Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-07-19
CASTELAR, on Lincoln.

ties, on the question OF emancipation:
| wish to present you another ex-
ample of decided purpose to accom-
plish gradual abolition, which was
forced to conclude by Immediate abo-
lition. refer to the example OF Amer
lea. = = The Puritans are the
patriarcbs of liberty; they opened a
new world on the earth; they opened
a new path for the human conscience;
they created a new society. Yet,
when England tried to subdue them
and they conquered, the republic tri-
umphed and Slavery remained. Wash
ington could only emancipate his
slaves. Franklin said that the Vir-
ginian5 could not invoke the name Of
God, retaining Slavery. Jay said that
all the prayers America sent up to
Heaven for the preservation OF liber-
ty while slavery continued, were mere
blasphemies. Mason mourned over
the pavement his descendants must
make for this great crime of their ia
theirs. Jefferson traced the line where
the black wave Of Slavery should be
stayed.
Nevertheless, Slavery increased con-
tinually. l beg that you will pause a
moment to consider the man who
cleansed this terrible stain which OBJ
Scured the stars of the American ban
ner. | beg that you will pause a mo-
ment, for his immortal name has been
invoked for the perpetuation Of Sla-
very. All the past century has not,
the century to come will not have, a
figure so grand, because as evil disap-
pears, so disappears heroism also.
| have often contemplated and de-
scribed his life. Born in cabin of
Kentucky, of parents who could hard
ly read; born a new Moses in the
solitude Of the desert where are forg-
ed all great and obstinate thoughts,
monotonou5 like the desert, and, like
the desert, sublime; growing up
among those primevaI forests, which,
with their fragrance, send cloud OF
incense, and, with their murmurs, a
cloud of prayers to heaven; a boat
man at years in the impetuous cur
rent of the Ohio, and at Il IL the
vast and tranquil waters Of the Mis-
sissippi; later, woodman, with ak
and arm telling the immemorial trees
to open a way to unexplored regions
f for his tribe of wandering workers
reading no other book than the Bible,
> the book of great sorrows and great
, hopes, dictated often by prophets to
the sound Of letters they dragged
through Nineyeh and Babylon; child
of Nature, in a word by one Of those
miracles only comprehensive among
free peoples, he fought for the couu-
: try, and was raised by his tellow-cltl'
zens to the Congress at Washington
: and by the nation to the Presidency
. of the Republic; and when the evil
4 grew more virulent, when those States
=. were dissolved, when the Shareholders
uttered their war cry and the slaves
: their groans Of despair-the woodcut
= ter, the boatman, the son Of the great
f West, the descendant Of Quakers
f humblest OF the humble before his con
!. science, greatest Of the great before
}. history, ascends the Capitol, the great
}. est moral hight Of our time, anC
# strong and serene with his conscience
D and his thought; before him a veteran
: army, hostile Europe behind him
# England favoring the South, France
e encouraging reaction in Mexico, in hi:
/ hands the riven country; he arms TIVE
5 millions OF men, gathers a half million
l. of horses, sends his artillery l2O(
r miles in a week from the banks Of tht
! Potomac to tne shores Of Tennessee
fights more than 600 battles; renew
before Richmond the deeds of Alexan
der, Of Caesar; and, after haviny
emancipated 100000 slaves, tina
y nothing might be wanting, he dies il
: the very moment Of victory, like Christ
u ike Socrates, like all redeemers, a
> the foot of his work. His work Sub
It lime achievement! over which human
L ity shall eternalIy shed its tears, ant
le God his benedictions! Great ap
II plause.
- But Lincoln, you will tell me, at
u tempted gradual emancipation. Thi
y is true; | naver evade the truth
q But the privileged classes shut thei
eyes and opposed it, as they shu
: their eyes here and oppose every pre-
: found and radical reform. And In
-" mediate abolition came. When a ma
u u Of the wisdom and political prudenc
d Of Abraham Lincoln appealed to ST
: preme measures, it was because h
Z was convinced that the hope Of con
promise was gone, that gradual step
a a are impracticable in reforms demand
u ed by justice and humanity. Sine
u then, the United States, having turne
NJ their slaves into men, have devote
:! themselves to converting these me
10 into citizens.
y And today, gentlemen, those b.
- ings who were formerly not even mel
II are freer than the first of the sons {
., Europe. Those men who could nc
- learn to read, because the Souther
:. gentlemen murdered any one VII
- would dare to give them book, hay
~ to-day innumerable schools Thos
u men who were like beasts of burden
i wretched as the reptiles that crawle
IL among the cotton and the cane, al
free men, are American citizens; the
10 sit in the Congress and the Senate {
" Washington. The United States hay
u refused to recognize as members
~ the Federation those States whiC
ia have not in their turn recognized tt
nc liberty and the equality Of the negroe
re You talk to me of exceptional law
- Many have you given to sustain tt
n0 influence of priests aad the tyranny
.: =: kings. | admit your exceptions
III you will present me 100000 beas
Us converted into 100000 men.
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