The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1861-12-31

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,af memorials 40 eiier petitions
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aa nse ever ii,e hcars aad mia3.
y 81 classes loa ef he Free apa Shave
STATES
TIC osns-asEsloa q i,ai Change i
ou tiell II tic deadly ssale. u tie
laule fes8. ina nasion turned e arms lor
:. own existence. Yis indeed ls.s tesu +
ile erra, caus q or oaiieaal caianity
his has arrayel the hospilatle people of
lie south asslas, lie freemen % ille
Nolth. We. who uerc once bfoshers in
q common cause, and bad common in-
icra, WHO plaee1 oar shoulders q de
wheel ia common for our owp political
.al.ty. oe neu separated ~ tais one iu-
tuencr, A5oliiionism, anal caoily aiming
ourselves 10 pin or brothers Blood for
ibe salvation Of Gus republican institutions.
That We are engaged ID a Jaa cause, L
ofceurse. confidently believe ana through
iii. justice alone, | anticipate siof oGs
future Cor the United States. But Al tic
same iimp, believe it incoa.ragerdblc
,hat the Fundamental truths Of the Aboli
,ioni.t5 have been secretly spreading ibcir
Effects over tie whole land, aui gradually
rl,ctriz.rg the people until pog We wit
ness tie fYrkcd ligituia5s pay. and hear
ioiloains in der wake the laundering
powers &c great Rebellion.
/ Il is poi absolut y necessary, under al
circumstances, that tie leasing minds Of
lie ace. which are more OF less impreg-
na.ed wilh the principle. which ought to
govern human right apd privileges, slould
class themselves together on some political
platform IN order to have tie desired el-
feet on M classes aroand them. No, tie
promullaiion Of the "highcr law " in all
I il. bear ngs. by one single individual, viii
sooner or later reach the teart-strings of
every true patriot, and nerve him up 10
tie work of human sympathy.
ladecd, o.tensible organizations DO not
always exert the greatest influence over a
people. They may for time, it is true,
4 seeta 10 hold swayi but their power is
always auctualing and changing. On the
otl.cr hand those men with no organiza-
ton whatever, bu, established on perma-
/ nent principles, are the very persons who
abiding their Time, viii work oat great
, reformation. In the pubic acts Of sucl
men. we are apt to be deceived on account
Of their influence On lhe people remaining
fora while latent and unsurpassed Bu
chat such men as Smith, Garrison, Phil
, in, and the Ike, have had great efec
Q on the public sentiment Of the copahy, u,
e one can deny and that this influence i
now beginning TO manifest itself in iht
cause al Emancipation, Is, = me, Just q
auqaesionablc, How was it, when JOIN
Brown first started the insurreetion il
| Yirlin;a? We're the people at that TIM
: mindful of ther Rcpa5licaniSm? Or di'
tie principles Of A5oliaonism begin I
break forth as e their own good time ha'
! come. and almost cause the nation to is
! in lis majesty and proclaim Freedom t
y The oppressed? Tie scene at Harper
Ferry i, too wcll known, and its inAuenc
o too well appreciated TO give us any doubt
It that the slumbering embers Of Abolition
,, SIN which re-; IN all patriotic hearic, nee
e, but d little tanning to bring them into
4 living 5lazp Of Liberty. This scene, whie
j, brcu lhf forth the fiery eloquence I'll pu
e pit and press against the opprcssor. wa
= but the calm before the tempest which ha
a now oycrtken US in all lis fury.
= VIII any one, con any one, consistent
Is say that this revelation has been cause
, sol-ly by the old Wing party and its lat
II offspring Repubicanism? No, it is
y principle underlying all these, and expire
scs itself through these organizations :
! agencies.
4 Tie South, with unanimous yoic
/ will tell Us today that il is the agitalio
$ CT lie slavery question that has brougl
: tic country TO The present crisis. cor
n slider it UNJUST for US, almost inhuman,
u declare this rebellion causeless conccr
u | believe the South have been abused, al
e lhat we have been 100 meddlcsomc, n
cordiug TO the Constitution, with the
proner,, in slaves. We have denied tie
Tie riela-the Constitutional right
a. take their properly, IN toto, into The ter