, n Spartacus and Butus, of antiquity
o Doria, Tell, llampden, Sidney, Rus
SELL Hancock, an Adams, Washington, of
later days. They brought our pilgrim Ia
theirs from the homes and fire sides Of old
England TO this country, then an unknown
land, aDd n waste bowling wilderness. They
sustained them to endure tolls, and hardshIps
and privations, Until they made the "wilder-
ness TO rcjoice and blossom as the rose."-
And nov shall their children forsake these
principles and attempt TO roll back the wheels
Of that reformation on whose banner is in
scrlbed the LIBERTY ASD EQUALITY OF THE
HUMAN RACE, and which dspcnses in its
train, alike TO all, the blessings Of peace, of
harmony, and the unmolcsed rights of con-
science? No, they will not, they dare not.
We do not mean to be understood that in
the cases referred To above, the manifesto
tiops OF these principles were always proper.
Enough, however, appeared TO show that The
minds of these patriots and sages were com.
muuing with their Maker, aud were receiving
from hin-,hough owing to the darkness Of
their minds s,imperieclly understood and often
rehended-revelations Of the rights,
duties and privileges which he designed for
the race.
Did the forms
0fssrvie custom cramp their gen'rous powr'st
Would sordid policies, the barb'r 'rou- growth
or ignorance aud rnpne, bow them down
To tame pursuits, 10 Incidence and fear
10 they appeal to nature, to the winds
Aud rolling waves. the SUMS wearied course,
The clements and Seasons all declare
For what the eternal Maker has ordaihd
The powers of man they felt within themselves
His energy divine.
These principles, then. are eternal and
immutable, for they are established by God
himself, and whoever would destroy them,
must first reach up to heaven aud dethrone
The Almighty. Sin had well nigh banshed
them from The earth, when the Son Of God
came down to re-assert them, and died to
sanction them. They are summoned upper
fecily, in the language by which tho angels
announced the object of the Redcemer's
mission" GLORY TO GoD IN THE HIGHEST,
oN EARTH PEACE, GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN,"