Year: 1859




taxing ~ hts text Psalms xciv., IA and l6:--


For me Lord ~il of his people, neither will no
Sorsakc bis nheritancr but ndg cnt shall return unto
Righteousness, and all the upright In heart shall follow It,


UDless be said great revolution was shortly brough
about the utter ruin with which the country threaten
I'd would soon be accomplished There was nothing 10
the land from that ruin but complete and speedy
repentance There hope of salvation but return
Of riehteousness 70 Judgment. Nations, as well
individuals, offered ime when they
could repent and avoid the Judgments but there also fol-
lowed upon that time when they could not repent they
would. nation, like individual, might pass the line
OF destiny beyond which there time space left
toMOr repentance any though might be that they
grieved for their past wckedness with all pentence Ma
tions more rarely than individuals exhibited great heroic
examples Of return 70 truth anu mercy They saw IN
Gods law how that the Hebrews we're strangers IN the
hnd Of Egypt ana they learned from ths history Of that
upon the Egyptians the BIN Of the Hebrews en-
siavement In this country all mems rights TO
were admrteo-tbe Englshman the German, the French
man. Italian, tho IRIS ,manali men, indeed earth
out Of whom they could hope TO make political capital
al on earth, the pooe African or this poor
and thousands bad been compulsocy brought
here ana we exercised them more tyranny 40
oppression than the history Of any civilized nation gives
any example Of According TO the principles Of human
nature those whom men inure most they hate most and
truly aud instructvely this human law exempied


treatment Of the black population of this country
We to bate the blacks with intensity and





heapcd upon them We do not hate them because Of
their the least As chattes, property
hated but freemsn because they coored and be-
that they the Of the ensIaved they alb
horred and their presence pronounced nuisance and
. contamination. As entitled 10 o share the COM
rights Of humanity hate their color and their
with hatred worthy OF the devil h'mself hatred com
pounded out of the elements of Fraud of wrong
and of utter selfshness. This Is the evident
consequence Of the vast accumulating injuries
have heaped upon them from the very beginning
hpv
numbers beyond the possibility Of management as
article OF trade and profit and We know not what 70 do
with them They perplex aud terrify us. We are like
guilty wanderers, upon whose coosclences dreadfa
crime sindebly scared and whose eyes continually
cannot bury-which cannot hse from sight We
try deep in the earth bnt the fresh raised mouAt
aM .vote the sD.ct,e ~ and oonfonnd M with onr
guilt The free colored people are the spectres that
rise IN Judgment against us. We would be glad
could at pleasure crush them under the wheels Of
our constitutional JuRgenau If we could make them sub
serv,ento our own tower and agsrandzemen we woald
preserve them and perhaps crush them by doing
could serve ourselves and provided always they were me-
white Or nee labor As profitable property we Ike thcu
% free men, as men Of color as men Of the degraded
s 70 be- ooue with them is The question 10 the uness Of
time Gods voice thunders: "Let my people Co." But
certain Pharaohs answer-Who Is the Lord that we
of the Lord thunders forth the almighty command
Let my people CO." Blu. our har aohs have their hearts





cypress the stranger until last the cup Of the savehod
ers iniqu y is fun and the judgment descends which
utterly destroys them hut then the question asked is
Can We let them gop why nots ask. We have right
keep them. The plea that they arc the property OF
as absurd the plea Of thief, who, having unlawfuly
and unrghteousy taken posss ssion Of another mans
estate Says cannot give up because ha 40 ad rum
and selfish plea God himself provides an answer We
have before the case Of the British emancipation Of
millions of slaves which demands O calm and solemn
consideration. u s both Insult and crime to talk
keeping thousands Of human beings in slavery until
they are worthy of being made free. We cannot raise
them as slaves, Freedom they say cannot strike
on their till know that they worthy Of the
rights Of freemen What strange and wicked logic this
ito keep generation slavery and bring up their de-
scendapts In bonds and still to talk Of the time when the
race will be worthy Of freedoml Now comparo THIS line
OF selfish wicked reasoning with the history Of tho
emancipation Of the West India slaves We see the
greatest earth setting the most glorious example
fraud and lying cruel human laws that tho world
ever That triumph is song Of 10y forever, a
glorious paen be proclaimed through all ages yet TO
come Here great commercial nation with power
do wrong and with the greatest temptation TO induce


70 do wrong, with no other incentive than conscious
of right acknowledging its past injustice and
wrong, determining TO bow to Gods will and law
as supreme above all law, and setting free those
whom they hold in bondage whyS Because il was
Gods command This act Of emancipatng of the slaves
in the west indies lesson which we are called 70
soil mnly reflect and ponder a~akens the noblest
feelings Of The greatness ani mngnanimity
OF the act the injustice intended to remedy the
punish hoped which did avert, and tho
great GOOD il effected get up which called
upon 70 initiate and which must initiate Tue lesson
has double meaning It was not alone that Engand set
10 and obeyed the will of God inasmnch as they
denied the ris0. Of man to hold property in
from that emancipation which the greatest national
victory Of right against wrong that the world ever saw
BY IL the British people avoided the calamity which al
ways attends Of injustice and cruelty. We have yet
our time Of repentance before The terrible outbreak
wrath the crime Of M
very which dwells IN our midst The instruments Of
geson which God has put into our hands with which to
battle for the overthrow Of this crime are great and we
them. The word Of God and the constitution Of
the country. both properly interpreted, are an
70 successful issue. But both are at present
perverted and is the duty of tho church and ministry,
srirht This work above all others the work Of tho
church and Of the ministers Of the Gospel for tho Scrip
s purity Ta the S the
can deny. There not through the whole of its sta
tutes an intimaon not shadow upon which pretence
might be advanced that any human being could justly or
awfuy be the property Of any other human being Why,
then the people submit TO such fraud upon the charter
OF rights contained in that constitution The people must be
under horrible mesmersm OF Satan TO submit 10 this
and to submit to Il longer would be committing treason
tho Dred Scott decision were fearful crimes, for
which the nation must repent by putting away the ev
thing from amongst tnem or the vengeance OF the Al
mighty would long o1erwhelm them The time s
almost come: they have found that one man had ap-
peared, MS If shot out Of cannon from Heaven, who
has dared to grapple with and condemn the evil
John Brown has appeared like Moses Of old and tho
rod that he has thrown down will yet bee me
= serpent TO devour the evil doers. He has como
AS forerunner of the plaques that the Lord
will assuredy forth upon the land Of the great crime
which crieth TO Him for wong If the of slavery
be mol abolished Brown Is the martyr in the
He entered the State Of virgnia-a corporate pirate,
who trades IN Slaves steals buys and sells and car
ries on commerce in human beingsaud he raises the
standard Of freedom for the oppressed and he is mme


atey rnthessly attacked overpowered Whg Il his
Because the law Of Virginia law for the IN
Of wickedness and this makes it doubly vile .catur
slaves in Hayti, John Brown for his inu,reerence
on behalf Of the slaves in Virginia. John Brown
sought to free the slaves of the South and though the
aempt as he concerned, has failed ynt the
example no set will be before men g eyes until
others arise In strength and power to copete what he
hegan The angel who knocked OFF Peters chains in tho
Ann ueon was greater friend TO him than John
yrogp 10 the slaves Of the South is glorious thing
t sec the eyes Of the whole nation turned 10 that old man
An hrs cell con niemned TO die for action which men
Soo upon as Of the most heroic deeds that God
nan ever rewarded with There he is modern
ancient Eyynf tharn be