The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-24

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ing senators think Of your John Brown aud
his deeds excite only regret and condemnation" among
republicans Brown, Iverson, Mason, and all the Sena
tors from the South Justly trembe for themselves their
wives and their children They frankly declare to you
and TO the nation aud agony They say the
Sc doing seeks 10 incte iasurreoton, rebellion and
among their slaves II Is true. Their fears are
Wen s I0unasu shall JuSs. upon them IA way they
dream not of, surely will, and deluGc their homes
and their plantations with blood unless they escape
by repentance and emancipation Why should you seek
TO quiet their guilty and awakened terrorsy
The masses Of tho North are in sympathy with Brown
and his deeds. In State this true than in that
which you represent In no place in the State ia that
sympathy vital than IN your own immediate nesh'
Sorhsoa as your sp b there had only tended 70
Millions in the North rejoice thai tho Shareholders in
Congress bring you and all your associates In politics to
this test e. Is resistance TO elaveholders the right
and duty Of the slaves and Of the Northy Will you and
your fellow republicans help to kill the slaves they at
against the rape rapine, robbery and murder perpe
trsted on them daily BY their masters or viii you side
s and me Henry WsoU
Charles Sumner viii never cay be was
Shareholders may well turn pale with terror As LIVER
csno." They Know they deserve death, on their own
showing, the hands Of their slaves They feel hourly,
hearts and his torch a. their dwellings, and their wives
and daughters outraged BY those whoee wives and daugh
tors, mothers and sisters they themselves have r..
into brues and chates they must abide the results OF
their inhuman deeds Their reward and terrible
The bayonets Of the North will not much longer defend
them would that you and your associates In Congress
true to liberty "a the South to slavery that you
sance 70 slavery as they do % liberty Then
this irrepressibe conflict would soon be ended; and
the Higher Law be the only rule Of action in Congress-
as well a. out Of IL. For the constitution and the
enactments OF Congress but 80 much blank paper
and will be set al nousht as such, when they are
slaves 70 escape from slavery, and upon the North
to ince and help them to escape. this be trea-
son-as PROFESSIONALLY is-aganst the lower law a0d
you and your fellow republicans undertake to hang ali
such traitors as you say you will rest assured you will
have enough to do You must indeed, become com
Judged the stand point of the religion and govern
ment Of this nation the design Of John Brown found
with consumnate skill and unriyaled herosm, in
tegry and selfforgetfuness. His Life q complete
success his death unparalleled and most honorable
triumph He sought to the soul of this nation,
the intellect the conscience, the sympathy WILL
state Of resistance, rebellion nsurrecon against slave
holders, and against every law, constitution, Bible
religion that sanctions and susains them in turning
men, women and children into beasts and chaes. he
sought to accomplish this chief end Of his existence by
running of slaves or by death. He has trumphed by
the gallows. The blood Of John Brown appeals TO God
and humanity against shareholders and their conederaes
the civilized world will respond, in defiant shout
" Resistance TO shareholders Is obedience to Godp'
HENRY G. WRIGHT
LETTER TO VIM. LLOYD GARRISON,
SHAREHOLDERS.
BOSTON Dee IL, 1859.
DEAR GARRsoSI use the words resistance, rebellion,
and instruction because these alone can truly express
those mental social and moral conditions which God and
humanity enjoin in regard TO Shareholders
Thirty wears aso tn. entire North in its domestic
social, religious, political, commercial and military life,
was in the same state of AFFECT subservency to slave
power to resist them, but actually to feel honored that
slave breeders and slave cachers counted them worthy
to do their work Of shame and infamy The very life Of
their souls to resist seemed TO have become extinct So
instruction against them concerned. the nation
was dead and buried in an gnomnious grave of servne
You sounded the tocsn Of nsurrecton and reyo.
luton against Shareholders, and all that sustain them In
the name Of God and humanity, you proclaimed war
said that you would be heard that you would not YIELD
that you would back; that you or slavery
aOna asoon What wss s the rst work. u9S0hd To-
be dones To arouse the people Of the North,
and place them in attitude Of instruction against
Shareholders in thought feeling word and deed TO in
cite them to rreconciable hostility to the highest kind
OF theft e. man stealing" and to the injustice rob-
berry, rape and rapne inherent in slavery The reason
conscience moral and social and will Of the North
were TO be quckened and brought into state Of mexor
The people Of the North in the family and social circle in
the church, at the ballot box, in the market, and in
all places where they think their right and duty TO live,
be made to regard and treat Shareholders they
do burglars thieves robbers murderers midnight
sins and ravhers Of helpless innocence and to feel that
light or 70 live Ia his universe; that shareholders,
they have rights which any is bound to respect
This the first work to be done By appeals to rea
SON. conscience pity and sympathy, made through the
press and the living lecturer and speaker despite the
efforts Of the Church and State TO ul their souls TO quiet
ness, life infused into multtudes In behalf Of the
slave.
You called the people OF the North to grid the
Of God against Shareholders Resistance, rebellion
nsnrrecon against them, and all that sustains them in
sentiment in principle in SPIRIT word and deed, was the
watchword OF The anti slavery movement. Insurrecon
in vary mo .
was christened- anti slavery. An anti slavery sou
and an anti slavery life to be created 10 the North
which meant soul and life, interior and exterior
life rebeious and insurrectonary against Shareholders
The souls Of the Northern people be aroused
las they had ever done and to Yield up reason and
science and all their sympathy and all their powers Of
soul and body to the slaves against their easavers Two
positions were established l. That it is the right and
duty OF the ensayed and the free resist all attempts
hold and use human beings chattes. q That il is our
right and duty to use all such to free the slaves
we would use to free ourselves, if we were slaves.
These two positions were, and have been to this day
maintained by you, by Adm Balou, by Wendell Phillips
and by all abolitiouists.
Let the North cut loose from their bloody alliance with
Shareholders, initiate John Brown, and form league o.
offence and defence with the slaves against their ensavers
Let them do in defence Of freedom to the slaves whatever
they would do in defence of their freedom Let thu
North use all their power TO give liberty TO the slaves
which they would use TO secure freedom 70 themselves
freedom 70 themselves let them the weapons
give freedom to the slaves OF virginia.
God and humanity call the slaves of the South and tn
people Of the North TO nsurrecton and treason against
power satanic in spirit, and rapacous, so ibdi
nous, malignant and murderous in practice. Insured
ton Of soul against shareholders the right and duty
slaves and Of the Norththis is the first STEP then thu
means of resistance to bel suchi only would
in our own behalf were we slaves
The Shareholders have hung John Brown. Let them b.
assured there of thousands of John Browns nov
lowering on the confines of slavery ready
scatter themselves over all the South, incite slaves
insurrecton against their masters and to guide them
their TO Canada bidding defiance to Shareholders AM
all sayehoding and slave catching constitutions Jaws
being ready to meet tie alternative Of STAKEHOLDER,
gaows. That instrument Of has lest It's terrors
is the right and duty Of slaves gain and defend
freedom II Is the right and duty of the people OF thu
North TO incite and help them to freedom This be
coming paramount duty in the estimation Of thousands
and Of the Shareholders wrath and vengcanc
win prevent them from doing it.
HENRY G. WRIGHT
SPEECH OF HON. HENRY WILSON,
AT AN ANTI SLAVERY FESTIVAL, HELD IN COOHITU
ATE HALL BOSTON, ON THE EVENING OF JANUAR,
"a, 1861, TO CELEBRATE THE COMPLETION OF TIL