Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-10-29
"Kossuth and Cotton"

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in our own We extract Mr.. BIS account of the
interview Gin my minds eye HOrao, } between
the great Magyar on his arrival in New York Bay
and our clerical denouncers of opposition to the
Fugitive Slave Law:
Now, let us suppose that Committee of
Clergymen should be deputed TO wall upon the
illustrious exile (whose traitorous efigy has just
been battered and hung, at homeD OF course
we should select those who have most polntedly
inveighed against the doctrine of the Higher Law
DR.. Dewey, Dr. Taylor, DR.. Spencer, DR..
| Spring, DIR. Lofd-could better COMMITTEE be
| desired!
| During the quarantine of two days which our
| Government has ordered at Staten Island, we
| may imagine that it is the purpose Of our excel
| lent rulers to cleanse away all inward faint of
treason, well outward contamination or
plague from the iustrious exile We will imag-
inc that the days to be divided between the
Church and the State. Our clerical Committee
would, without doubt cast shade of awe over
the abashed hero, as they marched into the cabin
ofthe steam frlgate Mississippi the State Of re-
pudiation and Senator Foote each one bear
ing presentation copy of his sermon or speech
on the Fugitive Slave Law. The Oldest clergy
man now approaches Kossuth, and welcomes
him to this land of liberty and equality. Its bes-
sings are described: The statistics of our prosper
ity are briefly given. "All these things,'' SAYS
the excellent spokesman, s'we owe under God
to our liberty. No people can thrive while ground
by OPPRESSION This happy laudation being
done, the gentlemen proceed to question his
notions Of law and government, patriotism and
treason.
''Does your Exceency believe that Slavery is
sin per Sc? Do you not regard it as patri.
archa institution tolerated by Jehovah, not
oh tod hxE Christ I'D
nefcent arrangement for the blacks?
Mr. Kossuth (beng perhaps more used lately
to the sword than to theology may be supposed
! to be little confused, and rather evades SO un-
savory catechsm.
! But our good dlyines are too expert in examin-
ing candidates in theology in all the nice dis
tlnctions into which Truth has been split up, to
be easily lodged. And so DR.. S. says plainly,
''Woud you, sir, if by utterng the prayers
Tor it, you could release every savein America,
Tomorrow, dare TO utter such prayer?''
!. "rhat should, very quickly responds the
illustrious catechuman, little off his guard,
! by the dstinctness OF the question. The Di-
vines nudge each other. There is business on
! hand.
edo you believe that slave has right to run
away from his master''
edo you mean to inquire by this question.
gentlemen, whether have done right in run
ming away from the service of the Emperor of
I AUSTRIA
ono, sir, oh no. You are a white man. Per-
haps we ought to put the question a little more
explicitly. Do you believe black man, held
to slavery IN South Carolina, has right to run
away"
The English tongue being yet little ne W, Mr..
Kossuth does not exactly know what South Car
oliaG is Gan ignorance, perhaps, of which her
own citizens somewhat partake,) and supposing
1t Is the name of some prison, or government
galley, answers, that, 'if a man is imprisoned for
crime, he thinks that he ought TO work his SEN
tence out, whether he is white or black.''
500 you think when man is flying for his
liberty, that any one has right to help him
off?''
'Oh, certainly do. quite agree with your
Government, gentlemen, who have kindly provi-
ded me with this noble steamer wherewiih to es
cape the Emperor of Austria
"But do You think if fugitive is arrested
that Il is right for men to conspIre together for
his release against the express laws af his native
! land.''
"Ah, gentlemen, you quite familiar with
| my case. perceive that you allude to nv ex
tradition from Kutahyia, against the edict of the
Emperor of Austria? | quite agree with vou
gantlemen, that the Turks did noble thing
by this time the yenerated doctors whisper
moment IN consultation, and conclude to leave
copy each of their several sermons and address
ses in favor of obeying the Fugitive Slave Law.
and to turn down leaves upon the most sautary
passages; such as this, in DR.. Lord sermon (.Uni-
on Safety Committee" edition, p. 65) To plead
Higher law to justify dlsobedience to human
law, the subject matter of which is within the
cognlzance OF the State, is to reject the authority
of God himself, who has committed TO Cavern.
ments the power and authority which thew exer-
else in civil aiiars.'' AS slave is by our laws
DENIED 10 be cHATTEL, TO be completely in
the power oil his master our laws give TO the
master the right to treat his female slaves as he
will; to separate families, sell the children in one
direction and the parents in the other; as our civil
laws protect the master in the right of sending his
blood to market mingled with his slaves-it is not
strange that Kossuth, on reading the passage.
quite failed to see its practical drift, and thought
that it was hint to him to be an obedient citi-
zen when he should have settled down.
DR.. Spencer called his attention by dog s.
cared leaf to the doctrine ION page II } ga man
has no right to fling away his life for mere sem
timent, and leave his wife widow, or his grey
haired parents without son TO soace them. y
This is part of the statement that citizens have
no right to resist Government until there is good
prospect Of success. Upon this passage Kossuth
ponders; and as he walks up and down his now
deserted cabin, he sooquises: GAS if the great
est ACHIEVEMENTS of the world were not in their
inception gloomy and cherries to all usual meth
DDS of estimation. 1t is the heart determined TO
diet is that courage which cries out "give me
liberty or give me deah;" it is that nobleness of
nature that scorns to accept life as burden of
disgrace, and hasens TO lay it down as a sacrifice
to liberty; in short, it is that sublime and heroic
determination of great souls to vindcate mans
manhood, living or dying, that ever gives success!
Every Hungarian that has fallen is a tongue Of
liberty, in the world. Between the Russian Bear
and the Austrian Snake there was but little hope
Of victory for their native land. But though Hun
gary has lost her best sons, the world has gained
them. They stand up above all division lines of
States, and inspire men every where with hatred
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