American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-07-15

you more thah the rest. and that in fact
these boys are as tree as any children in
the State. Others again of you are placed
occasionally under severe restaint, and
some ar even once and while locked up.
Does not this teach you that moral which
am now trying TO demonstrate TO you.
that restrsints increase upon you or fall
away from you Just as you show them 10
he unnecessary! In other words, that
you ara always free to Il e precise degree
to which yol deserve to be. Your viii
made you uufr,e. our win can make you
ire. $50
Suppose were now. on this day OF In
dependence, to announce TO you. as by law
ihave the power TO do. that you are free,
and that you may 60 hence unmelestod?
I see how the very thought works upon
your feelings, and how your harris leap Tor
Joy at The very idea, au1 Row you would
take it AS the greatest of boOns! But, re-
feet! Would it really he giving you free
dom? would il be more tfsna mo- kerry?
Send you out iuio tlat world where yuu
came 10 US as bruised reedsi Did you
tlers- find liteEty? Not Would you there
6nd 1t? No! Why not? Because you were
not, and are not good. Do not deceive
yourselYesi The world is as it was to all
Of you, who are unrelcrmed, and to those
only will it be Otherwise. whom 90 home
carrying their freedom, their virtue and
their happiness with them. Some very
few of yCu have telt tempted to escape
from this institution. and the great stimu-
LIANT was false desire for freedom. Vain
have been your attempts. Vain foolish
and empty Of freedom, would you have
fcurd them yourselves. ifthey had sue
ceede1, and hence the voluntary return o
$ ms. When you run from here you rur
from us. bnt you tnk- yourself a'ong, you
heads and your minds. and in them lie:
y urservilude. There is no way for yo,
to regain your liberty, except by leavins
lere that vi ious hoy who rame here will
you. and ly taking away with you anoth
er boy. one free from vice and had labits
Let me assure you, as yon know me to b
Your friend, and AZ | value this your con
6dence in nie-bad men and lad boy
6nd in the world at large, however Ir'ce the.
may appear 10 BE-. or call themselves. nj
difficulties; obs aclps, chains, jais and pun
: ishmruls, and real H. erty is I und in th
soriety only BY the tu.ly good. You
road TO freedom aad independence lies i
your reformation. and as long as yon loo
= Tor liberty through the liberty 10 do wroni
just SO long you are unfrco. You may b
free Iere, any time you wishit The rule
provide for your honorable discharge b
your being three months consecntiveiy i
, the Class 81 Honor, and having thus prov
, cd yourself reformed, be eeiedeed. b.
assertyou may te free here, within
month. nay; any week. a day. nowl TIL
: idoa startles YOU. mean all say. Lit
; erty Is always near youl Independence
always within your grasp. You wish
know how? Simply by being god s.
Paul was free in prison! Your countr
was free before it declared itself lndep I
dent. 81 you my. bs free at once. nov
and wi hin this very institution. ifyou wi
declare yourself indipendent and be il, to
. Of your sins and evil habits. You can b
! free here as wrll as elsewhere. Many G
, you are 50 in great degree. Escfew the
the liberty TO do wrong and cling 10 th
, other real liberty, the liberty to do rghI
! Let the indlpeu lence day OF our nation b
TO you an indip, ndence day individually
e by abjurinG your errors and wrongs. W
j. can he free only nationally. ty being lre
o individually, and no individual can be IRE
8 until he is virtuous. Virtue then is th
+. work upon which liberty rests; may 20
and all OF us establi,h our independents
!. upon it; and then indeel it will eudure fo
I ever.