The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1860-09-27

mon with you. Aud your oppoasnts?-
lour boasts have lost their charm your
areass have lost their terrors upon them
The attempt is idle to cloths the sores ol
Lazarus with the lion skin of Hercules. We
know you. Every one of your boasts 10
understood as a disguised moan of weak
ness-every shout of defiance as disgui.
sed cry for mercy. Tha, game is played
out. Do not deceive yourselves This means
not only the destruction OF a psrty--this
means the defeat of cause. Be shrewder
than Q shrewdest, Drawer than the bravest
lit is all in vain; your cause is doomed.
And in the face of all this YOU insist up
on huyging. with dogged stubborness, your
fatal infasuasion Why not, with manly
holiness. swing roucd into the grand march
oi progressive humanity You say it eau
no, be done to-day. Can it bs done to-mor
row. VIII it be easier twenty. fsty years
hence, when the fearful increase OF the ne
gro population will have aggravated the
evils OF slavery an hundred fold. and with
1t the difficulties of its extinctiong Did you
ever think of thi>e The FINAL crisis will
come, with the inexorabe certainty of fate,
the more terrible tia longer it is aelayed.--
Will you content yourselves with the Grim.
iuAi words. After me the deluge!" Is that
the inheritance you mean to leave to coming
generations? an Inheritance of disgrace.
crime. blood. destructionl Hear me. slave
holders OF America! Ii you have no sense
of right, no appreciation of your own in
;erests, entreat, i implore you, have at
least pity for your children!
hear the silly objection, that your sense
Of honor forbids YOU to desert your cause
Sense of honori Imagine a future genera
ton standing around the tombstone of the
braves, Of you. and reading the inscription
"Here lies = gallant man. who lived and
died true to tine cause--of human ela-
very Sy progeny Nv viii disown him. and s1cIaim.
"He must have been either a knave or .
fooi' There is not one OF you who. 1t he
could rise from the dead q century hence.
would gladly exchange his ep'taPh for that
of the meanest Of those who were hung at
Charlestown.
Sense of honor! Since when has it be-
come dishonorable to give up the errors OF
Yesterday for the truths Of to-day? tn pre-
ven, future disasters by timely reforms?--
Since when has il ceased to be- the highest
glory TO sacrifice ones prejsdlces and mo-
me 1tarv advantages upon the altar OF the
common veal? But those who seek their
glory in stubboraly resisting what Is glori-
Jus; must fiud their end in inglorious mis-
ery.
turn to you. Republicans OF Missouri:
Your countrym-n owe you a debt of admi-
ration and gratitude to which my poor voice
can give but feeble expression. You
have undertaken the noble task of showing
the people of the North that the slsvehold
ing States themselves contain the elements
OF regeneration; and of dem 'nstra,ing tc
the South how that regeneration can be ef-
fec,ed You have inspired the wavering g
masses with confidence in the practicability
of our ideas. To the north you have given
encouragement; to the South you have set
an example. Let me cntreat you not to
underrate your noble vocation. Struggle
on. brave men! The anxious wishes of
millious are lowering around you Strug-
gle on. until the banner OF emancipation is
planted upon the Capitol of your State, aud
one of the prondest chapters Of our history
will read: Missouri. led the van, and the ma
ton followed!