The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1899-02-01

C00 keys IN the 080OS OF lUU OJU6r00G
men and they scattered to 100 different
places, and they stand musing as to
what invention in all the dominions Of
mind and matter can be produced to
make the impossibility Of the escape
more complete than it u.s."
He can even be sarcastic on occasion.
In letter he says: ION the question Of
liberty as principle we are not what
we have been. When we were the po-
litical slaves of King George and want
ed to be free, we called the maxim that
'all men are created equal self evil
dent truth, but now when we have
grown fat and have lost all dread of be-
ing slaves ourselves we have become SO
greedy to be masters that we call the
same maxim a self evident lie. The
Fourth of July has not quite dwindled
away. 1t is still great day for burn.
ing firecrackers.
Who but Lincoln could have attested
the selfishness of slavery thus: 1.-THE
plainest print cannot be read through a
gold eagle, and it will be ever hard to
find many men who will send slave
to Liberia and pay his passage while
they can send him to new country
Kansas, for instance-and sell him for
81. 500 and the rise?''
What could be more felicitously stated
than this: 1.-The Nebraska bill finds no
model in any law from Adam till to-
day. AS Phillips says Of Napoleon, the
Nebraska bill is grand, gloomy and
peculiar, wrapped in the solitude of its
own originality, without model and
without shadow upon the earth?'"
He had an experimental view of the
horrors of slavery, which he thus mar
rates: IA gentleman had purchased IL
negroes in different parts Of Kentucky
and was taking them to farm in the
south. They were chained, six and six
together. A small iron clevis was around
the left wrist Of each and this fastened
to the main chain by q shorter one at q
convenient distance from the others, so
that the negroes were strung together
precisely like 80 many fish upon trot
line. In this condition they were being
separated forever from the scenes Of
their childhood, their friends, their IA
theirs and mothers, and brothers and
sisters, and many of them from their
wives and children, and going into per-
petual slavery, where the lash of the
master is proverbially more ruthless
and unrelenting than any other where,
and yet amid all these distressing cir
cumstances, as we would think them,
they were the most cheerful and appar-
emily happy creatures on board. One,
whose ofense, for which he had been
sold, was an overfondness for his wife,
played the fiddle almost continually,
and the others danced, sang, cracked
jokes and played various games with
cards from day to day. How true it is
that God tempers the wind to the shorn
lamb, or, in other words, that he rem
ders the worst of human conditions toll
cradle, while he permits the best to be
nothing better than tolerableP
The peroration to his agricultural ad-
dress at Milwaukee in September, 1859,
is in these beautiful expressions: ut is
said an eastern monarch once charged
his wise men to invent him sentence.
to be ever in view, and which should
be true and appropriate in all times and
situations They presented him the
words, And this, too. shall pass away.
How much it expressed How chasten-
ing in the hour Of pridei How oonsol-
ing in the depths Of afiiictionl And
this, too, shall pass away And yet, let
rs hops it is not quite true. Let rs hope
rather that by the. best cultivation Of
the physical world beneath and around
us and the intellectual and moral world
within as we shall secure an individual,