Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-26

ening to the heart, so corrupt
ing to tha morals, 60 delecteriou
to rehgio1. 80 sapping to all tn
principles: of justice in its imme
diate vicl.,ty, that the community
thus connected with it lack tn.
moral power necessary to its re-
moval. 1t is q system of such
gigantic evil, 80 strong, so over.
whelming in its power that no on.
nation is equal to its removal. 1,
requires the humanity of Chris
tianity, the morality of the civilized
world to remove it. Hence, I call
upon the people of Britain te look
at this matter, and to exert the in
fiuence l am about to show they
possess for the removal of slavery
from America. I can appeal to
them as strongly by their regard
for the stakeholder as by their re-
gard for the slave to labor in this
cause. The distance between
London and Boston is now reduced
to twelve or fourteen days, so that
the denunciations against slavery
uttered in London this week may
be heard in afortnight in the streets
OF Boston, and thence reverberat-
ing amidst the hills and valleys of
Massachusetts. There is nothing
said here against slavery that will
not be. recorded in the United
States. 1 am here also because tho
shareholders do not want me to be
here. I have adopted the maxim
laid down by Napoleon: never to
occupy ground which the enemy
would like me to occupy. The
shareholders would much rather
have me, if I will denounce slavery,
denOunce it in the Northern States,
where their friends and supporters
are, who will stand by them and
mob me for denouncing it. . The
power I exert here is something
like the power that is exerted by
the man at the end of the lever; nv
influence now is just in proportion
TO my distance from the United
States.
In the same speech, referring to
the barbarous laws of the slave code,
lenying that as accused, he was in
against "the institutions of
and asserting that his
'nly purpose was to strip this
anomalous system of concelement, |
le said:
'To tear off the mask from this
system to expose it to
he light of heavens; aye, to the
'eat OF the sun, that it may burn
md wither it out of existence is my
'bject in coming to this country.
want the stakeholder surrounded
8 by a wall of anti-slavery fire, so
hat he may see the condemnation
t himself and his system glaring
own in letters of light. I want
i'm to feel thathe has no sympathy
4 England, Scotland, or Ireland
hat he has none in Canada, none in
lexico. none among the poor wild
ndians that the voice of the civil
ed, aye. the savage world is against
i'm. l would have condemnation ,
laze down upon him in every {
lreciion, till, stunned and over
helmed with shame and confusion,
. is compelled to let go the grasp
. holds upon the persons of his
ctims and restore them to their :
ng-lost rights" t
That, like other prominent Abo- c
ionists of those days, he overrat- {
the power of truth, and under t
timated the power Of slavery and v
J tenacity of life, appears in the +
me speech, and in this connec- a
IN, when he says: II expose slav- !,
y IN this country because to ex- :
se it Is to kill it. Slavery is one "
those monsters of darkness to r
lom the light of truth is death. "
pose slavery, and it dies. Light g,
to slavery what the heat of the o,
u is to the root of a tree; it must A. =,
> under it." MIR. Douglass had u
t to live long-his own career al
the most convincing evil *
nee of the fact-to see that some n
ng more than eight" was neces- Il
y to destroy slavery. To expose
was not to kill it. al
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