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NO permanent reform was ever the work of a
DAY. NO individual ever became good, or wise.
or great, IN a moment. Or, if such a thing has
ever happened, history does not record il. For
the production Of everything valuable and dura
bic, time, growth, cultivation are necessary. II
took long centuries to eliminate and announce
the abstract truth of the common origin and BROTH
erhood OF man. Centuries have passed since He
VINO spake as never man spake, announced that
uuth. 10 hallthe world and more, it is still an
abstraction. But, nevertheless, it has grown and
Is growing into the heart and life of the world.
1and In hand with the advancing kingdom of
him. whose spirit is destined to fill the whole
EARN, as the waters fill the sea, and no title Of
whose words shall pass away or be unlu6lled,
grows that truth among men
AS God Is true, and Christ not an impostor.
tile letters of oppression must be broken, the
prison doors must be opened humanity must be
redeemed, emancipaed and disenthralled; the
brotherhood OF man must be the law Of humanl-
ty, and all men must stand before each other
as they now stand before God-FREE AND
EQUAL.
But not to-day, nor Tomorrow, shall this be.
Not IN this generation, perhaps, shall the "full-
ness of tme,' - with which all lime has travelled
10 pain, come. 1t may delay; yet, not the less
surely will 1t come. Not the less should all true
men labor TO hasten IFS coming. In the affairs
OF men, as in the Providence of God, means are
necessary 10 ends, and labor, to all things The
day OF human redemption comes not except
through working and watching. The race, like
the individual, must work out its own salvation.
And to every man, part ofthe race, is as
signed his part of the work.
10 us, to every true American, Is assigned the
work of realizing the great American truth of the
Declaration of American Independence From
the hour * hon that fnjaponJar I'll
ed, our nation has been a living LIE-the great
lie of the world. Against Freedom and the
Rights of Man, we have sinned as no people ever
sInned With our lips we have paid homage TO
Liberty, while our hearts and hands have been
full Of blasphemy and oppression. We have sac
fihced our own most vital interests to the Mol
och of Slavery, and passed millions of cur un.
fortunate brethren Though the fire.
AT length and at last, there are signs of sbet-
ter time coming The conscience of all good
men, the moral sense of Christendom is aroused.
Even Paganism and Mosemism rise up in ludg
ment against US, and pronounce our Christianity
an lmposture, land our Democracy base counter
felt, whose little finger 10 heavier than tile loins
of the heaviest Despotlsm of THE East. The
slave Is beginning to chafe under the iron which
enters and imbrutes his soul. The birds of the
arr the whispering winds, the awakened instincts
OF long crushed humanity, murmur in his dream
ing ear, that he 100 Is man, and entitled to the
rights of man. The master is dreaming too.--
lie, also, hears voices and murmurings, which
tell him of the sin of slavery, and of the wrath
to come, which, if not himself, his children shall
drink to the dregs, when the cup of Africa's suf.
ferlng children shall be full.
American Slavery must die. Somehow, peace
ably or in blood its Exodus must come. Parties
and politicians may, as they do, attempt to stay
the progress of the spirit of Freedom. They
may covenant with death, and compromise with
hell to perpetuate the giant wrong They may
annex territory to enlarge its boundaries, and
strengthen its cords. They may enact slave laws
seven times more cruel than ever marked the
bloody code of any nation. The may tune their
internal hack-buts and psateries to the praise and
gIor6cation of the Golgothic idol, and command
the Christian men and women of this land to bow
down and worship, on pain Of being cast into
furnace hotter than slavery itself.
1t shall all be to no purpose. A hand stronger
than parties or politicians, shall smite their idol
in pieces, and cast down its worshippers where
they shall have no more power to hurt men,
The covenanters with slavery and their cove
nants, the Compromises and their works, shall
be broken together, and together 60 TO their own
place. He that hath ears TO hear let him hear'
and let all the people say, Amen.-Concord NJ
III, Democrat