The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-12-28
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a ,AAUsUlovoty A0ctooo ~ W0qAlngt00
ssAfsw evenings since the Rev. o. =. Brora
sondeliyersd . lecture on the National Crisis .
/ she ssmishsoniah Institute. Washigton, whicl
+ We find reported q length i'm tho National Re
publican. printed .. Washingtep City. An
anothing shows % clearly the wonderful ohans'
which HIS taken place in ths Nstionai Capital
d the delivery Of this lecture in . public build
Ing. attended by large and appreciative audi
bnce who often interrupted ths speaker viii
applause, and the appearance Of the lecture il
Washington newspaper, reported ct length
And ell this in one short year. The delivery q
such lecture last winter would have cost .th,
venerable lecturer his bead. The very conssr
vatiye members Of the Peace Convention would
have turned out in body and treated him to 1
coat OF tar and feathers. But to the lscsurs.-
We shalltreat the reader to Z few paragraph
as samples Of the whole: "a
.aiiIliave told you that l. was a freeman; and
told you what sort Of freedom demanded fol
,mvselE Now that freedom-and I only repeat
the words repeated in Charleston, South Caro-.
lima, in May, lS56-is this. II love liberty
erty; and that which ask for myself, and am
determined to defend for myself Lwill to the
fullest Of my ability extend TO every other man,
be he white or be be black, be he red or be he
yellow, or be he pepper color, Laughter and
loud applause. ! see in the negro q man.,
human being OF the same race with myself Gre
ated by the same God, redeemed By the same
Redeemer, and destined to the same hereafter.
I look upon him - my brother, and I have no
more right to rob him of his rights, aud 70 make
him my slave. than he has to rob me of mine.
[Applause.I shall therefore not regret even
If slavery has to give way; and now that the
test has come, insist on one thing: that this
question Of nationality, and even this question
Of slavery ITSELF shall be forever settled. Loud
applause. do not say that insist that It
shall be settled by abolshing slavery; but say
it shall be so far settled that the subject of the
"eternal niger" will never again be raised in
our politics. Laughter We have too much
Of the negro already; and nov since he has re-
belled, or his master has rebelled, g say that
the stakeholder has given me the right to declare
my own freedom" Ever since have been old
enough to discern things, have heard threaten
ed dissolution of the Union, snd been aved by
it. Because of this, more than thirty years I
have submitted to that bondage; but felt that
the shot that struck Sumter knocked off my own
letters and made me henceforth = freeman,
[m9st enthutastic applause;l and never will I
consent to the restoration OF this Union until ]
am assured that these chains will never again be
thrown around my legs, or those fetlocks placed
on my lips, that may not dare say that my
soul is my o~n, unless endanger the peace and
safety of the Union. Vehement applause. i
This fear has now happily been removed; they
Can no longer threaten, for the worst that the
most timid apprehended is upon u.s. and now
that it is upon US, l say that we should no long.
er crouch and cover beneath the lash Of the
Southern STAKEHOLDER. [Applause1 1 insist
upon it, therefore, that the interest Of this
Union and of this Government shall be no long
er sacrificed to the slave interest, whether con
fined to Maryland, Kentucky or Missouri, or ex-
tended over all the Southern States-that they
shall no longer be allowed to dictate the policy
Of the freemen of the North. Loud applause. !
Il - ~ -
But will YOU free the negros and have all the
horrors of San Domingo upon US? they ask
What were those horrors of San Domingo! How
did they originate? Did they commence with
the slaves, or did they commence with the slave
masters? The Assembly in France-the moth
er country-passed Law declaring colored
people or mulattos free The government of the
colony refused to carry. out the DEGREES of the
Supreme Assembly A commissioner of the
mulattos went and asked them to execute the
laws which bad been made in their favor In
stead of having his petition granted he was Ia
ken, his body horribly mutitated, and then COW
cred with flies, laid in public place on the
sand, there to remain until he died, without any
one being permitted to give him a drop Of wa
ter to quench his thirst or in any way to relieve
his agony. Others were treated in the same
way by the cltiuatric Shareholders of San Domin-
20, for none but chivalrous shareholders ever
could have performed such horrible deeds as
we're there psrpetrated Applause. il
By these base and inhuman acts, the ncgros
were driven to desperation. The negro is a
man for all, and any man when driven to dcsper.
alton becomes tiger in atrocity. After that,
when the mulattos and blacks combined, I grant
there were horrors, but those horrors might
have been avoided if the shareholders had at
first been wise and just 1t was only the terri.
nocent, that was doomed to many guilty head.
And why is it, after all that we have had no
such instructions and horrors in our own coun.
try? You owe it more to the influence of the
class of people you have been accustomed to re.
vile and despise than to any other cause. Zltt
SomM are indebted more to the Abolikionisks Of III
NORTH for the peaceful possession of their aares
Mdn to any other class of people. You ask me
why? Because those men have kept alive in the
heart Of the slave the hope one day of deliv.
erance--of one day having his chains broken o6
and he allowed to 60 Free Deprive him of that
hope, AMI you render him desperate. and cause
him to become q ii ser. am well aware thatit
is hardly decorous to speak of aboitionists with.
out reproachful and contemptuous epithet, :
We have called them fanatics, but have We ever
asked ourselves whether they were fanatics In
any other sense than all living men are fanatics
to the dead? as all earnest men are fanatics q
the lukswarm? All disnterested men are ia.
natics to the selfish. firmly believe had w
heeded their tcarnings earlier, treated them NTH len
contempt, aud given Wore respect to their counsets
pe ,ooud haze been better off today. Loud and
continued applause. -!
1t is asked, "But would you let all the negro,
20 free?" Iwould makeuse, had I the power, ant
were the authority Of the Government of tn,
negros in prosecuting this war in such . way q
might be done with the greatest advantage K
the national cause. Loud applausc.l Rut
| know not what is meant by "letting them loose
as the expression is often used do not snp
pose that any act Of Congress- or any proclama
| tion of tho Government, would be effective an,
further than our forces advanced; and as far q
| our forces advance, they advance to protect an
to govern the people Of the Territories in thei
/ lives, whether they be whites or blacks. d
not believe it would be safe even for white pee
pie to go ungoverned, and, perhaps, I might say
fnr less SO for black and colored people. d
not believe that human nature has yet arrive
to that degree OF perfection. that all govern
meIt and laws can be dispensed with, ask 70
stringent government everywhere, Z, constit,
tional government by all means. not desposi
and arbitrary one, but strong and energeti
! government. capable Of making It's way fe
when necessary for restraining evil doers, an
! coercing the disobedient whether they be State
or whether they be individual. (Applsuse.}
i And this power. as it advances, suppcs
will be able to hold the negro portion Of th
j population in subjection, to prevent them fror
committing crimes, or,enacting any of those hol
| rors which have been depicted, and ct the sam
time protect them from their masters. hav
no objection, if il is necessary, 70 free the slave
to going further if you choose, and have th
ability, and can agree to it, to your removin
/ the black element from free American society
| and giving it home Of its own. Although
we're to express my own conviction, I woul
say that would prefer, at present at least, tbs
the element should remain, for It Is needed j
labor, and needed In the other the gradui
| vorkin0a and Operations of csuaes for that thin