Year: 1863

From Mr. Bryant's Speech in New York, to welcome


srrd the Missouri Radicals. aril
/ Those men who now have control Of public
affairs in missouri are, understand gradual
emancipationists. Gradual emancipation
There Is no grosser deIusion ever entertained
by man. Great applause. | speak not Of tie
past; l speak of the present time. There
have been good men, doubtless, who have
yielded TO the dream that gradual emancipation
was the best method Of getting rid Of slavery,
and some men have perhaps SANCTIONED that
policy in times past; but that idea has been
exploded. The experience Of North Carolina,
our experience in Port Royal, and large and
moro decisive experience in Louisiana, have
borre testimony against it-have shown that
10 instant emancipation there is no danger =
[spplause l-bave shown that instant emanci
patton carries with it every advantage.
% l have read letter tlis very day--a letter
from person whose name, il | were to
mention it, would carry authority, acquies
cence and conviction upon all that should read
tin which he says all those negroes who
were made free, who were treated like free
men, paid wages, allowed TO provide for their
famies-that they COW work better and more
to the profit Of those from whom they receive
wages, and in all respects preserve o more
respectful department than ever before. lie
goes on to say that ell planters say this, and
that il things were worked right 10 Louisiana
within year that State would take her place
among the FREQ States Of the Union, With the
entire consent Of all who inhabited within her
limits. He goes further than this: he says
that over, all the South, 10 every part OF the
slave States, the charge, the trapsilion from
absolute and universal slavery to universal and
instantaneous emancipation, might take place
with even less Of violence and confusion than
a tax law could be changed in Northern
Stats. Applause. Such is his testimony-a
mosts valuable testimony. 1t seems to mo to
settle the question.


Gradual emancipation! Have we not suf
fered mischief enough FROM slavery without
been shedl Are not the pools of blood deep
enough! My friends, fyour child was to fall
in the fire, would you pull him out gradually I


Laughter If he were TO take dose Of
laudanum sufficient 10 cause speedy death.
and stomach pump were at hand, would you
draw the poison off by degreesl II your house
was on fire would yoa put it out gradually !
Laugbter.l And yet there are men who
talk Of gradual emancipati n by force Of an.
cient habit, and there are men 10 the slave
States who make OF slavery a sort of idol which
they are unwilling 10 part with, which, if IL
must be removed, they would prefer to see it
removed after lapse of time and tender
leave takiDgs.


Slavery is foul and monstrous idol Jug
gernant under which thousands Of lives are
crushed out, it is Q Molsh for whom The chill
dren Of the land pass through fire. Must we
consent that the number of victims shall DO
gradually diminishedl Ifthere are a thousand
victims this year, are you willing that nine
hundred should be sacrificed next year, asd
eight hundred the next, and so on, until after
the lapse of ten years it shall ceasei No my
friends, let US hurl the grim image from it's
pedestal. Down with it to the ground.
[Cheers. Dash it TO fragments; trample it
in the dust. TApplause.1 Grind it to powder,
as the prophets Of old demanded that the gra
ven images of the Hebrew idolators shovlI be
ground, and in that state scatter it TO the four
winds, and throw it upon the waters, that no
human hand shall ever again gather up the
accyrsed atoms and mould it into an image to
be wolshippcd again with sacrifices OF human
life. Loud and prolonged applause. sft