Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-09-19

are taken away from our borders, TO hill those Sit
nations wherever educated labor is required,
wherever talent is demanded for teaching or foE
the professions, and especially for the practical
business ofslife
Now, turn your attention to this fact and then
to another fact that there is no State in the Union
which is receiving en- the one side, while it is
giving off this intelligence on the other, so many
of an uninsructed and degraded class Of foreign
ers as this State of ours. Now what would be the
consequence if, we should send of from year to
year, many of our brightest sons and daughters,
and should receive,t fill their places persons who
come from the tYrannical government of Europe,
and who have been deprived from their birth of all
the privileges of education, and all the advantages
of culture and sefelevation, and of whom it is
no disparagement to say that they are unfit to take
the places of those who have Left what will be
the effect, if we do not keep up the standard of
education, and work for that purpose most ener..
getIcally while educated class is going off on
one side and an uneducated class is coming in on
the other Hence the necessity that should
pursue that cause with more zeal than any State
IN the Union or any country IN the world. | say
that all the ignorant and nnnstrucled who come
among us from arbitrary governments-all these
with their children should be lifted 10 take the
places OF those whom we are sendug of TO bless
the country and the world Education, then,
which Is an ornament and blessing to any peo-
pie, Is necessity TO US, an unconditional and
unacceptable necessity.
One thing more. Not only Temperance and
Education, but that which is the parent of them
all, Human Liberty, must be maintained. APP
pause. As there can be no material creation in
the universe of God without space in which that
creation may exist as thefe can be no successive
order OF events in the annals of the world with
out time IN which those events may happen so
there can be nothing of mobility 10 The human
soul, nothing of iervid and glowing aspiration, or
of pressing towards excellence, without human
freedom in which they are 10 be cherished. No
man, therefore, loves anything which is good with
an intelligent and lorecasting love. if he does not
demand first Of all, that element of human Iiber-
ty in which alone the good can exist. The man
who sets his face against human liberty, in fact
or IN theory, strikes blow against all that is de-
slrable, everything that is bene6cent, everything
Godlike on the face of the earth. He may be
beguiled by temporary considerations; he may be
turned aside by the rush Of public opinion; but
depend upon 1t, the man who sets his face against
human liberty, Is an enemy to the body and soul
oil the human race. There is not crime or a sin
which can not be better defended than the de-
struclOn or the impairment Of human liberty
Take sing e institution, for example; the insti.
tuition of pOlygamy, which we suppose to be utter
ly Incompatible with the progress of society,"
and maintain that there are a thousand aTgu-
ments which can be brought in favor of that in
stltution, fnI one that be brought in favor of
human slavery. [Appause.1
Is slavery defended from the Bible! So might
polygamy be. Is slavery defended because some
Of the pAtriarchs held slavesi So might polygamy
be defended for the same reason. Is slavery de-
Tended because great portion of mankind in
past ages have advocated this institution and sns
tanned it? So may polygamy lie defended on the
same ground; and if it be fixed fact, if it is to
become r1le Of action, that any man in this
country can reach The high offices Of this nation
by protesting TO defend human slavery as it exists,
there Is no reason under heaven why some future
presidential aspirant may not succeed in obtaining
that high office, because for that purpose he be.
comes defender Of polygamy, and gains the vote
OF Utah thereby [Cheers.1
But, gentlemen, will not detain you on these
topics. | am about TO bid you farewell Were
entitled 10 speak in the character of patriot or
statesman, would say, first and chiefes, main
tain these three great measures-or ! might call
them great inslituiioEs-temperance education,
and freedom. [Applause.l
Were entitled as Christian or a man of piety
to utter my suppcations before you on this occa.
sion, as such Christian and as such man of piety,
should say, strive first of all for the three great
blessings, the greatest blessings ever enjoyed upon
earth, temperance, education, aud freedom Re-
newed and prolonged appause.] And it rejoices
me to think, in giving you sad though a kind
farewell, that the three last words which | shall
perhaps ever utter before Massachusetts audi
ence, are the three words temperance, education,
and Freedom Mr. Mann took his seat amid pro-
longed cheers]