New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-19

melodion4 patbos with stn gng satire with cracking
epigam and limpid humor like the bright rppies that
play around the sure and steady prov Of the resstess
ship Like an Illuminated vase Of od0rs, he glowed
with concentrated and perfnmed fire. The divine
energy Of his conviction utterly possessed him, ana Ms
Pure and eloquent blood
spoke in hs cheek mi 40 distinctly wrongg.t
Was II Periclcs swaymg the Athenhn mnlu',mei
Was 70 Apollo breathing the music Il the morning from
his lips Il was American patriot. modern -on OF
liberty. with sOul az firm and a. true ~ was ever
c0nsecrated 20 unsesh duty, pleading with the Amer
lean Coincidence for the chained and speeches. victims
Of American humanity.
THE SOVEREIGN POWER or SLAVERY.
How terribly earnest WAS che antisiayery contest
this generation little knows But t. understand
Phillip must recall the situation Of the country.
When he joined the Abohonists and for more than
twenty years afterwarI. Slavery sat supreme 10 the
White House. and made laws in the Capitol Courts
Of Justice its Ministers and LcglsiatuTes rs
larkcys IL siienced the preacher I'D the pulpit IL hH
lied the editor at his Ge-. and the professor I'D i7
Texture II set price upon the head Of peaeefu
citizens, robbed the mails, and denounced ne vlta
principle Of the Declaration OF Independence az treason
In states whose laws did not tolerate sla' ey slavery
ruled TIE club and the drawingr)om, the factory ant
the Office staggered Mt the dinner table and scouEed
with scOfn, c0wardly society IL tore the golden
rule from school books, and from the Drayerb0ok the
pictured beuigny Of Christ IL prohibited IN the nee
states schools for the hated race, and hunted W. men
who taught children 90 read IL forbade free people
10 communicate with their representatives. seized terri
tory to extend ts and confirm It's sovereignty ana
plotted 20 steal % make if empr" nipregnable
and the free Republic of the United states impossible
Scholars. dyines men and women IN every church IN
every porty, raj ed individual voice. IN earnest pT"'e
They sighed against hurricane There lad been such
protest in the country for two centuIescoi9nal pro
visions and TestTlct0us.thc fiery voice OF Nhthcd IN
the SOuth.-thc calm persuasion Of NOcuan ~ TIE
middle cO0lc-.-the heroIsm at Hopkins IN hhode
I.laud-the eloquence of Rush in Pennsylvania Ihere
had been EmanC patton Societies az the Norm ana nc
the South-argumeuts and appeals, and threats, M the
Congress Of the Contedertdu-in the Constitutl2n4i
ConventiOn-iu the Congress OF the CnlOn-thefe h+d
been the words and The viii OF Washington. warn
ing of Jefer-On,-the conserving testimony Oi the
reyered fathers Of the Government; always the ma
tOna conscience somewhere silently pleading, aN ays
the finger of the world steadily pointing in scorn But
here after all the protests and the rehuke and the en-
deayor, the mali IN power, which, when the Con
-titution formed, had been but the shrinking
Afrcet bound in the clsket, now towering and resist
less lie had kicked his casket into the sea- and
hnughtiiy defyng the conscience OF the country hd
the moral sentiment of mankind demanded absolute
control Of the Republic As the price Of union-!he
Republic anxious only submit and to call submission
statesmansbip.
THE DUTY AND PERIL OF AGITATION.
IT, then the work Of the Revolution to he saved.
and independent America 20 become free America
the first and paramount necessity to arouse the
country Agitation was the duty Of the hour. CARR
son was certainly not the first Abolitonst: was
Inrber the first Protestant But Luther brought all
the wandering and separate rays of protest to foGns
and kndled the contest for religious freedom ~ when
Of immediate and complete abolition, Slavery instnc,
lively foreseeing its doom, sprang To Ms feet ana
Joined. with the heroism Of despair, IN the dcath
graphic with Liberty from which. after generation,
Liberty arose unbrused and victorious II - nara TOT
the survivors of generation 10 which Abotionlst was
a word suggesting the OdiOus fanacism furious
defamation nOnsensical and dangerous gro
te-que and sanctimOnOus playing with nle u apoW"er
agazne to believe that the names Of the two repre-
sentative Aboltionists will he written with sunbeam
A. Phillips saws IF Touissant high many hon0red
name. But history looking before and after, reaJusts
contemporary Judgments Of men and events In all
the essential qualities Of heroic action Luther naming
his challenge to the church, upon the church own
door hen the church supreme 10 Europe-NI liam
Tell in the romantic legend serenely seoning to bow
10 the cap of Geser. when Gesers troops held all the
market place. not nObler figures than Harrison and
Phillips. In the hCsr Of the complete possession Of the
country by the power OF slavery, demanding Immediate
and unconditional emancipation zone oI ap"i"sy' oi
depreciation regret, more becomes an American, III
speaking Of the Aboitonsts. than in speaking OF the
sons of Liberty in the Revolution. and every tribute OF
honor and respect which gladly pay ~ the lllustr
ous fathers of American Independence l. paid a.
worthy to their sons, the pioneers OF Anereah nee
dom.
That freedom was secured indeed by the mion Of
many forces. The abolition movement was moral a2l
taon II was a voice crying in the Wilderness. A an
American movement 1t was approached ior holding
aoof from the American political method but 10 me
order Of time the moral aw lkonng precedes political
action. Politics founded IN COMPROMISE and eX-
pedencv. and had the Abolition leaders paused to
parcy with prejudice and interest and personal ambi-
f,n in order 10 smooth and conciiate aud persuade
their duty would have been undone. When the alarm
bell n night has brought tine aroused citizens ~ the
street they viii organize their action. But the In.er
OF the bell bctrays his trust when he ceases To stue
LIBERTY PREFERABLE TO UNION.
To vote was to acknowledge the Constitution. was to
offer premium upon slavery by granting more political
mower for every slave. Il was to own AN obligation
to return innocent men 10 mspeaiablc degradation.
and 10 shoot them down IT, with thousandioId greater
reason than our fathers they resisted oppression.
Could Americans do this! Could honest men do this.
Could great country do this and not learn 'o9her or
later by chastity cyI critncc the truth which george
Mason praclaiucd-thdt Providence Furnishes national
sin, by national caiamite>! The tnlon sald " rndci.
Phillips with a camness that enchanted while II
nailed rl3 Union II called the very of the American
c,vpnant brt ha. not idoatry 0l the Mon Deen the
chief buwarI Of slavery. and in the words. and deeds
and spirits Of the most vehement uon savlors who
den0unce agitation can any nope Oh emancipation ne
deserted H. then. under the sacred charter Of the
Union sI1yery has grown to this atupendGus height
throwing fhe shadow of death over the land j. not the
Union ~ il exist. the foe OF liberty and honest
Is affirm thar II j. the sole surviving hope OF ire dom IN
the worldi Long ago the great leaders of or parties
hus he'd their voices. and whispered that even to speak
of slavery WAS 20 endanger RE Ihon; - NOT thi,
enough sons Of Otis and Of Adams. OF Franklin and
Of jay, ready for union upon the runs 9tfIee
Even nile he spoke there sprsng up around him ne
marshaled host Of an organized political party Wllch
raising the Constitution - banner Oh LFeed"m
marched TO the polls TO make the Union the citadel of
liberty He indeed had rejected the constitution ana
the Union the bulwark Of slavery But he and the
nnsc and were coufounded in a condemnation
And who shall count the in thai political army,
and who the generous heroes 0f the actual War, ia
whose young hearts bis relentless denuneiuon oi the
Union had bred the high resolve that under the pro
tecon of the Constitution and by its own lawful power
the slave Union which LIE denounced should be- lis
oIyed in the fervd glorv OF q ne Union of feedoml
Ills plea Indeed did persuade his friends and was
fr-6uslv spurned by his foes. Hang Phillips ami
Yaneev together hang the Aboli.iOnst and the fire
eafar and We shall have peace. ,Ted mingled wrath
and terror ~ the absorbing debate deepeued toward
civil war But still, through the startling flash and
over the thunder peal with which the tempest burst,
that cry rang out undsmayed, Deenda Car hago'-Ihe
awful storm has rolled away The warning voice Is
stiled forever But the slave Union whose destruction
he sought is dissolved and the glorious Union of free
dom and equal rights which his soul desired Is the
blc-sad Union of to-day.