Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-05-16
VOL. XI-NO. At.

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who has seated himself above all that is chilled
God, and daily demands the living death of three
millions of the human race. Amidst all the
temples of America see another. and ENTERING
its dreary portals, and penetrating to the cham
Der where sits this God of America. Ihehold bin,
amid all the symbols Of pollution and woe. with
his heel upon the manacied form of American
Liberty, surrounded by crushed hearts, darken-
| ed souls, dehowered maidens, weeping Rachels
and lustful Misunderstanding his mandates for the
en>lavement of a Notwithstanding a sccptre
OF scorpions over his quivering victims--a scep-
tire OF IRON over his voluntary, sel-degraded vas
! sails, and with dcmuniacal eXultation eXclaiming
! see how these Christians love one another!
And this is the system which has to be abolish
/ ed. OBJ, tins anti-SIaVery cause is a cause Of
surprising greatness. There is nothing about
1t but It's advocates. If we would swell beyond
the dwariish dimensions of our own narrow souls
our own petty preiudiccs-let us gaze often
and long upon the fabric we are seeking to OK
| trpate There is real grandeur in the gloomy
vastness OF the hHge superstructure of guilt we
! are seeking to abolish Try to measure its cir
cumercnce and you will fail. Let down the
line into the horrid abyss, and you shall bring it
up again, eXclaiming-"O the derths!" Try to
count the groans and agonics and signs pressed
| by tins system into every instant of me- and a.
rthmetic shall fail You. Try to penetrate the
future and to grasp, the issues of this system,
and your Imagination, hating and weary, shall
give up in despair. Try to compute the value
of one of the millions of souls daily imbrutcd by
this systcm--put it into the scale against The ma.
! tcral universe, and it shall make the vast mar-
nifccnce of unntegont creation to kick the
beam then try TO compute the value Of the
slaves, past, present, and 10 come. Take not
This work aS Of =
to animals-Oh, il is far higher and holier.than
this. Christianity must be cXhumcd from her
sepnlchrc, and you most roll away the stone.-.
The genius of liberty must he Disseminated. and
you must break her bonds Mind immortal. H.
limitab,e mind waits to be let into liberty and life
| The Bible in chains cries, cmancipat, me and
let me 60 free The earth calls, deliver me from
my curse. Labor cries, am DEGRADED. di,hon-
ored, Infamous; redeem me, and let me he again
the glory of him who tils the soil. Morality
says-6ohOld me, am wounded, violated, struck
down, let me once again stand erect f. teach
man his duties, and be the guardian Of human
rights. The negro says-havc pity upon me,
and transform me from a beast into man.
Have pity on that woman, my concubine, whom
| may not make my wife. Behold my empty
cradle plundered OF its contents. My daughter
polluted and ruined. Let us turn to the brighter
side of the picture. If there is slavery in the u
nited States, there is also anti-savcry
If there are those who prostitute their talents
and influence to the support Of slavery there are
those also who devote emscIves-tme talents
property, health reputation and all-toth the cause
of the slave. If there are those who pass fugi-
tive slave bills there those also who eXccrate
those bills, and hold them to he atrocious viola
tons, under the name Of law, Of every pracort
divine and human, pointing to the drtics which
e., =, ell,
cause is advancing with majestic strides. Its as
pcct is truly sublime. When was formerly in
the United States, the aboIilioniss were few and
therefore despiscd; now, their name is Legion.
Now, they speak and the Legislature listens
Now they issue Their command, and it is obey
ed.
Twenty years of uncoasing effort has made
this the question of questions. In the anti-sIa-
very ranks is to be found intellect as lofty as any
10 be found in the ranks of slavery, and an a.
mount OF moral courage and indomitabe zeal and
perseverance, never eXcclled in the prosecution
OF any other enterprise, not excepting those of
an exclusively religious character. In this con-
tIct the Abolltiouiss ASK and have a rir}t to cx-
pee. the sympathy and aid Of the entire civilized
world and TIE man who is not wiling to give
them that which they ask, is no friend Of lib rty.
have been told, since | came to this city, that
to do with this matter? IF any such persons are
here, IwouId say--Evcrythng. Are YOU scpa-
ted, geographically and politically from The coun-
try where slavery reigns We are for that vc-
ny reason the persons best able 70 form an uub-
GssCd and sound Judgment on the question at l.
sue. We have as much TO do with this question
as with any question that concerns the Lapp-
ness OF man, the glory Of Cod or the hopes and
dcstnes ct the human race We have to DO
with this question, for it lies al the foundation Of
your own rights as portion Of the human lani-
ly. The cause of liberty is one all over the
world What have you to do with this question?
The slave is your brother, and You cannot dis
solve that union. While he remains Cod, Child |
he will remain your brother. He is helpless. |
and YOU are free and powerful, and if YOU neg
lcct him, you are not doing as you would lave |
others Go TO you, were you in bonds.
Know you not that it is Gods method to save
man by man. and that man is only great and |
honorable and best himself, as he is the friend |
and defender of those who need his aid You
are dweIlers on the same continent with three |
millions of slaves. Their signs come to you |
with every breeze from the south. Oh haste to |
help them that this glorious continent may b |
freed from its pollution and It's curse. Give the |
fugitive your aid. You have thus far done no. |
ky. Continue to receive kindly, and to cherish |
Hospitality On these shores the refugees from the |
house Of American bondage. Give the Adolf |
tionists yonr sympathy Lctthcm hear int |
louder than those of Niagara your words Of en-
couraeement--your hearty God speed, it will re- /
fresh and reanmate them in their work, aud .
cause them to grid mp their Ioins and renew the |.
struggle. The influence | ask you to exert is /
moral influence, and against that there can be /
no Legitimate objection, there can be no eiiec-
tuaI resistance. Let your weapons be those Of
Truth, reason and religion, and the time shall I
cone when, from sea to sea, ard from the Arc /
tic regions 10 Panama this soil shall be sacred to
freedom.
Mr.. Thompson was frequently interrupted by
enthusiastic bursts of applause, and sat dOwna-
midst continued cheering.
THE FOOLS REPROOF.
There was a certain nobIeman, says Bishop
Hall who kept a fool to whom one day he gave a
staff with a charge to keep it until he should
meet with one who was a greater fool than him
self. Not many years after the noblcman fell
sick even unto death The fool called to see
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