Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1863-03-27
Noble Sentiments.


The following extract is from the Rev
Newman Halls speech at the late grea
Emancipation Meeting at Exeter Hall
/ England:
"The heart of England is sound OF
the question, though her voice has no
yet been sufficiently heard. We have
indeed been satirized as about to hold {
4" Carnival of Can't" but since the same
satirist regards as cant the only practica
efforts of the day for rescuing the slaves
of intempersnce and for retaining fallen
women, and has lately adduced the Bible
in support of slavery, we feel that Shy il
to be dispraised is no small praise" !
hate all cant-religious cant, philanthro-
pic cant. But of all cant | hate most
that which denounces as cant all earnest
conviction which is not after its own type
the widespread and dangerous cant Of
selfshness and irreligion. Deferred by
no such tauns as these, we are resolved
to affirm throughout the land the propo-
sition with which l started-that war,
the horrors of which we all lament, hav-
ing broken out between the northern and
southern states, the sympathies of free
England must be with the north rather
than with the south, because with the
success of the rorth rather than with the
south is identified the great cause of ne
gro emancipation. And in affirming this
we wish also 10 give renewed and en-
phatic utterance to few simple princi-
Piles which should be regarded as axiom
attic in all assemblies of Englishmen.-
These principles are such as these -
that God has made of one blood all ma
tons TO dwell upon the face of all the
earth )" that there is no right so sacred
as that which man has to himself, no
wrong SO fragrant as that of rob5ing a
man of himself; that it is an abomina-
ton to steal a man and to sell him that
it is no less an abomination to breed
man and to sell him and for man to
barter away his own offspring for gold;
that it is an abomination to expose men
and women on the auction block, and feel
their muscles and hand them over to the
highest bidder as you would cattle; that
it is an abomination to deny woman the
rights of chastity and maternity that it
is an abomnation judicially to declare
that colored man has no rights which a
white man need respect: that it ia an
nomination to fog naked woman, whe-
her she be Hungarian countess or an
African slave; that it is an abomination
10 fine, imprison, mug, and on the repeti-
ton Of the act, hang man for teaching
another man to read the Bible; that it is
a hideous blasphemy to cite that Bible of
a God of love, in defence of such abom-
nations; that confederacy ofmen fight
ing in order to commit these abomina-
lions should be regarded as engaged in a
portentous piracy rather than in legitim-
ate warfare; that the conscience and
heart of free England can never wish to
recognize an empire avowing as its cor
Ter stone the right to maintain these
nominations; and lastly, as the recogni-
ion of an empire involves the reception
f its ambassador, the loyalty of Great
Britain loatbs the very idea of such an
ndignity being offered to the Royal La
y we delight to venerate, as that her
ure, matronly, and widowed hand which
Yields only the sceptre of love over the
rec, should ever be contaminated by the
iss of any representative of so foul
against civilization, humanity,
nd Godp'