The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1860-05-17
NO.19

who fancled they could sail an iceberg
/ through the tropics, start up and bias
| pheme sunshine, and rain, and zephyr;
and moutbibg the heavens, tell Jehovah
that unless be stops the shining of the sun.
aud the blowing OF the winds, and the
falling of the rain, they will crumble his
universe "fron turret to foundation stone"
(Great lau9 9hter.) Do you not think God
would feel bad; and would not the arch.
angles tremble at the chiVslry! (Renew-
ed laughter) You may call this extrav-
asaut; but you can DO more perpetuate
slavery, and will no more dissolve this
Union, in order to perpetuate is, tb an you
can stop the shining of the sun, or the
ripple of the sea, the descent Of tie rain,
or the blowing of the wiud, sy, no aore
than you can subdue the ocean when it
lashes itself into fury and dashes its cres-
ted mountain billows against the rocks.
1t is ss preposterous to thiBk Of taking
slavery down through the civilization Of
the age as it is to think Of floating an ice-
berg through the tropics. 1t is not in the
order of things | am willing to concede
that you can do anything that any equal
number of men can achieve. did mean
to taunt you about Harper's Ferry, but
believe | will not. l am willing to con-
cede that you arc as brave as other men;
although l do not think you show it By
this abusive language; because brave men
are always calm and self-possessed. God
feels no anger, for be knows no fear.
soy, you can do anything that OF her men
can do. You can preserve and perpetu-
ate this system, ii any equal number of
men could Go it; but the stars in their
courses are fighting against you; God, in
bis providence, is fighting against you
The universe was established upon the
the great principle of justice and truth.
1t may be jossled out of its place for
little while, but it will, sooner OF later,
fall back to its grooves. You must sac
riice slavery for the good of your coun-
try. Do this, and you will have the SYM
pathy, the prayers, and the cooperation
Of the entire nation. Refuse or neglect
this, refuse to proclaim liberty through
all the land, to all the inhabitants there
of, and the exodus of the slave will be
through the Red Sea. 1t is a Il-known
physiological as well as psychological
fact, that ancestral characteristics reap
pear after long interval of years, and
even of generations, as streams disappear
and gush ont q: a distant point. 1t is al
80 we'll known that the Saxon blood is be-
ing initiated into the blood of the en-
shaved. By and By, some Marion will be
found calling his guerrilla troops from
the swAmps and everglades of South Car
olins; aud Patrick Henry will reap
pear in the OLD Dominion, shouting, as
of old, "Give as liberty, or give US deathI'
Then will trsnspire those scenes which
troubled the prophetic vision of Jefferson,
and made him trembls for his country,
when be remembered that God was Just,
and that his justice would not sleep for
ever, and that every divine attribute
would be arrayed upon the side Of the
struggling bondmen. And be justified
the uprising, by saying the little finger of
American slavery Wss thicker than the
lions Of British despotisn. Sir, Virginia
cannot afford, the country cannot afford,
to continue a practice fraught With SO
much of pere. 1t is better to remove
the magazine, than to be kept eyermore
in dread of lighted match. The future
glory and usefulness of this nation cannot
be sacrificed to this system Of crime. The
nations of the earth are taught by our
example. The american Republic must
repose Queen among the nations of the
earth. Slavery must die. Cathargo est
delanda. 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 ex-
pressions of rage and vengeance. In
stead of being stimulated to revenge, Vir-
ginia ought to have learned the lesson of
penitence. Instead of arrayiDg herself
in sleeps gray, she ought to have put on
sackOIoth and ashes. Instead of imbib-
ing the distillation Of corn, mixed with
the products of the poultry-yard, she
ought to have drunk the waters Of Bitter
ness, in view of her sin of slayeholding.
Mr.. MARTIN, (Vs.)-And if you come
among us, we will do With you as we did
with John Brown-hang you up as high
as Haman. say that as Virginian.
Mr.. LovEJoY.-I have no doubt of it..
(Here the hammer FELL