Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-12-03


hearts. new zeal. are coming forward, TED on
by oil those signs and auspices that God
foresends when he prepares bis people to
advance. This work well begun, must not
20 back II must grow, like spring, iuio
summer. God viii then give il an autumn
without winter. And When such
public sentiment Ellis the North, founded
upon religion, aud filed with fearless love
TO both the bond aud the free, il will work
all over the continent, end nothing eau be
hid from the shining thereof
g. By oil the ways consistent With the
fearless assertion of truth, we must maintain
sympathy aud kindness toward the South.
We are brethren, aud pray that no fratri-
eide influences will be permitted to sunder
this Unisn. There was time when l
thought the body Of death would be too
much for life and that the North was in
danger Of taking disease from the South,
rather than they our health. That time
has gone past do not believe that we
shall be separated by their act or ours. We
have an element of healing, which, if we are
true to ourselves and our principles, and
God is kind to us, shall drive itself further
into the nation, until it peuetrates aud re-
generates every part. When the whole
lump shall have been leayened thereby, old
prejodices viii be done away, aud uew sym.
pathies will be created.
am for holding the heart of the North
right up to the heart of the South. Every
heart beat will be, ere long, not a blow
riyeting oppression, but throb carrying
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. do not hesitate to tell the South
what mean by loving union with them.
mean liberty. mean the decay of slave
~, and its extinction. If might speak for
the North, would say to the South, eve
love you, and bate your slavery. We shall
leave no fraternal effort united to deliver
you, and ourselves with you, from the deg
radiation, DANGER aud wckedness of this
system" Aud for this we cling 10 the
Union. There is health in it.
T. We are to leave no pains untaken,
through the Christian conscience of the
South, to give to the slave himSelfa higher
moral status. j 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 enfranchisement Of the
African, see TO make him better man.
teach him to be an obcdient servant, and
an honest, true, Christian man. These vir-
tues are Gods step-stones TO liberty That
man whom Christ FIRST makes free, baS a
better chance to be civilly free than any
other. To make slave mcrose, fracsions,
disobedient, and unwilling to work, is the
way to defer his emancipation We do not
ask the slave to be satisfied with slavery.
But, feeling its grievous burden, we ask him
TO endure it while he must, "as unto God
and Uot unto man," not because he does not
love liberty, but because he does love Christ
enough to show forth his spirit under
grievous wrong. Poor slaves will never
breed respect, sympathy and emancipation
Truth, honor, fidelity, manhood-these
things in the slave will prepare him for free
dom. 1t is the lOw animal condition of the
African that enslaVes him. 1t is moral en-
franchisement that will break bis bonds.
The Pauline treatment is the most direct
road to liberty. No part Of the wisdom of
the New Testament seems to be more divine
ly 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 masters duties to those who
hold them. | should do it with frm con.
yiction that so should advance the day
of tueir libertyl
In order to labor the most effectualy for
the emancipation of the slaves, | would NOT
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