Year: 1859




some men the most disagreeable part Of the
doctrine of emancipation. 1t is very easy to
labor for the emancipation OF beings tboffs;
and miles of; but when It comes to the
practical application Of justice and humans
ty to those about us; It Is not so easy. The
truths Of God respecting the rights and
dignities Of men, are Just as important 20
free colored men as to enslaved coIored men.
lt may seem strange for me to say that the
lever with which to lift the load of Georgia
is.in New York; but it is. do not believe
the whole free North can tolerate grinding
injustice to the poor, and inhumanity toward
the laboring classes without exerting an in
hnenee unfavOrable to Justice and humanity
in the South. No one can fail TO see the
inconsistency between our treatment of those
amongst MS who are n the lower walks Of


life and our pofession of sympathy for the
Southern slaves. How are the free colored
people treated at the EorthG They are al.
most without education, but with littia
sympathy for ignorance. They are refused
the common rights Of citizenship which the
whites enjoy. They cannot even ride IN the
cars of our city railroads. They are snuff
ed at in the house of God, or tolerated with
i'll disguised disgust Can the black man
be mason in New York? Let him be en-
ployed as a journeyman, and every Irish
lover Of liberty that carries the nod or
trowel would leave at once or compel him
to leave! Can the black man be q carpens
ter! There is carcely carpenters shop iti
New Iork in which journeyman would CON
tinue to work, if black man was employed
in it. Can the black man engage in the
common industries of life There is scarce
one in which he can engage. He is crowd
ed down, down, down, through the most
menial callings, to the bottom of society,"
We tax them, and then refuse to allow their
children to go to our public schools. We
tax them, and then refuse to sit by them in
Gods house We heap upon them moral
obloquy more atrocious than that which the
master heaps upon the slave. And not
withstanding all this, we lift ourselves up
to talk TO the Southern people about the
rights and the liberties of the human soul,
and especially the African soull 1t is true
that slavery is cruel. But it is not at ali
certain that there is not more love to the
race in the South than in the North. They
love their property. We do not own them
so we do not love them at all The preiu-
dice Of the whites against color is so strong
that they cannot endure 10 ride or sit with
black man, so long as they do not otcn
him. AS neighbor, they are not to be-
I tolerated but as property they are most
tolerable in the house, the church the car.
rage, the couch! The African o,Oned. NAV
dwell in America; but 0nowned. he must be-
expatriated; emancipation must be jackaI
to colonization. The choice given to the
African is plantation or colonization. Our
Christian public sentiment is a pendulum
swinging between owaiag or exporting the
poor in our midst


Whenever we are prepared to show to.
ward the lowest, the poorest, and the most
despised, an unaffected kindness. such as
led Christ, though the Lord of glory, to Law
aside his dignties, and take on himself the
form of a servant, and to die an ignominious
death, that he might rescue men from ig-
norance and bondage-whenever we are pre-
pared to do such things as these, we may
be sure that the example of the North will
not be unfelt at the South Every effort
that is made in Brooklyn to establish schools
and churches for the free colored people,
and to encourage them to educate themselves
and become independent, is step toward
emancipation in the South. The degrada-
tion of free colored men in the North will
fortify slavery in the South!


2. We must quicken all the springs Of
feeling in the free States in behalf of human
liberty, and create public sentiment, based
upon truth and true manhood. For if we
act TO any good purpose on the minds of
the South, we mnst do it through a salutal
ry and pure public sentiment in the North.
When we have corrected our own practice.
and set an example of the right spirit, then
we shall have a position from which to
exert a beneficial public influence on the
minds of Southern Shareholders. For this
there must be full and free discussion I'm
der our institutions, public opinion is tho
monarch, and free speech and debate form
public opinion.


The air must be vital with the love OF
liberty. Liberty with us must be raised
by religion from the sel6shuess of an in
stinct to the sanctity Of moral principle I
We must love it for ourselves and demand
it for Others Since Christ took mans ma
ture human life has divine sanctity. We
must inspire in the public mind profound
sense Of the rights of men founded upon
their relations to God The glory Of in
telligence, refinement, genius has nothing
to do with mems rights. The rice slave,
the Hottentot are as much Gods children
as Humboldt OF Chalmers That they are
in degradation only makes it more impera.
tive upon us to secure to them the birth
right which they in ignorance might sell
for a mess Of pottage.


These things must become familiar again
to our pgpit Our children must be taught
to glow again in our schools over the heroic
ideals of liberty. Mothers must twine the
first threads Of their children's life with she
golden threads Of these divine truths, and
the whole of life must be woven to the
heavenlyspattern of liberty


What can the North do for the South.
unless her own heart is purified and emo
bled When the love of liberty is at 80
low an ebb that churches dread the sound.
ministers shrink from the topic when
book publishers dare not publish or repub-
lsh word on the subject of slavery, cut
out every living word from school books.
expurgate life passages from Humboldt,
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