Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1859-11-11
Sl,5O A YEAR IN ADVANCE

weak
The shot II at struck the child's heart
crazed the fathers brain. Revolyin:
his wrongs, and nursing his hatred o
that deadly system that breeds such cor
tempt of justice and humanity, at lengll
his phantoms assume slender form, ,ane
organize such an enterprise as one nigh
expect from man whom grief had be
rcft of good judgment. lie goes to thu
heart of slave State. One man ant
sixteen followers he seizes two thou
sand brave Virginians and holds then
in duress.
When a great State attacked hand
ful of weak colonists, the Government
and nation were torpid, but when seven
teen men attacked sovereign State
then Maryland arms, and Virginia aims
anl the United States Government arms
and they three rush against seventeen
men.
Travellers tell us that the Geysers o.
Icelanl-thosc singular boiling springs
of the North-may be transport | with
fury by plucking up a handful grass
or turf, and throwing it into the springs
The hot springs of Virginia are of the
same kind a handful of men was
thrown into them, and what boiling
there has been.
But, meanwhile, no one can iall to
see that this poor, child berett ola man,
is the manifest of them all. Bold, un-
| hnchinr, honest, without deceit or
dodge, refusing to take technical advan-
tages of any sort /; but openly avowing
his principles and motives, slorying in
them, in danger and death, as much as
when in security that wounded old
father is the most remarkable figure in
this whole drama. The Governor, the
officers of the State, and all the attorneys
are pigmles compared to him.
deplore his misfortunes. l sympa-
thize with his SORROWS. | mourn the
hiding or obsclrity Of his reason. l
disapprove Of his mad and feeble schemes.
shrink from the folly Of the bloody
fora;, and | shrink, likewise, from all
the anricipations Of that judiclal blood
shed which, doubtless, ere long, will
tollow-tor when was cowardice ever
magnanimous They will kill the man,
not Tor treason, but for proving them
coWarls
By-lnd by, when men look back and
see without prejudice that whole scene,
they viii not be able to avoid saying ::
'W hat must be the measure of MN
hood where a crazel old man stood
head and shoulders above those who
nau Luull MHule Ioa,o. Whit ie vnr-
age citizenship when a luzatic is a he
70 :"
One word more, and that is to the
insecurity of those States that carry
owLer as their chief cargo. Do you
suppose that if tidinss had come to New
York that the United States Armory in
Spring field had boen seized by seventeen
men, New Haven, and Hartford and
Stanford, and Worcester, and New York
and Boston and Albany, would have
been thrown into fever and panic in
Consequence of the event : We scarce
ly should have read the papers to see
what became of It. We should have
thought that it was matter which the
Springfield people could manage. The
1 thought Of danger would not have en-.
tered into eur neads. There would not
have been any danger. But in State
where there is such inhammable stuff as
Slavery, there is danger, and the people
ofrho South know it and they cannot
help it. | do not blame them 50 mach
/ for being atraid-there is cause for fear
where they have such a population as
| they have down to the bottom CT society
But what must be the nature OF State
and domestic institutions which keel
brave men at the point Of fear all thcll
life long
do not propose, at this time, to ox
press my opinion upon the genera sub
cct Of Slavery. l have elsewhere, anc
often, deliberately uttered my testimony
Reflection and experience only confirm
my Judgment of It's immeasurable evils
1t IS double-edged evil, that cuts bott
ways, woundins master and slave; pes
to good morals consumption OF thu
industrial virtues; burden upon society
in its commercial and whole economi'
arrangements; political anomaly,
Nuisance, ana cause of inevitable deg
relation in religious ideas, feelings an'
institutions. All other causes Of trlc
ton, put together, derived from the weak
ness or the wickedness OF men, are no
half SO mischievous to our land as is thl
gigantic evil.
Blu. it exists in our land with broa
spread, and long continued hold. Th
extent of our duties toward the slave an
toward the master, is another ana sep
arate question. Our views upon the ma
turc OF Slavery may be right, and ou
views of our duty towards it may b
wrong. At this time it is peculiarly ne
cessary that all good men should be dl
vinely led to act with prudence and el
ficient wisdom.
Because it is great sin, because it
q national curse, it does not follow tina
we have right to say anything that W
may happen to please. We certalni
have no right to attack it in any mannc
that will crafty mems fancles or pas
sjons. 1t is computed that there ar
four millions colored slaves in our NJ
ton. These dwell in fifteen dlHeren
Southern States, with a population
ten million whites. These sovercig
States are uni ted to us, not by any fec
oral lioament, but by vital interests, b