The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-06-21

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The Progress of .Anti-Slavery.

particular, or whether We shoH De TFts-Doi
nominally. only-not ypocritically-not sec
tionally-but really, truthfully. morally, reli-
giouslJ, individually and collectively free
The signs of the times are encouraging. Lib
erty seems to be arousing from the deep leth-
argy in which she ha, so long been stepped
she is seen merging al las. from the region OF
Sleepy Hollow" where. like Rip Van Win
kle, she has slept. unconscious Of the change
that has been going on, IN the midst OF Ler
slumbers, not dreaming 0. the few and
noble hearts whose energies never tire. nor
grow hopeless in good cause-who, with
open eyes, and a clear vision, see that the law
of progress. eternal progress, is written upon
every good thing, and now IN her waking
state gradually dispelling the mist that envel-
ops her. IS unaware of the causes which have
been operating to induce that change, jumps
% conclusions without examining the premi
SEES. and gives the credit to any thing. any
body. rather than to the friends Of freedom.
or (the old timed Abolitionlsts) who. instead
Of risking their march through Sleepy Hoi-
low passed up on the other side. No mat
ter il is enough to know thar the seeds Of lib
erty are being sown broadcast through the
country, whether done by Anti Slavery aglta-
ton, causing the enactmen. Of the Fugitive
Slave Law 10 save the Union, or the repeal OF
the Missouri Compromise serving TO convince
the North that they have shaped their faces
long enough TO make bread for Southern
tiers, that they will now knead their own
dough, making it suit their own interest. No
matter, say we, acho gets the glory.
The Nation is arousing
From It's sumbers long and deep,
And the friends of God are waking,
Never, never more to sleep
While the bondmsu IN hi, chains remains TO weep
Long, too long have been dreaming
Ger countrys sin and shame
lie; now, the time redeeming,
Press the help!css captiye's ei--m,
TIL exulting he shall cast aside his chain
The old sentiment that once gained ere
dence, and was urged with wonderful self suf-
fcieucv, as a grea. pro slavery poser, that alb
oitiouists have retarded the cause Of emanci-
patton generally, tightening the bonds Of the
Slave, burying deeper and deeper the brutal
lash into the quivering flesh Of innocent wo-
men and more innocent children-severing
wider and of:ener tie ties Of husband and
wife, tie parent and child-that slavery in
several Of the States would have been abolish
ed ere now, aye, long ago. were 1t not for
these meddling abolitionsts-has been met
and answered, and so thoroughly quashed
tia. no intelligent sane person, (saye now and
then e harmless exception, thinks it worth
while to throw il into tia face of an honest
abolitionist, to cool his flnaticism. They re
sort to something more popular-they say the
Wings and we Know Nothings have made the
change in public sentiment. (They are well
named when they say this. lis of no con
sequence, so that the right comes nppermost
The friends of freedom as | have said, are
awakening, and here. l would remark, that a
distinction should be made between these
friends and The abolltionsts-they viii have to
mount "higher, still higher" the anti slavery
ladder ere they reach the first platform.
There is wide difference between the de
spised abohtionists ten years ago, and the
friends of freedom now. The former is still
in advance, and the latter in the rear It's
true that Charles Sumner is now uttering
more ultra abolitionism than did Stephen S.
Foster and Abby Kelly, ten years since, when
a mob, urged on by few ranting politicians,
two three pettifogging lawyers at that time,
though since risen 10 some notoriety obliged
them TO leave town after dark for giving ut
terance to convictions that are not now con
fined TO the breasts Of the few. but live in the
great heart of the country, giving out it. pull
Sations, and circulating vitality through all
healthy organizations. But Sumner, Viii
son and few others, are the exceptions.
Ii is but few months since that we listen
cd 10 a speech of Lewis D. Campbell, in this
town, advocating similar views 10 those that
were then moo;ed here.
These reflections have been induced by
reading an extract from the East Boston Led
ger which, Messrs. Editors, if YOU will pub
lish in addition. viii well pay the interested
reader for peruSing. STELLA
The anniversary of the New England
Anti Slavery Convention was held in the Me-
lodeon on Tuesday Wednesday and Thurs
day of this week. day and evening. We at
tended the evening sessions. which were
deeply interesting. To listen to such speak
ers as Phillips Garrison, Parker. Higginson,
and others who addressed the meeting is
rare privilege We heard from them true ell
oquence and strong argument-though per
haps exceptions might be taken to some of
their yiews--and thought, a we always do
when privileged TO listen to those speakers
that if the world knew how in these misrep-
resented and belicd friends of truth and free
dom, were manifested whatever is noble in
manhood, and admirable in Christian charae-
ter, the contamination for which they labor
and which is sure TO come-would be sooner
realized. But truth never did grow up in a
dav And doubtless these men, laboring
earnestly to free the slave, may see their end
attained in a way they do not anticipate They
are but instruments in the hands of a higher
Power to bring about his inscrutable purposes
How or when it shall please Him to give fru-
ition to their hopes, it is impossible to tell
But sssuredly 1.-The morning cometh,'' and
they who have watched and .oiled shall re-
joice in its light"
hentucly Politics Candidates for Con-
gress-The following are the names of the
candidates for Congress in Kentucky:
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