Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-11-04

= efiieis, sud threatened i,v the Southern
; ers. i'nd domin cred ..vcr hy ;he South
: ernerS, yet now Great Britain has thrown
: her arms of love around the Southernt +.
a and tuin- from the Nnriherners. She
8 d'r'i: hsF~ ",r'v To sty that she ha,
; been caught iu Very Suspicious circum
stances. Bat | have said II. perhaps, q:
+ much a. anything else, for this very sake
! Ito bring out from you tris expression
? to let on know 81 hat We know. that al
the hostility felt i'll my country toward
= Great Britain has been sudden. and
: want you to say TO me, and through me
: TO my countrymen. that these irritations
) against the North. and those likings fol
, the South, that have been expressed in
your papers, are not the feelings of the
f~eAt msss of your patton. Great cheer
Ing, the audience rising These cheers
already sound in my ears as the coming
acclamations of friendly nations-those
waving handkerchiefs are the white han
hers that symbolic peace for all countries.
J Join with US, then, Britons. From you
We learned the doctrine of what man is
. worth; from you we learned to detest all
} expressions; from you we learned that II
Was the noblest thing a man could do to
die for principle. And now, when we
are set in that very course. and are giving
our best blood for principle, let the world
understand that when America strikes
for the liberty of the slave and of the
common people, Great Britain indorses
herr And now | come To the period in
which / myself became an actor. From
that time to this there has been no i'm
portant movement on the subject of pub
lie affairs in the connection of slavery
that have not either had a part in it or
been a most interested and anemate OBJ
server of it, and shall tell you, not what
:. believe, but what / know. 1t was ex-
: tremely difficult TO get the voice of the
public. Those that first attempted il
Were made ell nigh martyrs. remem-
Der full well when Burness Prest was mob.
bed in Cincinnati and dragged into the
Ohio, Tor no other reason than for anti
slavery sentiments. / remember the early
martyrjOnIs. and for two years, with my
Packets tilled with pistols-to the horror,
suppose, OF those peace-loving Slavery
men-l patrolled the streets, made spec
ial constable for the defense of these poor
creatures houses. suppose it was very
naughty TO meddls- with firearms; but
then | WIS not minister; then | was
only a student iur the ministry. and did
not fire the pistols off once Mr. Weld,
Mr.-Garrison, Allen Stewart-now gone
and a multitude of men whom ought to
have prepared myself to mention, that
might not, i'll mentioning the few seem to
neglect the many These were the pio
neers. You have been pleased to say in
this address that have been one of those
pioneers. / unloosed the shoe-latches OF
those pioneers, and that is all. was but
little more than boy, and bear witness
that, the hardest blows and the most cru
el suherings were endured 10y men before
! was thrust far enough into public life to
take any particular share. and do nc,
consider myself entitled TO rank anon,
the pioneers. They were better men than |
|. Those noble men did resist this down |
ward tendency of the North. They were |
rejeeted by society. To he called an All
olItionist excluded man from respecta-
ble society in those days. To be called all |
Aoolitionist blighted any mans prospects
IN political life IN those days. To be call |
ed an Abolitionist marked mans store
-hisyery customers avoided him as if he
had the plague. To be called an Abo
litionist in those days shut up the DOOR
of confidence from him in the church
S>nd he Was regarded as disturber of the
peace. Nevertheless, they maintained
their testimony. Little by little they
gained the conscience; they gained the
understanding And as, when old Luther
spoke. laundering in the ears of Europe
the long buried treasures of the Bible.
there were hosts against him, and the
elect few. nevertheless. gathered little bN
little themselves. Many luthers thun-
dered Gods truth of human liberty, and
they were followed more and more for
half score OF years, until they began to
be numerous enough to be an influential I
army in the State elections. In lS4S. /,
think II was, when that Buffalo platform
was laid, it was the first endeavor in the
Northern States to form platform that
should carry rebuke to the slave-holding
IDEAS in the North. Before this, however,
there was help given US from the South:
md | can say that, under God, the South
have done more to bring on this work oil
than the North itself /
First they began to declare, after the days {
of Calhoun, that they accepted slavery no
more as misfortue, but as a divine bles-
'ing. Mr.. Calhoun advanced the doctrine /
which i now the marrow of secession, that /
I Was the duty OF Government not mere {
y TO protect States from interference. but {
I was the duty OF the General Govern '
nent to make Slavery equal with Liberty. a
These monstrous doctrines began 10 be c
he development of future ambitions i
The South having the control of Govern a
nent, knew from the inherent weakness c
If their system that if it were confined @
t was as huge flock of herds pasturing q
IN small pastures, that soon gnaws the I
,rass 10 the roots, and must have other T
PASTURE or it dies. Slavery is of such a C
lature that if you do not give it continual t
hange OF feeding ground it must die
Ind then came one after another the as 7
ertions of the South of rights never S
of. From them came the Mex
can war for territory; from them came ?
'exas and its entrance aS slave State; j
rom them came that organized rowdyism v
n Congress that brow-beat every North
rn man who had not sworn fealty to sla-
cry, that filled all the courts of Europe e
With ministers holding slave doctrines; b
hat gave the majority of the seats on the n
Bench to slave-owning judges; and that J
ave, in fact, all our chief offices of trust, v
o either slave-owners, or to men who Z
icked the feet of slave-holding men, a
'hen came that ever memorable period, I
Then, for the very purpose of humbling n
he North, and making her drink the d
litter cup of humiliation, and making I
hem understand that the North was in i
erior and the South their natural lords, n
'as passed by the Fugitive Slave bill I
here was no need of that There was v
lready existing just as good an instru- !
nent for so internal a purpose as any d
end could have wished. Against the in I
amy my soul revolted, and these lips pro- a
ested, and defed to its face the Gov I
and told them Il will have none
f your unrighteous laws; send me that f
fugitive who is fleeing from his master, b
nd will step between him and his pur L
uer." Not once, nor twice, have my a
oors shut between oppression and the 6
ppressed; and the church itself over {
'hich minister has been the unknown .
efuge of many and many one. But G
'hom the devil promises he cheats e
hat peace, that was the 80 pieces of sill. il
raid For tho Gbricf 4Of v,,ov, al So Il