Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1856-08-21

oes 'hee behind me, cunning Devil. l pill
: tell Un thee. will say TO northern men.
. Trust none but those who are distinctly con-
3 mitted 70 the right side in every way possible,
8 -eOmmisted in whiIe and black BY tempera-
t ment. By their whole lives, By all the assOci.
stiOOs aud pursuits Of their lives. 80 that even
J sel6shness Deeessitales the right side"
q have not the least doubt from what have
: myself seen in Washington. that il the angels
! Gabriel and Michael should descend and be e.
lecsed ssnstOrs Ofa free State without the most
distinct understanding a. % their course on this
question, We would find them popping cham
Psgus with the miulOns Of slavery. and com
ing to the celestial faith that the people of the
territories should be leit perfectly free" to ar.
range their own institutions. with the single
condition that they should be shot and have
their houses burnt over them. il they should so
arrange them as not 10 suit the south. l be-
lieve il would be unsafe TO trust any Of the
hsigherarchy so long as any question was un-
ausWered.
oh, thou slave king thy days are nearly
numbered. Weighed art thou in the balance
and found wanting. Thanks TO the dear God.
every free soul in this land has heard on the
west wind the burden Of the olden prophecy
-"Arise. for this matter belOngeth unto thee:
be of good courage and do it." Let the full
fact burst upon US that S5O,ONO men, the en-
tire number Of shareholders, are keeping thirty
millions in deadly commotion aud feud fast
leading to civil war; that one more inch Of U.
States territory given TO slavery implies that
every man, woman and child in the north is
slave; that the prO-slavery representation Of
Kansas, which is slarger than all New England,
would, should il be admitted, checkmate all
the anti-slavery pOwerin Congress for Eve cen-
tuties, and make the Union absolutely intoler.
able. Let each man feel that his personal
manhood is involved, and that crawling in the
dust is NO! living. Whatever be our occupa-
ton let us strike the task and join to save the
State. Let the artist see that he cannot be So
good an artist nSr 6nd so much patronage as
If this vas settled. Let the farmer see that Ia.
Dor is degraded and agriculture clogged. Let
the man Of letters see that the special faculty
is mixed and MANNED by these inlaid spirits Of
duty whose clamor drowus ell other Spirits
Let the morAlist see that it is the fountain OF
public and private corruption: that in it the
olden prophecy is fulfilled, "becauss iuiouity
doth abound the love of many shall wax cold.
Thus each man, approaching the fact from his
own Office, by his own door, shall find that, as
the form Of man cannot be found on the same
geologic plan with the vast extinct monsters
which needed primeval marshes for THEN ele.
ment, SO the highest spiritual manhood canno,
cOexst with this dragon, poisoning the air.
Thus has the Iufnite Father of African and
Caucasian. made il one cause with them. ri
the North should consent to slavery extern
,iOn, II would nOw forfeit not only all nobility,
which many could yield because they have
none. but ali their interests, which they cannot
yield. Every spirit which can be reused az ains
it 10 now reused. Nature is now in labor with
millions of human hearts which shall be sent
on earth to cry to this guilt-Ansthems, Mar
anathal We ill live in IA diffelent country Of
that OF six weeks ago. trust we have all IN.
dergons the birth adapted to the new condi-
tion. What is the praise or blame when it S
unfolded all we are born to be or do?
One thingi is now forever settled, that the
subject is to be definitely dealt with. III up
now and cannot be put down by any power,
nor postponed. Henceforth no freeman iS ev-
er going to be quiet. 1t is idle TO think of it,
60 to Mary as she sits beneath the Cross where
on her only son hangs. with Eve ghsslly
wounds. and bid her calm her grief. Never
till she sees him arise from the tomb shall she
be calmed. So We. sitting here under the very
shadow of the cross where Freedom hangs
cruci6ed, with those FIVE bleeding wounds
which the last ten years bave given, in each Of
which is tongue Of tire-hOW shall we be qui |
eted? It cannot be! Not until the resurrsC.
ton morn of Freedom rises on our land shall
we cease to weep and pray and work end watch
by the sspulchre. Already. oh my brothers,
l hear the Autter Of the angels wings as he
comes to roll away the stone and bresk the
seal Of the slave power.
Let US all be ready, standing, awaiting the
victory Of God. The mountain is indeed high |
and strong ;our strength is small our might
weakness. But if each one surrenders himself
this day and heuceforth to be the passive in
strument of the best instinct striving in him.
his scts will cease to be the work Of mere
man and rise to the grandeur and influence Of
direct acls Of God. Each one can be now
workman for Csd, bis visible 6nger entering
ouJ -.o,ld;no, tha sffaira of man. / hesAaeh |