The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1860-04-26
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themselves ON the top of an iceberg
which had disentangled itself from the
frozen regions of the north, and begun
to float downward, through the warm
climates. The sun shines and melts it
the soft winds blow on it and melt it
the water ripples round it and melts it
and then these wild Missionaries, who fan
cied they could sail an iceberg through
the tropics, start up, and blaspheme sun
SHINE and rain and zephyr; and mouth
ing the heavens, tell Jehovah that un-
less he stops the shining of the sun. and
the blowing of the winds, and the fall
ing of the rain, they will~'erumble his
universe from turret to foundation
stone" Great laughter. Do you not
think God would feel bad and would
not the arch-angels tremble at the chiv-
ally? Renewed laughter.] You may
call this extravaganza; but you can no
more perpetuate Slavery, and will no
more dissolve this Union, in order to
perpetuate it, than you can stop the
shining of the sun, or the ripple of the
sea, the descent of the rain or the blow
ing OF the wind; ay, no more than you
can subdue the ocean, when it lashes
itself into fury and dashes it's crested
mountain pillows against the rocks. It
1t is as preposterous to think of taking
Slavery down through the civilization
of the ages as it is to think of floating
an iceberg through the tropics 1t is
the order of things. / am willing to
concede that you can do anything that
any equal number of men can achieve.
l did mean to taunt you about Harper's
Ferry, but believe will not. / am
willing to concede that you are as brave
as other men: although do not think
you show it by this abusive language;
because brave men are always calm and
self-possessed. God knows no anger,
for he knows no fear. say, you can
do anything that other men can do
You can preserve and perpetuate this
system, if any equal number of men cod
do 1T; but The stars in their courses are
lighting against you; God, in his prov
idence, is fighting against you. The
universe was established upon the great
principle of justice and truth. 1t may
be Jostled out OF its place for little
while, but it will, sooner or later, fall
back 10 its grooves. You must sacri-
flee slavery for the good of your coun-
try. Do this, and you will have the
sympathy, the prayers, and the coope-
ration of the entire nation. Refuse or
neglect this; refuse to proclaim liberty
through all the land, to all the inhabi-
tants thereof, and the exodus of the slave
will be through the. Red Sea. 1t is we'll
known physiological as well as psychol-
ogical fact, that ancestral characters
tics reappear after long interval of
years, and even of generations, as
streams disappear and gush ont at a dis
tant point. 1t is also well known that
the Saxon blood is being infltrated in
to the blood of the enslaved. By and
by some Marion will be found calling
his guerrilla troops from the swamps
and everglades of South Carolina; and
Patrick Henry will reappear in the Old
Dominion, 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 could not sleep forever,
and that every divine attribute would
be arrayed upon the side of the strug-
Cling bondmen. And he justified the
uprising, by saying the little finger of
American Slavery was thicker than the
lions of British despotism. Sir, Virgin
la cannot afford, the country cannot af-
ford, to continue practice fraught with
so much peril. 1t is better to remove
the magazine, than to be kept evermore
in dread of a lighted match. The flu
ture glory and usefulness of this nation
cannot be sacrificed to this system of
crime. The nations of the earth are
5aught by our example. The American
Republic must repose Queen among the
nations of the earth. Slavery must die.
C0thoryo est dele'ada. The philosophy,
therefore, and the lesson which the
Slave States onght to have learned from
John Brown, and from all these events,
ire not these expressions of rage and
'engence. Instead of being stimulated
o revenge, Virginia ought to have learn
I'd the lesson of penitence. Instead of
Irraying herself in sleeps gray, she
night to have put on sackcloth and ash
$. Instead of imbibing the distillation
# corn, mixed with the products of the
oultry yard, she ought to have drunk
he waters of bitterness, in view of her
in of slavehOlding.
Mr.. MARTIN, (Va.)-And if you were
mong us, we would do with you as we
i'd with John Brown-hang you up as
Ugh as Haman. l say that as Virgin
an.
Mr.. LovEJoY-I have no doubt of it.
Here the hammer fell.
EB~ Love can excuse anything ex-
ept meanness: but meanness kills love
nd cripples even natural affection.
NThe sun is very bright body,
ut the gentle moon, when she steps IN
afn Al r.