The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-08-22
Eloquent Appeal.
The following is an extract from CARL
SEIZURE recent speech at St. Louis.

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ScHuRz' recent speech at st. Louis.
Shareholders of America, appeal to
you. Are You really in ernest when you
speak of perpetuatiug slavery? Shall it
never cease Never? Stop and consid-
er where you are, and in what days you
| live. M rs
This is the nineteenth century. Never
since mankind has recollection of times
gone by, has the human mind disclosed
such wonderful powers. The hidden forces
of nature we have torn from their my ster-
ious concealment aud yoked them into
harnesses of usefulness; they carry our
thoughts over slender wires to distant ma
tions; they draw our wagons over the
highways of trade; they pull the gigantic
oars of the ship; they set in motion the.
iron fingers of our machenery; they will
soon pillow our fields and gather our
corps.
The labor of the brain has exalted to
more bridling and controlling of natural
forces the labor of the hands-and YOU
think You can perpetute a system which
reduces man, however degraded, yet cap
able of development, to the level of q soul
less machines
This is the world of the nineteenth CEN
tury. The last remnants of feudalsm in
the old world are fast disappearing. The
Gar of Russia, in the fnlness of his i'm.
perial power, is forced to yield to the ir-
resistible march of human progress, and
abolishes serfdom. Even the Sultan OF
Turkey can no longer maintain the bar
barous customs of the Moslem against the
pressure of the century, and slavery dis
appears. And you, citizens of a Repub-
lie, you think you can arrest the wheel of
progress with your bred Scott decisions
and Democratic platforms. Enthusiastic
| cheers.
Look around you and see how lone
some you are in this wide world of ours.
As far as modern civilization throws its
rays, what people, what society is there
like YOU? Cry out into the world your
wild and guilty fantasy of property in man
and every echo responds with cry of
horror and contempt: every breeze. from
whatever point of the compass it may
come, brings you verdict of condemns-
ton. There is no human heart that SYM
pathies with your cause, unless it sympa-
| thizes with the cause, of despotism IN
| every form. There is no human voice to
cheer you on in your struggle; there is no
| human eye that has a tear for your rever-
ses; no link of sympathy between the
common cause of the great human broth
err hood and you. You hear of emanci-
patton in Russia, and wish it should fail.
You hear of Italy rising, and fear the spir-
| it of liberty shall become contiguous
Whele all mankind rejoices, you tremble.
Where all mankind love, you hate
Where all mankind curses, you sympa-
thize. .,.... .
And in this appealing solitude you
stand alone against n powerful world, alone
against great century fighting, hopeless
as the struggle of the Indians against the
onward march of civilization. Use allthe
devices which the inventive genius Of des-
potisnl. In every little village school
house, tho little children who learn TO
read and write are plotting against you;
in every laboratory of science, in every
machine shop, the human mind is work
ing the destruction of your idol. You
cannot make an attempt to keep pace
with the general progress of mankind,
without plotting against yourself. Every
steam whistle, every putting locomotive is
sounding the shrek of liberty into your
ears. From the noble instincts of your
hearts down to the sordid greediness of
gain, every impulse of human nature is
engaged in this universal conspiracy
How can you resist? Where are your
friends in the North? Your ever ready
supporters are scattered to the winds rs
by enchantment, never to be seen again.
Hear them trying to save their own for
tunes, swear with treacherous eagerness
that they have nothing in common with
you. And your opponents? Your
boasts have lost their terror upon them.-
The attempt is idle to cloak the sores of
Lazarus with the lion skin of Hercules
We know you. Every one of your boasts
is understood as disguised moan of
weakness-every shout of defiance as q
disguised cry for mercy. That game is
played out. Do not deceive yourselves.
Tins means not only the obstruction OF
party-this means the defect of a cause.
Be shrewder than the shrewdest, drawer
than the bravest-it is all in vain; your
cause is doomed.
And in the face of all this, you insist
upon hugging, with logged stubborness,
your fatal nfatuation! Why not with
manly boldness, swing around into the
grand march of progressive humanity 3
Yon say it cannot be done to-day. Can
it be done tomorrow VIII it be easier
twenty, fifty years hence, when the fear
full increase Of the negro population will
have aggravated the evils of slavery one
hundred fold, and with it the different
ties of its extinction? Did you ever think
of this? The final crisis win came, with
the memorable certainty of fate, the more,
terrible the longer it is delayed.
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