San Andreas independent., 1857-12-26
Eloquent Appeal.

And their small experience.
Eloquent Appeal.
The following is the conclusion of Mr..
Caleb Cushings eloquent speech, lately
delivered at Feneuil Hall, in Boston:
Merchants of Massachusetts, with your
superb galleons, from the shipyards of
East Boston and Newburyport, moving
over the sea in the pride of their beauty
and strength, freighted with the rich ag-
ricultural productions of Carolina and
Louisiana, you have been told here that
your interests are in conflict with those
of the South Manufacturers of Massa-
chusetts. you, with your palatial manu-
factories to weave into apparel, for the
worlds wear, the agricultural productions
of Georgia and Alabama, have been told
here that you must surrender yourselves
to the evilspirit of jealousy of the South
Citizens of Massachusetts and especi-
ally you of the industrial classes. who
wear the cotton, eat the corn and sugar,
and drink the coffee of slave labor, and
who provide objects of art for the use
Of slave labor, and of those who own it
you also have been told that slave labor is
the irreconcilable antagonist of free labor,
and that therefore, leaving all other
things, you must betake yourself to ha-
ting the South, with sworn hatred, like
that of Hannibal for Rome Men of Mas
sachusetts. you are exhorted to cultivate
amicable relations with Cuba-slave colo
ny though it be-to supply it with lum-
Der, food, and other objects of value, and
to buy and consume its products, and
thus to sustain and perpetuate slave labor
there, and love slave owners, while you
are called upon to sacrifice the peace and
honor of the State, and dedicate yourself,
from reprobation of slave labor, to un-
ceasing hostility against your own coun-
trymen of the southern States.
When [ hear such counsels darkly in
timated. under specious disguise of speech,
to the State of Massachusetts,, it seems to
me that the first Temrter, as depicted by
Milton, is before my eyes
Close at the ear of Eve,
Assaying by his deyilsh art to reach
The organs of her fancy, and with them forge
Illusions, as he list, phantasms and dreams !;
Or if, inspiring venom, he might taint
The animal spirits that from pure blood arise,
Like gentle breaths from rivers pure thence
raise
At least distempered, discontented thoughts,
Vain hopes, vain aims, inordnate desires,
Blown up with high conceits engendcring
pride.
My friends, to dispel such mischievous
inspirations, it needs but the lightest
touch of Ithuriel's spear of truth
| say down, down to the Internal pit
where they belong, with all these derelict
inspirations of malice, hatred, and un-
charitablenessl You, the people of Mas
sachusetts, do not, in the inner chamber
of your heart, approve, and will not, on
consideration, adopt this abominable the
ory of sectional spite and hate. You will,
in the end, if not to-day, repel that policy
with scorn and horror. Before that time
of sober judgment comes, |, who stand
up for. the Union, in its letter and spirit
who will die in the breach rather than
" let it slide"-I may be struck down by
the tempest of party passion, but others,
better and more fortunate, will rise ur to
fill the gap in the ranks of the sacred pha-
lanx of the soldieas of the Constitution
Man is feeble, mortal, transient; but our
country is powerful, immortal, eternal
In the long ages of glory which lie be-
fore us rolling onward, one after another,
like the ceaseless rote of the surging
waters on the sea shore, wave upon wave
rushing on to fill the place of that which
sinks into the main, generations of men
will come and 60, with their joys and sor-
rows, their aspirations and disappoint-
ments, their conflicts and their reconcile
ations Then it will be seen that he who
was the highest had been but an atom of
of the great whole, and he who was hum
blest had been as much. We are alike
in the hands of the Almighty, and but
the instruments of his will in the doing
of the great work commenced by our fore
fathers at jamestown and Plymouth, con-
tinued by them at Saratoga and York
town, carried on by us at Monterey and
Mexico-the great work of reducing to
cultivation and civilization the sayanahs
and forests of our country. Massachu-
setts, once the banner State of the Union,
will not be found backward, at the hour
of need, in performing her appointed part
of that great work of the Lord God in the
New World.
@There is nothing certain in law
excent expepse and delay.