New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-26

by its continuance we must expect National explo
sion. The present geuerntun cannot appreciate
the purity OF my motves0r he value of my eXertions
look 20 pOsteTity for good reputation The unhOIL
offspring Of those vino are living will revere thc
coudemnatOry decision Of my contemporaries without
presumIng to rank myself among tnen do not forget
"offscouring Of the earth" are lauded beyond
measure; do that Christ and Hts apostles
harmless, indebted and prudent as they were-werc
bueted. illuminated and crucfied and therefore my
soul is steady 10 MS pursuit as the needle 90 the pole
II we would land deluged IN blood, musf
instantly asunder the shackes of the ssvestreat
the as rsti9nsi ana i9ureu Deihgssve men IaIs w.
cultivate ana the means OF employment, ana m1iupH
schools for themselves ard children We shall tten
have little 10 fear Tue widest beasts may be snbdued
and rendered gentle by kind treatment Make the
slaves fTee and every iLducement to revolt j. taken
aNa1' a, Nve nv u'sleh 81 90 Cliihoi si
against The Lfberdtor II Is to prevent puoc indlsna-
ton from resting upon the system OF slavery and 10
concentrate IL uGou my own head That system con-
tains the materials of scl;-destruction.
The National ItollgeRcer spoke for the statesman
ship Of that time but how wild, incoherent, IN
lust and illogical were its utteranccs Mr.. Carl
son deemed fanatic; but mark the wisdom
and truth of his words the reasonabeness Of his ap-
peals the justice " denunciations and the calm
of his reliance upon the Judgment of Posterity
The extracts have given above are of the body
and spirit of the times. They reveal, as nothing
else would, the deuslon that rested upon the peo-
pie at that day. and show those of this generation
what courage, what faith in God. what love for hui
manity, and what spirit of selfslcrifce it re-
quired to begin the fight with American slavery If
Garrison had faltered and retreated, what calam-
ties might not have befalen the Nation! The fate
of the Republic according to limited vision, de-
pended upon the fidelity Of single man for If the
Nation had gone on SHINING against light for an
other generation, where would have been the hope
of its rescue from the ruthless clutch of the Slave
Power7 Already il had sunk into stupor from
which the most powerful and startling blasts of
l. "a nd
some degree of moral sensibilty. little more
druggng of conscience, and perchance the call for
reform would have been too late, and the Republic
founded by Washington, Adams and Jefferson might
have persisted in the foul embrace of slavery
Is there not in this lesson for the present hour
On every side we hear the voices Of men claiming to
be statesmen, who brand as enmity TO the South
every plea for the equal rights of the negro; who
ask Us stop to the cry of men driven from
the balotbox and defrauded Of their wages by vio-
lence, and to close eyes to the frauds by which
the South has been made " solid in order to gam
by political power the substance of what she failed
10 achieve BY the sword. We are told on the one
hand that 1t is perfectly patriotic and reasonable
for the semi-civilzed South 10 be unit in her OPP
position to the vast majority of the intelligent peo-
pie of the North and the other that 1t Is unpat-
rOtic unreasonable and cruel, revival Of ali the
worst passions anu enIlIes OF IIo war,
ter to resist the efforts of the former to rule the Ma
ton by an alliance with the men of the Northern
sumsl The sirens who are filling our with this
song disguised under smooth and seductive phrases,
are the natural descendants of the men of prevl-
GUS generation who were forever seeking to lul the
North into indifference to the negros wrongs, and
always ready with some new compromise in the In
terest Of the slaveholding class If the enfrlnchsed
men of the South were white the North would be
all on fire with Indignation over their wrongs, and
ready to exert the last iOta of constitutional power
for their protection. Above all would they take
that the oppressOrs should not, by any political
combination whatever, gain an ascendancy over the
Republic. Let US have the principle and the cour-
age to do for the negro what should not hesitate
to do for the white The voice of Garrison cries
TO us out of his freshly made grave bidding Us not
to waste the heritage for us by his indomitable
courage, and by the blood and bravery of our SOL
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