Hannibal journal. (Hannibal, Mo.) 1852-1853, 1852-12-23
DANr11 w1BsrxR Ann SLAVERY.

tAiG ptupt VI TINS ttctiou cteNtT tuca VI tuN
an,i-slavery sentiment df the North, but mofc
particularly as splendid literary curiosity,
they believing that il is evidence Of genius TN
surpassed, perhaps, in the United States, and
that il Sheridan had delivered il, Il would have
been considered his grandest effort. We are
contented, however, with copying crotgh o.
CHS sermon 10 teach Southern men how much
they are indebted 10 Daniel Webster. That
Webster had some faults no one has so high an
? opinion Of human nature az 10 deny; but, as a
gigantic whole, his virtuCs and his intellect TO-
gether make up a. complete man as the world
ever saw.
This sermon OF Theodore Parker shows the
violence and extent Of snti-slavery sentiment in
The North; the Vasiness of Daniel Webster's in
fuencs there, and how he eNerted that influence,
firmly, bravey, heroically, and with an irresst-
lille strength. Generous, nobte.heared, glOri-
Gus Webster deserted by his country, By his
party, and by the South, for all of whom he had
stood among foes at the North like lion at bay,
and fought with superhuman courage and almost
more than created strength The sermon be-
fore us is the testimony Of man who speaks
bitterly, but does not underrate Webster's pow
err and influence, or the forces against which
he had to contend, like single mountain rock
in the midst Of a raging ocean. When agita-
ton again awakes in the North, where will be
found another Daniel Webster to stand by the
rights Of the South9
This violent and bitter sermon, made in the
North TO Northern audience, shows what sort
Of sentiments are acceptable TO people of that
latitude, and how inimical they to slavery.
II will bring the South to a nearer view Of the
force and extent of This opposition. In a stronger
light than we have ever before seen, it exhibits
the ingratitude of the South, TO her greatest ben
efactors. They threw Fillmore by. they treat
ed Webster with contempt, they picked up a
man to whom they owed nothing peculiarly,
and for whom they would not vote when they
had him. 1t was shame, and the Wing party
and the South have suffered for the folly and n-
gratitude cf the;. false representatives IN the
Baltimore Convention. Southern Democrats,
too, have an interest in this slavery question. !
AT their door lies part of the sin of regulating
Webster and Fillmore, and the whole sin Of
electing an AboltiOnst.
The Life Of Webster. Ertract from a Sermon
preached at The .MelOdeOn, an Boston, by Req.
THEODORE PARKER, on Sunday morning, Oc-
tober 81, 1852.
TREPoRTED ron THE BosToN Commonwealth.
come now to speak of his relation to Slavery.
Up to 1850, his conduct had been just and hon
orable. As private citizen, in 1920, he OPP
posed the Missouri Compromise. On Forefa-
Tiers Day, IN 1920 standing on the Plymouth
Rock, he could say:
81 deem ii my duty on this OCCASION to sug-
gest, that the land is not yet free from the con-
famnation OF q traffic, at which every feeling Of
humanity must forever revolt mean the AT
rican slave trade. Neither public sentiment,
nor the law, has hitherto been able entirely 10
put an end 10 this odiOus and abominable trade
At the moment when God in his mercy has
blessed the Christian world with a universal
peace, there is reason TO fear that, TO the dis
grace Of the Christian name and character, new
efforts are making for the extension Of this
trade by subjects and citizens of Christian
States, in whose hearts there dwell no senti-
ments of humanity or of justice, and over whom
neither the fear Of God nor the fear of man ex-
ereises control. In the sight of our law, the
a
in the sight of Heaven, an offender far beyond
the ordinary depth of human guilt. There is
no brighter page Of our history, than that which
records the measures which have been adopted
by the Government at an early day, and at diff
feTent times since, Tor the suppression of this
traffic; and would call on all the true sons of
New England TO cooperate with the laws Of
man and the justice OF Heaven. II there be,
within the extent Of our knowledge or influence
any participation in this traffic, let us pledge
ourselves here, upon the Rock Of Plymouth, 10
eXtirpate aud destroy it, II is not &. that the
land Of the Pilgrims should bear the shame
longer. hear the sound of the hammer, see
the smoke OF the furnaces where manacles and
letters are still forged for human limbs. I see
the yisageS Of those who by stealth and At mid
night labor in this work Of hell, foul and dark |
as may become the arlifcers of such instruments
OF misery anc torture. Let that spot be puTi |
fled, OF lei il cease 10 be of New England. Let
il be purified, or let il be set aside from the
Christian world; let il be put out of the civce
OF human sympalhies or human regards, and let
civilized man henceforih have no communion
with IT,"
In 1887, At HiblO's Garden, he vowed his
entire unwillingness 10 do anything that should
extend the slavery Of the African race on this
continent. S, id he:
son The general question OF Slavery, great
portion OF the community is already eNcited.-|
! The subject has not only attracted attention as
question of politics, but il hns struck far
Inexperienced chord.D Il has arrested the reli-
gious feeling Of the country it las taken strong
hold on the condolences Of men Tie is a rash
man, indeed, and little eonyeTsanta with human
nature and especially has he very erroneous