Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1839-08-15

lcAl, with iufDtuutn aud Infatuated nanus tneN rem
der II a maelsiron to engalph the Union. BE ad-
jured, therefore, by the veal Of this and Of coming
ages by our own and our children's g~ood-hy all
| that We have and all that We hope for ia the glo-
| ries of our land, to leave this subject OF slavery,
with every accountability it may impose, every re-
| NEEDY it may require. every accumulation OF diff
| Guilty ~ OF pressure it may reach-leave il all to
| the interest and the wisdom and the conscience Of
those upon whom the providence OF God and the
constitution Of your country have cast Il. Leave y
10 them ncso AVID foreeer, aud stop, before stop 10
impossible, the furious Roadway Of tina, 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 a strife and a woe that
| may bury us all under a harder and wickeder slave
| nv than any il would extinguish. Nothing but bis-
terness-nothing but aggravaiion OF heart and OF
lot has been brought upon that unfortunate man
whom rash and pernicious atfempts-thc pfomp-
| ,ines OF this blinded and baleful spirit--havc been
| nut forth to benefit They have broken down the
| footing he had reached. crushed the sympathies he
| had won, embarrassed and accurscd the fortunes
| they were interposcd TO control. Tho generous
| and elevatins influence Of our free institutions was
| relaxing his bondage, lettering his condition, lift
| ing up his character. turning upon him the public
anxieties and the public councils as a great object
OF p~rovident and public provision--was changing at
| ali points the aspects Of his fate, when a spirit, sent
Oh titaveH " " itfshhtfy tHfnR t@"s" 800 -
| broad, to scourgc him with demon visitation; to
| wrench him from the arms Of his only true AMI only
| capable bencf4eiors-,e throw him back sgsin upon
| the earth a thousand fold more suspected than be-
fore; riveiting upon him every fetter It would loo
sen-poisoning every blessing il would bestow, aud
filling his whole case with clemests OF hopclessness,
! explosion and evil, which the heart sorrows whilst
IL shudders to think upon. Why, then, persist !
WIN abet the growth or tho daring or the power OF
...... ..h,.h .s,s1an, and tpe MEAD IN Won with
| all their tongues, to silence and TO atop ! Will any
| daughter IN this assembly, the cherished aud deten
| ded of a parents love. blessed TO the utiermost with
| the holy peace OF perfect NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. to the
| utiermost from the apprehension and the approach
OF every wrong, with no enemy to dread-no hand
to iniute-no terror to atfright--sasc IN her repose,
| safe ia her Innocence at every hour and In every
place-wiii she do that, which, all.valueless Tor its
objects, will yet be allpowerful to send wakeinl-
ness and watching and danger and anguish, per-
| chance, to the days and the nights---io the summer
| shade as well as 10 the barred and bolted chamber
| of her southern sisterf Will any mother here, as
| she soothes her infant to its rest, AMI looks upon
its talmy sleep, and pressing 1t to her heart. bows
in gratitude to God for his mefcies TO her child
thanking him that it's life is safe--sufe from harm
from the hand Of violence and revenge, and that
all its slumbers are guarded by n nations power
will she-oh, cur she. as tho consequence oil her
acts, bear 10 behold the southern mother startling
and sbuddering, Mt every foot fall, and at every
noise which breaks upon the silence oil the night,
and living from her pillow Of wakeiulness and wrct-
chedness to knepl and crouch upon the cradle, wee
ping and sobbing In the agony OF her soul over the
murder and the horror that surrounded III VIII
the faihSr and the cilisen hail US and greet us and
press us 20 their bosom, as betiet brethren and bet
Ter men, when we shall come up with our hands all
red and reeking with the blood they have made us
shed7 But If not, then ds,icre the cause which in
wolves the crime, and the disciples who support II.
Friends Of the slave! they are stripping him oil the
wrescl.ed remnant cf liberty he has left. Friends
| Of humanity they are cruelty and rechiessly sta
| king il upon means Of massacre and convulsion.-
Friends of the country they are fapidly becoming
ia iron Notwithstanding down us Institutions
with murderous hand, and tearing II limb from
| limb. II YOU would see the practical working Of
The spirit that il spoken of--tie woe and The rum
| il can occasion, go TO the quiet and The passive
slave Of the south, poui your insurrectionary seht-
! mepts into his ear, parade the worst OF MS cophi-
| ton 10 artful and in pictured horror before his eye,
then trace the progress OF the poison--trace u
through his murfnlrs, his resentment, ms resist
| snce ; his passions growing deeper and darker al
every step, under tie discipline he rrovokes. until
anger and liberation and agony of spirit have done
their work, and revenge and murder have become
/, the companions of his bosom: then SOC him lea
sued md banded with others ms fell and as furious
a. himself, the vulture at his heart, the dagges and
the torch in his hand, stealing into the silent md
| midnight chamber, and %stnnding, with borTid and
| unified weapon, over the parent and the child as
| they slumber for the blow, see him -Iet the shrek
! the easping struggle, the CORY blade, the blazing
dwelling. tell out the deed that il done. For one
Monochrome palsied moment--a sbivering and
! convulsivc horror seizes upoH the heart Of millions
| Of our people-in the next, a dreadful wrath drives
on 10 a dreadful retribution. But if the blood Of
our people is ever thus to stream in Cur dwellings,
| and ooze from the very bosom OF the soil thai ieeds
US. il will cry from the ground like that ct Abel Tor
vengeance, vengeance against the brother hand that
| shed II. and vengeance would be had, though every
| drop that was left should be poured oul in one an
euished and DYING effort 10 obtain II. Nothing--no
| nothing but heaven could prevent a people, 50 lash'
ed nm 10 frenzy by rage and suffering and wrong,
| from pouring back. upon the fields and hresides q
the guilty, that visitation OF calamity and death
which had been sent TO desolate their own. Spare
us-ob. spare us the curse Of ~ruptured brotherhood,
| of a ruined, ruined country. Give up your happy
| ami united country; give it up to the madness OF
| some factious hour, to the frenzy OF some fanatic
| sn;rit, let il sink overwhelmed IN some horrible
| s,rusele of brother with brother, and you VIII ieco
yer its liberties and its blessings again, when the
san shall .slumber in the cloud, ~forgetiul Of the
voice Of the morning
"When carth's cities have no sound nor tread,
And ships are drifting with the dead,
To shores where all /. dumb
Here upon your northern fields il was at some
dark and dlsmaying period Of our revolution, when
army after army had been lost, when wretched AM
d,spi-ired and beaten, the boldest qnailed, the fa,'n-
fullest despaired. and all. for an instant. seemed 10
be conquered except the unconqnerabis w,ii o. gu,
| glorious chief:-hefs il was, that rising above all
he auouries and the terrors around him, he exclai-
med 10 the despairing Of his followers as If INSPIRED
| Of Heaven for his work, "strip me OF the wretched
and the suffering remnant Of my soldicrs-iake
from me all | have left-lsave me but a standard
give me but the means Of planting Il upon the
mountains of West Augusta, and | will yet draw
around me the men who will lift up their bleeding
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