The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1855-06-19

superficial minds may seem inconsistent will
success but which the careful observer will
| recognize at once as the Datural and not un
healthy effort of diseased body TO purge it.
self of existing impurities; and in just proper
tion to the malignity of the concealed poison
will be the extent of inhamation A distem.
per like Slavery cannot be elected like O splin.
tor. 1t is perhaps too much to expect thai
men thus tortured should reason calmly--thai
patients thus suffering should comprehend the
true nature of their case and kindly acknowl-
edge tho benefit work; but not on this account
can it be suspended.
In the face of this complaint assert that
tho Anti Slavery Enterprise has already &c.
touched the national heart as it never before
was touched sweeping its strings with might
to draw forth emotions such as no political
struggle has ever evoked. Ii moves tho young
the middle. aged and tho Old 1t enters the
family circle and minglcs with the fame of the
household hearth. Ii reaches the souls oil
mothers, wives, sisters and daughters, filling
all with now aspiration for Justice ON earth
and awakening not merely sentiment against
Slavery such as prevailed with our fathers, but
a doep, undying conviction of its wrong and a
determination to leave no effort uninterrupted
for its removal With the sympathios of all
Chrstendom as allies it has already encom-
passed the slavem masters by moral blockade
invisible to the eye but moro potent than
navies, from which there can be no escape ex-
cept in final capituation. Thus it has crea-
ted the irresistible influence which itself con-
stitutes tho beginning of success. Already
there arc signs of change. In common speech
as we'll as in writing among slave-mqsiers the
bondman is no longer called a sidve but SER
p1of- thuo hv
and condemning the true relation. Even
newspapers in the land of bondage blush with
Indignation at the hunt of men by blood. hounds
thus protesting against an unquestionable in.
cident of Slavery. Other signs arc found in
the added comfort of the slave, in tho enlarged
attention to its wants, in the experiments now
beginning by which he is enabled to share in
the profits of his labor and thus finally secure
the means TO purchase his freedom and above
ell in the consciousness among slave masters
themselves that they dwell row as never be-
foro under the keen observation of an ever
wakeful Public Opinion quickened by an ever
wakeful Public Press. Nor is this ALL Only
lately propositions have been introduced into
the Legislatures of different States, and coun-
tenanced by Governors, to mitigate tho ex-
isting law of Slavery; and almost while speak
ing, have received the drafts of tive different
memorials-one addiessed to the Legislature
of Virginia, and the other to that of North
Carolina-asking for the slave three things
WI ieh it will be monstrous TO refuse, but which
if conceded will take from Slavery its existing
character; mean first the protection of mar
riage relation, secondly the protection of the
parental relation, and thirdly the privilege of
knowledge Grant these, and tho girdled
U9as-tree must soon die. Sir, amid these
tokens Of present success and the auguries of
the future | am not disturbed by any complaints
of seeming damage. Though L consume our
own dwelling, who does not venerate fire with
out which human life can hardly exist on
"earthf' says the IIindoo proverb and the
timo is even now at hand when tho nti-Sla-
very Enterprise which is the very FIRE of Free
dom with all its incidental excesses, will be
hailed with similar regard.
III. And now, in the third place, tho Anti
Slavery Enterprise, which have shown to be
at once necessary and practicable, is commen-
ded by its inherent Dignity Hence the rca-
sons are obvious and unanswerable.
Its object is benevolent; nor is there, in the
dreary annals of tho Past, single enterprise
which stands forth more clearly and indisputa-
bly, entitled TO this character. With unsurpass-
ed and touching magnanimity, ii seeks TO benefit
tho iowly whom your eyes have not seen, and
who are ignorant even of your labors while ii
demands and receives self sacrifice calcula-
ted to ennoble an enterprise of even question
able morit. Its true rank is among works pro-
perly called phianthropic-the title of highest
honor on earth. 81 take goodness in this sense
says Lord Bacon in his Essays, "Me efccting
Of The real Of men, which is what the Grecians
call Philanthropeia--of all virtues and dignities
OF tho mind the greatest, being the character
of the Deity; and without it, man.is busy,
wretched thing, no better than
kind of vermin."
Lord Bacon was right, and, perhaps, uncon-
scously followed higher authority; for. when
Moses asked the Lord TO show him in.o His
glory, tho Lord said, 81 will make all my good
ness to pass before thee All! Sir, Peace has
trophies fairer and mere perennial than any
snatched from the fields Of blood, but among
all these the fairest and most perennial are tho
trophies Of beneficence. Scholarship, literature
art, may wear their wel.deserv-
cd honors; but an Enterprise of goodness de-
serves, and will yet receive, higher palm than
these.
In other aspects It's dignity is apparent. 1t
The cause of Human Freedom, which
from the earliest days, has been the darling Of
history. BY all tho memories of the Past; by
tho stories of childhood and the studies Of
youth; by every example Of magnanimous
virtue; by every aspii alton for the good and
true; by the fame of tho martyrs swelling thro'
all time; by thu renown patriots whose lives
are landmarks of Human progress; by the
praise lasished upon our fathers you are sum-
moned to this work. Unless Freedom be an
illusion, and benevolence an error, you cannot
resist tho appeal But our cause is nobler even
than that of our fathers, inasmuch as il is more
exalted to struggle for the Freedom Of Others
than for our oicn. sr- rI... .l.fi ~.
Its practical Importance at this moment Civ
es to IL additional eminence. Whether meas
ured by the number of beings IL socks to benefit;
by the magnitude of the wrongs it hopes to re-
lieve; by the difficulties with which it is beset
by the political relations which il affects; OF by
the ability and character it has enlisted, and
tie cause ofthe slave now assumes proportions
Of grandeur which dwarf all other interests in
BUR broad country. In its presence the machi-
nations of politicians, the aspirations Of Office
seekers and the subterfuges of party, all sink
below even their ordinary insigni6cance. For
myself, Sir, can see little else at this timo a.
mong us which can tempt out on to the exposed
sleeps of public lifo an honest man who wish
es, by something that he does, 10 leave the
Uarld I.affor than ha foupI oan oaa liffla