Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-08-13


vertebrate animals who will bend from |
the honest truth to dodge a blow; but
" "nen, high-minded men, who know
their rights, and knowing dare main !
tain.'' ..f.f e. j
Brothers, of this Union freighted with
so many hopes and joys, is worth an
other to save it. In this awful crisis it
is the sum Of the Law and the Prophets, !
of the Old and New Testaments, The
sum and substance of them all. that
every man should en.er with all the
force that is in him into this work.
Voting rises to the sOlemnity and dignity
of prayer. Read your defences, o free
men let Mount Washington, and Quin-
cy Granite, and Plymouth Rock be
brought here in human shape, to speak
the word of death to that demon which
having enslaved three and half mill
ions of negroes, would now conquer thir-
ty millions of men with Saxon blood in
their veins. -.,.. .-.
And let it be once and for all seen
and recognized by you who love free.
dom, that the cause you have adopted
is the most sacred of all causes. 1t is
the Christianity of to day. Remember
that the system which you have been
adjured by all the ties, fraternities, men,
ories, courtesies. which ever did or did
mot exist, TO tolerate and submit to, is
one whose roots are in the lowest base
ment of mans nature /; whose trunk has
been ignorance and degradation to white
and black-causing the statistics Of Vir-
ginia to show sixty thousand white adults
to-day who cannot read or write; whose
blossoms have been slave auctions, slave
burnings, Nebraska bills, Missouri Ruff
fianism, Congressional Rufianism, fugi-
tive slave hunts. There are its bios
SONS; what the fruit shall be, God alone
knows 1t is this system which you
men Of the Free States have continually
invited to triumph and riot, and thought
that it would treat you more tenderly
than it did negro mothers and their
babes. Then the power whereby you
are at present an almost subjugated peO-
pie, is your own folly.
Dear foxes you have said with
feeling, eve wish our geese to wander
in your rich thickets, that they may
grow fat. Do not, we pray you, annoy
them. We send them out with entire
confidence that you will not molest. but
protect them" LET them come" +" say
the foxes, they shall be welcome to
our rich thickets." Then going care
lessly on week after, you find every
bramble covered with white feathers,
and slowly on your amazed perceptions
dawns the truth that, since the founda-
tions of the earth were laid, the eternal
laws of the universe, ethical and physi--
cal, have arranged that foxes shall slay
and eat geese. Slavery is no abstrac-
ton it is great black fact, 10 tell the
fearful tendencies of which no tongue has
yet been formed from the dust. You
can expect nothing of it, and remember
it is not the foxes who are blameworthy,
but those who committed their geese al
their tender mercies.
And let one other thing be remem-
bered-iti is a sad thing to say-nOJOdy
can BE trusted on tie suJject. If it were
only man that God made. he might
he voted for in the faith that he would
do right. But for every man in this
country slavery has a bribe at every
pore, and lash over all who will not
obey is behests. 1t is even in our
church, and whipped that thin-skinned
of time-servers at Chicago
into servility, dragging Unitarianism
baptized in freedom, into their maudlin
fears. feel the presence Of its great
power in this house to-day
here lurking among you, whispering
Don't stand such preaching as this /; il
you do your friends will turn away from
you, and you will be called an aboli-
.ionist." It's up here whispering to ne
If you do not stop this preaching
against slavery, it will have its cudgel
,ver your head-your friends will be
ever even than they are now Get
hee behind me, cunning devil / viii
ell on thee; 1 will say to Northern
len. "Trust none but those who are
committed to the right side in
very way pOssible-committeI in white !
nd black, by temperament, BY their
7hole lives, by all the associations and .
uIsuItS OF their lives, so that even sell
shness necessitates the right side"
l have not the least doubt from what II
have myself seen in Washington, that a
the angels Gabriel and Michael should Z
escend and be elected Senators of
rec State without the most distinct un- C
erstanding as to their course on lhis
uestion, we should find them popping Q
hampaign with the miniOns of slavery,
nd coming to the celestial faith that the i
eople of the territories should be left
perfectly free to arrange their own in
.itutions. with the single condition that .
ley should be shot and have their
ouses burnt over them, if they should t;