Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-06-08
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as their legal rations, and the sons to
die in the rice swamp, or to be torn
, by blood-hounds in vain attempt t
escape the degradation, the insults,
the cruelty, the life long agony and
grinding tyranny, of oppression. But
why should we detail the horrors OF
that system which God in his fierce
anger has blotted out forever in the
blood of thousand battle fields? Why
should I speak of iniquity framed in
to law, which deliberately stripped
human beings of their God
given rights, making them stand
naked before their enemies with no
father, no mother, no brother, no sis
ter, no wife, no husband, no child, no
land, no house, no protector, no pro-
lection of law, no standing in court,
no ballot, no property no education,
no bible, no GOD, nothing but mas
ter? system under which no woman
was wife, but every woman moth
err; system which for self-defence
became unit in our national coun-
ellis, and exerted for rs years dom
inant control over this nation, which
terrified the pulpit, and subsidized the
press, and drove free speech from the
republic and compelled the biograph
er of a Scotch maiden to suppress
from publication the maiden's prayer
which ran
II was not born a little slave,
To labor in the sun,
To wish l were but in my grave,
And all my labor done"
But the poor detected and abused
slaves, found friends to champion
their cause in the persons of CARR
son, Sumner, Wendell Philips, Abra-
ham Lincoln and many others, whom
God raised up for that purpose. Wen
dell Phillips was one of the first to
step out and boldly denounce the
wrongs of slavery. William Lloyd
Garrison was another and their inf1u-
ence was a potent power for good in
influencing Charles Sumner TO es-
pouse the cause of slavery, cause
that he fought SO grandly for, and
which won for him laurels unsurpass-
ed by any of Americas greatest stat
esmen or public benefactors. At that
time TO utter a syllable against
slavery in Faneuil Hall, 1.-THE Cradle
of Liberty" was treason against the
Constitution, of the BLACKLIST dye,-at
this time under these circumstances,
on the day of our nations jubilee,
Charles Sumner stood forth before
Boston audience, and proclaimed his
subject, which was, "The True Gran
deur of Nations;n and this grandeur
was peace. And the burden of that
Grafton was, there can be no peace to
a wicked nation, and he boldly de-
nounced slavery as wrong, wicked,
and inconsistent with our boosted
claim of land of Liberty and Free
dom.' s'Never said one who was pres
ent,' shall forget that address, nor
the expression of a young lady sitting
by my side, who said, that is such a
man as I would like for a husband"
Summers Grafton was a thrust at slav-
cry far in advance of anything that
had preceded it, and it set the people
to thinking and talking as never be-
fore about the wrongs of slavery. At
ter about four months agitation of
Summers Peace Grafton, it culminat-
ed in meeting called at Faneuil Hall
by and for all good citizens opposed
to the admission Of Texas as a Slave
State. The battle between slavery
and freedom was now fully opened.
The slave power had thus far tri-
umphed. The advocates of slavery
were defiant and strong. Men in Bos-
ton were as arrogant in its defence as
men in South Carolina. At this cit
Sumner appeared hand in hand with
Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd
Garrison We are told that the ''men
of wealth and standing in Boston,
cared not fig about Garrison. 1t
was all the same to them, whether he
had a rope about his neck or a cotton
handkerchief. But that Charles Sum
ner, their pet child, the eminent
scholar, the true gentleman, the adj
rnired and commended law lecturer,
the friend Of Story, and Chancellor
Kent; and Wendell Philips, the most
eloquent man of the day, belonging
to one of the most honored and con-
sentative families of the Common
wealth,-that these men should ap-
pear there with such rabble, to ad-
vocate such a cause was too much.
Having no principle to guide them, as
John Quincy Adams said, this was
conundrum they could not under
stand; and when Charles Sumner Of