New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-29

Qlcnce, IL Is ike rowing up cataract. !
takes live fish indeed. to go up the falls
These men had to be orators in order I
beat against Church and State. They wer
| orators.
Think of Wendell Phillips demonstrating
| TO house full of Jackson Democrats, tina
TOuscaint LOverture, OF San Domingo, wa
greater than Cromwell, and would have hi!
name written in blue, above the name o
Washington, making them believe it-fol
| an hour or so.
| can not stop to call the roll of these
men who knew the old answer to the Ques
ton in the catechism, "What is the chief
end of man p and refused to repeat the
popular answer of the time, which was "To
save the Union
The conscience of the nation, exceptng
the fanatics, seemed to be torpid on the
that the evil tree was down. but hesitated
| to chop, for fear it would snatch the State
and the Church in its fall.
1t seemed impossible to take it out by the
roots without spelling the bottom OF the
country; men were bewildered with cOnsti-
tutional scruples, hunting the Bible to get
comfort out of the sins of the patriarchs,
quoting Paul, sending back Onesimus, leav-
ing out Paufs words, "Onesimus a faithful
| and beloved brother They did not want
that. and in those days they did not see
! anything in the Bible that they did not
| want to see.
1t seems almost incredible that Burns and
Sims were sent BACK to slavery from Boston
But people feared men SO much that they
| could not fear God. The higher law had
no visible marshal or prison to enforce it.
Men are more afraid of jail next door
than of hell in the next century.
Something had to happen beside speech
| making in order to shock the people into
sense. 1t needed blow. Flogging was
poir IN in tho Grlf Stotas buf voII cnuld
| not hear the swish of the lash in Massachu-
setts The average man is not much
touched by the suffering of his neighbor
thousand miles away; we could not hear
the hounds after the fugitive: we read Of a
slave auction, but we thought the report
was made by the Oriental mind.
In 1856, think. Mr.. Sumner made the
great speech on 1.-The Barbarism of Slavery
showing that the chain of the slave went
around the neck of the master and the
heart of the mistress, that as one member
suffered all the members suffered with it.
That slavery was not local pain confined |
to the blacks, but poison in the circula- |
man who owned him. That it dehumanized !
IN the cabin and in the Senate. Now few |
would have believed that north of the |
Ohio.
So the wrath of man in the shape of Pres
ton Brooks with a club praised God by |
making demonstration. That cowardly
dow finished what the argument OF Sum
ner had attempted.
Proof of barbarisn before many wit
nesses. The news Of that going over the
wires tingled. The timid deprecating palm
OF the Northern spirit began to double into
a hst and the dough face to wrinkle.
Paul gloried in his ntirmity his chained
wrist gave him freedom to get at mems
hearts. What happened to Sumner lifted
his cause and him. 1t became him to suffer
into fame tor himself and reality for his
idea. 1t is the old sure way. The world
70 night looks up for inspiration and life to ,
the hand that was nailed to the cross. We
love what we suffer for, l believe, be it
ch!ld, or cause, or country. As the blood
drlps from the color-bearer, his hand stitfens
about the staff You shall find him dead
by and by, with his hand frozen IN the :
grip OF duty fast to the splintered symbol. q
SO with Summer. Those blows upon him
rom the elected crucitier nailed him to his !,
principles. From that time on until dying, :
re said, take care OF my civil rights bill.' :.
his man has been true and steady, in sea- I
ION and out of season to the theme OF his !.
DISCOURSE, viz: Equality OF men before the I.
aW. He always held the principle: for ',
he eighteen years since Brooks came behind >
nm, the principle has held him. He was, l,
IKE Paul, apprehensive of it. We have ~
item been tired or if, wanted change. -
|
yes. IL
take delight to look back at his straight Il
7ake, as he was following his zone idea q
'NE-but a mighty one. q
The conscience or the nation never slept | =
gain after his speech; became a little a.
roWsy perhaps, and then John Brown ~
ent down past the Senate Chamber little u
lrlher into the enemies territory: that he II
'lght also suffer and I'LL up that which was :.
ehlndhand He said nothing, but made -. ~
unset OF no reputation, became one with =.
le slave; was found in fashion, as a slave; 81
ltered into their statement down-not u,
lat they should suffer with, but that they -,
lould rise by him into life; also, that we u
encetorth might glory in the gallows. III III
ick OF them, the conscience Of the North, sc
Millions against MIN: seventeen men with 81
N; and behind that God, watching to see L Li'
nat 1T would do about it, to see if it would -, Az
low the New Testament when it saw it, III
1t was enough; it served. The assault W.
ION Sumner, and hanging of John Brown, an an
counted to revival in this country-put :; ~
cry body on the anxious seat. ~
The jar OF that body descending shook -"
'Wn the avalanche; when that pendulum 81
ased to vibrate the clock that kept the =.
ne OF slavery stopped. The death of e..
an Brown rlpened the wrath of the ao
.hteous. COZ
need not remind you of the course of ma
lt Is straight path, following after
,hteousness; and when the war was done
GLOWING mercy also.
lhere were those who, when the war was of
ng on, sat by a hot stove and wondered fro
hy the army did not move" Ii is SO ish
y 10 move your finger southwark on a ma
Zed and shining map. Easier than to ano
We an army wagon in Tennessee mud. to {
ce the war, some of the same theorists ! pie
ing still by the same hot stove, have bea
nted to hang all the white people, with a old
exceptions, south of the Ohio; would | ty-e
to have national poOrhouse filed lect
h the widows and orphans of the vic tair
8, but would not like to support them retl
lereIn Mr. Sumner sho wed the width of gat
principle. lJ was wide enough to in hon
de mankind. He was not so eager in up ben
ting slavery as to roll it bottom side up, fair
ties under. H wanted to get rid of mig
cry, not simply the color of it-put G.
tie and black side BY side before the law | tuui
had to pull lately in some directions as | evln
as push The principle of Sumner takes friel
lot only Africans, Indians, Cinnamon | mar
white men. gent
ne trouble in the Gulf States now is the
'tlon OF color. The white candidate for
iIce IN Louisiana feels that his COM
Ion IS against him, and SO looks as r.
as he can, and openly and in unmen- Con
able ways expresses his preference for NJ.
color. MISS
o fact is, think that if we must have spon
cry, the old kind is the least bad. A tweI
master or a white New England mas III
are not to be thought of and live, mitt
ere is this battle flag resolution Some tors
lie, chiefly those who were not in the
e, took OfieQse at il and ceusured | Penn