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upon US; with the blood Of seven hundred mer
crying to us. pause; with the wailings Of beres
we'd women and children filing the air. this na.
iiOn is going steadily toward war. which,
should it come, will be the darkest. deadliest
and most awful which ever cursed this planet
all other war yields to civil war in terror. i
one comes, and il seems inevitable where two
sections have lost the last Vestige Of respect fOr
each other, ten generations will scarcely see il
concluded. Read the histories OF civil wars
No young man ever gloWed with enthusiasm
over them, as over great national encounters
They turn the heart sick.
Whilst these fresh red drops are falling lei
every man who will stand by the Prince Of
Peace, unfurl that holy banner and stand by il
forever. Were Christ on earth there would
he be found standing. ...
OF course it would be a waste Of breath to
appeal TO slavery for peace. As well appeal to
the fang of the serpent not to strike, as to that
poisoned fang Of hell, Human Slavery, not to
send, by any means il can command, its dead
virus into the fresh young blood Of Freedom. -.
Why should We expect this monster to change
its instincts? Can leopard change its spotsl-
Is there anything incompatible in buying and
selling men and women, made in the image Of
God, on the block, and violation Of the most
sacred cOmpacts? Is it anything wonderful.
when tearing babes from their mothers, hus-
bands from their wives scenes which passed
my unconscious ctildhCCd as an amazing pan
Drama OF the Pit, to raise within me at last,
thank God, hatred Of slavery which shall
never cease save with the last heart throb ne
yer, till this tongue is dust again. Is it, l ak
anything wonderful, when all this, 10 the South,
becomes. in Kansas. murder, robbery and ar
son? Is there anything unnatural when OF
preston and brutality toward the weak and
hrl pless in Carolina, become dastardly and
cowardly assassination Of the unfore warned and
defenceless in Washington? Nothing unnatu
raj, say the South in endorsing those lnen who
have worTed their way into power by the very
slime they secrete, and ule il to lift themselves
on the happiness of millions. Nothing, they
repeat in universal representative sanction Of
crime which would have been scratch, but
for their sane ion, which makes the word Union
satire, and virtually says to half the men in
:his land. "1here is no point of honor between
us. The lowest white Southerner must be for
warned and challenged or the assailant loses
cast forever. But you Northerners shall be
beaten as We beat dogs; we do not forewaru
our dogs when we brat them"
L'ing in the midst of slavery, have ever
felt that il was di,honest and wrong that the
Nor hern men should rot know how we are
lraned to despise Yankees as worse than any
thing else; how it is nearly proVerb that
there is no gentlemen North Of Mason and
Dixon's line. Gutta percha is very honest at
any rate, and places the matter frankly before
the freemen Of this country. Il we'll il even
the devils bt come honest, real devils, and con-
ceal nothing in their hearts.
No, make no appeal to slavery to bring us
peace. 1t would be hyp1crite to do so,-and
hyrocracy is worse than war; but on you, free
men and friends Of Humanity, call to lend all
your efforts for peace; to stand and shed your
blood, if need be. for peace.
True, not the most infinitely small atom of
principle must he conceded for peace. Better
this counIay should sink beneath an ocean of
blood, than one of the rights of Humanity be
surrendered. than the supreme law of Justice
10 all men fall. But for these strive to fight
through all the forms Of peace" knowing that
The success Of your cause depends on standing
on your ground even to death, not on your o.
the man who opposed it, He is
nothing and can do nothing against your cause
If it is right. s.F . u.
It would be sad deplorable victory, worse
than any it ever got--if the barbarous code Of
1uelng should be consented to as the true one
10 settle the dispute Of sections or men. The
boar selects tushes, the bee sting. .r .s.
"Its proper power to hurt each
Creature feels, ..
Bulls use their horns and rr
LII. Asses lift their heels"
Slavery takes naturally to bludgeOnS or Pis-
tolls. Freedom should as naturally take to
reason, truth Of thought, speech and act, and
that courage, not animal, which can bravely
stand for God and Right, and be shot down, il
that is the thing to be done. ....E
But must We not resist an assault; it is in.
qured. It is never right deliberately to pre-
pare for it, and il resistance should be The best
thing, when the moment comes instruction and
strength will flow from God and nature; then
your resistance will be as healthy as the inevi-
tohlo l;,-Lt.s.0 Taava Il to natf ro 1Hha "a