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Beecher's Lecture.

SHAiSe vi NOitu-IH anu EOulHefn
Theories Of Man and Society,"" on the
10th inst. IL is an able production, and
we'll worth careful perusal, We give a
few extracts:
NATIONALITY OF THE SLAVERY QUESTION.
If Slavery were a plantation question,
concerning only the master and the slave.
disconnected from us, and isolated-then,
though We should regret it, and apply
moral forces for its ultimate remedy. vet,
1t would be, (as are questions of the same
kind in India or South America, J remote,
constituting single element in that globe
of darkness Of which this world is the
core, and which Christianity is yet to shine
through and change to light. Bnt it is
not plantation question. 1t is anation-
al question. The disputes implied by the
violent relations between the owner and
the chattel may only morally touch US.
But the dispute between the masters and
the Government, and between the Gov
eminent impregnatcd with Slavery, and
the Northern citizen, these touch us sharp
ly, and if not wisely met, will vet scourge
us witlfthorns I! Indeed I cannot say that
New England and the near North will not
be affected locally, and Immediately by an
adverse issue of the great national strug-
gle now going on. But the north will be
an utterly dead force in the American ma
ton. She will be rolled up in corner,
like cocoon waiting for its transmigra-
ton The whole north will become pro-
vincial ; twill be but fringe to a nation
whose heart will beat in the South.
MAN NORTH AND MAN SOUTH.
! In the North, the most useless pauper
that ever burdens the Aims House-the
most uncombed foreigner that dclyes in a
dltch-the most abject creature that begs
q morsel from door to door, is vet man
and there is, not in theory only, but in the
public sentiment sacrcdness of rights,
which no man, except by stealth, can vio-
late with impunity. There is no othe,
law for the Governor of New York or OF
Massachusetts, than for the beggar in your
; streets. That which protects the dwell
ling and the property of the rich man
belongs jnst as much to the hovel of the
begyar. God sends bnt ole sun, and it is
the same light that kindles against the
roof of mansion, that draws upon the
thatch of hut. The same air comes tc
each, the same showers, the same seasons
summer and winter. As in Nature, so, il
the North, are law, and the distributivt
benefits Of society. They bathe society
from top 10 hoton' The rich,stbe learn
led. the refined, he strong, may know
no" To make better use Of Tile air, bu
t"e% @tve no mora ait' or privilege tt
":c&tan, ih&A the poorest wretcIl
In the South, exactly iho reverse is true
not by stealth, not by neglect of recog
hlzed principle, but as the result OF MN.
ideas, and ~ organized arrangements
loGch a hireing's wages. in the North
and the Law stands to defend him, anc
beat you down. Take laborer's wages
IN the South, and the Law stands to de-
fend you, and beat him down.
Beat man, in the North, for a private
wrong done, and the Law will strike you
But IN the South, it is the right of the
white, uuquestionel and unquestionablc
to beat every third person in the commit
nifty.
Let the proudest mill owner break bu
the skin of the poorest operative in Low
ell or Lawrence, and both law and pub
lie sentiment, alike, would grasp and pun
ish him!
But in the South the law refuses to lool
at any degree of cruelty in chastisement
upon the universal laborer, short of MAIN
ing or death, and public sentiment is bu
little better than the law.
The laborer in the North answers to {
tribunal in the South to a master, in
, censed, passionate, vindictive injustice ex
ecuted upon all symptoms of resisting
. manhood
In the North, nothing is more sacred
than mans family and his children.
would not be possible for man 10 do {
!, public violence to a family circle with
out vindictive penalty. Let him separat,
a mother fIom her daughters, let him EN-
ploy a hireling rufian to carry off til,
boys into the country, and parcel then
, out there-let him scatter the flock, anc
leave the children motherless, and tn,
parents childless, and what do you thinl
would become of him?
| In the South it is a part of the civi
rights of men to do these things whenev
= er they please. And though public sen
timent is better than law, yet as no pub
lie sentiment on earth is a match for legal
lied lust, or avarice, Or the grip of mis-
fortune, these things are continually done
and remorselessly. Cruelty, chastity, vir
tue do not mean the same things in tn
South as in the North. A man is mo-
blemished by deeds and indulgences, up
on plantation, among slaves, which il
the North, would strike him through will
infamy, and house him in the peniten
tiary!
In the South there are many roads lead
ing from the top of society to the bottom
but not one, not one from the bottom t,
the top. m
!, In the North, if the citizen chooscs t,
y walk in it. there is road from ever,
(, mans door up to Governors chair or tn
Presidential seat
LABOR IN THE NORTH.
1t is the popularity of Northern labor
that it thinks. 1t is Intelligence workin,
out through the hands. There is NOR
9 real thought in Yankee hand than in
Southerrer's head. This is not true of