The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-02-07

pact If there is secession, It cannot be on cur
side.
On this assertion, now made bv a large pCT-
ton OF this nation in terrible earnest, hangs al.
the excitement, and viii hang more and more.
elimination and violence serve no purpose here
Both are equally sincere. Individuals may BE-
lnsincere, but no large mass of men can bold
together with means and influence for any
length Of time on An affected or ianatical basis.
Hypocrisy would forbid the enthusiasm mani
Tested on both sides; and the outlay necessary
for cause cools all fauaticism.
How, then, shall these be reconciled with
each other, preserving selftruthfunesS?
We must set aside here those who cry
Peace, when there Is none. !, for one, have
lost forever my faith in those selEstyled conserv-
atives, who would rely upon putting down
agitation" That cry has been sounded for n
score Of years, and with what success any one
may see by going no farther than the House OF
Representatives. Stop agitation. So Nerxes
forbade the sea to advance; so the Ph,elic;ans
shot arrows into the clouds when a storm arose;
so an English gentleman wrole an elaborate
treatise, showing conclusiyely that the Atlantic
could never be crossed by steam, which went
out to America in the first steamer. Stop aoi-
tation Judging by late events in Kansas, one
would say it would take much more agitation
than the country has yet known, TO put down
agitation.
No. this scab of Acquiescence, which you
would bring over the sore. is not a cure. even
If you could get il; the tester would only deep
en- more treacherously, Agitation is not the
disease, but the friendly symptom which ad-
monishes of disease. Eruption and fever are
the health OF disease: q wise physician will
never wish them to cease, but by the eradica-
ton of the undying cause.
! low then II Daara L..
which is for the interest of all, to come?
/ Let st. James answer: By the 3riS5op 1rbi-k
co"1etA from ADORE, 1rhich as frSt J,ure, Thea,
/ lcdcedGte. Let every man IN the rion ONLY
/ feel assured that he stands beneath the shelter
| ing wing of his country, PURE MAN. Let men
cease 10 see the National Flag Gisgol9red bv
what they believe dishonorable and WRONG. AND
then be told they have nothing to DO with it.
when each stands with his share in the eve o.
/ God and man! Then shall that unrest. which
is the sign Of tho strong lash of Conscience,
cease. Then shall the word SLAVERY, that
| urge OF our woes, never more disorganize Con
gress, for 1t will be beyond Congress | pity
| the Northern man who finds repose whilst his
hand is binding slaves still more the Southern
man who would desire to have him find peace
| IN impurity.
| know how large a number OF GOOD men IN
the North this position viii offend Bat | am
ready to relterate that. when their personal re
/ sponsibility FOR the bondage Of man anywhere
is past, Slavery only addresses them as other
! evils. Il man cannot, of course, cease his ties
tImony against whatever is to him wrong, ex-
cept by being so far forth implicated in it. II
may, however, be emphateallv announced TO
this class, that if all they had ever thought,
SAID, or written, on this topic-abstractlv good,
as much OF 1t is-were condensed into one word,
It would be to the &C; which would have freed
them, or any one of them, from completely in
the thing. as a child's play to the great Lisbon
Earthquake. II any of them thinks that the
preservation Of the Union involves such com
plicity, let him not turn phrase-nonger, but
himself secede, and rot in prison. ere he pays
taxes or accepts advantages in his State through
which he is inevitably involved. Ne eloouence
would persuade like this. gres,t action is bv
It's divine nature irresistible great words are
good only when difficulties make them great
actions. In some way or other, nations are at
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