The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-24
The Irrepressible Conflict and the
Higher Law.
By William Lloyd Garrison, at Music Hall,
Boston.

From the Boston Atlas and Bee Dec. 22l
The lecture last evening, In the Fraternity Course
Li~usv The night Of the most dismal imagina-
able but the good people who attend this Of lee
ars are S Of large share Q. od Tsuonc
therefore, much fuller than would have been antici
paed BY one not aware Of element in the charac
ter Of the ticket holders and the lecturer welcomed
in the most cheering he came upon the plat
FORM he said
LAnns AND GxSrtKxxx-The night is dark Indictment.
tempesuous-atly symbolizing the state Of the moral
and political elements in land at the present time By
your presence under these circumstances shall take
for granted that you just what the times demandn
domitable and storm proof
There is nothing beneath the stars so potential as
weak and worthless The same words from the lbs Of
one man shall be empty as the whising wind; from the
lips Of another they shall be LIKE cannon balls and bomb
When Paul. eighteen hundred years ago. stood up in the
face Of bis prosecutors and said 81 am determined to
know nothing among you Christ and him crucifedn
it q sublime expression Of moral heroism. But, as
repeated from Sunday to Sunday in our American pupts
the words almost unmeaning. When Daniel O'Con-
nell stood up Exeter Hall, London, in the presence Of
six thousand people, and sad in reply to the demand of
the shareholders that there be slence-why tell
the American STAKEHOLDER tina. he shall not have silence
for humble as am, and feeble as my voice may be- 1t
shall reach the rivers and lakes and glens Of America
telling the negro that the time for emancipation has come
and the oppressor that the period Of his injustice about
to terminate, Pit was more than the simultaneous dis
charge Of all the cannon at Woolwich.
There is nothing that tyranny breads so much as
speech-the speech Of an honest, manly freedom loving
soul 1t may dread Sharpes rifles, may dread cannon
balls and bombshels but IL can match all these but
free speech in behalf Of the truth and Of the rights Of
what tyrant the face Of the earth meet match
it Therefore is that in France Louis Napoleon dare
not trust single with freedom in his heart and
lips that may be opened safely to give atterance to the
sentiments Of his heart
Let Louis Napoleon withsa his power gran. to Victor
hugo liberty for twevemonth to say in France just
whatever he pleases the subject Of liberty and tyranny
and in twelve months there will be no Louis Napoleon to
the people Of France. SOme person in the auence
here exclaimed vehementy, No, is true u So lot
the privilege be granted to Mazzn in Italy, and
will be liberty in that time TO the Italian. Let Austria say
to KosHuth, s'You may be permitted TO say on my soil
what you really think Of freedom and of desposm, aud
Kossuh will need look to America for material
ad or to any other part OF the world, for Hungary will
be free. And could Wendell Phillips have fair play at th
South, will not say for twelve months, but for one
MONTH the pillars slavery Would fail and the sound OF
the jubilee song be heard going heavenward cloud ap
plause.)
No marvel therefore that at this time every effort ID
making on the part OF the slave ogarchy the South
and their Northern allies among us to put down freedom
OF speech Why it is "treasonablen for to speak
like man in the old Bay State. Ask the Boston Post
What' says that Journal sis to be tolerated in the
Music Hall that man shall dare to stand up and plead
for The rights Of mani 1t is bot 10 be tolerated. and
must and shall be put down. II is appeal the mob
and the man who made ii is brute and villain. II
argument could be brought into the arena if God had
given the tyrant thing whereby he could justly
defend himself, he would exhibit something OF many
and would not be afraid Of the uerance Of any
But it is not THIS "tredsonp but is "telsosn ID
the dc and all his acorks aud this 1t Is which
much uneasiness in certain quarters For am dis
(Appause.) II never speak at any other time what
ever may come Of it, Will speak, and will be heard
| (Renewed applause
But those Southern cowards Job said, thousands Of
years agoand ia true now-'sthat there terrible
sound in the ear Of the oppressor" He rembes the
shaking OF leaf Look at Virginia the day Of the
execution Of John Brown. She has more than million
Of people; she had thousands of arms and yet
she afraid let John Brown be heard on the scaod
BY any citizens Of that State and SO there must be-,
at the point Of the bayouet driving Of the people away
tsat no sound mgM X heard coming from ne lips Of nal
ro1rnfpd fatG r,Nn
| bis words more than they feared his rifles They had
reason to- As they said in regard % Jesus "Never
her soil man who could begin TO speak like John Brown
(Appause.)
Slavery Is not a debatabe question, and the man who
attempts 10 argue the matter with Shareholder becomes
| foolish. What Is sefevident Ia plain enough, and rea~
son, and argument and logic unnecessary aud alb
surd DO you suppose that there Is a single Shareholder
at The South nho does not Rnow that he is man aealerp
| Do you suppose there is one there who does not
know that the slave he Is holding in bondage good
right to hold him in bondage he has to nnct that
outrage upon bis victim? Every stakeholder knows Il:
and never did, and think never shall, unless am
demented, argue the question with any mar as to the
right Of the In bondage be Free and the duty
OF The master 10 proclaim immediate emancipation The
sAveholder therefore, being selfconvcted kdnapper
OF bis fellow man, is left without argument to
vndcate bis course, and ne must therefore TO the
bowie knife to the revolver and to lynch law BE does
better If be could, but God has not ma 10 that possible
aud SO lynch law and slavery one and as
against the friends Of freedom II is self evden, that
horse liz not man, Ia 1t notp II is self evdent that
COW Is not woman, is IL not? II Ia efevident then
that nan Ia not horse and that not COW
and therefore that they not TO be put into the came
| category and this IS the whole OF II. (Applause)
Among those ia our country who have startled and ter
rihed the south by the power OF his words the man
ho 50 grdndy represents the Empire Stae in tie Senate of
the United States, VIM III Se,Dard cloud cheers) AMI
What did ne do ocredte oil this e1ceep Why aenar
ca IN one o. lbs speeches. TO remind Congress acre w1s
higher d,o than It's o,cn thai above constitution Is TIE
ow Of the Ltpng God and that that Ian Is obliguou IN
dr an c'rcumstdnces and against all compocs and ever
since ben the bloodhoundso the slave have been
upon bis track 10 devour him. is simple ruism.
and yet, under these circumstances coming from the
lips OF man representing such State, like sun
mons 70 ne judgment Seat Daniel Webster, you recol