Year: 1862

BIZ MRS. E. N. BRUCE.


Many of the friends present, may re-
member Spring gtime not many years
ago, when our city was blessed with
much more than its usual amount of
new population. Business was in a
more thriving condition than it had
ever been before, or has ever yet been
since.


All hearts rejoiced with our seeming
prosperity. and we welcomed the fami-
lies moving in, as harbinges Of the good
time coming.


Among the many who came, there
was one family which particularly at
tracted my attent ion. Not by any at
tempt on their part for display, for ey-
erything that they did was done in a
most unassuming manner But there
was something in their quiet industry,
in the patient manner in which they
D erformed lite's duties. which particu-
larly pleased me. They rented first "a
small tenement, and commenced house
keeping on very economical scale
They dressed neatly, but always very
plain. They attended church regularly,
and every Monday morning, seemed to
take up the duties Of the new week with
fresh yigor and devotion.


Days, weeks, and months passed,
while we were enjoying the happy pres
ence Of sour neighbors over the way
when l learned one day, that their con-
dition had been SO far improved in
worldly things, that they were about to
build house Of their own. Very glad
was l to learn this, for the neighberhood
seemed to me possessed Of an additional
joy, ever since this happily family
moved into it. l watched with unfail-
ing delight the progress of the neat lit
tie cottage, whose bleak, skeleton frame
soon grew into the proportions of a
sheltered home. Then came the NOV
ing, and we'll l remember the satisfac-
ton with which | first saw the home
lights burning in the cottage, and the
smoke curling from its chimney
tops.


Everything about the place grew in
l.essetN Flowers of varied hues clus-
and who dare deny it, then why, we as I
in the name of God, why not come ou
like men, and say in plain, unmistakabl'
language, that you are not afraid o
being called an Abolitionist2 Let thu
world know, and see, that you hav,
moral courage enough to let it be know
where you stand.


If you think slavery is wrong, ant
are opposed to it, and would like t.
see it abolished, say so at once Don
say that you are IN anti slavery man, o
an emancipationist, and then fear to d.
your duty for fear somebody will cal
you an Abolitionist. | want you to b
an Abolitionist-not in the Southern in
depreciation of that term Bnt | meal
one in the true sense of the term-on,
who is in favor of the abolition O
slavery, ia lawful and constitutions
manner.


Now, let US see. You say that yo,
are aa emancipationist; then | ask wha
is emancipatio but the abolition 0
slavery? Emancipate means, nothin,
more nor less, than to set the slaves free
and | guess that if the slaves were al
set free, we would have no NOR
slavery 1t would be done away will
most ehectually. What more, | ask
does the Abolitionist want than this
An Abolitionist is one who wants to Sc
this great curse removed, not only fror
our own country, but he wants to see i
wiped from the face of the entire werld
The emancipationist, if he be an homes
man, wishes nothing more nor nothing
less. So you see that you, by admit
ting yourself to be an emacipationist
virtually admit yourself to be a
Abolitionist. Then, l ask, if this be Sc
why suffer mere word or name to de
ter you from coming out clearly an
boldly, as a man of true moral courag
will do?


There was a time when the follower
Of Christ we're called christians, by wa
of derision. But the time has com,


when to be christian is to be what
denominated the highest style of maj