The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-09-01
THE ISOLATION OF SLAVERY:

| you. are you reaIiy IN earnest when yoC
speak of perpetuating slavery? Shall Il
never cease !? Never !? Stop and consoles
where you are and in What days you live
- ."This is the nineteenth century. Never
since mankind has recollection of times gone
by. has the human min ] Gi closei such won.
derfal powers. The hidden forces of nature
We have torn from their mysterious conceal
ment and yoked them into the harness OF
usefulness; they carry our thoughts over
slender wires to distant nations they draw
our wagons over the Highways of trade
| they pull the gigantic ores of our ships
| they set in motion the iron fingers of our
machinery; they will soon plow our fields
and gather our crops. The labor of brain
has exalted to a mere bFidling and control
ing of natural forces the labor of the band
and you think you cans peFpetuate system
which reduces man, however degraded, ryet
capable of development. to the level of a
soulless machine -'15 @
"Th;s is the worldo of the nineteenth centu-
ry. The last remnants # feudalism in the
old world are fast disappearing. The Car
of Russia. in the fulness Of his imperial pow
er. is forced to yield to the irresistible march
Of human. progress, and abolishes serf
dom. Even the Sultan Of Turkey can no
longer maintain the barbarous customs oil
the Moslem against the pressure of the cen
Jury, and slavery disappears. And you
citizens of Republic, you think you can
arrest the wheel of progress with your bred
Scott decisions and Democratic platform :?
Enthusiastic cheers 1913
Look around you. and see how lonesome
You are in this wide world of ours. As far
"a modern civilization throws its rays, what
people, what class of society is there like
you? Cry out into the world your wild
and gully fantasy of prope. ty in m;n. and
ev.ry echo responds with cry of borror o.
contempt: every breeze, from whatever
point of the compass it may come brings
you verdict of condemnation. There is
no human heart thai sympathizes with your
cause. unless it sympath' yes with the cause
of despotism IN every form. There is no
human voice to cheer you on in y -ur stru5
gle; there is n human eve that h IS tear
Tor your reverses; no link of sympathy te
tween The common cause IF the greas hu
man brotherhood and you. You hear OF
emancipation in Russia. and wish it should
fail. You hear OF Ilaly rising. an fear the
spirit of liberty should become contagious.
Where all mankind rejoices you trembe
Where all mankind love you nate. Where
all mankind curses you sympathize. rl
''And in this appalling solitude you
stand alone a.sainst hopeful worlI--
alone against great century, fighting your
hopeless fl ght--hopeless, hopeless as the
struggle of the Indian against the onward
march of civilization. Use all the devices
which the inventive genius of despolism
may suggest, and yet how can you resist =?
In every little village school house, the Chi
dren who learn to read and write, are plot
ting against you in every laboratory OF
science, in every machine snOp, the human
mind is working the destruc,i' of your idol
You cannot make an attempt - keep pace
with The general progress OF mankind, with
cut plotting against yourselves. Every
steam whistle, every pufilg Ioc1m ptiVe Is,
sounding the shrek of liberty into your ears.
From the noblest instincts of our hearts
down TO sordi1 greediness Of gain. every i'm
pulse 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 enchartment. never 10 unite
again. Hear Il EN- trying TO save their OWL
fortunes, swear with treacherous eayernes~
that they have nothing in common wHh you.
And youropponents? Your bDaets have iosl
their charm, your threats have lost their
terrors upon them. The attempt Is idle to
cloak the sores of L'zlrus with the lion
skin o Hercules. We know you. Every
one of your boasts is understood a. a dis
guised moan of weakness-evefy shout Of.
6anoe as disguised cry for mercy
That game IS played out. Do not deceive
yourselves. This means not only the de
struction of a party-this means the defeat
ID q a., 4 L.,
drawer than the bravest-it is all in VAN /;
your cause is doomed.
And in the face of all this you insist up
on hug5ing with logged stubborness, your
fatal inia,uation ? Why no.. with manly
boldness. swing round into the grand march
of progressive humanity ? You say 1t can
not be done to-day. Can it be done to NOR
row ? VIII it be easier twenty, fifty years
ence, wien the fra!ful increase of the ne
L,ro population will have aggravated the
evils OF slavery an hundred fold, and with it
the difficulties of its extinction ? DID
YOU ever think of this ? The faal crisis
will come, VITA the mex rable certainty of
late, the more terrible the longer II is delay
ed Will you content yourselves with tire
criminal words, after me the delugsg i
that the inheritance You mean to leave TO
disgrace. crime, blood, destruction Hear
me slsvebollers of America Ii you have
no sense for the natural rights of The black
man, no appreciation of your own interests,
impiore you, have at least pity with your
children
'.I hear the sillT objection. that your
sense of honor fordids you to desert your
cause. Sense of honort Imagine future
generation standing around the tombstone
of the b-avest of you. and reading the in
.ription Here lies gallant man, who
lived and died true TO the cause-of human
slavery What VIII the verdict be ? His
very progeny, unable to realize the peculi-
ar chain Of ideas which bound him to The pc
| culiar institution, will disown Kim. and ex-
claim, He must have been either knaye
o. a fool J. How many OF you who hold the
! opinion of humane age in due regard. IL
they could rise from the dead a century
hence. weuld refuse to exchange their cpl
| aph 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 oil
yesterday for the truths of to-day To- pre-
. = q a. q