Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-11-11

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of healing, which, if we are true to our
selves and to our principles, and God is
kind to US, shall drive itself further into
the nation, until it penetrates and regen-
crates every part. When the whole
lump shall have been levened thereby, |
old prejudices will be done away, and
new sympathies will be created.
I am for holding the heart of the
North right up to the heart Of the South.
Every heartbeat will be, ere long, not a
blow riyeting oppression, but throb car
rying new health. Freedom in the
North, is stronger than slavery in the
South. We are yet to work for them,
as the silent spring works for US. They
are lawful prey to love. l do not
hesitate to tell the South what l mean
by loving a union with them. | mean
liberty. l mean the decay of slavery.
and its extinction. Ii | might speak for
the North, l would say to the South
" We love you, and hate your slavery.
We shall leave no fraternal effort untried
to deliver you, and ourselves with you.
from the degradation, danger and wick
edness of this system" And for this
we cling to the Union There is health
in it.
4. We are to leave no pains untaken,
through the Christian conscience of the
South, to give to the slave himself
higher moral status. lay it down as
an axiom, that whatever gives more
manhood to the slave slackens the bonds
that bind him, and that whatever lowers
him in the scale of manhood, tightens
those bonds. If you wish to work for
the acknowledgements of the African, seek
to make him better man. Teach him
to be an obedient servant and an honest,
true, Christian man. These virtues are
Gods step-stones to liberty. That man
whom Christ first makes free, has bet
ter chance to be civilly free than any
other. To make a slave morose, fractions,
disobedient, and unwilling to work, is the
way to defer his emancipation. We do
not ask the slave to be satisfied with slav-
cry. But, feeling its grievous burden,
we ask him to endure it while he must,
- as unto God and not Unto man )" not
because he does not love liberty, but be-
cause he does love Christ enough to show
forth his spirit under grievous wrong
Poor slaves win never breed respect,
sympathy and emancipation. Truth.
honor, fidelity, manhood-these things in
the slave will prepare him for freedom.
1t is the animal condition of the African
that enslaves him. 1t is moral enfran-
chisement that will break his bonds.
The Pauline treatment is the most
direct road to liberty. No part of the
J wisdom of the Testament seems to me
more divinely wise than PaupS directions
to those in slavery. They are the food
that servants need, now, at the South
everywhere, the world over! If lived
in the South, should preach these things
to slaves, while preaching on matters ant
duties to those who hold them. l should
do it with a firm conviction that so
should advance the day of their liberty
: In order to labor the most effectuall,
Z for the emancipation of the slaves,
C would not need to say one word, excep
: to preach Christ, and purity and man
q hood, ana TO enjoin upon them faithful
ness in every duty belonging to thei
Y state. I should be conscious that in do
e ing this was lifting them up higher ant
), higher. ! should feel that ! was carry
# ing them further and further toward thei
c emancipation. There is no disagree
o. ment between the true spirit of emanc
e patton, and the enforcement OF ever
e single one of the precepts of the Me-
e Testament respecting servants.
>. The thirgs which shall lead t
emancipation are not so complicated {
many as many people blindly think,
few virtues established, a few usage
maintained, few rights guaranteed
the slave, and the system is vitality woun,
81 ed. The right Of chastity in the woma
m the unblemished household love, Il
right Of parents in their Children
these three elements stands the who
Of weight of society. Corrupt or enfeeb
i. these, and there cannot be seperincur
n bent strength. Withhold these rigL
% from savage people, and they can new
-, be carried up. They are the mtegr
h elements Of associated human life. v
~. demand, and have right to demand,
.st the Christian men of the South, tn
they shall reVoIuti0piSa the moral ron,