New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-18

scendants, and must we speak smooth things to you
and pass over the awful lesson Of the day, which
God has sppointed2 Then are ye indeed the degen
crate sons of mighty sires and the glorious type o
the Puritan has died out from mankind But it i,
not 50. They should SANDER You who should say i
was. They do slarder you who treat you as if you
could not bear to hear the truth of the truth. AL
good capacities lie latent in mankind, till the voice Of
exhortatOn and sympathy arouses and leads them on
to action. God forbid, aye, deprive me Of the
power of speech altogether, rather than that should
speaking address any but the deepest chord within
your bosoms, the noblest enthusiasm you able to
cherish and to follow. And you, We comfortable and
wellodo farmers and fishers of the Cape, who with
your wives and daughters make 80 handsome an ap.
pearance on this occasion, what say you \ Is the
aborer worthy of bis hitei Shall he have bis little
earnings, and build his cabin and rear his offspring
with their mother TO help him, shall he be merely
fed, worked and paired and sold like the beasts you
drive Oh your honest hearts know which ia right
they have told you that long ago. Once you
could only pray for the enslaved; now, you can
speak, vote, fight for them. As you value your own
liberty, see that you do it.
Remember too, dear brothers that the cause Of God
is not the cause Of the rich and mighty but the cause
of the poor and oppressed. Once Kings were called
the vicegerens of the Almighty; but when the King
Of Kings came, he lived the life Of outcast, and
died the death Of criminal, and we have not YET
forgotten the grief and shame Of his non-recogniton
But this has taught US TO LOOK for the Divine in all
disgnises of humility and poverty. God sometimes
visits US as the Governor does to-day, with the trum-
pets to blow before him. and his ministers in flaming
red and gold Then we all turn out and take him by
the hand, and cay, How pious we are, how
devoutp But lie much oftener waits for us in the
form Of beggar, slave, fugitive, and 1t is only
after we have done such an one justice or inustlce
that we hear the deep and awful word, Thou hast
done it unto Me-
% So, Brothers, look beyond the comforts and
pleasures Of the present moment-look beyond the
ambitions Of the Forum-look beyond the successes
or reverses Of the Textbook over there down South
at the slave unjusty bought uDjustly sold unlusly
detained from bis heritage upon EARTH God has
new disguise to.day-see that ye find it out. The
slave, the slave is your Master Creditor now; aud
the debt of his bondage be not speedily paid, the
writ of execution viii be put into the stately house
of our Northern Liberties. And we shall see it
stripped and di,honored, and we shall deserve TO
see It."
And IL I had said all this, I know not whether they
would have taken me by the hand, or whether they
would have led me out with rope around my neck
Candidate for the nearest horsepond, but this 40
know that should have been glad to have sad H.
and glad to have taken the consequences of it, what
ever they might have been.
But here, as usual, have broken from the traces
and dashed out on gallop of my own, leaving the
Governors coach standing, and all matters IN con-
fused incompleteness. And have left no room 70
tell you about the Ball. for, you see, am pressed
down in my column like Jack in the Box, and having
to-day filed two Of them, must not overflow into
third Bat IL TIE TRIBUNE Association permit as
reasonably hope they will, will turn myself in
tho armchair, light another cigarette, and after
brief pause, go on to tell you how they dress and
dance at Barns,able, and how the Cadets gorhedthe
Ball.