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is throwing the bullock to the starved,
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wolves that they may maze PeaceaoN
solution of it
WHY. my friends, this doctrine of Squat
ter Sovereignty is more barbarous retro
cession than slavery itself ItHyokes ra--
pine, 6esolation, and slaughter; the rule OF
the red right hand, the government OF the
strongest.
But let us turn to some consideration OF
the man by whom this dangerous and UNI |
precedented doctrine is announced.
Great virtues excuse great errors. :" a
nalinn," says distinguished philosopher,
"w,li pardon many things in those who
Serve them"
By the character Of this man, Douglas,
additional light viii be thrown upon ms
doctrine.
4 statesman who aspires TO lead the
American people should possess in an emi.
rent degree those moral attributes which
distinguish us from all other nations.
In the first place he should preernineniiy
possess a keen, an undying love for that
principle of liberty which originated us,
lifted US up, buoyed Us forth on the great
tide Of time, and W hose development seems
under the hand Of God, the primal purpose
o! our being.
Not love for liberty in the abstract, as
rich memory or vague conception, but
practical, actual liberty, as GPptaed 10 hu-
man 5eingS, to the amelloration OF Their
condition, 10 the blessing and the benefit
ting Of them.
For who among Us. my friends, has moi
been the better for this gift, Liberty:
History, chanting the worlds advance,
,brn,,,b oil l,ar yorioI -acitol m,
ever recurring refrain:
''Our God hath crushed tie tyrant.
Or God hath raised the slave,
And Knocked the couusels OF the wise,
And the valor of the brave"
Well here is this great principle and
there is Mr.. Douglas. Jury, look upon
the prisoner Prisoner, look upon the jury.
What say you-guilty, or not guilty p
"Why," says Mr.. Douglas. | care not
whether Slavery is voted up, or voted
down"
Think Of it, American people
He drew in that sentiment from the
mountain air Of Vermont, when his infant
lungs inflated for the first cry.
lie got that idea from the public schools,
founded and supported for the sake Of
Liberty.
The institutions Of free government,
wrought out of the worlds sorrowful ex
perience, enabled him to rise that he might
enunciate IT,
God has poured the accumulated bullion
of the past into the lap of the present, and
has built up this amplest theatre OF all the
ages, on which stands Dir. Douglas,
spreading his legs, cooking his hat, rolling
his ouid, and announcing his amiable and
entertaining doctrine, al care not whether
slavery is voted up or voted down."
Well, let US go step farther.
The worlds history is action and reac-
ton. To-day, peace tomorrow, war.
The excuses of Charles produced the Re-
public. The excuses Of the Republic re,
acted into the Protectorate. the excuses
of the Protectoratc swung back into the
Restoration. The excuses Of the Resto-
ration reacted into another Revolution.
So in France. The abuses Of the throne
begot the Republic; the abuses Of the Re
public, the Empire; ahe abuses of the
Empire, the Restoration the abuses Of the
Restoration. the Republic; the abuses Of
the Republic, another Empire.
The pendulum once violently displaced,
will continue to swing backward and for
ward, with gradually decreasing oscillation,
unul the last faint Vibrations die away in
remote ages, which feel while they do not
comprehend them.
And yet, my friends, there is, through
oil these movements, which may appea,
wild and unfruitfu, one Continuous chan
Of progress, never forgotten, never varied
never lost sight of:-the first links o
winch glmmer in the faintest recollectionS
Of history, the last Of which lie bright anG
massive and rcfulgeut in our own midst a
our very feet.
And IS our eyes look back over the
turmoils and troubles Of the agitated
world, that one continuous chain alone ap
pears the line OF Gods purpose. All else
kings, despots, usurpers, Ievolutionists
the blind and brutal Instruments OF lii
great will.
Violence can eventually be but tributa
~ TO that viii. Wisdom, prudence, ge
MUS can not avert il. Neither the capaci
~ OF Stafford, nor the audacity Of LauC
can delay it. improbable alike to the vi
ces or the virtues Of men, uniniluence(
alike by popular tumuits or ages Of peace
that great chain stretches on, unobScured
undertaking, the index OF our destiny, thu
sole clue 10 the Almighty's meaning.
" here are now the men who shouted
applause when the head of Cromwell, Gu
from his exhumed body, was raised alof
on the pixies Of the kings soIdieryY
Where are now the wild masses, who il
1880 followed Lord George Gordon to TIN
very doors OF the Parliament House?
Where are now the opponents Of Zach
airy Macaulay, Of Henry Broughan,, G
Wilberforce?
Scattered, mouldcring, forgotten, in tel
thousand namelesS graves. Over then
the long grass waves, the great wind
play, the little flowers blossom;
Their hands are dust,
Their swords are rust"
But whittier, ah whittier, goeth that groa
principle Of humanity against which the
warred? Whittier goeth that great princi
pie ot hHnlrrl progress against which the
yajuly flung themselves? Broad rs tn
world, vast rs time it PAGES forth aou
the track of the ages, deckcd with the staI
~ crown Of unchanging victory.
Small indeed is the strength orman, val
movement Of en- immortal principle. Lo
az pdSSco over nun AWAY 2IpU Nun ANT
leaves hun forsGlen upon its track like tn
scattered bubbles Of the great wave.
Well, what says Mr.. Douglas to tn
cause Of human progress?
Hear him -
Between the white man and the blacI
man my svmpathies are with the whit
man; between the black man and the croc
odile, | rather prefer the black man"
In the days OF ancient Rome, when Por
Mar Sovereignty was exhibited in the am
phithcatIc, it was a matter of indifference
whether the man or the crocodile won
They left them perfectly free to form thei
Own institutional their own way" Thei
doctrine was, Neutrality-suspicious. The,
made ring, and cried, Go in, and ma,
the best man win"
But We thank the good God for $50,
years They have advanced mankind a
such a prodieious pace, that q leadin
statesman Of this great American Republ
has to-day the hardihood to express a pre
ference for the human combatant. and +
rather desire that the crocodile should gc
the worst Of it.