Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1860-04-25
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instituted; never established by law-but
a practice like ~pOlygamy. l say that they
have no right to 60 there and practice this
high crime, so injurious to man, and SO Of
fensive to God.
And this is the question, whether these
twenty-eight million people shall be accom-
modated, or two million people shall be ac-
commodated; for. l repeat the presence Of
Slavery is the utter exclusion of free labor
and the institutions of Freedom. / deny
no one their rights. The Slave States are
equal to the Free States. 1t is a poor,
pitiful and paltry patriotism that cannot
take in the extent of its country; but l do
deny that Slavery has the same right as
Freedom in this country. Freedom is the
Isaac; Freedom is the heir of promise
Slavery is the Hagar and Ishmael, and
they must 60 into the wilderness, and Free
dom shall have the entire inheritance. God
and the fathers gave it to freedom and free
institutions. 1t belongs to freedom-not
to me; not to the Free States, but to free
dom, to utter exclusion of slaveholding.-
Now. gentlemen, I know you are in a mood
to take a little advice. Laughter 1
tell you love you all. Renewed Laugh
ter.
Mr.. MCQUEEN, Dem, S. Gil utter
ly repudiate your love.
Mr.. LcvEJoY-Sinners did that of Christ;
but he loved them still. Laughter.
Mr.. McQUEEN-I do not think thai he
loves you much.
Nh. LovEJoY.-I am afraid that l am
not much like him. He went, however,
and preached to the spirits in prison; and 1
think L never Appropriated so nearly to
him as in this regard, while making proc
lamatien of the holy evangel of God to sin
ners in this House. tell you of the Slave
States that you must emancipate your slaves.
1t belongs to you and not to US. You must
transform them from slaves into serfS and
give them homes, and protect and guard the
sanctity of the family. We shall not push
you. If you say that you want a quarter
of a century, you can have it; if you want
half a century, you can have it. But lin
sist that this system must ultimately be
e~xtnguished. There is no question about
it You who advocate the perpetuity Of
Slavery are like a set of madcaps, who
should place themselves on the top of an
iceberg which had disengaged itself from
the frozen regions Of the north, and begun
to float downward, and downward, through
the warm climates. The sun shines and
melts it; the soft winds blow on and melt it;
the rains descend and melt it; the water
ripples round it and melts it: and then
these wild Missionaries, who fancied they
could sail an iceberg through the TROPICS
start up, and blaspheme sunshine and rain
and zephyr; and mouthing the heavens, tell
Jehovah that unless he stops the shining
of the sun, and the blowing of the winds,
and the falling of the rain, they will erum-
bic his universe from turret to foundation
stone" [Great laughter. Do you not think
Gcd would feel bad; and would not the arch
angles tremble at the chivarly? Renewed
laughter. You may call this e~xtrvagant;
but you can no more perpetuate Slavery,
and will no more dissolve this Unisn, in or
der to perhetuate it, than you can stop the
shining of the sun, or the ripple of the sea,
the descent Of rain, or the blowing of the
wind; ay, no more than you can subdue the
ocean, when it lashes itself into fury and
dashes its crested mountain billow against
the rocks. 1t is as preposterous to think
of taking Slavery down through the civil
lization of the ages as it is to think Of float
ing an iceberg through the tropics. 1t is
the order of things. 1 am willing to con-
eede that you can do an anything that any
equal number of men can active. 1 did
mean to taunt you about Harper's Ferry,
but l believe / Will not | am willing to
concede that you are as brave as other men;
although 1 do not think you show it by
this abusive language; because brave men
are always calm and selfpOssessed. God
feels no anger. for he knows no fear. l
say, you can do anything that other men
do. You can preserve and perpetuate this
system, if any equal number of men could
do it; but tie stars in there courses are fight
ing against you; God, in his providence, is
fighting against you. The universe was
established upon the great principle ofjustice
and truth. it may be jostled out of its
place for a little while, but it will sooner OF
later, fall back to its grooves. You must
sacrifice Slavery for the good ofyourc country.
DO this, and you will have the sympathy,
the prayers, aud the co operation of the en-
tire nation. Refuse or neglect this; refuse
to proclaim liberty through all the land, to
all the inhabitants thereof, and the exodus
of the slave viii be through the Red Sea.
1t is a well known physiological as well as
psychological fact, that ancestral character
istics reappear after a long interval of years,
and even of generations, as streams disap-
pear and gush out at a distant point. II
is also well known that the Saxon blood is
~infltrated into the blood of the eIs'aved.
By and by some Marion viii be found cal
ling his guerrilla troops from the swamps
and everglades of South Carolina; and Pat
rick Henry will rcappear In the Old Do
minion, shouting, as of old, "Give US liberty
or give. us DEATH Then will transpire
those scenes which troubled the prophetic
vision Of Jefferson, and made him tremble
for his country, when he REMEMBERED that
God was just and that his justice would NOT
sleep forever, and that every divine attri-
butte would be arrayed upon the sideof the
struggling bOndmen. And he justified the
uprising, bysayingt the little finger o Ameri-
can Slavery was thicker than the loins Of
British despOtism. Sir, Virginia cannot
afford, the country cannot aboard, to con-
tinue a practice fraught with SO much Of
peril. 1t is better to remove the magazine,
,thanto be kept ever more in dread of a light
ed match. The future glory and usefulness
of this nation cannot be sacrificed to this
system of crime. The nations Of the Garth
are taught by ourexample. The American
Republic must repose Queen among the ma
tons of the earth. Slavery must die
,CatkGrgo est deLenGd. The philosophy.
therefore, and the lesson which the Slave
States ought to have learned from John
Brown, and from all these events, are not
these expressions of rage and vengeance.
Instead of being stimulated to revenge, Vir-
ginia ought to have learned the lesson Of
penitence. Instead of arraying herself in
sleeps gray, she ought to have put or
sackcloth and ashes. Instead of imbibing
the d~istillation of corn, mixed with the
nroducts of the ~noultry-vard. she ouobt tr