The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1855-06-12

all doubt. In these words of gentleness, bene-
diction and emancipation, dropping with celes-
tial. soul ul-awakening power, there can be no
Justification for a conspiracy, which, beginning
with the treachcry ofIscatiot and .hc, tempta-
ton of pieces of silver, socks, by fraud, bruta-
lity and violence, through offieess Of tho law
armed to tho teeth, like pirates, and amid
soldiers whoo dgr' de their uniform, hurl a
fellow man back into the lash-rcsounding den
of American slavery; and if any one can thus
porvert this benefit example, allow mo to cay
that he gives too much occasion to doubt HE
intelligence or his sincerity.
| Certainly am right in thus stripping. from
Slavery the apology of Christianity, which It
has tenaciously hugged; and here / leave the
first part of my subject, assuming against every
objection the Necessity Of our Enterprise
III. am now brought. ia the second place tc
consider the PRAcTIcABrLIry of the Enterprise,
And here the way is easy. In showing its ne
cessity, have already demonstrated its prac-
ticability; for the former includes the latter as
the greater includes tho less. Whatever is
necessary must be practicable. Bya decree
which has ever been by word of tyranny, the
Israelites were compelled to make bricks
without straw, but it is not according to the
ways of benevolent Providence that man
should be constrained to do what cannot be
DONE What must be dono can be done. Be-
sides the Anti Slavery Enterprise is necessary
because it is right; and what is right is always
practicable.
know we'll the little faith the world has in
the triumph of principles, and readily imagine
tho despair with which our object is regarded
but not on this account am dishearted.-
That exuberant writer, Sir Thomas Brown,
breaks forth in the ecstatic wish for some new
difficulty in Christian belief that his faith
IA. 4. nj m npnsn
thusiast went so far as to say that he beloved
cecause il was mpossible-credo quia imposs-
IDLE. But no such exalted faith is now requi.
red. Here is no impossibility. nor is there any
difficulty which will not yield to faithful.
well-directed endeavor. If to any tlmid soul
the Enterprise seems impossible because 1t Is
too beautiful not to be possible.
But descending from these summits, let me
show plainly what it seeks to accomplish, and
herein you shall see and complete practicabillty
While discountenancing all prejudice OF color
and every establishment Of caste, the Anti
Slavery Enterprise-at least SO far as l may
speak for it-does not undertake to change
human nature, or to force any individual into
relations of life for which he is not morally,
intellectually. and socially adapted; nor does
i. necessarily assume that race, degraded for
long generations under the Iron heel OF bon.
dage, can be lifted at once into all tho poltioai
privileges of an American citizen
But sir, it docs confidently assume, against
all question, contradiction, and assault what-
ever, that erery man is entitled to Hte, hoer'y
and the pursuit of happiness; and 10Th eqnaI
cn,.Sdsmce IL asserts that everu indiriduat, ,cho
,oears the human form, tohether black or toh'fe,
should at once be recognized as man. l know
not when this is done, what other trials may
be in wait for the unhappy African: but l do
sbatt tbo Ant Clo HefenHsd Hfl
eristing la,o, will no longer shock mankind.
In this work the first essential practical re-
quiste is, that the question shall be openly
and frankly confronted. Do not blink it out
Of sight. DO not dodge it. Approach it,
Study it. Ponder it, Deal with it. Let it
rest in the illumination ofspeech. conversation
and the Press. Let it fill tho thoughts of the
salesman and the prayers of the pulpit. When
slavery Is thus regarded, its true character will
be recognized as hateful assembldge Of un-
questionable wrdngs Under the sanction cf er-
sting ia,o, and good men will be moved at
once to apply the remedy.
alroady even its zealots admit that its "abuses
should be removed This is their word and
not mine. Alas! alas! Sir, it is these very
abuses which constitute its component parts
Without which it would not exist, even as the
in bundle with the ak constituted
he dread fasces of tho Roman ictor. Take
away these, and the whole embodied outrage
will disappear. Surely that central assumP
ion-more deadly than tho ak itself-by which
nan is changed into chattel. may be aban-
loned: and is not this practicable. The as
ociate scourees by which that transcendent
abuse is surrounded may, one by one, bd
The ''abuse' which substitutes
,oncubnage for marriags-the "abuse" which
Innuls the parental lrelation-the abuse" which
n IL. 4. r. 4 .IaIv shn ito
which tyranicaly usurps all the labor of an
,ther, now upheld by positive law may by posi-
i've law be abolished. To say that this is not
practicable in tho nineteenth century would be
scandal upon mankind. And just IN proper
8 these wabuses" cease to have the sanction
f law will the institution Of Slavery cease to
xist. The African whatever may be his con-
lition, will no longer be the SLAVE over whose
wrongs and sorrows the world throbs at times
Iercey indignant and at times painfully cad,
While with outstretched arms he sends forth
he piteous cry, Sam not a man and broth
In pressing forward TO this result the inquiry
often presented. to what extent il any, shal
bo allowed to tho slave-master!
;leary il tho point be determined by absolute
ustice, not tho master but the slave will be en-
lilo to compensation; for it is the slaves who
WtdTy HOueIuuoHe hevo o0oh No
rived of their toll and all its fruits which
rent to enrich their master. Besides. il seems
ardly reasonable to pay for the relinquish-
,ent of those disgusting "abuses' which, in.
heir aggregation, constitute the bundle OF
lavery Pray, sir, by what tariff, prce-our.
ent or principle Of equation shall their several
alucs be estimatedi What sum shall be
ounted out as the proper price for the aban-
onment of that pretension-more indecent
han tho jus prime noctis Of the feudal age:
'hich leaves woman, whether in the arms OF
,aster Oh slave, always a concubinoi What
ribo shall DO proffcrcd for the restoration OF
rod given parental rightsl What money shall
o paid for taking off tho paddock by which
Duls arc fastened down in darknessi How
,uch for quit claim to labor now moanly ex-
cted by the strong from tho weaki And what
ompensation shall bo awarded for the surrsn-
or Of that cgregious assumption condemned
reason and aohorred by piety which changes
man into thingl l put these questions
ithout undertaking to pass upon them
drinking ins,inctivoly from any recognition
rights founded on wrongs | hnd my:eI