Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-08-24


OF war. would at the same time disable then
to carry on the wer. The same institution
that wants protection, will at the same tiIae
disarm its protectors. Yes. slavery whict
can no longer be defended with arguments, car
no longer be defended with arms
AN APPEAL 70 TIE sLAvEHoLDEk OF A4zR1cA
Shareholders of America, appeal 20 you
Are you really in earnest when yon speak 0
perpctustiag slavery? Shall it ever rease
Never? Stop aud consider, where you ar,
and in what days you live.
This is the nineteenth century Neve
! since mankind has recollection Of times gont
! by, has the human mind disclosed such won
derful powers. The hidden forces of nature
! we have torn from their mysterious conceal
ment and yolzed them into the harness of use
fitness they carry our thoughts over slendel
wires to distant nations they draw onr wag
ons over the highways Of trade; they pull the
gigantic oars OF our ships; they set liz motion
| the iron fingers of orr machinery they vii
soon plow our fields and gather our crops
The Ia!,or of the brain has exalted to mere
brid:iug and controlling Of natural forcesf the
labor OF the hand--and yoa think you can
perpetuate system which reduces naon, how
ever degraded, yet capable of Development, to
the level Of a sou!!ess machine?
| This is the world of the nineteenth century
| The last remnants OF f.adai;sm III the old
world are fast disappearing. The Gar OF
Russia, in the fullness of his imperial power,
is forced to yield to The irresistible march Oi
human progress, and abolishes serfdom. Even
the Sultan Of Turkey can no longer maintain
the barbarous custom Of the Moslem against
the pressure Of The century, and slavery disap-
pears. And you citizens of Republic, you
think you can arrest the wheel of progress
with your Dred Scott decisions and Democrat
ic platforms? :? Enthusiastic cheers.] Look
around you, and see how lonesome you are iii
this wide world Of ours. AS far as modern
civilization throws It's rays, what people, what
class of seeiety is there IKE you? Cry out
into the world your wild and gaiIty fantasy of
property in man, and every echo responds
with a cry OF horror or contempt; every
breeze. from whatever point of the compass it
may come, brings you a verdict of condemna-
ton. There is no human heart that sympa-
thizes with your cause, unless it sympathizes
with the cause Of despoti4m in every FORM
your struggle; there is no human eye that
has tear for your reverse no link of sympa-
thy between the common cause Of the great
human brotherhood and you. You hear of
emancipation in Russia, and wish it should
fail You hear of Italy rising, and fear the
spirit Of liberty should become contagious
Where all mankind rejoiccs, you tremble-
Where all mankind love, you hate. Where
afi mankind curses, you sympathize.
4 nd in this appalling solitude you stand
Atone against ) powerful world alone against
great century, fighting, hopeless as the strug-
gle Of the Indians against the onward march
of civilization. Use all the devices which the
inventive genius of despotism may suggest,
and yet how can you resist? In every little
village school house, the little children who
learn to read and write, are plotting against
you in every labratory Of science, in every
machine shop, tie human mind is working the
destruction Of your idol. Yoa cannot make
an attempt to keep pace with the general pro-
gress Of mankind, without plotting against
yourselves. Every steam whistle, every puf-
fling locomotive is sounding the Shrek OF Iibqr-
~ into YOUR ears. From the noblesf instincts
Of our hearts down to sordid greef!iness of
gain every impulse Of human nature is engag
ed in this universal conspiracy. How can you
resist Where are your friends in the North
Your ever ready supporters scattered to
tie winds as by enchantment, never to unite
again. Hear them trying to save their own
fortunes, swear with treacherous eagerness that
they have nothing in common with you. And
your opponents? Your boasts have lost their
on them. The attempt is idle to cloak the
sores of Lazarus with the lion skin of Hercu-
les We know you. Every one OF yonr
boasts is understood as disguised moan OF
weakness-every shout of defiance SIS d dis
gnsed cry for mercy. That game is played
ont. Do not deceive yourselves. This means
not only a destruction of party-this means
the defeat of a cause. Be shrewtler than the
shrcwdest, brayer than the bravest-it is all
III vain your cause is doomed
And III the face of all this you insist upon
hugging, with dogged stuhborness, your fatal
iDfatuation. Why not, with manly boldness, |
swing round into the grand march of progress
sive humanity? You say it cannot be done
to-day. Can it be done tomorrow? Will it |
be easier twenty, ffty years hence when the
fearful increase of the negro population will
have aggravated the evils of slavery an hun
dred fold, and with it the different ties Of IFS
extinction? Did you ever think of this p
The final crisis will come, with the inexorable
centainty Of fate, the more terrible the longer
it is delayed. Will you content yourselves |
with the criu ilal worlds. 'EAftcr me the del |
uge?" Is that the Inheritance you mean to
leave to coming generations Hear me,
shareholders of America! If you have no
sense of right, no appreciation of your own
entreat, l implore you, have at
least pity with yonr children
hear the silly objection, that your sense of
honor forbids you to desert your cause. Sense
of honor? Imagine future generation stand
ing around The tombstone OF the bravest of
yon, and reading the inscription Here lies a
gallant man, who lived and died true 10 the
eause-of human slavery" What will the
verdict be? His very progeny will disown
him, and exclaim "He must be either |
knave or a fool !" There is not one Of you
who if he could rise from the dead century |
hence, would not gladly exchange his epitaph
for that of the meanest of those who were
hung at Charlestown.
Sense of honor! Since when has it become |
TO give up the errors of yester-
day for the truths of to-day? To prevent fn-
ture disasters by timely reforms? Since
when has it ceased to be the highest glory to
sacrifice ones prejudiees and momentary adj
upon the alter of the common veal ?
But those who seek their glory in stuhhornly
resisting what is glorious, must find their end
in inglorious misery.
REPUBLICANS OF MISSOURI.
turn to you, Republicans of Missouri -
Your countrymen owe you debt of admira-
ton and gratitude to which my poor voice
can give but feeble expression. You have
the noble task of showing the
people of the North that the slaveholding /