New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-08-27
THE CAUSE AND THE CURE.
4 Speech delivered i'm Bacon's Hall, Rox.
bury, ON Tuesday Evening, Aug H. oy
Eues Sargent, ESQ.

A Speech delivered i'm Bacon's Hall, Rox.
bury, ON Tuesday Evening, Aug. H. BY
Epes Sargent. esq.
Who would not rather act than talk at crisis like
this Why not act, then The question is peril
nently put. There are two tribunals which must
decide it: one, a mans own conscience; the other,
the examining surgeons. Each heart knows its own
bitterness and must weigh lis own reasons. Should
any ipauistive gentleman challenge me on this point
here is my reply: Though an exempt, my time may
ome; and, so far as prearrange IT, II shall Ind
me ready. Ny country, in her hour Of need, shall
not be refused. May God do 80 TO me, and more
also it, while the cause Of that country Is the cause
of Justice, will not in her behalf 20 forth TO battle
--spurn the base death, and win the immortal life.
European Intermediates are continually asking ne,
WHY not consent to an smcable separation And
by this they simply mean, Why not give up to the
authors of this rebellion all they WANT Why not
allow these gentlemen OF tie superior race-the.e
chivalrous Nornans, IN they delight to call them
seyee-lone point Of their chivalry being To hunt
fugitive women with bloodboundsl-why not allow
them to put then feet the neoks of the bassborn
twenty millions Of the Free Slates-thcse commin-
gled Saxons, Celts, and Scandinavian
That man can know little OF our past history or
OF the laws of human nature, who believes, let,
that there could be any Anioable settlement be-
tween the North and the South IN indepchdeut
poyers; 3D. that auy settlement could last three
months unless one OF the contendiny parties had
proved its superiority 10 the other by hard hghing
viii the teeming millions Of the Mississippi VAL
lev ever consent that twentieth par VI ther own
nd'"".. a few arrogant tlavehq'Oonght by Aoitnl
ern money DO not believe IT. New-Orlcals will
be bed Tor fishes before that can lie. Shall We
give up Chesapeake Bay, with its head waters H.
Penns lvapia, and the capital Of the Republic Oh
the rver that ilows into that bay not while the
old flag streams at the masthead Of one Northern
ship! Shall we give up the Gulf OF Mexico, ana
the Florida coast Not till Dupont, and fOole, and
Farrhgut are forgotten.
tellow-ctizens, there never can be q settlement
except by The sword. We must conquer or be con-
quered. We are shut up 10 thu necessity. No
peace that human ingenuity could device would be
better than q chronic war-a war almost as eIpen-
ave rs that we are now wagng. AND we can aud
must conquer. We arc IN tie night. Ouly let that
great thought I'LL our hearts and nerve our arms,
and by tie very laws Of our being We must conquer
For shi is right since God /. Cod
Aud highs tue Gay Hps win;
To doubt would be disoyslty-
To ialtsT would be slu
Napoleon used ~ say, God Is generally the side
Of the heaviest baltalions. There Is truth IN that
too. because, If we are in the right, we ought TO
DO IN earnest; and If We are in earnest, we rhall
put forth strength and 10 II that our bats-
ons are the heaviest. II the COniederates can do
what they dong in a bad cause, what ought We
~ do IN IA righteous OEe-in Tie grand old cause Of
humaD freedom
You sometimes hear it said ave II fight for the
Union, but not for the niger" But what III the
pest way Of fighting for the Union il to flht for tho
ligger-what then' Away with such sordid calcu.
ations You will not fight for the niggerl H. when
line and justice call you will not Ggnt for the poor.
,st and most fOrlorn Of Gods human creatures
igainst oppression-and fight for them all the more
eadily because they are poor and iorlorn-then YOU
nave yet to learn the first rudlments OF Christianity
md Of true manness.
Up TO the attack on Sumter was az forbearing ,n
he most conservative. Not that did not abhor /
slavery, but because l willing to give the very
levi his due, 10 the uiiermoet iarlhlng, under that
Constitution whose protection and whose benefits
vas enjoying. Perhaps was even over--crupnlous
u my desire not 10 countenauce any violation either
II the letter OF the SPIRIT OF that Constitution. Per
laps shut my ears 100 rgidly to the arguments Of
,ood and able who took contrary vews OF our
Perhaps shut my eyes unwisely to
roofs OF the great slaveholding conspiracy which
tbers detected and iorewarned us Of. However
Ills may be, kept aoof from all suspicion of join
~ IN unlawful aggression. But now our r,alIons
10 reversed, antagonistic. Show foIbesfance nOto
how 1t TO the burglar VINO in one moment more
viii have biz revolver at your breast
Certain politicians telling us to "drop the per-
etual niger" ana attend to our enlising. They
re like the fellow who wanted to produce the trig-
dy OF Hamlet with the perpetual" Hamlet ana
II mention OF HIM left ont. What said Crimmler tie
manager, in replyi 1his: alt can't be done, Sir :
Vlthsut Hamlet there would be 10 Ilsy at ar
md just 70, without the niger, there would be 40
nlisting at all-no tragedy-no civil war.
But II is not merely the negro you would regcu..
mink OF the millions OF poor whites, crushed by
lavery into degradation almost lower than That
the born slave, and 10 ignorant IA not 10 rccOg-
ize the pail able cause Of their abject state. be
en, In their own despite, You would enrsnchise
nd elevate, 20 that hereafter if not at once they
'oud rice up TO call you blessed
The path OF duty is happily n this case the gath
victory. An Ohgarchy Of 100000 sl',e' oldelr
70 now subjecng ~, 900, 900 Of white ir,spsu e.
e losses, the calamiiies, the horrors al l07hoot
upendous civil war in the history ii ID, world
nd for what For what in this nlne n'hunuury
lear w. 0 sympatblzing England iaai Il, Palmer.
on and hear it, RUSSELL For Oha simply
order that Slavery may be put Oh secu'cr basis &
may have new guarantees OF extensIon md lor. 4
tuily--and that shareholders may hu"mO IA I
iyicged and governing order III grand shve Old q
x Confederacy, pledged 10 the acquisition oi ever c
w terrIiory for the propagation oil their goddess
spotsm over human bodies and souls Dies any y
al Of common sense doubt thir The Confederate
ice President, Stephens, with an intrepidity worthy
the archangel ruled has boldly proclaimed II I
s declared that Slavery ID the very cornerstone OF
cir new system. Il
by what frauds and bribes-by what appeals TO 4
oper aud natural antpatbles Of caste, Implanted