The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1859-12-07
theirs placed it, and there the sons should leave

does not more surely mark the path of the tor
r nado than moral prostation marks the footsteps
OF abolitiion'sm in the Ncrth. Twenty-si1
a years ago | heard Gerra Smith upon the relr-
g1ous platforms in New York. He appeared
y the most accomplished Christian gentleman in
I the whole land. lie undertook the impossible
= to alter what God had fixed. and Omnpoience
= was too strong for him. 1t will be too strong
9 for you. The mark of bondage is written up
S on the brow of the African by the finger Of ON
: nipotence--engraven there by the experience
: and practice Of four Thousand years--and it is
in vain that the waves OF excitement, which are
: but for a day. can think to wash out these ever
lasting lines. Slavery is the ParediSe Of the
t black man; he reioices in clinging TO the white
man as the ivy TO the oak as ordinary man
would welcome the society Of angels.
Well he may. His association with white
, men is the only circumstance known in his his
tory by which he has been raised to condition
!, above the beasts that perish. On the fertile
soil of his own continent, he propagates and
rots. Not one path OF civilization, not one tenn
pie Of christianity, illumnes the darkness OF
cenuries-daIk in features, more black in the
night which ages have wrapped around him.
! he ship that brought him to America was 4
star Of new day. lie exchanges the bondage
OF brutality for the silver cords Of civilization
and Christian kindness. He exultS in the
change His face is radiant with joy; and from
the lonely CABIN and the Christian temple songs
of Thanksgiving 90 up to Heaven from the lips
and hearts OF slaves redeemed from African
! heatheniSm. There is not an intelligent slave
in the South bnt finds there the happiest con-
ditIon that his race has found since the curse
was written on the brow of Ham by the finger
Of God. There he is delivered from the hca-
thensm. the cannibalism, the human sacrifices
OF his own country; there he is fee from the re.
pulsive greeting that awaits him at the North;
written Of preached about as an equal constant
! ly treated rs an alien and an inferior At the
South the theory and the practice agree. The
African is told that he belongs to an inferior
race, which is tine and meets his own deepest
consciousness, the last court o appeal as phloS-
ophers tell us, for the evidence Of what is true;
they are told that service and allegiance are the
/ duty OF the black man; protection and instruc-
ton the obligations OF the white man. So per-
ect is this feeling, so harmonious the social SyS-
TEN, grown up under it, that when meteor,
comet appeared in their horizon in the person
Of John Brown, he fell at once like a star from
heaven, and did not disturb, except hy his own
nurderous arm, the peace OF a single family, or
| the allegiance and fidelity of single slave
his Otlt ACT OllSlI W Slttdh NoIuHltS 10 luDSe
who are clamoring for the freedom OF the slave
The instincts of the bondmen are wiser than
the schemes Of the theorists. lis asks for no
Observation-Disclosures no aid.
"To he, contents his natural desire"--to I've
the approved servant Of his master, accomplish
es his highest ambition. | speak of the great
masses of them. That there are individuals
that crave an impossible good--somethjng not
TO be found in tins world--is very likely; hut,
as body OF people, they are as nearly satisfied
as the same number anywhere upon the face of
the globe. Why should we travail IN perpetual
pain in their tehalf? But we are told that the
South are forever getting the best Of it in the
national government, and that the South ought
to be put down--negro or no negro white or
black. Now pray look at it, think Of it, con-
slider for moment ask the pages ofhistory and
they will teach YOU For eighty years have we
not had the best government on earth, prosper.
ed as nation never p,ospered before, spread
abroad, multiplied and built cities; subdued The
wilderness; conquered the savage; bridged The |
rivers, made water and earth and air and fire, |
tributary to our wants as no people ever did be-
fore? All the time have we not dwelt securely |
hv our own rock or under our own elm?- |
Which Of your sons or daughters has been op. |
pressed? which Of them has set foot upon a |
foreign shore and has not found the American
name shield and protection? And yet, Of all
the long line of sages that have presided over
the destnies of the nation--rom the Apostle
Jefferson to the Patriarch Bnchanan-which Of
them have not New England men in large num-
hers, and Massachusetts, as a State, as major
itv, almost uniformly and persistenty abused?
Has it become disease; is it chronic; is there
no medicine that can reach it? Will this mad
ness drive her tc fatal end; must the nation
be plunged down the precpice Of civil war;
With YOU jefferson was a Jacohin and an inf
del; Madison. at whose death John Quincy
Adams sad "a spirit went up to heaven as pure
as the Seraphm which he joined" ret be was
commended "to the Island Of Elba or halter;"
jackson was tyrant and a usurper; Van Bu-
rem was full of cunning and deceit; Tyler was
a traitor; Mr. Fillmore sold himself to the
South; Mr.. Pierce carried war and bloodshed
into peaceful Territories; and Mr. Buchanan,
whose last pusaton Of lie will be wish and
a prayer for the welfare of his whole country
he is border rutfian, and guilty of the blood
and crimes Of John Brown. Now does history
anywhere picture the acts and motives Of these
men as they are made TO appear to you? Have
not the very winds and air around you been
poisoned by the breath of SANDER?
II, in matter so grave and important, ma
terial considerations, selfish interests can have
any weight they are numerous, urgent and
pressing. United all these interests harmonic
and assist each other. Your kecls have carried
the greater part Of the one hundred and sixty
millions of cotton furnished by the South du-
ring the last year. They have drawn supplies
of manu- 'actured articles from almost every vii
lage in New England How long will they buy
OF those WHO contribute spears for the hands OF
T. 4 4 |
not to do it, and we ought no longer to put
their forbearance to the test. And now, my
friends, thst most Of you are sincere in what
you have done and said on this subject, have
no doubt; but you are mistaken, your zeal is
and your sympathy thrown away
The most enormous wrongs have been commit
ted and the most terrible calamitles brought
upon communities by honest but mistaken men.
God Furnishes men for ther folles no less than
for theircrmes. The fire kindled by the hand
of the maniac burns as furously as ifset by the
most artiul incendiary Our country Giuded,
this spot the central spot Of ruin for contendipg
Sta es have you ever thought how on that day
the sun would be veed in darkness, and the
moon would be changed into blood, and the stars
would lose their brightness, and the earth w0d
seem to tremble under our feet, and the fields
" oud lose all their beauty, and all the ties. OF {
nature would be forgotten, and the whole being
Of every man or woman that has soul would t
je absorbed in one eonvusivc pulsaiion of an
gush? We should no longer have Washington {
for our iathrr, no., the ground around his grave i
TO be pressed by troops Of pilgrim feet. c
There is sorrow at the grave Of o frst-bcrn, '
,ngnish in the house that weepS parent dead t
remember the touching amentation of that j
ardent and impas ioned nature, Edmund Burke, O
wien he mOurned ali only son, the htir Of hi a
house and his name. You have all heard the :
wall of the King of ISRAEL at the death of C
rc bel SON hnt no such snrroM is ever ftl for 1he