Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-11-07


progress At that time We bod another--l be-
heye immortal maxim. beleve the age Of
bullets is over ] believe that the age Of IDEAS
is come.
Ny idea is public opinion, Literature cducl-
ton. But some men seem TO think that our
institutions are necessarily safe because we
have free schools and cheap books, and pub.
lie opinion that controls But that is no evi~
dence Of safety India AMI China have had
schools and a school saystem almost identical
with that Of Massachusetts,, for fifteen hundred
years And books are as cheap in Central and
NoHheyn Asis as they are In New York. But
they have not secured liberty, nor secured a
controlling public opinion to either nation
/ $ pain for three centuries had municipalities
/ and town governments, as independent and
self supporting, and as representative Of thought
as New ENGLAND or New York has. But that
/ did not save Spsin. De Tocqueville says that
/ City years before the great revolution, public
opinion wss as omnipotenl IN France as it is TO.
day, but IL did not save France. You cannot
save men by machinery What India, and
I France and Spain wanted was live men, and
( snd that is W at we want to-day men who are
Ndiiuy to look th.,r own destiny, and their
ws functions, and their own responsibilities
in the face. "Gtant me to &c, and AJAX asks
no uore, was the prayer that 'ue great poet
put nto the lips OF his hero in The dA shess tnat
overs 'reqd the Greclan camp. All we 'ahJ OF
Amerlc an citizens is the opening OF their o, ~n
eyes and seeing things as they are. And you
see the great Commonwealth OF Virginia, ftly
represented by pyramid standing upon its
apex A Connecticut born man entered at one
corner OF her domnions and fixed his cold grey
eve upon the government OF Virginia. and nearly
ydnquished it by his very gaze For it seems
that Virginia asked to lcavs "to be-" of John
/ Brown at Harper Ferry. (CheeIs aud ap>
/ plause) Connecticut has sent out many a
school master to the other thirty States; but
/ she never has cent one out before as she has
/ seat that Lichfeld born school master to Har-
I per's Ferry, to write upon the Natural Bridge,
| IN The lace of nations, his copy book; 'Resis
tance 70 tyrants is obedience to God" cloud
cheers.
INsURREcToN THE LESSON or THE HOUR.
said that the lesson Of the hour was insur.
rcctiOn. | ought not to apply that word to John
! Brown of Ossawatomlo, Tor there was no insur-
rec'lon in his case. 1t is a great mistake TO
call him an insurgent. The principle that have
| endeayorod SO briefly to open to you, of absolute
right and wrong, states what "Uommon nwealth
no civil society, there is no government
OF Virginia. There is no such thing There Ia
that can exist, except on the basis If i'm
partial, equal submission of all its citizens, and
by the pcriO III ince of the duty of rendering equal
| Justice between man aud man. Everything
that cells itself a Government and refuses that
duty, or has not that assent, is no Government
| 1t is only pirate ship. Virginia, tic Conn
/ monweaIth OF Virginia! She Is only chronic
insurrectiou. l mean exactly what say, |
am weighing my words now. She 10 pirate
ship, and Johu Brown sails the sea a Lold High
Admiral of the Almighty, with letters OF marSuo
and reprisal against every pirate that he meets
on Gods ocean of his nineteenth century
! (Cheers and appause.J / mean literally and
exactly what ] say In Gods World there are
no mloriles, no minorties; one is a majority
You have often heard here, doubtless, and !
need not tell you the ground of morals. The
| rights of that one nlSn are as sacred as those of
J the Commonwealth Of Virginia. john Brown
has twice much right to hang Governor Wise
! as Governor Wise has to hRug him (CheeTs)
You see am talking of that absolnts essence OF
things that lives in the sight ofthe Etern Il and
the Infinite; not as men judge it in the cribbed
morals of the nnteerth century, aud the herd of
States that calls itself an empire 10 traffic in
cotton and sell slaves
John Brown began his ife-his active life, in
J Kansas The South planted that seed; il reaps
the first fruit row. People do me the honor TO
say, in some of the Western papers, that this is
trnceable TO some teachings Of mine. 1t 10 too
much honor TO such rs me. Gl ltdly, il it were
I NOV luIbOlht NhllllNy NOulu 1 t.ultu llb llultA
| of having any share in the great n oulo daring
| Of that man who flung himself against an en-
pire in behalf OF justice and liberty. 1t was not
the bravest men who fought at Saratoga end
! Yorktown in the war Ofl776 D! no; there was
| some man IN Lexington or on some village
height, that cred the signal gun that reused re.
sistance against an empire tIll then thought ir.
reestbla I his man has done the same.
Well men say, he failed Every lnan has his
Moscow. Suppose he did foil, every man meets
Ills Waterloo at last. Suppos he did fail, he
has done a great deal still, Why this is a de-
cent country to live in now. (Liughter and
chcors.) Actually, in this Sodom Of ours, seven,
teen men have been found ready to die for an
idea God be thanked, To John Brown that he
has discovered then. tCheers and applause }
| should feel some pride if ! was in Europe, in
conlossing that was an American. (Apphusr.)
| We have redccmed the long nfamy OF twenty
years Of subservisuce But look back a bit.--
Is there any thing new about this! Nothing at
all. 10 is tie natural result Of anti-siavery
teaching. For Que accept it; ] expected IT,
Why, in 1885 il was the other way Then
it was my bull that gored your OF. Then ideas
came IN conflict, and men Of violence, end men
who had not made up their minds to wait for
the slow conversion of conscience, men who
trusted ia their own right hands, men who be-
lieyed in bowie knives. Why, they sscked tho
city Of Phade phia, they made New \ ork to be
governed by mob, Boston SAW its Mayor
suppant, and kneeling to the chief Of broad
cloth in broad dayslight, IL was all on that
side.
But now things have changed. We have
been taking thirty years. Twanty years we
have talked every there, under all crcumstan-
ccs; we have been mobbed out OF great cities.
and pelted out of little ones we have been abus-
ed by great men and by little papers. [Laugh-
ter aud applause What is the resun! The
tables have been turned; it is your bull that has
gOred my OK nov.
JOHN BROw's PLACE IN HISTORY.
Take one Christian like John Brown Of Ossa
wattOmie, and he makes the whole crystallze
into right and wrong aud marshal themselves
on ono side or the other. And Grl makes him
the text, and ali he asks of our comparatively
cowardly lips is to preach the sermon, and say
TO the American people, that whether that old
man succeeded in a worldly sense or not he
stood representative OF law. ofgovernment. Of
right, or juttice OF religion, aud they were pi-
rates that gath red about him, and sought wreck
to veDgence by taking his life. The banks Of the
Potomac history Will visit that river more
kindly because be has gidod il with the ster
nal brightness ofhis glorious decd, than b, cause
the dust Of Washington rests upon one side Of
IL And If Virginia Iyrants dare hang him, after
this mockery OF trial, il will take two Washs
ingtons at least TO TO make the name of the
river anything but abominable 10 the ages that
como alter il. [ApPause and hisses.l Well,
say what / really think. [Cheers. cries Of
"Good," "Good " George Washington was
great man. Yet soy what ! really think.
THE PoWER oF GUILTY coNscIENcE.
The Snuth IL a graat mos ,,, ao,B,yl, l.,