Freeman's champion., 1857-08-06
[FOr the Freemep's Champion j
One Here.

Ghad a large, braye,h heart, strong arm
&to endure suffering, to defend the right
1when danger was near? Did you
ever. hear, read, or ever see wrongs,
darker than the darkness which ma
ture gives to night, and think, aye
. know, you were powerless because q
woman? Have you not often been
surprised to see men shrink from q
new enterprise or reform, merely be-
cause it had not yet become popular? =?
Did you not then wish to take his
place, press onward and upward? l
hear your response, you have wish
.ed it with me. But do not let us
think because we are women we can
dnot do anything that we must sit and
look on during the strife and danger,
with our hands folded. No, fer we
can do something. Let ITS calculate.
Besides our household duties, can we
not spare a few hours each week, to
teach those who have been less favor
ed than ourselves, teach them to
read and write their own name if
nothing more this done, they will
not pause there is more before
them; they wish to feast on what
they have only tasted. Teach them
there is a God who looks upon and
Judges the deeds of men a heaven
w Father who sees the slave holder
and slave and shall judge between
them. He will look and weep as the
slave master breaks tendril after ten
drill that has reached out from the
slave mothers heart, to the loved
ones she bore, to the father OF her
children. He will gather in his hand
the blood drops that trickle from the
wound of the lash, to be witness in
the last great day--the master and his
victim will be there. He will re-
member who directed the blow that
has murdered so many Of the human
family-who planted within so many
human hearts bone which poisoned
all that was good and noble, which
caused them to curse their being, and
wonder why they were placed here
no one loves them. o, slave master,
of what have you been so long think
ing? Are you an intelligent being
and k,sow there is a GOdS Vengeance
is mine, saith the Lord, and l will
repay" Deceive not yourselves
Listen to your own conscience which
would fain lead you from evil
Learn from the bible-not as your
ministers would teach you, for they
are soothing a troubled conscience
but as you have never heard or thought
before; when you are learned, you
will not object to those in your power
drinking from the same we'll. Stain nc
more of the fair fields on Gods foot
stool with slavery. You know it ii
wrong, for deep in the heart, beneath
the callous of ignorance and long
habit, is a germ Of goodness, which
will not long be concealed. "None
are oil evil" you, we cannot except
Try to erase from the world sucf
horrid brutality, and you will fine
"one here" who will help and en-
courage you, zone here" who will aic
you in poverty, sickness and distress
zone here" who will be q friend t.
the friendless, while life shall be Civ
On. But on the other hand, if yo'
try rather to extend this great evil
there will be enemies here, "on
here" with hosts of others, who will
try to defeat your plans, lone here
who will try to educate the poor be
ings of your power, fearless of afte
consequences, that they may read tn
bible, which will be liberty yo'
yourselves will not have. We shal
all try to limit to its present bound
that, if no other way, it may die Q
itself. Think Of these things, men Q
reason. WILHEMNA.
PHUNIx, N. Y.
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says: Within the last ten days re