Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1859-11-11

willing to dare and suffer for it, let him -,
ny ms manly courage he achieves it,
ne Dug to have it. And | honor such u
man
nay, II ne has escaped and com, to me, |
owe MIN shelter, succour, defense, and God
speed to a final safety. If there were as
many laws there are lines in the fugitive
save law, and as many officers as there were
Hons in Daniels lions den,I would dis
regard every law but Gods, and help the
fugitive The officers might catch me, but
not am, IL could help it, A man whose
own heart has inspired liberty and courage
suftcient to enable him to achieve what he
desired, shall never come to my door and not
he made as welcome as my own child. will
anopt him tor Gods sake, and for the sake
ot Christ, who broo Is over the weak and
pcrishing. Nor am singular in such feel
ings and purposes. Ten thousand men, even
IN the South, would feel and do the same
A man who would not help n fellow creature
flying for his liberty, must be either villain
or u politician.
But all this is very different from stirring
up discomfort, and setting on men to escape
by outside influence
stand on the outside of this great c,r-
don OF darkness, and every man that escapes
from it, running 70. his life, shall have some
heip from Inc, II he comes forth OF his own
free accord; yet ain not the man to 60 in
and incite slaves to run away, or so send any
other man to do it, to approve it. or to
countenance it. do not Relieve we have a
right to carry into the system of slavery
exterior discomfort; and for this reason, that
IS not good for the shaUes themselves. 1t is
hDrP Sifyhf o1 k,,,,
policy for both the blacks and the whites
And say again, would not trust man
that would do it. Ii would iniurc the blacks
chiefly and especially. Now it would injure
them, will appear when | come to speak
positively OF what is the right way to pro-
mote the liberty Of the ensiaved | may say
here, however, that the higher a man is
raised in the scale of being, the harder it will
be to hold him in bondage and to sell him;
while the more he is like an animal, the
easier it will be to hold him in thrall and
harness. The more you make Shareholders
feel that when taey Cypress and sell man.
they are expressing and selling God image,
the harder it will be for them to continue
to enslave and traffic in human beings
Therefore, whatever you do to inspire in the
slave high and noble and godlke feelings,
tends to loosen his chains; and whatever
shall inspire in him base, low and cruel feel
in .. tightens them.
4, Still less would we tolerate anything
like Instruction and servile war. 1t would
be the most cruel. hopeless and desperate OF
all conceivable follies, to seek emancipation
BY the sword and by blood And though |
have liberty as my own life, tho Ugh | long
Tor it in every human being; though. it God,
by unequivocal providence, should ordaln
that it should come again as of old, though
terrible plaques on the first born. and by
other terrors of i'll, should submit to the
Divine behest; yet, so far as human in.tru-
mentation is concerned with all the conscience
Of a man, with all the faith Of Christian,
and with all the zeal and warmth Of phil
anthropist, | protest against any counsels
that lead to instruction, servile war. and
bloodshed. 1t is bad for the master-bad for
the slave-bad for all that are neishbors to
them-bad for the whole land-bad from
beginning TO end An evil 50 unminded and
Malignant, that its origin can scarcely b,
doubted
l believe, however in the right Of people
TO assert and achieve their liberty. The
right Of a race or nation to seize their tree
dom is not to be disputed. 1t belongs to all
men on the face Of the globe, without re-
gard to complexion. A people have the right
- change their rulers, their government.
their whole political condition. This right
is not either granted, or limited in the
New Testament. 1t Is left, as is air, water,
and existence itself, as things not requiring
command or legislation r., ~-.~-l:-s 20
God Is word, SO long rs man remains ser
want, be must obey his master. The right
Of the slaves t. throw off the control of his
master is not abrogated. The right Of the
subject to do this is neither defined or lin
it'd.
But the use Of this right must conform to
reason and to benefit The leaders of peo-
pie have no right to when their helpless
followers into terribla disaster by incitng
them to rebel, under circumstances that
afford not the slightest hope that their re-
bellion will rise to the dignity Of success
full revolution.
The nations Of Italy are showing grca:
wisdom and fitness in their leaders for their
work, in this very thing, that they are
quelling fretful and irregular outbreak, and
holding the people stedfist till success shall
surely crown uprising revolution. This has
been the eminent wisdom OF tina. Hungarian
exile-Kossuth
In spite Of all that is written and said
against this noble man, stand to my first
full faith in him. The uncrowncd hero is
the honest man, after all, in Europe And
his statesm lnship has been shown in this
that this burning sense Of the right of his
people to be free, has not led him to incite
them to premature, partial, and easily over
matched revolt. 4 man may give his own
life rather than abide in servitude, but he
has no right to lead whole people to slaugh-
ter, without the strongest probabilities Of
success.
II nations were all armed men, it would be
different. Soldiers can die. But nation
is made up of other materials beside armed
men 1T is made up of women, and children,
and youth. These are to be consdered-no,
merely men of muscle, and knucke, and
bone. And man that leads people has
no right to incse that people to rise unless
there is a reasonable prospect that they will
conquer.
Now, If the Africans in our land were in
telligent; if they understood themselves i
they had self-governing power; il they were
able first to throw off the yoke of laws ane
constitutions, and afterwards t. defend anc
build themselves up in civil State; ther
they would have just the same right t
assume their independence that any natio,
has.
But does any man believe that this is the
case? Does any man bclieye that this vas
horde of undisci plined Africans, if set free
would have cohesive power enough TO organ
ire themselves into u government, and main