Windham County Democrat. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1836-1853, 1853-07-06


manhood that could wear itself like glorious crown,
enabling men and women to give their aid to every
cause that needs their aid, stopping 10 ask +" Shall
/ get to office and power but only, What is the
right"
We blame the clergy. l have heard, until my ear
panied by listening, the story of their recreancy
and have blamed them, and do blame them, and
they deserve TO be blamed But the people, who
hold them in their control, are more to blame than
they for their cowardce But when a clergyman
comes to learn to scorn his place. and his parish and
his salary, choosing rather the want of place. and of
parish, and of salary, with the privileges that they
give, and keeping only his integrity OF purpose and
acton-when he comes TO know that there is wealth
that thieves cannot steal the approval of his own
conscience--and that Is more to him than the APP
proval of ~ those whose breath is in their nostrils-
then he will not stop to ask whether this man. who
helps pay his salary, the other, will be pleased if
he opens his lips for the dumb he will come up
here away from the circles of fashion with which he
has been connected, and labor with us for the dev-
erance of them that are in bonds.
] know it costs something to be free-I have
learned it. 1t costs something 10 be free, even in
the least things. Dare to differ from the fashion and
custom and opinion of those about YOU and lust so
surely are you made to smart--from those, too who
ought 10 be larger than 10 do it, The world may
sheer at the nobleness Of soul il cannot initiate
friends may rebuke that which they cannot compre-
bend and affection may be blind to the deep
mysteries and high and noble purposes of life but
the consciousness Of recttude is its own exceeding
great reward. loud applause) The soul, ami
mated with hoy purpose, is able always to trample
under its feet all of opprobrum or of rdicue that
malice or meliness can throw in its way. The soul
that has a holy purpose, strengthened by that pur-
lie In mas hv pl.,
with feeling of pity that circumstances have so be-
Titled human beings everywhere that they are not
capable of receiving and using the reward which
comes from freedom of mind and body.
| say again, it costs something TO be free but
then, in freedom itself there is that richness that
treasure of wealth, which will amply repay all that
can be lost otherwise Take true position. and. by
your and faithful life, be understood as having
taken it for conscience and the truths sake and the
grand of soul, the true and nobe-hearted will rally
to your side, and round your brow,
Through rifted clouds and parted
Stream down the smile of God;"
and in that smile and with it, it does not matter who
of flesh may frown. cloud cheers)
If / were asked what should be the first help to
emancpate the slave and the second, and the third
should say to the first, Courage and to the second
COur0ge and COURAGE TO the last !. Applause
Courage Gather freedom, each for HIMSELF
each for herself and then use it for the good
of all. Spurn the bond of servitude that keeps us
now always asking what this great world, with its
little fractions Of men and women, is going t. say,
rather than trying to find answers to the great cues
tons Of truth and duty
Men! Aboonists who have gathered here from
all parts of New England, carry back to Maine to
the White Hills of New Hampshire, to the Green
Mountains of Vermont, 10 Connecticut, to Rhode
Isand---carrv in min nd oil in,
hearts, and always give the people the idea that
among the first things that true love and sympathy
for the slave requires, in order make that sympathy
effective, is TO obtain for themselves that freedom
which shall make them dare 10 do the deed they
know needs be done for the slave-to abandon, if
need be, the church in which both their father and
mother and themselves have grown up-even though
it makes their foes those of their household and
the men they have been wont TO can friends grow
cold towards them. What we need is an heroic
faith in justice, benevoence, truth and right going
up hills and valleys; and against this sus-
tanned by earnest word and earnest deed the Slave
Power cannot stand The base are always towards
and when they find the sturdy stand of an earnest
manhood and womanhood arrayed against them, the
shareholders will feel that the day of their triumph is
over But now, they make you hunt down their
fugitive slaves, and taunt you with being meaner
than those on the plantation. Throw off from your
spirit the feer that makes you stop to ask, "What
will people sayl" Do not ask that question: friends
1t does not make any difference. Do not ask whether
anybody is going to laugh at you for being true to
yourself. Nobody hurt by being laughed
Aft there was, he deserved to be Qaughter) hut
simply ask and strive faithfully to know the right,
and then, if the heavens fall DO 1T loud cheers.)
Then will the slave ont of his prson-house-
and not till then (Applause)