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AUTOGRAPHS
FOR FREEDOM
EDITED BY
JULIA GRIFFITHS.
mc
not see
my
Oh
let
soul
Her pride
CO,
OIFT
Entered, according
to
CO.,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Northern District of New York.
STEBEOTYPED BT
THOMAS
B.
SMITH,
N.Y.
^.xthtt.
commending
second volume of "
tlie
TiST
this, tlie
tJie
attention of tlic
by
book
is
de-
their earnest;
ness of purpose
to the
shall
and we
hope
to
if
not
all,
in other
num-
which may be
called forth
and
VI
this
Pkeface.
country redeemed from
tlie sin
and
tlie
curse of
Slavery.
On
belialf of tlie
Eocliester Ladies'
Anti-Slavery
Society.
Rochester,
Y.,
Contents.
Subject.
Author.
page
Prof. G. L. Reason
11
Hon.
.
J.
E. Giddings
.
14
.
The
The
....
. . .
27 41
Brown
.
Vincent Oge
George B. Vaslion
.
.
44
61
liev.
.
Dr.
Wm. Marsh
.
Time
in
God
Theodore. ParTcer
63
of "Wilberforce
and Trust
Grave
Wm.
Wells Broion
70
Dr. W. H. Brkhane
77
is
Friendship
Jacob Allott
134
.
Christine
Anne P. Adams
and Spiritual
.
.
139
The
Litellectual, Moral,
J.
M. Langston
.
147
.
The Bible
versus Slavery
151
W.
J.
WatUna
150
tiu
Subject.
Contents.
Author.
Crime
158
.
The
Illegality of
....
.
Bev. W. Goodell
159
.
160
161
163
AUott
,
Tappan
A Leaf from my
Who
is
Scrap Book
Wm.
Br.
Br.
J. Wilson
165
my
Neighbor
. .
King 174
175
.
S.
S.
Willard Willard
177 178
Br. W. Elder
Spirit of
Eeform
H.
15.
Mary Willard
Stowe, on
.
180
A Welconje
to Mrs.
J. G.
.
Holly
184
Henning
187
190 192
.
A Fragment
Til e
Horace
Gi'eeley
194
The
Win. WatJcins
198
Hon.
Wm. H. Seward
201
A Wish
A Dialogue
A
Mrs. C. M. Kirldand
207 210
...
.
C.
A. Bloss
.
225
.
226 230
235
for itself
Jane Q. Swisshelm
B. W. Emerson
.
An
....
Anti-Slavery Ee-
Eon
S. E. Seioell.
236
Contents.
Subject.
IX
Author.
Freedom
Liberty
An
Aspu'ation
.... ....
PAQE
Br.
J.
Bcv. E. E. Chapin
242
Let
all
be Free
....
Poem
Mrs.
II.
E. Greenovgh 243
Eon.
C.
M. Clay
248
.
Frederich Douglass
251
on Freedom
Letter
....
William D. Snow
Eev. E.
256
273
Ward
Beecher
A Day
Mary
Irinng
804
INTRODUCTION.
CI]C Coloai'
fro|lc*s
''liitetriitl College/'
WORD
icy.
oft-times is expressive of
is
an entire polThougli
for-
-^*-
Sucli
now
who have
first
of these systems of
latter,
and
connected with
human
enfranchisement,
The
age,
Abolitionist of to-day
is
is
12
set
mon
by
He
and
in
such
gTievances
are
invidious and
severe, in such
wage
his emancipating
war.
Therefore
it is
come
to
he,
be
of
has been
made
to drink deep
of oppression.
The
free-colored
man
bond-
brother as for himself, has trusted hopefully in the iucreasing public sentiment, which, in the multiplication of these friends, has
brighter.
made
he
And,
to-day, while
making a noble
entii'e class, de-
made
is
in his
"Industrial College."
partment of reformatory exertion he
feels tliat
allies
13 he has
been neglected.
He
throw
Women, and
of
failed to
is
evidently
himself to do.
And
the task.
The record of
his conclusions
was given
at Eochester, in July,
of history.
Though
try,
he
is
determined to
spirit
make
self-provision, so as to
him
The
utility
would
erect,
must, he believes,
commend
The
itself to
Abolitionists.
less liberal
verdict of
its
favor.
The
and self-dependence,
and
handicraft,
all
the
referable
14
to sucli
American people.
shall take place,
it,
Whenever emancipation
ate
immedi-who
thongh
it
like
many
now make up
what Geologists
prejudice
The
their
now
felt
against
them
for bearing
on
Severe
be their portion
the
by almost
To
The
now be dragged
and the
last
weak argument,
^that
To
man
sees,
Already he
school, intelligent
young
laborers,
competent to enrich
the
world
with
necessary
productsindustrious
-*
"Industrial College."
proportion to aid on
tlie
15
tlie
advancing civilization of
ing artizans vindicating
country
self-providtlie
tlieir
people from
never-
a legitimate part
to
to a condition of dependInstitution
Such an
would be
;
and
every
equipped by
its
discipline to
life,
would
be,
fA^Ci^. <^. /
/Z^^'^^^^'^u^. v/^^
^Bmm
^N
tlie Tvest
at ilomit's
^ort.
some
forty miles
below
tlie
line of Georgia,
are yet
ramparts are
now
You may
yet
curtains,
and magazine.
At
one
is
Tbe
fort
bad
originally
been erected by
its
civilized
troops, and,
wben abandoned by
it
occupants at tbe
by
But
bttle is yet
known
be
AT Blount's Fort.
found in
tlie
17
They
;
but
of
Eevolution
spirit
liberty, at that
and
fled
among
them.
They were
which
is
planted in every
human
perils,
heart.
Most of
forest,
reared in the
per-
had
that
spirit-land
where the
is
clanking of
not known.
Some few
hairs
too,
Their gray
Of
The
fled
who
18
States,
Massacre
were
liable to suffer the
their ancestors
It
is
had been
subjected.
morals, that
endo
,c^cl
tliese
wrongs be-
comes entitled
who sought
who
oc-
buL
who
those
whom
all
fruits
upon being
those
who
is
enslave mankind.
inexorable.
But the
of op-
pression
The
AT BLOUNT'S Fort.
reared amid soutliern institutions.
19
He
entertained
no
doubt of
tlie
riglit
of one
if
man
a
to enslave anotlier.
lield in servitude
He
man
sTiould
death.
In
short,
he
fully
who
sought his
official aid.
He
immediately directed
Comthe
District of
and to
and
return them
to their masters!'''^
Commander
of the
Southern
Military District,
directed
Lieut.-Colonel
I
was
at
one
that
officer,
and
know
and can
He
marched
made
the necesthat
making report
was not
accessible
by
land."f
believed
lie
Col. Clinch.
officers in
tliat this report was suggested by the humanity of was reputed one of the bravest and most energetic
the service.
He
could probably have captured the Fort in one hour, had he desired to
do
so.
20
Massacke
Orders were then issued to Commodore Patterson,
tlie
tary of
War.
He
at that time
commanded
the Ameri-
can
flotilla
lying in "Mobile
Loomis
Ap-
two gun-boats,
people in Blount's
Fort, deliver
them
their
On
spectator
ing upon the walls of that fortress watching with intense interest the approach of
two small
vessels that
river,
under full-spread
by
They
were in sight
dawn, but
it
when they
from
it.
A boat was
twelve
men were
at
by some half
and
their
men
in the Fort,
The young
officer told
them he was
sent to
make
AT Blount's Fort.
demand of
tlie
21
Fort,
''
and that
its
inmates -were to be
given up to the
gun-boat,
slaveholders, then
on board the
!"
who
The
demand was
instantly rejected,
md his men
Lieut.
As
',0
men
their
jreat
was
the
consternation
manifested
by
the
females,
the visible
as well as the
brand
He saw
his friends
lie as-
sured them that they were safe from the cannon shot
of the encni}^
not
men enough on
" Give
me liberty
me
death /"
bloody day.
A cannonade was
but without
much
The
shots were
22
harmless;
Massacre
they penetrated the earth of which the
spent
They then
Jhese
The bursting of
had more
effect.
babes more
after an-
one explosion
By
and a few
Do you
ask
why
these mothers
men
are
to
endowed by
enjoy
life
and
Holding
to
this doctrine of
Hancock and of
Jefferson, the
so far as
tlie
AT BLOUNT'S Fort.
They manifested no
day was
passing
disposition to surrender.
Lieut.
23
The
a
away.
Loomis
called
An
to.
under
officer
suggested the
The
The
relieved
by
the change.
the deep
humming sound
of the
merry
at the
thorn.
The
fortification.
The
approaching evening,
all
They longed
might
Suddeiilv a startling
their astonished view.
phenomena presented
24
timbers protecting
tlie earth,
Massacre
tlie
magazine appeared to
rise
from
and
tlie
making
who
sus-
earth
many were
Some
to
which they
wrapped
in that sleep
set,
when some
command,
The veteran
customed
as they
to
They were
That
is
tbe
number
officially
1
3th Congress.
AT BLOUNT'S Fort.
all
25
little
These paid
attention
to the
living,
upon
their
limbs,
commenced
Some
plosion,
moan
The
officer in
command
The
sailors ap-
the sails
unfurled,
and both
had
sailors
constrained
children,
them
to
murder women
and
helpless
upon the
young
26
Massacee.
liad beaten higli witli expectation.
morning
Their
of that ancient
Twenty-two years
elapsed,
and a representative
in
bill
manner
in
which the
passed
The
bill
statute
book among
The
National Library.
to collect
But no
historian has
been willing
in consequence of the
reflect
ernment.
/
TTIEW
-*-
benumb
the
conscience of every
It
man who
humanity.
These
men
by
whom
bondage, for the remainder of their days, and sometimes without time being allowed for a parting inter-
families.
;
men
are adjudged
ser-
28
vice."
The Fugitive
This allegation
all
know
to
be utterly
false,
being
act
making any
contract.
Every
all
men,
is
made by
law a penal
offence, to
be punished with
fine
and imprisonment.
Mock
judges,
unknown
to
commanded
to deissue,
Yet
to
this
tremendous issue of
hurry, but on
satisfy the judge,
may
and
from a
!
An
ex parte
afiEidavit,
made by an
judge that he
believes
it
to
be
true, is to
be received as conclusive,
oral
in the face of
any amount of
"
and documentary
fire
aid
Slave Act.
in executing
sucli a
29
defiling
liis
law witliout
this
own
with
conscience?
Yet does
profligate
statute,
impious arrogance,
to assist in enforcing
ofiicinl
wlien required so to do by an
slave-catcher
It
is
a singular
fact,
who
introduced the
it
bill,
and
his sup-
judgments,
was UNCONSTITUTIONAL,
they expounded
that
it,
is,
tution, as
to legislate
on the sub-
The Supreme
Court,
it.
It is well
known how
Another was
same history
is,
passed
by
a minority of the
House of Eepresentatives.
their
names
in
its
Many, deterred
either
by
scruples of con-
30
The Fugitive
them
from offering to
it
A
its
revolting provisions
its
discussion, forced
enormities
any
appeals to
members
wrath of
man
shall praise
Thee
Thou
restrain."
was happily so ordered, that several of the early and surrenders under
this
seizures
humanity, as to shock the meral sense of the community, and to render the law intensely hateful.
Very soon
after the
by
it,
surrendered an
deemed
Slave Act.
the wretched
81
man
in
vain he
named
six witnesses
whom
freedom
in
HOUE.
He was
who
honestly refused to
( )
!
and
had sent a
free
man
instead of a slave.
Whig
As
party,
and
if to
enhance
in northern blood,
by making
re-
to be punished with
officer,
DEATH.
The
fugitive,
were declared, by
war
agavist
United States
of course an
act of
;
high treason,
rioters at
to
and the
high treason,
in pur-
This
wretched sycophancy
won no
82
holders,
The Fugitive
and
tlie
result of tlie
When men
obtain
by
their wrong-doing,
many admire
profitless
their boldness
and
The
slave
the
and pledges.
They sinned
in the expecta-
patronage
these
he would dispense.
disappointed,
first
Most
were
men
Law be
its
epitaph.
Truly the
of their
Whig
politicians
own
hands."
deemed
it
expedient to
second the
catching slaves,
slavery,
or-
by
Hebrew
"powers that be
fugitive
LAW "
SlaveAct.
83
clerical professors
from
and
But AVhig
politicians
whom
it
has
made most
leaders,
ungrateful
returns.
The Democratic
the Presidency,
Whigs for
human
chase.
Democratic candi-
number of
their
gave
public
attestations
under
signs
Democracy, as
Avell as
all
of
and humanity.
jected,
Each and
of these
whom
ous
tool,
but
who had
offered
no bribe
They,
in-
deed, hailed
The
them a
law, drafted
by themselves,
down
84
The Fugitive
Wealthy -and
cities,
influential gentle-
men
in our commercial
out of compliment to
New York
:.ill
Slave-catching was
at once, of patriotism
and
gentilit}^,
while
sympathy
for the
vulgar fanaticism.
dust,
in the
by
own
recreant sons.
first
Every
"good
time in the
by
law.
Every
in-
empowered
and compel
Well, indeed,
;
rejoice
might they
hold their
command
north
to
But amid
outrages offered to
the fugitive
Slave Act.
law.
35
for utterance,
and
inspiration,
and in
book which
miracle of
world.
authorship,
this
book
attained,
within
atrocities
kind
is
The
sub-
may be
to the
late
American
traveller, in
to
party at the house of a Professor, attempted to compliment the company by expressing his indignation at the oppression wluch " the dear
old
German fatherland"
suffered at the
hands of
its
rulers.
The
"We
admit,"
was the
yi)U,
is
we
do not admit
It is
There is a system now wiih worse than anything which we know of tyranny your slavkrv. a disgrace and blot on your free government and on a Christian
State.
We have
is
so degrading.
36
The Fugitive
One
slaveliolder, together
men
of
by
their
impressions
made by
Naj^,
the book,
by denouncing
it
as a
lying
fiction.
illustrajiro-
tions of
by an organ of cotton
tian book.*
divinit}-, to
be an Anti-Chris-
wisdom of man
is
and we have notLiag which so crushes the mind. And more than this, we hear you have now a law, just jiassed by your National As-
We hear your mountains, and sent back, without trial, to bondage worse than our serfs have ever known. "VVe have, in Europe, many excuses in ancient evils and deep-laid
sembly, which Avould disgrace the cruel code of the Czar.
of free
like dogs on
young and
wrong !"
Home
in Germany, by
:
Charles Loving
Brace.
adds
"
my cheeh
it
shame, as he
spoke."
"
We
as Anti-Christian, on the
22, 1852.
book
as Anti- Christian,
subjects to read
differ
"
Britain
"
Observer
it. On the other hand, the clergy of Great most widely from the reverend gentlemen of the and the Vatican, in their estimate of the character of
the book.
a.s
who on
this subject
may
be regarded
:
Protestant
Divines of Europe
if
"
He
call
who
can read
it
he
Slave Act.
foolisliness
87
de-
witli
God.
"
He
disappointetli the
Branded
witli
and gave
mass
unimpeachable
documents,
consisting
of laws,
of eye-witnesses.
over-
whelming
drawn of Ameri-
was
faint,
original.
slave-,
men and
Europeans, in con-
demning
slavery,
The
" pecu-
was represented
tery
region.
Thanks
it
lias
led to the
construction of a "
38
TheFugitive
tlic
soul, as well as
tlie
body,
The
iniquity
no longer a mystery.
familiar with
it,
All Christendom
is
now made
and
is
Such
is
the suppression of
anti-
by
their
northern friends
fugitive slave
such
by the
How
and supporters of
some
own
daj^:
"Behold he
travaileth
with
iniquity,
mischief,
and
He made
a pit,
and digged
His
and
is fallen
which he made.
own
dealing
shall
own
pate
;"
So
by
his infinite
and
in
OF
MAN TO
PRAISE HiM.
is still
But there
still
a remainder of -wrath.
The law
is
politicians are
Slave Act.
promising that there
threats
it
89
shall ever
remain
and
terrible
law be repealed
Yet,
i:
and
in
human
from what
its
authors
slaves
have
recovered under
it
not
an
Poor compen-
making themselves
dom
mighty impulse
to aboli-
tion,
felt
by the
and obtaining
law so
But while
its
army of ten-dollar
and
office-
judges,
seekers,
and
and
and
constables,
40
ft
Tiiic
KiunriVK.
llu^
voiir;
the
t>sO!i|>os iVoiii
probMiul
!il>lv
tioviT boiMi
im>i(^
l)V
imiiirrous, (Mu'istiuns
CM''
wov
llio
anl
HViupiithv
'rilUH
utVord^nl
TlltC
III
unno
nbuiuhiiit.
has
la'.M.MNPKK
llu*
WIJM'M
lU'lN
o['
UKthis
i\
S'l'lvAlNKO,
iuarM>llous
oouNiMsioii
odiiMis
lunv
h\\\
into an
lor
us
liiul
nu'tiNo
\jmH'asins.';
uiiwrni'unl
Mi-'ilatioii
IVgivint
nhlViMT, aiul u
now
]>Knl^';^^ i-f
ulninnlr tiiiimph.
/UKCtuH^rxj
lUi<rv>tti,
/ay a.^.^
Juno
ltl&3.
^^-^^;;5^^zz-<ir,
^,
Clje Sije of
S^nln.
A
a
QUAINT
old
v'riter
ujd
in
human
clay,
ponder-
parison to the
grown
body.
The
contrast in size
would be
;
insuS.cient to
Yet
mass of
flesh is
it
only wrapped up in a
though
is
material,
42
that
lie
cratic
humanity.
He
11.
Ward, or a
!
Dr. Pennington.
Poor
light
little
soul
It
can
borrow a pair of
magnihcent
flea's legs,
and, hopping
up
to the
down
in sovereign contempt.
Take
tute in
place
him
by
side with
tioned men.
Measure
!
intellect
elo-
mere complexion
is
Sensible
ashamed of the
ac-
knowledgment.
ment.
fact
has a
if
People sneer
you
you
comprehend the
fitness
of the thing.
If
you cannot
and
still
let
the
ex-
approved
If sin
capable of being
made
to
look mean.
TheSizeofSouls.
narrow, contemptible
ter of thorough,
43
to
unmitigated bitterness
it
is
when
its
burden of
deathless thought,
ing reason,
its
brilliant wit,
genial
humor,
its
a voice of mingled
power and
suniing
fire
j)athos,
eminent over
all else
all this
could not
make
a black
man
his brain
May heaven
al-
Antoinette
L. Begv^'x.
IJiucciit
ge
free persons of
[Fragments of a poem hitherto unpublished, upon a revolt of the color, in the island of St. Domingo (now Ilayti^
There
The
is,
at times,
an evening sky
twUiglit's gift
of sombre
line,
Which
in the east at
morn we
ween
saw,
;
Is far
more
glorious, 1
So glorious
that,
it
when
And shrouded
And pray
Such
in deepest gloom,
sky again.
sight
made
When
Vi:sCENT
OGii;.
45
And
Her
calls
From every
from every
plain,
men,
And
Have
cleanse
tlieir
Though peace
And
all
it
yields
breast
Which
While
listening to
Freedom's
call.
Though red
the carnage,
though the
life,
strife
Be
filled
Though
To
We
the rally-cry
That
calls to
deeds of daring.
46
YiNCENT Ogk.
The waves
das"h.
briglitlj
on thy
shore,
As
bright in joy as
when
of yore
They
A world
^last
though thou
sea
Thy
hands have
featly set
Around Golconda's
radiant spoil,
To
make
the
gem
********
of that diadem
haunt.
YiNCENT Oge.
As shadowing
The
it
47
loveliest
its
home
"Which in
As
to the
charmed doth
B eauty's
smile,
pictnrings.
who
strove
art,
To
paint a crowning
work of
And
By
To charm
And
Such
hold
as a
in enraptured fires.
inspires,
dream of heaven
From
every place
its
richest treasure.
And borne it to
To found
thereon a
home
of pleasure
Where
Which
Where
earthquake stay
its
demon
force,
And
hurricane
wrathful course
48
Vincent Oge.
Where nympli and
fairy find a liome,
And
-X-
*
stands
-X-
*
tliis
vs-
And Oge
.
mid
array
liis
Of matcliless
beauty, but
brow
;
Is briglitened not
by
pleasure's play
He
As
stands
unmoved
The breezes
the plain,
note^
Though odors on
The
that joyed
With
Or
But ah
life is
a changeful thing,
swiftly pass away,
And pleasures
TiNCENT
And we may turn,
From what we
The
Oofi.
49
witTi shuddering,
With
Nor heeds
Nor
iSTor
fair,
and
rare,
The wreathed
If he but
knows
there
is
a draught
Among
So Oge seems
With
The bounding
spangled sky,
The
stars
And
As handmaids
of the Even.
Jomed
The
in with nature's
gladsome lay
lights
60
YincentOge.
Could stoop to claim, in
tlieir higli
home,
And
had from
their bright
mansions come,
To join them
might,
',
And
phantoms of
Had
passed in
its
Round
The
visions of gTandeur
for a time,
Had gleamed
suddenly gone.
And the
fabric of ages
rich hues
on the
chronicler's page,
in the blast,
And
Had
isle
of the seas
And
Mid the shout of the free, and the dark captive's groan
Vincent Oge.
As, mid contrary breezes, a
torcli-liglit will
61
plaj,
Now
streaming up brightly
The
Nor dream we
The
With
The brain
to
madness
The molten
fires
of ruin
lie
at rest.
And
But
Appears no
still
sadness.
Of vengeance,
and despair;
And when
And
*
in one short
one
-K-
little
hour.
a year.
Avenge
*
the wrongs of
-Jf
many
*
And Oge
A brother
's
there,
and friends
with his
and
all
Are kindred
spirits
own
62
For mind
Vincent Oge.
will join witli
its
kindred mind,
As
matter's with
like combined.
Of freemen, of their
rights bereaved
o'er the
And
as they
pondered
thought
Whidi
in their
That
falleth,
Ah
might,
ill
can bear
And
In
And when
In action
with
grief.
accurst,
must seek
relief,
it
Or
else,
o'ereharged,
Why
The
bhnnc we them,
if
Words
awake
noblest parts
soul's
high hopes
its
The slumbering
YiNCENT Oge.
And And
send tliem as the simoom's breath,
a
53
Upon
woman's voice
heard amid
The
And when
Hers
the
's
e'er bid,
And man
is
hest refraia ?
power
That
And
As
or mother.
by
And
there
's
and steady
heart,
And And
battle-fields.
And
come
in
triumph home.
shields,
Or stretched upon
tlieir
bloody
Go
forth," she
sai<l,
" to victory
1
Or
else,
54
Vincent Oge.
Go
fortli to fields
Go
forth.,
to
Go
Or
forth
and triumph
failing that,
with pleasure go
To molder on
the battle-plain,
I
But
if
your love
but even then,
adieu.
For
rights
My
Whilst bidding
and earth
I'll
breathe for
you
May
life,
An
As
*
end, abhorred of
As monument,
epitaph,
the chains
"
A thousand hearts
And
Which soon
hush in death
YiitcentOge.
The trumpet
clang of joj
tliat
55
speaks,
stifling breath,
plume
iu dust lies
low
foe.
But ah
May
It
may
To
With
may whisp'ringly
may
teU""
Of a moment
And
gath'ring his
power again.
soften the smart,
its
Though
It
th
aim
And
May
ftill,
though
it
free
it
from
shame.
Though
all
With
word
With
many
a field
Where
56
In
Italia's vales
Vincent Ogb.
on the
sliorcs
of the Kliine
Made
by
On
Ah dire was the conflict, and many the slain, Who slept the last sleep on that red battle-plnin
The
flash of the
cannon
o'er valley
and height
Danced
Or the quivering
And
oh
to those heroes
how welcome
the fate
in Thermopylae's strait
their
God
But
alas
although
are
many
lie silent
and
slain,
More
blest
chain.
VinceittOge.
In the
hold, of the tyrant,
57
;
sad captives
Vincent Oge
risen,
And
shines
upon the
insurgent's prison
And
The
'tis
the last
power
galling chains
Another hour,
jailor's call,
And
He
answering to the
Judgment
;
Hall.
To
pain
its
passage to the
With mock'ry
of a legal doom.
;
Firmly and
fast in
hour of blood,
Who've seen
all die.
As stars
They've gathered
dark hour
The
latest
shall pass
away,
58
Vincent Oge,
The
glorious
daj beyond
tlie
grave,
slave.
owns no are the rackthe wheel And The torturing screw the piercing
Wbicli knows no master
there, too,
steel,
all
crusted o'er
With
Frowning they
and in
their cold,
The strong
one's
triumph
o'er the
weak
victim,
all
Are gathered
in that
Judgment
'tis
Hall.
Draw we
But
a sight
delight.
on with
The sunbeams on
For sudden
terror
away
of war and death,
As angels do
sin,
********
No
miglity host with banners flying,
fiercer to a
Vincent Ogb.
59
Seems
conquered
foe,
Than did
To
Grim
those
who
woe
tigers,
who have
Which
The
tells that
though the
life
has started,
********
will to strike
fate,
heroic
band
Yet mourn we
Which
will secure to
dieth,
you a fame,
and a name
ages,
will, in
coming
be
A signal word
Upon
Your
for Liberty.
bow.
Which whispered
of deliv'rance nigh
decisive blow.
1
fame,
Oge
is
sure
60
Vincent Oge.
And
Will
Will
all
--^C/^^/i^-^^^^^ii^^^^Wv.,
Steacuse, N. Y., August 31st, 1S53.
Clje
l^iilu
of
l^'ibcrtn
T7REED0M,
Duty,
is
Law and
as well
to
as
applause on worth.
It will
give
sympathy
the needy.
Such a
spirit will
exalt a nation,
and
command
But general
and thus makes the common good the rule and measure of
its
God.
62
own avowed
and she
will
principles,
tliat
every
man
is
born
free,
be exalted,
when
will
tyrannical,
persecuting,
slaveholding nations
come
to nought.
H. Canon of Worcestee.
Ctje
Sluiftucs.^
of
Cime
(b.
I.
in
(Soir,
p. '73, Ct Seq.)
The
general at Grosswardein
Had
once a
little
dangliter fine
called Theresia,
And from
With
lier
cMldliood up was
to piety,
slie
brighter flame
64
The Swiftness
The mother
" to her daughter said,
Dear
child, thia
man
thou'lt surely
wed."
The daughter
said, "
Mother of mo
be.
My
heart
is
A Bridegroom he n()t of
The mother
Ah, do not
then, "
his earth."
My
daughter dear,
contradict us here,
old,
Thy
sire
And God
toil
with gold."
To him
I'll
made
him a
my
promise
down
wear
virgin crown."
Thereat the
sire,
" This
must not
be,
My
chOd away
this phantasy.
Where
when
agam draws
near.
And
feast prepare,
ofTimeinGod.
For
all
65
But sorrow
she,
she
knee.
To Jesus
face,
And
The
"Look
"
"my
maid behold
Thou
In heaven with
me
And mid
In
full delight
maiden wondrous
fair
fear,
Down
modest grace,
face.
beauty of his
Then speaks
And
66
"
The Swiftness
Look
there,
it
my bride
Oh, wear
on thy hand
took,
My
Bridegroom dear
art
!"
Herewith
Henceforth
my
And
"
gathered
many
Come, and
my
I"
He
And
Unto
garden
fair
Where many
The noble
fruits therein
which grow.
ofTimeinGod.
And
silver-wliite tlie brooklets there
67
Flow ever on
so pure and
fair.
The
5'outli
"My garden
To
thine
home.
is
own
come."
The maiden
Comes
to the
town without
calls,
delay.
The watchman
She
says, " I to
" Stand,
who
goes there?"
!"
my
father
must repair
"
"
Who
The
is
your
father, then,"
quoth he,
.|l
smiled,
'-'
The general
^he
has no child."
all
men
see,
The maiden
is
of high degree.
straight
The maid
declares
is
and stands
thereto,
The general
68
The
And but
Since
slie
S^YIFT NESS
liave scarcely flown,
two hours
went out
to
walk
alone.
great,
;
And
Her
race,
to face.
And
this
From
this
same
city Grosswardein,
to try,
And sixteen years they find passed by And yet the maid was fresh and fair.
As when
first
own hand.
eat.
They bring
as a winding-sheet.
Of earthly
;
Cries she
"
but
let
a priest be brought,
ofTimeinGod.
That I
69
may
is sent,
The hody
true in sacrament.
As
soon as this
last act
was done
And many
Free from
all
Then ceased
f^
,^^^^-c.^^^^
0i.sit
of
It
Jfugitilie
.Sdibe
to tlje
(Srabe
Selilbcrforce.
montli of June,
Square, I was
at-
tracted to
tlie
whose
statue stands
The
death- wound
Being
when
I perceived
life)
among
the figures
a full-blooded African,
with as white a
all
set of teeth as
the
human
family, with
t/lna_..
WiLBERFORCE'S GrAVE,
musket in liaud and a dejected countenance,
told that be
71
wliicli
bad been
and
sbared
tbeir
Avifcb
commander.
However,
as soon as I
saw
mj
as
more
at borne,
and remained
black a
man
as
by
tbe side of
How
different,
Ibougbt
I,
man on
similar
monuments
in
Some
mem-
wbo
fell at
tbe storm-
felt a
degree of
wbo bad
in
names colonized
whites.
off,
and a
line
This was in
to
its
American
historical
injustice
The conspicuous
tative of
place
race,
an injured
by
Eng-
my eye
72
tlie
Fugitive Slave at
plailanthropic
man
of
Great Britain,
cessfiilly for
who had
and
pay a
visit to the
grave of Wil-
and proceeded
in
search of the
steps,
when
the
memory
of Granville
Sharpe,
;
by
the
African
Institution of
London, in 1816
many
of the deeds
"lie aimed
from the
guilt
arm of freedom
and
human
nature.
Having
in
re-
and
pride,
he took his
post
among
by
WiLBERFOKCE'S GllAVE.
permitted to interrupt his career of usefulness,
73
till lie
by
After viewing
profile
rights,
which was
on
the
on,
aisle,
mementoes
j^laced in
honor of genius.
There stood a
which was
in every
it
way worthy
erected.
of the great
man
to
whose memory
that
was
was a statue
his
^vriter clad in
he
had
some chosen
The
stately
monument
to
the Earl of
part of the
Chatham
Abbey.
is
Fox,
and many
I
by monuments.
had
long
inscription
enumerates his
saying:
concludes
by
"This
erected
by
his friends
and
fellow-laborers, at
home and
abroad, assisted
by
74
Fugitive Slave at
many
further
tliousands of the
African race."
A few steps
many
great
and
was stand-
In no other phice
men
lie together.
The
fol-
lowing
the
is
monument
erected to
memory
To
the
memory
of
in Hull,
August
1833.
during
two representatives
fertile
for
York-
in
great
and
and various
talents, to
warm
versal candor, he
Christian
life.
Eminent
work of charity,
spiritual v/nnts
name
will ever
be specially
by the blessings
way
WiLBEEFORCE'S GeAVE.
tion of slavery in every colony of tlie empire.
75 In
on God
but,
in the
progress, he
was called
to enout-
He
however,
all
tion,
bosom of
his
familj'.
Commons
him
among
and Saviour,
whom
in his life
and
in his writings
he
had desired
to glorify,
he
of the just."
The monument
is
a fme one
his figui-e
is
seated on
a pedestal, very ingeniously done, and truly expressive of his age, and the pleasure he seemed to derive from
his
own
thoughts.
said or
lie
men who
buried
Westminster Abbey, in
enchanting
strains.
The
and statesmen
76
A
and the
Fugitive Slave.
But
as time sliall step
Avill
genius, to posterit}^
between
tliem
future,
none
be sought
after witli
more enthusiasm
Wilberforce.
or greater
j^leasure
than that of
No
it
was founded
all
in the school
men
are
by nature
endowed by
irrefrag-
may
good
God
is
is
the author of
man
and of
evil,
man
species.
his
mind was
free
theirs.
and other
our hearts,
praise,
let let
theme of our
and
love the
name of
Ia/^Uuu J
Lo.N'DOX.
^ly[rLAry\_;> ^
U'diTdtibc
of
3^lbcrt
uiiir
ISitrir.
TT
"was a beautiful
morning
broad Atlantic.
The sun
and
month of
sea
latitude of Carolina.
its
The
was
make
its
Mary
boat, as
bow
of the
gracefully ploughed
its
York.
twenty.
young
ladies,
and
She had
to
who was
spend
78
his
Naerativeof
summer
in
New
York, in
tlie
pursuit of
tlie legal
profession.
little
Carolinians,
and had no
youth
South;
while
their
well-developed
and
their sen-
years.
As Mary
tector, their
leaned upon the arm of her gallant proconversation sparkled as the ocean spray
But suddenly,
as
?"
"Ah!
my
feelings is
yourself to Christ."
"I have,"
to religion.
replied Albert,
"no
natural repugnance
On
God
in
all his
works and in
providence, as the
But, Mary,
I do not
all things.
understand
people,
how
they
who
claim to be God's
title
own
of Chris-
79
many
those "wlio
make no
sucli profession.
I do
not
mean
hypocrites;
but those
who
are
actually
is
respected as
orthodox
Christians.
There
Mr,
who
has a high
and
he teaches sentiments
at variance
;
with
sets
and he
is
above
very
is
reproach
as infidels in their
efforts to elevate
it
How
that
Mr. Yerse
these excellent
is
men
"Why
to
he
fit
for heaven,
cast
down
hell ?
I don't understand
" I
heads than
;
mine
it
your question
and
would be presumptuous in me
it
solve
to
your
satisfaction.
But
Albert, your
my own
mind, your
Al-
80
loert, it is
Naekative of
not morality
; ;
it is
tice
with profession
it is
not
doinr/
riglit
tliat
makes a
Christian, for if
man
no such thing
as Christianity.
But
because of
man's wickedness and his inconsistency, both in theory and in practice, that the Christian religion
sented as the
is
pre-
means of
attaining to salvation.
Christ
the Christian in Christ Christ in the Christiana loving, dearing union of ignorance with wisdom, of
virtue.
and
eninfir-
affectionate,
Christ
>
follies
and
by
cover-
ing
him with
him
to him-
self until
what
off,
the spiritual
as
you speak
this
mysterious theology.
feelings as I see
And
beaming from
countenance
but
for
you might
me
in Arabic
any understanding
It
have of
Christianity.
could
are,
not thus
fill
your own
you
81
joy
tliat
makes you
of
life "wbicli
give
me
pleasure."
" the teachings of God's
"
You
spirit.
You know
taught
me
that I
was
sin-
my
to a
came very
forcibly to
my
mind
I am a wicked sinner."
Mary, Mary," interrupted Albert, " you did
I"
" 0,
so be-
a good girl
by
all
my
acquaintances.
But
I
now saw
when
went Lome
I soon
do
the
sin.
better,
God
more
I discovered the
proneness of
thouglits,
to
my
heart to
I tried to think
good
and
evil thoughts
came
directly in
1
my way
effort to
mar
my
peace.
Doy
It
after
day
all
made
vain.
purify
my
T
thoughts.
was 4*
in
A pure
82
Nareative of
suggested
its
tliougbt immediately
opposite,
evil
and
tlie
than the
shocked me.
But
deeper into
my own
God
to
heart
into
the iniquity of
its
my
1
of ever sounding
depth.
then cried to
He
heard
I fjlt
my
help.
had
suffered in
my
stead,
his blood as an
to
atonement
for
my
I found peace
my
upon
cleansing blood."
began
noticed
by
The wind,
began to
rise,
and
it
blew so fresh
himself with a
game of
chess,
state of
call-
some passage
particularly
83
clouds.
lier.
3'-oii
seem
be meditating
but allow
me
to participate in tlie
impressive
enjoys.
is
In the rapid
scenery
and
sees
mind's confusion.
Whatever he
attracts
casts his
eye upon,
worthy of admiration,
his
attention
but a
moment
gaudy decorations of
some foaming
torrent,
flit
by him
as a
dream of
twilight,
his
memory only
pencil out-
lines of
Not
so the
gorgeous
the
foaming waves
84
'
Kaeeativeof
Maiy," said
Albert,
" tliese
clouds, floating
so
in-
gracefully
more than
wind
is
we
are going to
have
"You
do not
feel alarmed,
do you Albert?"
;
alarmed
if
There
may be no
real danger,
be no harm in preparing
for
we should have
seat
it.
a storm I wish
as to appropriate
and keep
Your
father brought
me two
life-preservers
and
a good cord,
to use
when we came on
me
at
them
in case of accident.
You
smile,
Mary,
my
earnestness,
and perhaps
my
you
my
directions."
bow
of the steamer,
Mary
gated clouds.
participate
in Albert's
Yet
upon
made
85
con-
The broad
and
as Albert returned,
Mary
re-
tried to look at
my
eyes to blindness.
its
could not
mark
its
beauty.
its
floats
and through
infinity,
mire
beaut}'
and
I see
its
glory undazzled
by
gence.
So
it is
God through
Christ, as
it is
he transthus see-
And
by
ing
God through
Christ, instead of
by
the ej-es of
I obtain
intellect
eternally lighted
by
Seeing him in
am
which your
scep-
ticism
"
and
My
my
counsel to
personally.
really I
It
may be
want of
reflection,
is.
but
fear of death
Your
86
safety,
Narbative of
Mary,
is tlie
cause of
mj
present anxiety.
for eternity,
but
am
If
you
jDerisli
my
to
What
is
and
must
my
now
is.
make
account of
when
am
fairly
launched into
it.
Per-
haps enjoying
this
from you
care
to
At
present
my
must be
my
dear
Mary
treacherous ocean."
The passengers
about the prospect.
He hoped
to
them
have brave
was imminent.
rapidly increasing.
Albert
land,
a.n"d
Mart.
bj
tlio
87
dashing of
and anon
lost their
balance
the billows!
dor,
terrific splen-
Mary was
sitting
directed, await-
first
life-
one
hand
caught in the
Mary was
the waves.
overwhelmed with
several
His
first
situated.
The
was
lightning gave
alive
him
she
and unhurt.
At
that
a dreadful
8S
and the awful
ciates
Naeeatiye of
sight vraa exhibited of their late asso-
blown
the waves.
The
tear.
loss of the
Pulaski has
made many
a flowing
horrors of that
night.
The
fite
of
Albert and ^[a^y, and only added them to the catalogue of the lost
It
difficulty that
aid,
Albert
if
the storm
But
fortunately,
the
wind
shifting,
the
themselves, on recovering
from
fast-sailing brig.
The
perilous to a steamboat,
as to
damage a
well-trimmed vessel
plosion, bore
and the
down towards
89
make any
rescued.
and
suffered himself to
be assisted to a berth.
in the heavens
Every accommodation
way of dry
clothing was
Having recovered
around
looked
None were
in the saloon
The lady
saluted
them
in the blandest
and most
gratifica-
refined manner,
tion that they
had been
from
their
perilous situation,
To whom. Madam,"
said Albert,
" are
we
in-
90
" I am,
tins brig.
sir,
Naerativeof
the wife of the captain and master of
My
husband
will
pay you
his respects as
warm
rolls."
justice to
my
down
vour
libertv,
Madam,
to
my mind
;
at this
moment."
Doubtless
guests."
it
will
be
young
A reverend
manner and
in
in the kindest
young
couple, ex-
and
Mary pointed
out to
selected.
He
read
it;
and, "while
of the
surpassed.
name, was
in
faith,
Yet
Albert AX D Mary.
he was not
bi2:otcd.
91
full
or riaiJ.
of the
would have
full
She was
dc-
hghted to think that she had been so fortunate as to meet such a friend and
time
;
spiritual counsellor at
such a
and she
at
warm
would
my
to
dear young
that
of
all
you
sit
down
young gentleman
your
coffee."
Albert and
fallen
feel that
they had
among
kind
hostess,
Captain Templcton
now
entered,
and with
address,
gi-eat
warmth of
gave
hand
to Albert, and,
with a graceful
felt in
bow
to Mary,
92
Naerative of
"
And
now,
to
;
mj young friends,"
yourselves peras soon as I can
so."
yon
make
home
in
my
vessel
and
Permit
me
what port
you
"
We
we meet
you
will
be placed on board."
merchant vessel
is
" No,
"
sir.
This
an armed brig."
Albert.
We
are pirates
;"
Mary
amazement.
"
Your husband
is
very jocose
said.
!"
Xo,
su'
We are
pirates.
But I
trust
we
are as hospitable
and
93
be found on
tlie
guests of a
all
pii'at-
crew
but
tliej
apprein the
for tliere
was that
deportment of
sincere
all
on board whicli
satisfied tliem
of a
desire to serve
every way.
A few days
to
pirates as a civilized
and
religious people.
On
prayers,
and a
lectui-e
What seemed
particufaith of
by their
minister.
There
was
so
much
fervor, earnestness,
belter.
three weeks,
94
Narrative of
sensibili-
of our
young
friends,
so
much
mere
But
tlie
were now
inter-
rupted by a
It
new
scene of action.
;
the
An
Soon he observed
in
men
a
at the guns,
commanding
position.
The
down
Mary
at first
arm
standing
down upon
Is
it
your
object to place us
Albert aistdMaey.
"Mr.
it
95
shall see to
Gillon," replied
llie
Captain,
"I
that \-ou
;
safely jDrovided
score,
for
when
merchantman,
I shall
make arrangements
you
to
your way
to
your
friends.
Be composed now,
may seem
in j^our
judgment
to require.
Templeton
tain
you
you
are likely to be
on deck."
attempted no answer.
were
pirates.
They
re-
and
sat there in
in,
profound
silence.
might
transpire.
You must
not be alarmed,
I only regret
my
we
dear.
You
will
be perfectly
to lose
safe.
your company."
96
Narrative of
"0
Mrs. Templeton!" said Marj^,
life
!
"how
!
can you
prosecute sucli a
It is so
wicked
Excuse me,
my
feelings of horror."
At
by
this
moment
guns on
that vessel,
are
somewhat numerous.
We
shall
have to proceed
we
somewhat
warm
moody
silence.
Mary
in,
heaved a deep
sigh.
up the
of Jacob,
who
didst accom-
through
and
that
we thank Thee
Thou
And
we beseech Thee, oh
Tliine
own Son
97
being
distin-
commerce, are
ever
who have
infidelity,
and bj
also
their
true religion;
who have
by
their
Oh
Lord,
needlessly
Thee
to enable us in the ap
Thy
glory,
may be
And
wilt Thou,
Lord,
as.-ist
men and
order
when
all
shah be over, he
may have
to-
God and
wards man.
us,
And
whatsoever treasures
may come
who
to
may we
glory,
gratefully
employ
in
Thy
service
and to
died
Thy
Christ,
for us
became
poor, that
rich,
we through
to the
98
Nakrativeof
up
for us in
heaven
and
to
Thy
Holy
Spirit,
be
Amenr
manner
had a
The tone of
Temp
They both
eyes.
rose
from
the
"I
feel
PLrengthened,
for us,
my
brother;
If the
Lord be
who
can be
He
on the deck.
Clair," said Mrs,
Before
Mary could
gave
notice
reply,
tlie
loud
action
report
of
a cannon
that the
had com-
menced.
The
struggle
was a short
one, the
who
fell at
all
the
first fire.
It
on
the merchantman in
the pirates.
99
was not
until the
morning
At
breakfast
Mary took
he
replied, " to
remember the
Some-
obligations
of
humanity and
safety,
Christianity.
own
we
to
God
that their
souls
might be saved.
this case I
think
we
shall
able to
me how
man
of your naturally
humane and
make
who
polished manners
require.
would warrant me
is
and
Our business
both
social
and
politi-
100
cal,
Naerative of
are as decidedly opposed to sucli crimes as
otlier people."
among
any
"I
mauly
my language,
amazement.
that these
in-
you only
my
I cannot
comprehend how
you can
by terms more
is
ap-
propriate.
when
it
takes
away
a man's
his life to
make
the
booty secure?"
" I perceive, Mr, Gillon, that
delusion that
confess,
sir,
all
pirates are
bad and
there are
many
of our people
severity,
who
and
treat
fre-
quently
inflict
death
when
mand
not
"
its
it.
But,
my dear sir,
abuse of piracy,
legitimate use."
And
say.
Captain Temple-
ton," said
able business?"
"
Of course I
and I
would engage
be honorable."
101
you
profess to be a Christian,
and
it
me how
your
be-
you do not
That
is
precisely
my
the Cap-
and
if it
were
not
so,
would abandon
said Albert,
it
at once."
it.
"Ah!"
It is
philosophy.
Even
my
good Mary,
here,
is
so
warped
by her reverence
I abhor with
all
my
it is
heart.
am
not surprised at
by
am
surprised that a
man
slaverj^,
sort, are
and
pirac}-,
irreconcil-
rcjjlied
the
Captain,
"what
102
tliougTit ver}^
Narrative of
profoundlj about
it.
But I
feel satisfied
so long as
have
tlie
"Word
is
on
my
side."
" I
am
not willing to
is
on your
side.
It
shocks
me
to
so."
to bro-
ther Gracelius,
who
is
He
will
a Bible in-
stitution."
" Yes,
my young
sister," said
Mr. Gracelius,
who
he
was enjoying an
tures do
piracy."
cup of
coffee.
"
The
Scrip-
institution of
"On
by
such a question, I
am
all ethical
and meta-
which we
must
you would
<'at\er
103
by arguments from
and a
liost
of other
evils,
by
tlie
very confessions
of Christians themselves."
" I perceive," said
sir,
to
mind by an appeal to
Bible as
my
and
it is
from
by
is
awfully criminal.
And
am
man
can for a
moment think
such crimes."
"
My
dear young
sister," said
you
piracy a crime,
But
let
104
Narrative of
away
rubbish, and to arrive at
that
it is
let
me remind you
nothing more
simply
we
are discuss-
Piracy
itself is
The absence of
the
The
case
A father
that right.
But
or physically.
which
would have
vessel,
The capture of a
is
abso-
lutely essential
institutions of piracy.
which
is sinful,
but
to
105
lias
on
his per-
son, or take
from him
all
means of livelihood.
When-
ever
it
can he done,
^\-ithout
we
ought
life,
make him
comfort-
him
as soon as possible
to his
enough
tution.
to
"
To
to
I live, then 1
am
a robber
property', as
one of your
;
own
and
rf
I take
when not
essential to maintain
my own
rights
my social
upon
as
obligations, I
it,
am
a murderer.
I therefore
insist
we
rees-
gard
sential
abuses;
for
106
piracy
Kaeeative of
may
exist without inflicting tliese aggTavated
wrongs.
" Christian pirates
temporal and
sj^iritual,
fellow-beings,
and
to
human
race.
nature.
They
"Now, here
is
piracy
sj'-stem
of society
and
government which
gives opportunity to
fall
inculcate
among
graceless
men who
into our
hands the
Christ;
and many an
ungodly
man
who, whilst
immersed
life,
in the business,
and
cares,
and pleasures of
land.
And many
faith,
the Christian
worthy Christian
"
pirates.
sailors
;
best-managed vessels
effective
and
do more of
work, both in
and
can be found.
107
it,
But the
to this
j
true question
of issue between us
sarilv a
is
pruned
siarht
Is
it
neces-
crime in the
of
God
to control the
of a
human being
in
any case ?
a right to pass
"
laws indispensable
existence
and
it
has a
shall
which
best
jSTow,
what
political
organization
is
most desirable
depends on circumstances
or despotism, or of man, as a
the rights
human
upon
all
and
and
will
prove
projects
notions
and
theories of
abstract un-
alienable rights.
civil institution
man, or a
class
of
men
make
(as,
it
for
instance,
merchants),
docs not
then
necessarily, and,
amid
all
circumstances, a
crime."
108
Mr. Gracelins
Narrative of
liere
paused, and
gave Marj an
call
down
as
much
as
you
please,
cannot possibly
justifies piracy
under
or
all
either
abstractly
countenance to
such a mode of
life,
or such a government, as
it."
jou
should rather
require
of you,"
replied
the
make
is
a crime.
know
not a word
from the
first
where piracy
and, waiving
once condemned.
clear
logical
But I pass
this,
my
rights,
undertake to
most
explicit! 3^,
me
out in
my
not neces-
sarily,
sin.
circumstances, a
What God
patriarch Jacob,
whose name
109
day to
this
time to the
church.
IIo\y did
Jacob acquire
Was
it
propert}^ of
bless
Laban
to himself?
And
is
God
him
in thus doing?
;
There
the
word of
in
condemnation
but,
on
contrary,
Jacob,
that he
had much
proj)erty, re-
marked, that
Here,
tion
God had
is
dealt
you
see,
marked
of another's property
by
strat-
agem,
by
Old Testament,
be the
mode of
But
his
conduct
to-
wards Laban was consistent with what was subsequently allowed under the Mosaic laws on the part
of the Jews towards other nations.
instance,
They
could, for
;
make
round about
they could
despoil
which would
on, if
done
110
Naeeative of
to Jews.
tlie
by Jews
erty
Tlius
tlie
idea
tliat tliat is
is
prop-
-sfliicli
of divine
origin.
"
case of
tlie Israelites
in tlieir
exodus
from Egypt
Divine
bors
tliey
command
to
borrow of
tlieir
Egyptian neigh-
tlicir
own
benefit.
who was
it
man
after
God's
own
heart, did
not regard
shew-bread
Priest
itself,
by
telling that
circum-
stances,
life
would be
called a he.
It
was
essential to his
^to
his support.
to
tell
Now,
it is
upon
this
and
all civil
order to secure
cial
by
adroitness
and
craftiness
commer-
it is
essential to
as
much
in the Scriptures to
Ill
to ob-
your government
We
must
have a living.
"
all
^^e
But as
mur-
If
you
will
Book
of Judges, xiv.
19,
you
by
^is
It is the case
'*;
"
And
thirty
men
Now,
Samson did
all this
Spirit.
And you
will
remember
^^'ith
that Paul in
special
if
commendation.
Samson, and David, and Jacob did such
proceeding accordingly.
"
Now,
things,
we
feel justified in
"
*,ail,
But
as I
I pass at once to
112
tlie
Narrative of
New
Testament.
The
tirst
occurs in Christ's
is
commended
for
by
adroitly subtracting
He had
bound
to his
by honor
employer, but so soon as his obligations to his employer ceased on being ordered out of the stewardship,
and
his
off,
then
it
was no longer
unjust, but
commendable
to
The other
case
is
Lord
himself.
He
an
ass
and her
and he
*at
told
them how
saying
:
'
be caught
them.'
it,
hy
Now, when
reply
of
we
take
others,
we may
to those
who
question us,
'
what he obtains
religion,
as to
interests of
and
Eedeemer.
"
And
now,
my
dear
young
sister,
not essen-
113
Indeed,
it
tliat it is
not
malum
tliat
in se f
stands
is
vindicated
by
The
argument
same
it is
in prin-
upon the
not under
all
circumstances a
And
I admire that
to believe that
fea-
therefore,
very
the right
hand of Christian
if
fellowship,
And
would
as readily
com-
mune with
it is
evident that
in
se."
pirac}' is not,
slavery,
malum
Mary made no
accom-
emphasis
is
my
reason,
my
114
conscience^
Nakrative of
and
my
heart.
tliis
infidel."
" Oil
tears.
Albert, Albert
!"
cried Mary,
tlie
feelings of one
lier
by remarking
that he
had met
at the
would be found
be perfectly in harmony
human
heart,
enlight-
ened reason.
called fanatical
But
were generally
he
prove
itself to
be better
than
shall
its
become a
But
I cannot be a Chris-
up slaveholding and
piracy."
en-
who announced
that
every
115
tlie
could
now go on board
mercTiant
feeling
vessel.
On
much
we
are
much
indebted to you
and
and very
that I
would
will
But you
pardon
my heart,
that
horrible
life,
^^
man's
life.
you have
treated
Mary
and myself,
treat all as
your own
and
(the
you
will please
God
better than
to theo-
make
the
of piracy, slavery,
institutions
Avar, death-penalties,
and
practices."
"And
" that
I,
Captain
Templeton,
you
to
and
come
human
reason
116
Narrative of
I admire your honesty and
when
the ardor of
maturer
you
will
am."
"
Ah !"
depend upcn
Farewell,
soul
we
Lamb
Mary,
still
by
the hand
and
said
am
not at
all
am
not pre-
But I
fear
you have
it
will be
Oh
my
young
sister,",
grace of
become an ambassador of
By this
117
Our young
friends
were soon
of their
siglit
They found
that
tlie
pirates
cargo.
funds, in
gol^
when they
son
left
home, which Albert had about his perthe pirates, they found no
their
difli-
when taken up by
culty,
way
to
On
do
so,
but because he
felt
He was
careful
to
investigations;
not,
f|uieted in
her
own mind
thoughts.
It
New
sittiug
118
togetlier in
Narrative of
Mary's spacious state-room on board
wliicli
tlie
noble vessel
was
And
I,"
" 0,
Albert, I cannot
am
to hear
yon
say
so.
But
through
litionist,
it all.
The
pirates
have made
me
an
Abo
]
Christian.
its
teachings,
har>
evil instead of
even
so,
" I
have
for
I find
to bewilder,
New
Testa-
ment
to explain.
Old
full
by Jesus
Christ,
who
has,
by
his example,
and
what
119
I
am
of the
divine mind.
Christ
is
everything
taught
by Jesus
human
and
justice
diametrically opposed
affections,
and
and
to all
that
is
violative of
brotherhood.
"I believe
in Jesus Christ.
And
had the
ideal
man
New Testament is the true Captain of SalvaAnd now I find that such a Saviour really exam willing to follow his leadings, although I
it
know
and
sacrifices.
I tell
spirit
and
sanctify
my
heart
and
life
have learned
and doctrines of
manifestation of
Christ,
gave a
full
by
Ids righteousness
brought to
my
view
my
unrifjhieousncss.
" I road of
120
Naeeative of
tittle
of
tlie
divine more-
ligion.
was
to induce
man
;
{o
abandon his
it
sins
to
God
and that
Under
me
to
by taking
Jesus as
tion.
feel
my
am
my
salva-
thus
made
pardoned
and hopeful
My faith in
Christ gives
me
am
Jesus Christ's
to God,
way
reconciled
me
and
God
reconciled to me.
my
stead.
That
with
is
impress
me
my
me
obligations to
God and
his law,
suf-
has by reconciling
me from
And when
I think that
God made
lie
woild
^that
121
should not
it all
perisli
and I
realize
kingdom of heaven
within me.
am
truly happy."
"
My
you make
me
new
light.
I confess I never
ment.
for
we
are Christ-like,
we
are in
full
measure of our
righte-
knowledge.
To be
clothed
imputed
ognized by our ownselves and others as a righteousness derived from Christ, because
we
live as Christ
122
Nareative of
to live.
wauld have us
tlie
liow pleasant
liglit
!"
it
is
to see
matter in so clear a
"
is
And
" I
wish to
know how
it
jou a
little
ist.
fall
import ?"
"
Yes
"
mode
saw
if it
it
was
good
in defence of piracy
mode of
itself is
sanctioned
by
the
Bible.
my
have
felt
much
of
its
my
I
soul, that I
it
with
criticisms of the
learned
spirit
Cln-ist,
upon words, I am
certain that
the whole
practice, or principle
men
as brethren.
And
perceive that
many
thina:s
their original
meaning
123
and tyranny.
now
so read that
historical facts
and
tra-
man's
I
misconceptions
religion.
itself that
slavery
all
wrong
;
and being
I
obliged to be an Abolitionist
for
know
that
no Christian ought
is
tice
of what
wrong
it
in itself
on any consideration.
believe
But, Albert,
in the Bible, "
how was
that
Why, Mary,
and ministers
me
that the
Bible
required obedience to
This
my
and therefore
was I
i/^ok
My
respect for
my
me
from
telling
thcra
124
that
tlieir
Naeeative of
own views and
that
it
vinced
me
my
its
father
rightfulness
drawn from
and that
my
mother would
by her
natural sense
of justice
whom
it
was no oppression
to en-
who
take that
Book
to justify
Mary,
"
you know
the obliga-
ment.
If
we
we have
to serve
Christ fully.
We
How
then can
we
return to Carolina ?
"Mary,
now
feel,"
said
Albert,
125
for tlie
in-
We
must speak
for the
dumb and
trutli as it is in Jesus.
But
witli sucli
views and
tentions
we would not be we
to
suffered in
South Carolina.
do ?"
Marj,
after a
we were
They
will
lost
with the
Let
it
stand
so.
suffer
more
we
our
now
And
for
for
parents' sake,
and
all
am
will-
ing to
sacrifice
my
make
where
a living
by
my own
some place
my own feelings
will not
by
my own
slave-
annoyance
to them."
Here
their di,alogue
arrival
young
New
York.
assured
as they
wxre that
all
they could
126
after
Narrative of
engaging in teaching an academy a
sliort time,
tlie
gospel
and be and
I succeeded in revealing
tbem
Tbey
stances, in a little
town
in
many
eitber of tbeir
bumble
cottages.
cbampion of American
slavery.
same person."
" It surely cannot be
said Albert.
But
to tbis
And
will ex-
127
satis-
arguments in some
factory manner.
//^^-^z^:^/.2-t>X
Coil
anil
Crust.
mniS
to
is
tLe motto of
tlie
all
embrace
it
The duty
spread of
of error.
imposes
;
two-fold;
2.
1.
To
toil
for tlie
tlie trutli
and
To
trust to
the dissipation
barrier set
up
against the
opponents of slavery
made of
mind
against thejn.
That anti-slavery
is
Many
political jealousy.
But
is,
it is
not so
The
that slavery
;
may be
found
that
it
129
religion, not
a moral
evil,
less tlian
it
that indifference to
its
extension
among
abolition.
How
that those
who
at as
result to
be arrived
by
that they are getting rid of the only serious drawto their
back
own
prosperity.
Of
course, then,
it is
and
pohtical,
that
auti-slavery
men
believe
may have
got so
They
constitute,
however,
portion of the
number included
Nine-
the
into question
at aU.
They
them
as a protection
and safeguard
slavery,
by
ill-judging
and rash
6*
180
danger, than
tlie acts
of
upon a
does
good government
to sustain
acknowledged
evil,
men have
entertained respecting
rernment.
for
He
furnishes an entering
wedge
doubt and
distrust,
which,
if
grow
ently.
into aversion.
Anti-slavery
men
reason
the
differ-
They
separate
slavery from
Constitu-
tion
They
hold,
its
legitimate public
by
the
hopes
of
all
difficult to
the
come
and open
up
social disasters of a
The
spirit
of this reform
is
denunciatory, violent,
and
proscriptive.
It is inevitable that
131
men more
or less fanatical in
spirit.
None but
tbey
advance
is
to
At
much
of hberality
among
anti-slavery
men
Though
all
who
conscientiously differ
them
that
many
more
are too
compromising in
their
views of slavery.
To rouse
duties.
It
may be
that
choicest terms.
Some
allowances must be
made
for
among
anti-slavery
men.
The
greatest
made
-without bitterness of
temper.
They remember
that whilst
the
Saviour
132
denounced
Pharisee,
formal
scribe, tlie
hollow
and
men
at
botliT
is
much
the most
common,
all.
at the
same
founded in truth of
credit,
lsro*evidence,
worthy of a moment's
has ever
in a
class of
them
of
all
than
this.
what
boundary
which he
is
own
con-
any manner
practicable.
How
step
from
it
this opinion to
an act of encouragement
That
133
freedom to the
it
slaves.
all
But though
be true that
these
common
way
im-
of antiit
slavery
men
by no means
them
to
assume
moderation
which encourages
in
sluggishness.
No
great
movement
human
affairs
zeal,
and tempered
by
Such
gradually assuming.
Irinifelji.]) for
tlje
^lubc
is
|ricufeljij for
TT
is
a mistake on
tlie
part of
tlie
people of
tlie
south to suppose
tliat tliose
who
by unfriendly
feelings
personally, or
by any
The most
If
if
the
for their
produce were
kept
down by
in
at-
135
the
fact.
New
ture
south produces.
They
are directly
and deeply
inter-
The
southern planter
is
rival.
He
their partner.
His work
to
them and
aid.
to their
and
Consequently
his ruin
their prosperity,
disaster,
and
would
be an
irretrievable
when
sists
in desiring a
by any unfriendly
feeling to-
would
concerned, there
every reason
England occupied a
now
sys-
But the
From being
serfs,
compelled
or
fear,
136
in the
But
this
On
the
contra_j^, it
has
master quite as
much
as
it
on any southern
given expressly
emre-
ployer,
that
just
which
is
and
forbearing threatening,"
on
stripes
solves that
estate
he
the
his
by
instead of
j.
by menaces and
and
after
whole grormd, he
estimates,
^d faithfully as
by
his
labor performed
skill,
self,
to th^ capital,
and then
upon a
Suppose,
also, that
some
suitable arrangement
is
made
on the plantation or
in the vicinity,
by which
the ser-
187
tlieir
con-
and
theii' ideas.
now, to make
tlieir
and
fear dismission
from
it
as a punishment.
this
Suppose
which
should produce,
it
is
now
fortress, or
workmen
are paid,
by
threats
and
severity, there
men whom
ashamed
table.
concerned in
it,
188
mind
now,
espe-
and
suffering,
and
at the
be restored
it
should no
rifle
down and
the cry of
fire.
it
were
possible, is
an enemy
to desire to
have
it
effected ?
But
all
man
highest degree.
plated
No
is
contem-
be realized
Very
can be
it
say
tliis^
if
you
please,
and prove
it,
if it
proved.
desire that
might be
the change,
by unfriendly
for
,JUr^.
Cljri^tiii^.
" 0,
thes<j childen,
liow tliey do
lie
^liliLLT
Ed-
MONDSON.
rpHE
sale
clock
struck
tlie
tlie
commenced.
horses, carts,
For strange
as
it
would seem
ample folds of
human
sinews were to be
bought and
the
sold.
Holy Ghost,"
;
in
which dwelt
little
souls for
children,
made
in the
dumb
Husbands would be
and
all
140
Cheistine.
cliattels
among
who bought
that day.
was a saddening
sight, that
Not colored
own,"
as
which overhung
their future.
A bright-eyed boy,
"
A brave, free-hearted,
spirit
with a proud
some
face,
form, was
qualities
His good
and he became
boasted of his
who
good bargain
he would
Christine.
Matty, a sister of
staud.
tliis
141
tlie
lad,
Her
beaut}^,
dreadful
moment only
She '^s^^-
upon
wifcian-
hood.
as beauty
must ever
enhanced
It at-
It
fate.
Louisianian,
dollars in
named
St.
Laurent,
who gave
a thousand
her, that
he
Wives, mothers,
when such
silent,
is
women ?
Can
jou
sit
and
at
your
ease,
knowing
that such
things are ?
When
she
fell
upon her
tears
weep
whom
slavery
never to
meet again.
" Christine !" cried the
Quickly her
142
Christine.
tlie
form of
lier
new
master.
"Witli
imp^e
slie
claiming, "
master, master, do
for a
bny
my
mother too
!"
moment on
droop over her pleading eyes, and tapping her cheek with his
"
finger,
I
he
said,
What
it
coaxing so early,
not do
;
my
pretty one
No,
no
will
woman."
" Oh, master, she
is
not old.
Do buy my
mother,
master
"
!"
Here
is
There
is
the best
bids for
gentle-
all
Virginia.
Who
say, sir ?
$325
thanks,
sell this
woman
for a song.
She
is
an excellent seamstress.
$400$450$500 I am
little,
gentlemen,
but she
her
is
!
is
that.
Look
!
at
What
what an eye
what arms
there
she
is
Upon my honor
rose,
a dark-colored
black, but
$550, did I
comely
her.
Cheistinb,
liear
143
you
say, sir ?
for sucli a
"
The babv
would
" she
sell
If I
buy
her, I
shall give
away the
encumbrance."
strained her
bosom, as
if
You
shall
never take
face,
into her
his little
and put
laid his
cheek on hers.
One
"
$575
$600
$650,"and
" I
said he,
turning to an
tunity.
I feared she
if
I didn't,
I shall give
my daughter.
will take
But
oil'
child,
who
him
my
hands?"
sir,
too," said a
up,
and bowing
144
"
Cheistine.
Will jou,
take
is
yom-s,
and you
may
Mm away as soon as yon please." " If I take Mm no\r, woman will raise a storm,"
little
said the
man
" I
know
a better
aside,
way than
that,"
St.
Laurent
he communicated
satisfied.
Meanwhile the
further
its
went
on,
revolting details.
baby
fell
earth.
The sun
He
kissed the
dewy
flowers,
and
air.
as incense
on the morning
He
whose
"
souls T^ere liushed
Christine.
sent
145
to
up
their
morning thanksgiving
"Him who
never slumbers," for His protection of their " laughing dimpled treasures."
fell
upon the
face
She
wakened with a
Why
mother,
What
her,
look
yourself
place.
in
Christine's
After the
give
first
way outwardly
till
On
the
morning of Eleanore
St.
Laurent's bridal
some service
But the
spoil
146
at rest.
Christine.
The outraged
soul
had gone
witli its
com-
Clje luteUcttiiut,
^oral,
tlje
itiA
^j)iritoi
CouMtioii of
^liibe.
TELE
American slave
all
is
a liuman being.
He
posthat
sesses
the attributes of
He
which
to think, sensibility
with which to
and
toil
action.
Nor
is
which
related
to
eternal
and absolute
truths.
But
all
common with
other
like
and the
results, therefore,
be found.
tl;e
How mean
then
must be
to reproach
m
5S, HiK'li
0(JNj)rrroM of
as cUamtJtcriiii)
tiiji:
Slavii:,
In
|ii'0(.r.)r
mon
py.nonilly.
16
Btatoinent,
that nlavcn
it
m
by
grout
tlioii;j;litH,
tlioir
masterly
\>>is\r,
uikI
tini
thcii-
captivating eloquonco,
aiul tlio
am
astorHHliing
in
IxiiJi
old
Now
Woi'lil.
iJui
Education
dcv(;l<>|HiH'iil,
wlml
lii;i
tlic,
wliih-
iioodn for
i(5H.
oT
inlcllci'licd
ihm'iIh Inr
Ami
it
ia
what
tliu blar.k
liiin,
iii:i,ii
thu duVolojiHKMlt of
lii:f.
1'Miii'atn
ami Mm miml
luiiHtcily in
il;i
il-;i
provoa
I'
itfltiir
at ojioo an
proround and
CoriO(iptionrt,
lioiiH, liH tlxi
and
jih
Iji'IhIc
and
i-
in-iMi.itihlc. in
drc/i-
|:.
mind
(if
luiy utlu
liin
man.
ilir.
Ibit,
< ;
ill
addition to
intolKiclnal,
llio
tiliiv(^
poM-
a mora.) nature,
llio
f!upiill() oi'
hiyjicst dr\c.l()|i-
mont ami
conHficncd
ri;-dd.
avoid
llin
roiifj;,
in
Ium
ii|ioii
Ium Ky
liin
Heavenly
uuf-dit
TliiM
no
on(!
can deny
wlm known
by
tli(<
of
<>('
love, ol'
moiid
(iod
tinlli
lias
manircHteij
nlavcH
thin coiniliy.
not
left
tlio
rJavcM
lli<
witliont
(i|iiiitiial
moral houho.
Nof
Iuim
ho (hmicd
liim
him
to rccog-
uizo (Jod in
liin Hj>iritual
nianifcHtationn, to cViHcoru
and
Co N
:i|.|.r(jcial.<)
I)
rr
OK OK
'iiik
Si.
avk,
ttU'i
i(;lil
1-10
H.piiiln.il
ItuIJim, uixl
l,li<!
tu luol
iJio
ni>irll.
of diviiio lovo
<l'"
iiH
ih-y
upon
li'iM
li'':i.rt,
liko (l<tw
ii|"i'
fMUUtCul curlJi.
liowiiVfa',
'i'lir
iii..i;il
;iihI ;;|.irll.ii;il
iiiitun}
uC
LIks nliLV"!,
lil:(!
lii;H
iiiirllc.iu.il,
:iihI
f/(j(!,'i
uiu!(liA(;aU!<I
uikI
uiitraiaod,
|).c,l),
(l.iil;,
iiii[)(',li(!l,ni])l(5
irt
tlu)
/^looill wlll'ill
OH*
f,liioii'ln
l,li<;
miii'l
liiiii
iunl
ill
mIiivo.
No
ni._y
of
li;.^lil,
fliciTH
Io
Ills
<liirlcil<!(!*.
No
OMO
i;<
h11<)W<-<I
ri'i,-:li
liiiti
iIm; lilciisiaf^K
orctflncatioii, ririd
no
|.ri-:ic,|irr
of
(iiiik
iiiiii'l
liy
l.li;
ofimfjn;'!
\h
l-nil.li.
It,
in iiMli'<',<l
1,111';
l,lia(/
nluv'M'y
Il,
i:!
|uliti<}al,
ii
civil,
;ui'J
:i
r(,iiiin<;iv,i;il
evil.
Iruo
Uiiil,
il,
iH liioMt
eX*
rriiciul.iiip.';
and
IVi^'litl'il
in
il.:<
cUcotH Upon
Hlav<Jry
llio pliy-
jc.'il
iKiliii'',
(,r its
vi<;l.im.
Jiul-
in K'jcm
in
ilM
l,(!rril)l'!
iKiiiiouMiKWn,
iiil>i;ll<j(it,
vJk'.ii.
w;
(;onl,(',iii|)Ial,<'-
ilio
va;-il/
wanLo
o(.'
IImj
liart
vartt
wanU:
ol'
nionil
it,',
and
hecii
cauHcd hy
poinonouH
)>ovv<;r
ui(;
And
of
l,li<;
y<;l,
t.lii;
of
l\\<; 'AUiU'.,
ruid
IIk;
inMiHtnco
(Jliun-Ji,
p;iv<Mi
to
itn
liujtpojt. in
Many
oC
our
Ic'idin;/
Htalcsrnon
for
an; cu^/iii/yA
tlic
()<;viHinpf
it;<
and
rnitln-rin,";
plan;-!
<;xl,(;nMioii of*
pi;rp'jtit'iL(j
tftrritorial
ilu
urcii, tlicjcl^y
Liujau;.;
bj
:uid
otcrui/y
150
bloody existence,
our most
dis-
founded
is
a divine
Although
this
State,
and
in-
him not
upon
despair,
but be
is
full
of hope.
For God
is
upon
his side,
and a multitude
are engaged in
working out
his redemption.
^yto^^-^-^--^^^^ jlL^-><d
Obeklin, August 2Y, 1863.
NOTHING,"
my mind
the established
is
more
plain to
God
recog-
age;
and, that
while
it
addresses slaves
as
Christian
it
men,
and
the
all
Christian
men
as
slaveholders,
so
modifies
same
the
proportion in Avhich
yoke of bondage
be un-
known.
The Bible
is
no
agitator.
It
changes
human
governments only as
It
it
changes the
human
character.
human
institutions the
The Bible
Now,
tliis
vs.
Slavery.
the
either
means
that
Bible requires
the
moral law
means nothing.
wrong, where
per
se
by crime on
and
forbidding slavery,
inhuman
If slavery
is
not a wrong in
its
itself,
irrespective of
what are
it
called
may be
and
all
the
may be
of
man
of conscience too.
For
slavery,
is this
as
distin-
thing and no
it
is
labor
undefined, unrewarded,
on the
condition of being
The Bible
and moral being,
such rights
is
vs.
Slavery.
By
practical indulgence
ignored.
may be sometimes
when
conceded.
But the
Now, we hold
it
it
We
and
its
abuse.
What
is
Service
may be
abused.
Everything
may
be abused.
is itself
as a chattel
that
is
the question
and so
this
and
it ?
comes of
bad
mains,
is
cherished.
It is
But men,
Scriptures,
on the
which
their
whole
spirit is
opposed,
by keeping out
tian light,
154
The Bible
vs.
Slavery.
To
from
if one
is
as
would
sixth or seventh
commands of
the decalogue,
by gen-
eral inculcation of
or defining between
We may
positive
m.
ii'
we do not proscribe
theft,
and bring
a law into
harmony with
while
we
spendmg
itself?
stolen goods in a
bad
moral law
is
use of them
tnd
it
all false
usurpations of
Who,
if
social
and
rela
down
in the
may
vant
recognized side
by
The Bible
relations of parent
rest
vs.
Slavery.
wife,
is
155
and
child,
husband and
which
just because
it
not the
The
;
away
enhanced
in a
on natural
nations.
principles,
common
to all times
and
y IKE
all
the advancement
the cause of
human
free-
dom
has encountered
its
many
oppositions calculated to
impede
progress.
from
is,
"
Our country
all
mankind," have
I
had no
Oh no
they have
ever dwelt
among
called, fox
157
wing
and
tlicir fliglit
from
tlie
prison-Tiouse to
to tlie red-
Heaven
bosoms
derous panoply.
but,
thank God,
"the work
The
great
GOES'
bravely ON
!"
men
and
chief priests
and resolved
to crush, as with
bondman's heart
free-
own
their lips in
God
'
r..y\>M
1853.
"
slave, I
have
un-
you of
my
my
earnest prayers.
In
my
view,
you
actively iu
"With
full
among
those
a crime
the
more
by
men
madam, yours
respectfully.
fj'cM.P^z^
Q^<^
C(jc
rrnERE
the
is
name
work of
valid
law
but the
commandment and
All
human
founded on
no legal
force,
and should be
trampled under
for this reason,
The
practice of slaveholding,
all legis-
against God,
civil society.
To
war
of
mankind.
't5fi-^^?^i^<^^
''"^^^r^
In^nuiius/'
for
T ASK
no prou(Jer inscription
my humble
tomb,
than "
Here
lies
^ Ta^ ^/^"^-^^
ssion 0f %meri.cH o^
Beunswiok, Maine, September
SO, 1853.
letter
of September 23d
it
not in
my po'n'er
you have
done
for
me
the honor to
for the
"Autographs
Freedom."
Particularly do
when
and
de-
when
equality, in
are disheartened
by our example.
"Would
those
who
tiU their
lands,
'OX or
'.\
Amekica.
kuman
globe.
riglits to
Uj3-;,
'V-u--.
.ji.^ c..u.-_
be
re-
tl^e
It
should be
by
"We
to adorn,
and we
ac-
g bands to
^Vitb mucli
am
truly yours,
'^^
uga.TOa'by J C Buttre
#
gis(ellol\)sl]i})|iu5
^kiktjolto.
npHE
United
cide,
late Dr.
he
said,
"to de-
character of ministers
and church-members.
They^
men from
the Lord's
who
are in
It is
dis-
tinguished a
man
take
and,
on hearsay, ventured to
most
The
make
decisions in
upon the
ye
shall
rule
"
By their
fruits
kno^r
lili
DiSFELLOWSillPPING SLAVEHOLDERS.
But, in declaring
tliat
tlioa^"
do not say
a slaveliolder
is
or
is
not a Christian.
On
the
Iisr-
FALLIBLE JuDGE.
But
this tj|ey
do
no
slaveholder, professing to
be a
Christian, is entitled
to Christian
fellowship,
to discipline.
propriety of
this,
holding
is
sin,
The
with an
If,
extortioner.
A slaveholder
may
not eat a
sit at
is
an extortioner.
with
then, a Christian
common meal
such an offender,
may he
him ?
I trow not.
Lewis Tappan.
fd
R.
from
inii
^rraj
f.
SAMUEL
PERHAPS
itself,
when
Samuel R.
Ward
Constitution
With
we
have, at present,
far
nothing to do
only as
Both eminent
for talent of
an order (though
differ-
common
level of
mind
my
notice.
A Leaf feom
'ouglass, sincere in
the opinions
lie lias
espoused,
^his
gesture
so
much
fearful
steep,
now on some
delightful stream,
In either
or oppositions,
you
moment,
at least,
forget
summons, and
former post.
loath,
if at
all,
you return
to
your
Not
you.
always, however,
is
he successful in retaining
the descent
Giddy
as
you
you,
you return
own
You
feel that
mannerhis
just appreciation of
words.
MY Scrap Book.
In listening to him, your
nerve strung
-wliole soul is fired
167
every
faculty
uvery
passion inflated
every
to perform at a
moment's bidding.
You
'Tis
charm.
At
last,
you
is
passed,
upon a bank
(at
whose base
but tranquil
waters),
display of pow6r,
no greater
effect
had
really
been
produced.
After
in
all,
it
is
a power
man.
With copiousness of
when even
ideas
fail,
words come
arranof-
ing themselves, as
it
occur
i^
up, present-
ing the
same
beautiful
harmony
as do the lights
and
shades of a picture.
168
A Leaf from
Douglass, in
this,
From Mr.
in
perhaps, as mucli as
differ.
Ideas
Mr.
Ward
utters.
"Words are
then,
as
mortar
are his
is to
words to his
In
this,
Ward's
greatest strength.
without
;
extraordinary
if
sparing of orna-
In
all,
by
close study
and
oc-
deep
reflection,
casion demanded,
to enable
to
examine bul
you
conclusions.
You
ing
is
it
;
feel
perhaps
not too
much
to say,
when Ward
right
you
see
it.
His appeals are directed rather to the understanding than the imagination; but so forcibly do they
take possession of
yields.
it,
that the
heart unhesitatingly
K, as
we have
said,
MY Scrap Book.
wliirling
169
down some
;
petuosity imj)els
quiet
ere you
invites
are aware of
as
lie
it, it
is
the
serenity of Mr.
ascent,
Ward,
points
up the
rugged
and
you
3^our confidence
Step
;
by
step do
steep
and, as
he points you to
new
scenes and
new
sublime
now
always
figures,
real.
Most
sjDeakers fail to
draw a
j)erfect figure.
This point I
His
when
done,
and elegance.
Douglass' imagery
painted.
is
fine
vividoften
gaudily
"Ward's pictures
to
Ward
sticks
Douglass
lass
is
the lecturer
;
Ward Ward
the debater.
Doug-
powerful in invective
in argument.
What
170
A Leaf from
Ward
recovers
Douglass M||,sarcasm,
Ward
point.
may
be pointed
"uttered.
is
you
fee]
it
him
the better
What Ward
says
case,
you
that
have said
or
the
same
yourself,
adding
times pleasing
Ward
and
seldom
less so
If
you
regret
when
speak,
you
are
anxious
Ward
an
essential quality in
an orator
I mean
no
is
true dignity.
Ward
He
coupled with
it
great self-possession.
never disconcerted
all
he desires he says.
to
MY Scrap Book.
fied
171
manner
in
Avliicli
he expressed
liimself,
and
liis
ultimate
triumpli
me
very
peculiar circumstances.
a beautiful
effusion.
his heart
to.
He had
plause
;
of. hisses.
Not
so,
however, now.
The
the suppressed richness of a deep-toned, but wellcultivated voice, as the speaker jDaid a few well-timed
it
had
which broke
m on the calm.
He
then proceeded to
and
sat
down amidst
a perfect storm of
cheers.
It
the gatherings
and poured
up of the
forth,
172
A Leaf feom
and though
felt
deeply
felt,
no more
to
be
deter-
He
is
down
force
and
skill
of a prac-
you
feel
it.
He
out in
tells
all their
naked ughness.
an understanding so matured,
to successfully grapple with
him
men
by
manner equalled
few.
MY ScKAP Book.
After
all, it
173
must be admitted,
both, are
men
of ex-
Both well
task^ey have
under-
ei^drawn, these
out-
hne
portraits for
who can
fill
them up
at leisure.
The
and may bo
by
all,
especially those
who
are
Note.
It
has
been
some years
since,
since
the
above
sketch
was
drawn
and though
my impressions,
change
still
undergone some
ened, and
ful
slight
seeing
him
enlarged, strength-
I think,
its correctness.
''eStlja
h mi ^ajljtorr
my interest in
Symmodern
TT
gives
me
your
objects,
by
slave,
exhibition in
times of the spirit which, in the parable of the Samaritan, first illumined the
wrong of
oppression,
and the
C/ri^ o/^^^^rr^yC^
Consolation for
Slave
Till
tliougli
wrong
Mourn not
as
one on
whom the
day
The
dawn,
been,
Nay
there
When thou
That
eye,
mercy
slept
Where
The scourge
shall
fall,
176
'tis tlie
voice of
liigli
command
given,
Break
To usher
C|e
fTHE Key
to
fi
:
a key to unlock
any mind
tliat is
by
the
tlie
and
to
open
is
not
may
who
know, and
I"
"
.'>-l,-^,,<C..i,.-^
/^C^^l^"^
I'lzm
of
l^ibfrtn.
JJF Liberty were to go on a pilgrimage all over the i earth, she would find a home in every house, and
a
welcome
in every heart.
if,
None would
reject the
fiivors
she offers
Sure
every bosom
would open
tu
when her^ospel
to all the world,
proclaimed as a
is
common bounty
when she
unwashed
disciples in familiar
ship, Caesar
and
enraged.
When
179
caste
tlie
cn^dtof
and
scl
tlie
among
i
the
Heaven help ns
Divided as we
are,
into
we have
v.^ar
settle ^1
itj
necessity at
How much
if
spared
we could
in
brethren.
-^J,^
^^^^^tyt^
c-::'<^^^=^-^-^
true
%h1t
of "gcfonn.
npHE
mass of humanity, to
sufl&cient
we
to look as of
power
now
rife
is
in the world.
of man,
we
know
that sin,
in
its
oppression,
and
bloodshed,
must
disappear.
All
reforms,
superficial;
however goodly
their proportions
may
no man
lay,
than that
is
building up of
all that is
really excellent
and heavenly.
181
acknowledge
tlie
omnipotence of true
we
tlie
inculcation of
its
abstract princi-
is
we
become professed
in a general way,
we urge
the
The obtuseness of
human
when hardened
by
we make
and
:
the
our
own
It
may be
that our
yet blinded
by the
force of habit,
living.
and
fails to
which he
is
If our position
make us
to see
more
let
clearly than
he the course he
should pursue,
veil
vision
dimmed by
stances.
active cooperation
and, as the farmer not only sows the seed, but roots
among
we
to
of the moral
182
the growth
vimL purc
'
and uudefiled
relioiou.
The hiisb^^Bjj^waiteth
Cue cartlj,
until
he
dFl^er
rain."
So are we
oblio:ed
we
of
God on
~
our
labors.
But
patient
waiting become"
the exercise
oi'
-'^-u<-.^b
^Ij
v-'lh
We
a.
efforts to
we
Taking
pulling
down
of the sirongholds" of
us assault
name and
kind,
:ays
of the Prince of Peace, whose conquests are achieved not by violence, but
like love.
by
Let us go
a feeble
to the
us,
and that
"
own
we
shall
oe
spoken, not
as,
183
in the "
viction,
Go
froc
!"
*^
3^
011
xiXO$L
She
Borne
an
eagle's flight
Not
With
shrill-sounding
fife
and drums
quiet homes,
Then welcome
Tho' sad
affliction*
meet thee
A Welcome
To
tliee, witTi
to Mrs. H. B. Stowe.
we
comj
185
cTiain-linked hearts
sever,^
To thank
Thy
fetters
broken,
mount before
true
life,
thee, to the
Throne
Of thy
the token.
Then welcome
dwelling
welcome
swelling.
II
lir
ci
r &
F H0FFMA>7, IN FOLLERSLEBEN.
and
flood,
ger on
tlie
strand,
nd
us bring good
Lies in
-lant land.
(J .-..
cid
forward
why
stand
still ?
Tke Hood
will ne'er
run dry
will,
Who
'l
cX
^'^!^A-<^^
5^l|at
pB
Ceah ta h
is
'i
d|
Slaben
rrHE
question
Canada and
Canada
in to
What
h:'VG tvc in
it
exists in the
j;hboringRepubhc?
wer
is
which
is
contained in
is
following extracts
:ii
taken
Esq.,
a speech delivered
by George Thompson,
the
lada
'.'.
formation of
Society of
th
latter
''
We are,
for
ijiassod
at isstie.
We
have as much
do with
this
question as with
188
.gtifM of
human
at
it lies
our
own
human
family.
The
cause of liberty
to
one
all
over
do with
this question ?
that Union.
child he will
free
He
is
helpless,
and powerful
and if you
neglect him,
you
are not
Know you
not that
that
it is
God's method to
save
man
is is
defender of those
who need
his aid.
You
may be
freed
from
its
pollution
and
its
wrong done
to our
and
humanity.
The
and
TO DO
every
WITH Slavery?
far as lie
189
has
tlie
man
is
under obligation, as
tliose principles
ability, to
defend
wbicKmU. perma-
"M
tbe
fpman
family.
n:
The
questions of rigbt
;
and
are
bounded by
no conventional
ings of
lines
are circum:;cribed
by the wind-
C^^^^^7^/Z/yy^kc.^^^>^c^^y
^t
"DUT
It
fuqitilTe.Slabc
|lill:
ii
Injineiit.
our.
lest
part of
tliis
sad business.
to live surrounded
hy
I'oiiilincn,
aigli
life.
of
Still,
up witu young
there miglit be
science
rnento,
and
for nurses,
much
Stronsr
attach-
we
all
condition of things so
large
anomalous.
Perhaps, too, a
as feeble in
capacity as
in their circumstances.
One
so
born might
ent,
But how
differ-
how,
be
in comparison,
intolera-
ble, to
set as
controversy,
estate of
God
to
be freemen
!
How
Would
we do
this
and
still
be
men ani
it
Christians?
our brethren
at the
south do
mu?t
fulfil
the
bo]^?
I recognize obediall
ence to
save
State.
civil
those luho
can^^M.'ondde
outlaios hy the
Government
protect.^||ir' hearths
and
shelters
those
who
we can honor
as well as
the
law by submitting to
plying -with
its
pena^j
ic?
by com-
my
election
when
S'
manhood
oi rue shelter
should claim
and
may my
hand
forget
its
cunning and
my
tongue cleave
to the roof of
my
mouth."
IV
fffje
Ciicnurljiimil
tfje
Iabc-|tolMr.
OUCH
ing
is tlie
power
that, leav-
its territorial
domain,
lias
freedom
^that
hand the
Federal Government.
I have marvelled, of
sir,
as
you have,
Freedom
in our
.fair
As
she
is
many
us
its
father
and
to
Ekcroachjient of Slave-Power.
"And
reckon'st tliou thyself with spirits of ITcaven,
!
193
Hell-doom'd
and
breatli'st defiance
Where I reign King, and to enrage t^^nore Thy King and Lord ? Back to thy ||^^fcncut
False fugitive, and to thy speed
ndi^JH^
Lest with a whip of scorpions I pursue Thy lingering, or with one stroke oj^this dart,
xinfclt before."
ffljc
Si-^!)^!^^^"
^^
#'^1
ial
its
on the one
side, as
a false idea of
tlie
nature
and
ofi&ces
is
of Labor.
Labor
serted.
as-
It only
verseness, misconception
and
sin.
It
was no curse
to
the
first
pair in Eden,
to their descend-
ants,
spirit
of
Eden
shall
pervade them.
many
none themselves.
no
man
JEngtareltryJ.CBiiOl^
UjZ^
105
in
its
subtler as well 4s
j^s,
y,iosscr
forms-
would be rung.
diffused, tlie
slaall
be thorougbly
cunning and
be called
jW:
'is
The
noc a
It
work
must
of hours
first
many
years.
per-
vade our
literature,
ideas
and
conversation, before
life.
common
Meanwhile,
it
would be well
remember that
for idleness, not
work
Every man who educates
his .-on for a profession,
former
sound
sound sense
196
xou from a
cliaiii,
._
lawyer or mer-
or
artif-'n-
provident habits
Every
;,
his fireside
and
less solicitous as
good-
for,
than as to
how much
she
is
worth
is
2
ti"fiined to
regard
little
work
as the
chief
life
rances of a
happy
Every rich
AL'-i: Zionist,
who
is
ashamed of being
caught by distinguished
visiters
field,
to
and
lecturer
Every Abohtion
two miles
fulfil
a hireling
after a horse,
whereon
no
sucli
sliocked wlieu
ful
it is suo-o-estod,
is^H|x.'iicar'iia(l
power-
fellow-men.
In the
faith of the
''
lie
conimo-,
I remain
y*- ..i.-j
Horace Greeley.
STewYokk, Nov.
1,
1853.
Co[oiii]iitioii
T SPEAK
-*-
tlie
truth,
when
most
inveterate, the
most formidable,
prosperity,
the deadliest
lia.ppines3
enemy of
the peace,
and
States,
is
originated
and
is
perpetuated
by a
worldly,
much
of
its
vitality
popular prejudices,
passions of
the canaille;
way
man
birth
^that instigates
make him
feel,
is
a stranger
nay
more,
to
make
hl'ii^,
liim
".wro^'"'"^'''
and naked
a,
make
liini "
fugitive
i
and
Jnioii ;
^a
so irreconcilably
God
on
in
all
making
the face
" ol
oi
one blood
nations for
th," that
when
the
would give
wickedly interposes,
persuades
him
that
''
to
do
justly
and love
liicrcy"
wd; Id be to
inflict
an
irrepar-
able injury
that to do his
duty to
God and
under the
cir-
cumstances,
he should bequeath
to
his surviving
eithe)-
expatriation to
native land.
Against
this
would
record,
diamond,
my
more
especially
would I do
so, as
HE Evils of Colonization.
;rSk)n,
is
most inconsistently
fostered,
and
shamclc^-
"'
ninetee.
thropy!
secret
;
--
i,
_j
into their
unto their
as.;!
ubly,
united."
2ii^aved"bTJ'.
^^iiM^
(]e
|la.sis
of
Kje
^meipicaii
"
TT-^PPY,"
the
(said
treaty
of peace
who
shall
shall
have performed
stupendous fabric of
have
of
Human
You remember
men.
It is not,
that that
body
closed
its
^02
^:
" Let
it
rememLered
that
it
)oast
No
after effect-
by proclaiming
this
sj^stem of beneficent
an entirely different
its
government.
is
American
nature of
man and
If
a scene of universal anarchy, resulting from the eternal conflict of peculiar institutions and antagonistic
laws.
if
any human
constitution
authority,
and laws
differing
from
it
then
that universal
is
law could
not
be
supreme.
necessarily based
on
It is a
self-evident basis.
One
vidual,
safety
may not
essential to the
common
American Constitution.
safety
203
and free,
then wlio
entitled to
be
free,
Ms
All
men
necessarily
have a common
interest in the
is
men
to
be content
dis-
Just so far as
government
obtain.
is
safely relaxed,
known
to the ancients.
It
own
times,
by means
of the
tion of
cated
by
To
among men,
is
to establish
this
most
faithfully,
advances
Nature.
common
cause of
Human
this cause
is
not a
204
dream, but a
Have not
all
men
consciousness
of a property in
available for
tlie
memory
of liuman transactions
their in-
dividual happiness
]
Have not
men
a conscious-
lCss
and in
And
do not these
the
same
influences,
all
men ?
Since
all Ian-
gun gos are convertible into each other, by corresj^ondence with the same agents, objects, actions, and emotions,
have not
all
men
practically
one
common
lan-
all societies
men
practi-
many differ-
Almighty Power
ceiving
it
and
re-
men
practically
one religion
American Constitution.
Since
all
205
men
and
liajDpiness for a
season
fect
lierc, aucl to
liberty
"i.vorld,
and,
substantially agree
tliat
these temporal
and
be attained
mankind
practically one
com-
mon
common way
?
of one com-
mon and
If there
as I
mankind when
religious liberty
and
nor
would
their
estabhshment
here
have
desires
institutions
If there
then
we should
lution,
f
iivided into
two
parties, the
the
as sincerely
Institutions.
If
there
206
St.
and the
Mississippi,
ebbing,
subside.
If there were
poor of Great Britain would not be perpetually appealing to us against the oppression of landlords on
their farms
and work-masters in
their manufactories
and mines
be, as
and
so,
we
mankind
the
continuance of
If there
vrere
African
slavery
among
ourselves.
no such common
long-
at
is
now, a
K
then
there
when
Eome had
of
human
passion, the
American Constitution.
nations of
207
liave gathered
from among
the pliilosophy,
tlie arts,
and
tlie
religion, wliicli
conflicts
and
fall
of political and
ecclesiastical systems,
had been no such common Humanity, then the dark and massive Egyptian
where reappeared
obelisk" would not
have everyour
own
times,
and the
as
and
lofty arch
de-
now
is,
everywhere consecrated to
there
then would the sense of the obhgation of the Decalogue have been confined to the despised nation
received
it
who
from Mount
Sinai,
JeA\ash seers
now
are,
208
liopes of
K there
liad
been no
sucli
com-
mon
human
life,
in a culprit
in the obscure
culjirit
had
from the
cross,
much
his traditionary
instructions, preserved
by fishermen and
publicans,
human
society,
Wm.
n. Seward.
% UXin\.
"
Could
That
wliicli is
me
could I wreak
and tbus tlirow
all I seek.
Mj
tbouglits
upon
expression,
and breathe,
And
that one
I would speak
^^t-i^
New
IECj-vA-
G^<y^t
.'<*C<l^'*-t<-<5^-J
York, November
8tb, 1853.
'% giaUgut
SCENE.
Mrs. Goodman, a widow.
BREAKFAST TABLE.
son.
to
Mrs. _Goodman.
l\/rE.
Feeeman". {Sipjying Ms
coffee
and
The performance
to the theatre
teel
row"
For
we must
a,
candidly confess
all
we have
play upon
the emotions of
which humanity
is susceptible.
A Dialogue.
emlDodying
it
211
it
in
sticli
a form as to
make
presenta'ble
to every order of
class of society.
me furnisli your
would do well
to
look to
tliis
{laying
down
so, so.
the ^ajper
and spealdng in a
is
tone of impatience)-
Fanaticism
leading to
its
legitimate results.
in our pulpits,
Uncle
Tom in
Tom
and Uncle
Tom
publicans and
'
Mr. F.
think
{JSfot
noticing
tliis
last
would be
sufficient to
How
Why,
last evening,
when
sang,
band
of spirits briglit,
And
I
felt
was
asserting
its
su-
212
A Dialogue.
my nephew
and name-
might
be,
as
my
son,
file
of Democracy drank
Mr. D. {Passing
his
Mr. F.
{Sarcastically)
Take
care,
I
you'll
be found
Frank. {Jocosely)
" Think liow
smarted.
Take a
bit of toast,
you know ?
Mr. D. {Helping himself bomitifuUy) " Ask no questions for conscience's sake."
Dialogue.
213
is consist-
Mr. D.
jewel
!"
Frank. It
world, nncle.
this
My
by Intemperance
oi-
Oppression,
it
thought "
withal
what we should
we should be
clothed," she
was
fain to relax
her discipline.
Mrs. G. Frank, thee must not transcend the
in thy mirthfulness.
truth.
my
Mrs. G. Yes,
/tieatrc
my
son,
makes me
fear I
my
light.
Mr. F.
Avill
{Bitterly)
Never
the
young man
re
Frank. Uncle
so has
Tom
at least
indeed I do not
I see
re-
member
Mr. F. {In a
When
a young
2U
man
spending
liis
A Dialogue.
liiuo
:it
llie
theatre, in search of
good
Mrs. Q.
And
jH't
tlio truth.
Wlmt
would meet,
Uncle
Avill
Tom
ol'
to
the
Legree ?"
aspcrlly.)
Do you,
loo,
Rebecca,
?
lliat
1
am
speaking.
Does thee
plot
made
upon the
tiiuniph
good?
remcndjor
Mr. F.
'{J/asi/if/.)
WUy T don't
Why,
now
Frank {In
great surprise.)
in favor of
no books written
Slavery?
Uncle
is,
Tom's Cabin
written against
Sucli a
work
think, impossible.
its
No
moral
aspects,
and delineate
like a
woman!
Your sex
al-
ways
seize
sen-
A Dialogue.
slhilities,
215
fartlier
and
tlicn
investigation.
Frank.
And
is
not
tlic
instinct oC a
tlie
woman
a more
reason of
man?
direct lier
Mr. F.
{Sarcastically?)
Certainly
if
it
Law."
Franh. {With warmth^
My
owe
me
to the
theatre, sir;
;
mc
to love
better things
to her I
be quite
without
in-
troducing
it
Woman's
Rights.
Would
my
ing
my
method oT
oljtain-
What
an absurdity
If
216
A Dialogue.
and describes
it
evil,
of
upon
liis
forefathers or
call it
they
what one
of
word or
?
human Slavery
The
truth
is,
and the
days of
its
numbered.
please
re-act
on the ballot-box.
Frank.
Do you mean,
knowledge
it
an
evil,
its
exists
by divine
A Dialogue.
to
217
;
be
tlie offsjDring
of Eternal Decrees
but they no
more convince
tlie
man
him of the
guilt of
Adam's
transgression.
Mr. F.
What do you
woman's
instinct
ought to
go?
Mr. F. Oh, no; go on, you;r
amusing.
Mrs.
Gr.
strictures
are quite
tion of a reviewer,
effort
of
Mr. D.
And
feelings
of the
too well
He
their attention
its
from his
Union, and
danger from
of
many
Mr. F. Well,
I do not
will
10
218
prove
A
tliat tliere is
tlie eartli.
Dialogue.
tlie
face of
is
for
robbery
and war.
tice these
it
Franh. {Laughing.)
subscribe for your
ticularly if -jovl
fill
Why,
which,
let
me
good be
charm of
fiction,
how do jou
evil ?
we
reply
friend.
The
force of
tragedy consists in
the
derived,
we
plotters.
In Eomeo, " a
scourge
laid
Capulets,
by which
are
punished
;"
.
Hamlet's
A
wicked uncle
is
Dialogue.
219
justly served,
;
tempered by liimself
confirms
my
doc-
of virtue.
The
is
artistic effect
of every
work
of the
imagination
critics
call
the
so far as
we understand
them, always
believe concerning
why does
"
it
not
Mr. D.
And many worthy men
it
Maintained
might be turned
it
to
good account,
And
so
perhaps
Mrs. G.
virtue," not
and
there-
Philosophers
tell
us
220
A Dialogue.
fact,
weakens
may
The
who
continually utter
on
this principle
and we ought to
its
demoraliz-
in
it.
Mr. F.
Do you mean
effect
?
upon me
that stage-pla}'--
]3ut it to
thy
own
consci-
Does thee
thy emotions of
and
love,
and
now than
it
home ?
the
room with
great agi-
Now,
sister,
you
other absui'dity
in the nursery ?
is
Do
No, I do not
its
" honesty
?
kindred humbugs
does
?
Of
course I don't
Show me
the
Do
A
I
Dialogue.
221
Mount ? Not
do so would
I should like
it.
to
make himself a
to see
"Lay
do
?
people
It is
take
thought
North or
or wear
South
eat, drink,
but
how
You
silly
women
you
ness, as if
really thought
could enter in
human
wring
plans, but
we men
of the world,
who have
to
tell 3'ou,
who
all
his wife
Ha
ha
ha
How
simper:
"Is
that
right?"
As
As though
they expected a
man
was going
when he
It
provokes
me
to
222
see
A
that
is
Dialogue.
so ridiculous
acts
;"
!
You
ouglit to
know
"
man
on the
principle, that
Wealth
to
know,
you
entirely.
They do
right to work,
scale,
and grind
call
it
and
Abraham
and Moses
for
Why, one
planters
is
as far
cents-on-a-yard-tradesmen, as Eobin
Hood
is
above a
The south
flag
sails
under
does
it ?
What
do your platform
men
know ?
What
Half of
Law ?
to
Canada with
{Coming
as
good a
close
and
sitting
down, so as
sister,
I'll tell
you what,
you northern
hood and
Christians
who
charity, in the
A
Ids motlier
prills
Dialogue.
im's jjrcecejptis
223
ohsequar, si
te
" Idbenier
Tliey remind
is
me
of Kossuth's asser-
there
earth,
entirely
upon the
Still,
the
more
in favor of
civilized life
and miseries of
is
human
race
that a centripetal
The law of
them with
;
and
it is
not too
much
to
hope that
laiu
of love
is
Mr. F. Well,
millennial state
;
sister,
I wish
Mount
M
224:
A
tlie
Dialogue.
guess
becomes
find
code of nations, I
you
will
Mr. D.
{interrupting.)
Bragg
!"
Franh. I
tell
coming,"
Mother
a prophet.
words
all
my
life,
the
grop '-^d.
Mrs. G. Observe,
the
my friends,
on
Mrnnt
If
you
jc^
which
follow,
service of a bonds-
fre'>
y^,^-m
Clover street Sem.,
Novt'^-'ter 10th, 1853.
""^
EagamiV
J C Buttre
%
We
our time.
us justice.
Cime
of
wc
are
wronged
"We bide
do
The men
that shall
come
and law.
They
which
good
ness
;
it
evil
light,
and
They
be
now
and falsehood.
Geerit
10*
Smith.
^o|e
IUI&
Confii)ence.
u WHAT
i
is tlie
luiman
lieart
"With
It doats
its
upon
it
Full sorely
grieves
when
Eeveal to
being of light
flit
The
dimliest
it,
shadows that
upon
earth.
Allure
night.
own
real
home.
I
To pursue
Well knowing,
must come.
An
end to the
'lay^'
n
.
J^^^^^^
W]
Hope and
It fleetli the
CoNFiDEisrcE.
227
With
its
and told
strife
And
Truth fashions,
all rife
With
glitter,
and
and
gold.
It buildeth its
home
And
As
there
it
reposeth
Some
Thus
it
musingly wasteth
its
strength, in
dreams
Of bliss,
And
ever
revels
And
yield
up
their
perfumes
their souls,
is staid,
And
228
la vain docs
follow
tlie
wandering- forms
:
by storms
Too
Hope
minstrels
it
Of the dangers
"
Of man
'tis
the whole."
clings to deca}^
And
And
behold
It trusteth in glory,
is
no
ruth,
and mounting
aloft,
of Truth
Thus
the eye.
" There's
As
mind
Nought
On which
Than
can
onward doth
its
go,
that Truth
which
own
tendrils bind.
229
Yes
And
"Where
shows in
its
A transcript of regions,
Hope
its
conceptions
sleep in
may
'
realize,
And Confidence
The Good.'
"
<^^^..t^^^^^>2P.
fetter
tljut
$$ti\h
for
Itself.
To T
TjISINTERESTED
nothing at
all to
benevolence,
my
dear
sir,
has
do with abolitionism.
is
Nay, I
disinteris
if
there
such a thing as
it
but be
this as
may, there
no
occasion for
it
It is selfishness,
sheer
selfishness, that
i i
carried
times
and
selfishness
slave.
army.
been to-day,
words?
A
He would have
to
liis
Letter.
rotten.
231
It is necessary
own
;
work
for
the slave
and
in his
work he
est instincts
by unlimited
in-
to
as
most others
in six
do
dear
;
months
and
John
P. Hale
his rotund
sharp arrows of his wit and sarcasm into the consciences of his
human-whipping neighbors.
of
all
It is a necessity
ness,
mean
American
slavery.
Think of
it.
Men who
to
swagger
around with
pistols
if
and bowie-knifes
up
burning his
No
232
Letter THAT
it
1
in its
^to
in his
own
soul,
No
can be so
much
it.
Wrong-doing
Nothing
less
could
Divine nature
The
eternal laAV of
God
the creatures
made
in His
;
image in an
electric chain,
So that no
soiil
in
'
is
know
throb of sorrow.
The
true heart in
slave-
mother in Georgia
Speaks for
from
lier
Itself.
233
lier anguish,
palpitating in
inmost core.
sympathetic heart which
hand
to interfere
her aggressor
and
they
I
may
tell
It is
selfishness,
you,
all
selfishness
The
life
great whale
when
own
large
to
and the
little
bits to
when she
her
little fel-
Wm. Gildersten
in spending
money
and laboring
ito
past, gratifies
own
much
all
as
Judge
lovers of
the cause of
God and
he could have
all
the
^be
284
tor,
Letter.
Langman
to boot.
More
tlian this,
happy
in his
own
to
way.
cut off
Nero had
all
as
much
power
world.
Mankind has no
to punish
Judge Grier
for
who
attempts to enassaults
murderous
by
Jiis
officers.
fenc-
ing his
his nose.
Honor
in, or, if
He
has as
much
Judge Grier
as
and
is
no more
selfish in
nature, than
Washington was
resj^ect,
am your
friend,
C^y'^ c^ A<^/^A^<M^
Once
Freedom's psean in
my
verse,
strain
he snapt
his chain.
;
But the
Speak
it
speak
it
low
Name
Where
"Who
and
sunset-skies
And, when
it lists
him,
waken can
man
236
On Feeedom.
Or, if in thy heart he shine,
fates
with thine,
And makes
Eight thou
know ?
in ISTew England,
was
was saved.
The
party
natives as a slave.
in getting a letter
partiletter,
who were
238
It
Mart
was not very
easy,
Smith.
witli these references, to
'^B
even
of an obscure person,
was
felt
became known.
And
and perseverance
own
color
who
Pur-
New
Hampshire.
I forget the
name
of the town.
Affidavits were
now
place of
Mary
and other
fll
Edward
Everett,
who was
at this
time Governor of
Smith's friends,
Mary
Mary
The Governor of
Smith.
Carolina
replied
239
very
tlie
Nortli
He
admitted
woman
to
edged that no person in North Carolina could lawfully detain her as a slave.
said, that as
who
The
de-
He
promised, howsolicit
man who
her
The remonstrances of
lina
proved
successful,
arrived in
Boston.
And some
who
irom bondage.
for
At
some moments
they could
no resemblance
to their former
companion.
A speedy
which
it
appeared that
to
to one
Mary Smith
but the
woman whose
Mary Smitlu
liberty
240
Mary
Smith.
laugli
when Father
Snowden
told
The moral of
name,
is
this story
is,
that a plain,
its
common
owner, than a
more
brilliant one.
"^^^-g^^^N^-^
Note.
facts of Mary Smith's story memory only, without the aid of I may be mistaken in some imma-
I'artom-l^'ikrtjT*
7?REED0M
is is
Freedom Freedom
an
essence
Liberty, an accident.
Liberty
;
may be
conferred on him.
is
Freedom
progressive
the gift of
Liberty
;
circumscribed.
Freedom
societ}'.
God
Liberty
may be
man
but,
of that soul
but as wythes in
its its
work
they assent.
Human
Whole,
of which this
is
but a part.
/
KEw-Yoiui, Kov, 22d, 1853.
11
%n %^mim.
T/'OU
-want
my
autograph.
Permit me,
effort for
tlien, to
sign
human eman-
own
world.
God
when
all
chains shall
fall
soul,
and universal
lib-
and univer-
In this work I
am
Yours
truly,
(^
New
York, Nov. 22d.
c>4^
i^^^^^^^C^^
(^
c^.
^:^^t^.t^/L^
fe
Clje
Sning
S^oliloiiii])
of
tlje
Dictiiii
"
TTB
\vas approaclied
shal Wj-iicoop
and
knocked down
The
fugitive,
who had
tall,
noble-
mulatto
rushed from
alive."
He
Avas pur-
sued and
upon
instantly covered
with blood.
He
244
for the
A Dying Soliloquy.
buoyancy of tlie water.
Seeing his condition,
coolly remarking
that
Than be a
slave,
I'll
Dread death
brave.
near. pain,
And
hail the
moment
When
the soul
mid
it
here.
hushed
which death
reveals.
My
Nor
soul
would
wait,
Nor
slave-born fears,
As I
A Dying Soliloquy.
The angry
past,
245
Like phantoms
Glides
vast,
by
wave
So soon
Forgotten
The time
"
shall be,
When
its
no more
sea"
;
Shall hide
treasures lone
Then
my
soul shall
rise.
skies.
To
find
its blissful
home.
Have
scored
my
manhood's
heart,
But
ne'er again
My
body
Let
tlie
winds
still
pipe aloud,
246
A Dying
Let
tlie
Soliloquy.
lasli,
clasli,
waters
The
O'er
wliite
foam
my
free,
Unfettered
sea.
Thy
restless
moan,
my
dirge.
sleep,
Would
I might live,
give,
One glance to
To
As mine
to theirs 1 press.
The wish
is
vain
My
frenzied brain,
I
;
Is dark'ning
even now
Above, above.
Is
Heaven's love.
And
XYING SOLILOQUY.
free-l3orn soul
247
Glad
Wltb
grateful bold,
Kow
Heav'n
Hew
Forgive,
life
begun,
tbou'rttbereforgiVn.
I I
ITff ail It
^m.
'
beautiful
^m
shore to sio.e-eve.
crystal
^re thj
waters-Q
sea
the deep.
"'"'"'^^P'
"J=- "^^
bosom of
Bwhenth,sto.pressedWl,owsb,.
The grasp which man would
"In,
^'>doI.ostWethee,;i
Thou emblem of
the Free.
'"^''''^'^--"
Ho-
stars,
0-tbe blue
Upon
^-.- away,
LetallbeFbee.
More
never glorious yet, as suns wliicli
!
249
set,
1
In darkness never
You
are
more loved by me
of
tlie
Ye emblems
Free.
is full.
Fringed with
world of colors
grace.
and
How by
But the
sea
and shore
art
Beautiful
is
Woman
Of
But
this
place or gold,
beautiful.
must fade
soul,
Only the
They most
Liberty
is
agree,
who most
1
are free
250
I^ET
ALL BE Free.
The heavens,
Forever
crj, ht all be
Free!
Ki-NTucKr, 1853.
-^w*
-S-i-edl^j c.Buttre.
^C 'c^^cUji ^^-
^<^^.
To
the
Dead, Madam,
If
May
last,
it
as
my
contribution.
respect,
With great
Qy ^
It
in-
tlie
disadvantages imposed
by
his
He
feels
little
borne up by that
who
popular causes.
man
every inch of
sternly
252
disputed.
Sir,
EXTEACT.
were I a white man, speaking for the
fair
wind.
It
is,
perhaps, creditable
to de-
from
by
distant nations.
The
and
when any
of them, or
ears,
all
warm
For these
justice,
people, the
maxims of mercy,
But
for
my
poor people,
blasted,
(alas,
how
poor!)
enslaved,
it
scourged,
would appear
that
She has no
which
to
to
no standard by which
here
cause.
lies
measure our
Just
It is
found
we may
not avail
prinphil-
American
and
EsTRAGT.
have no otLer use for us whatever, than to coin
lars out of
253
dol-
our blood.
is
Our
position liere
ordinary.
most courage-
we
;
and in
this
we
are for-
tunate
trait
of our character,
we should
despair.
soil
Look
at
it,
sir.
of our birth, in
known
among
but
a people
who
us,
who sought
found
and brought us
for
to their
own chosen
land,
a people
services,
whom we
have per-
by our
a
sable
say,
sir,
among such
people,
favor,
we
are
far
less
Aliens are
we
The fundamental
may
appeal
II
254
Extract.
The
and
are
the
more
Son of God,
We
are literally
human and
divine.
the
and
curses.
In the
sacred
for
We
" to
lib-
who came
them
loftiest
sum-
if
Almighty arm
that prayer
in
mercy
would be withheld.
We cry for
us,
help to
humanity
repulsed.
a common
To
us, its
bones
Extract.
are brass,
for shelter
255
In running
fled
tliitlicr
and and
its
fealliers iron.
succor,
we have only
from the
wolf,
from
Oh, Freedom
Coeval
-wlien
sport.
rill
And
"Who
sing thy
the hill
that could
know thee
as thou wast
inwrought
The
all in all
And
bj Omniscient mind,
and
brute,
native
boon
to lord,
and wind,
prophetic sleep,
Could
e'er
fate's
The darker
Or trembling
future
name would
gild ?
On Freedom.
Lo
!
257
Mounts
his fleet steed with wind-directed course, his free unbridled horse.
will inclines
I
From Tuats
ye living-dead
Ye
Groths
and Yandals of
Bondous,
Ye
christian
who
of feeling boast,*
to historic :^e
Scj-lla's ire,f
Contemn a Marius' or a
'^
'
Ye
l"
Unable
feel
in
the whole
range of
my
vernacular, to find an
epithet
all
contempt which
pseudonymous class of phiiiintliropists, who flauntingly parade a pompous sympathy with jxipular and distant distresses, but
studiously' cultivate a coarse ignorance of,
and hauteur
to,
the Greeks,
tiie door,'' I
as rendered mournfully
Vide
Contemn a
Napoleon in his protest to Lord Bathurst, provoked by the petty tyranny of Sir Hudson Lowe, said of the " Proscriptions," and (by negative inft-rence) in extenuation of tliem, that
peculiar
reflection
on every word
force of a wliole
volume of excoria-
258
On Freedom.
lulled to sympathetic glow,
far-off
Or kindly
woe,
And
"Weep
an Agis' or Jugurtha's
fate
*
!
heartlings as he stalks
his native walks
monarch of
Breathes the
* " Weep o'er an Agis' or Jiigurtba's fate." King of Lacedemon and colleague of Leouidas, was a youth of singular purity and promise. Aiming to correct the abuses which had
Agis,
crept
into
the
Among
and as an exam-
State.
of the con-
robes off his back, and others, catching eagerly at his pendants, pulled
off the tips of his ears
with them.
When
he was thrust
down naked
into the dungeon, all wild and confused, he said, with a frantic smile,
"
Heavens how
!
!"
There
he came
to his end.
Plut. Cai.
Mar.
f "Breathes the
warm
el
The
girgir, or
the geshe
a mild stimulant, when respired for any length of time, and is found chiefly near the borders of small streams and in the vicinage
of the Tassada.
Lyn.
Ov,i.
and Soud.
Oisr
Freedom:.
liis
259
airs,
Shouts
tlie fierce
music of
savage
Or madly brave
desert
dews
him
thus,
from Kaffir
is
to Soudan,
And
tell
me, worldlings,
the black a
man ?
And brighth-
A fecund blessing
on those Indian
Isles
And
Waked by
Where browse
* "
tlie
dun-gazelle."
Among the wild animals are prodigious numbers of the varicolored species of the gazelle, the bohur sassa, fecho, and madoqua. They are extremely numerous in the provinces depopulated
by war atid slavery, enjoying the wild oats of the deserted hamlets without fear of molestation from a returning population. Xotes on
Central Africa.
260
On Freedom.
lier
changing sphere,
The
loathful
summer
eye
Found with
the
Gnu an
ever-vernal home,
Nor
led
by
zealots,
nor scholastic
rules,
Gazed
yon tender
blue,
And "hoped,
* " And
-wiser
IsoT led
by
nor scholastic
rules,
yon tender
blue,
Though Socrates and Plato, particularly the former, are generally by writers of authority, among whom, indeed, are Polycarpe, Chrysotom, and Eusebius, to have in a manner suspected rather than believed, the immortality of the soul
;
yet
we
have no evidence of their ever having, by the finest process of ratiocination, so thoroughly convinced themselves as to introduce A beautiful thread it generally as a tenable thesis on the portico.
of implicit belief
after
life,
assimilating to
tlie
huntins-ground of our own American Indians, and though sensuous still, a step far in advance of the black void of ancient philosophj', has always run through the higher mythologies of the Negro. So
notorious, indeed,
was the
fact
among
;
ubiquitous riddle, "Prestor John," was, by believers, regarded as naving a locale in Central Africa while Henry of Portugal actually
despatched two
ambassadors,
Corvilla
and Payvan,
to
rumored Christian
Chris. Mis. Fort.
Oisr
FiiEEDCM.
mind*
wind,
261
Saw gods
in woods,
and
spirits in the
The mingled
voice of
Hadna and
Odin,
Doomed
harmless creed,
And
Whiled
Or
if
He
midnight
foe.
de.w,
on the sleeping
And
* "
to a plastic mind,
The imagination
extracts surprising
which and
perforated
shells,
of peculiar power.
Accordingly, his mythologies are most numerous and poetical his entire catalogue of superior gods alone, embracing a more extended length than the Aasyro-Babylon Alphabet,
with
its
262
On Freedom.
causes and
tlie
The vengeful
deed forgot
Where
And
He
md
Stills
Mid laughing
Passes before
him
in a fond review
his crisp-haii'ed
crew
;t
' f
parents
Travels.
all the human is, perhaps, the most prolific of The infancy and youth are singularly happy. Their children. Goldbury's are passionately fond of their
my
attendant,
my
mother."
The same sentiment I found universally to prevail. instruct Some of the first lessons in which the Mandings women It was the only consolation their children is the practice of truth. murdered by the Moor*, for a negro mother, whose son had been
Travels. that " the hoy had never told a /ic."Park's
On Freedom.
Eecounts the dangers of the
last night's strife,
life
;
263
And
Mid
then
when slow
twilight balms
all
and star-enkindled
With
A ruthless heathen,
but a loving
sire.*
to fears,
wdiilc 1 the
jocund hours,
With
all tlie
A ruthless heathen,
"
but a loving
sire."
-without a plan.
An artless
j-
Campbell.
"Till lured
by wealth
Sought the green waters of his Eastern seas, And venturous nations more excursive grown. Pierced his glad coast from radiant zone to zone."
Vasquez de Gama, a Portuguese nobleman, "was the first to discover a maritime passage to the Indies; unless, perhaps, we credit the improbable achievement of the Phosnicians, related by Herodotus as occurring, 604
B.C.
and
May.
save that of
264
On Freedom.
venturous nations more excursive grown,
his glad coast
And
Scan
Then
Cursed by his
to later time,
of a fawning train,
which themselves
disdain,
Cheats his
own
nature,
Columbus
drew the attention of all Europe. "Whole by the same enthusiasm, and private -com-
panies of merchants sent out whole fleets on voyages of discover}', scouring the entire coast from Cape Verd to Gaudfui, and discover-
own nature and now generoiis grown, Dispenses realms and empires not his own."
Charles V. granted a patent to one of his Flemish favorites, containing an exclusive right to import^our thousand negroes Hist.
!
Slavery.
of African
due
to the
Flemish
iiobilitij,-
who
obtained a
monopoly
to
some Ge-
They
(the Genoese)
were the
first
On Fee ED Oil.
Dispenses souls and empires not his own,
265
Draws
Lifts his
low
crest, affects
the
God
complete,
tell
Bj
fate of hell.
Lo
manly
hearts
and keel-impelling
gales,
sails.
The marvelling
tribes these
galleon
Then timorously
still.
breezy
hill
commerce for slaves, between Africa and Amei'ica, which had grown to such an amazing extent. Robertson.
12
266
On Freedom.
led
And
The
by
make known
As in
The
And
skill.
and with
art display
air of day,
EoU
With
yet
Gems from
in
tli'
opposing scale
selfish creed.
Too soon
to
weep a kindred
fate
with Troy
On Feeedom.
Evils received, like twilight stars dilate,
267
The
Thus the
air,
Too dearly generous and too warmly The simple black wears out the
true,*
fatal clew,
From
barter
flies
to trade
from trade
to
wants
From wants
to interests
The turgid
tide of
Xo No
and no Laocoons,
;
ills,
and battens on
their
woes
* " Too
true,
remain an indelible reproach on the name of Europeans, more than three centuries their intercourse with the Africans has only tended to destroy their happiness and debase
It -will
that for
their character.
Edin. Encij.
\
The
"
Now
have inflamed the hostility of and heightened their ferocity by sedulously inIhid,
268
On Freedom.
eacli pillaged
mine,
And
By
To semble
And
For
Fiction improves
lo
!
Draws Hector
But ah these
!
round the
Ilian plain
strive,
!
later
And bind
One
own ?
* "
By
"
Assume a
to
vii'tue, tho'
you have
it
not."
Adding hypocrisy
avowed unworthiness, was the acknowledged injunction of the church, wherever and whenever she participated For a peculiar illusin secular affairs, with a view of emolument.
tration of this favorite doctrine, see
edict,
when, in
belonging to
of all countries the heathen, he erected (1344) the Canaries into a kingto dispose
Castile.
On Fheedom.
Dwells there a being 'neath
tliine eye, oh,
269
God
To
So
sec degenerate
foul a
prolong,
deed
so
thrice accursed a
wrong ?
Tell me,
ceaseless roll,
mean
a thing
That crushed,
it
and sting ?
halls,
-walls ?
And
say
have bowed ?
Think
Mind,
ye,
thrall,
No
Sport at their
and
scoff at
your command,
Or bolder
still,
on fancy's
still
fiery
wing
"Poems written by
* "
Or bolder
That I do not exaggerate the belle lettres and classical accomplishments of at least two of the "chattels" of the "peculiar institution,"
Uo&a and
270
On Feeedom.
spring
With
star-eyed science,
train
secrets of
yon azure
plain
in Rhodolphe's caves'^
waves
Sit
And mark
See swarthy
Memnon
And warmly
^yes,
dare to hope,
1
my
of
Dearest of
all,
shall patriots
fair
name ?
hearts deplore,
filial
shore
in Rodolphe's caves."
CamphelL
haired god.
Loxian is a name frequently given to Apollo by Greek writer^ and is met with, more than once, in the " Choephorse of Eschylus."
Euripides mentions
it
euphony recommends
it
three, times, and Sophocles twice, its more than any other name of the fair-
On Freedom.
"What
!
271
and
eclipsed the
dream of
Pericles,
Wilt
tliou
Priam
sue.
The bones of
And
Thy
Say
;
wilt not
Jay's,
Thy
freedom's God,
;
And bound
it
Ah
wilt not
"Who
in the
rest
*
!
And
ISTo
command ?
Eome ?
And in
Campbdl
272
On Freedom.
Pitt,
no Wilberforce
die,
must thou
live
and corybantic
thyself,
a world-wide lie?
No
may
trust,
Some embryo
With brow
and name
Whose
On
either
hand a wall of
living glass
Ope
for the
And
Thy
free.
Richmond, Dec.
1st, 1853.
J.CB-aiire
A.
^^^ ^M/^^-u^'
f ft
TjEAR SIR,
Your
line
rr
6tli,
BiiOOELYN, December
1863.
note of ISTovember
for the
29t]i,
req^uesting a
is re-
from
me
Autographs
for
Freedom,
ceived.
I wish that I
literary value of
to the
In so great
a cause as that of
in society
human
liberty,
mony.
Art should be
and
all
literature,
human
and
from the
o]ipre?sion.
But
I believe, a
book
12*
274
Letter.
known
a hundred years
The
literature of the
world
is
on the
side of liberty.
am
a^Twl>!jrJ
Bultr*
// /
J^^
%
TT
was a
S'^^11
^F^^t
at
lluiiforir
fydl
is
jDleasant
morning
in
May,
the orthodox
way
of beginning a story,
C.
And what's
And
is
it
?"
As
to
what
it is,
here
As
to
why,
was and
for
is
many
Thomas
Clarhson,
now
widow and
her family.
Playford Hall
is
and
is,
am
told, the
tlie
moat.
The water
is
which
is
it
the
moat
surrounds
tlic
which
is
here repre-
278
A Day Spent
at
and flowering
soft,
that thick,
velvet-like
which
to
be found nowhere
else in so perfect
a state as in England.
The water
current
ble,
is
is
fed
by a perpetual
as
spring,
whose
so
sluggish
scarcely to
vitality
*
be perceptiof a running
stream.
It has a
stillness
of surface, only
plants,
whose leaves
over
it.
The
walls of the
Avith ancient
moss,
whose
delicate leaves
and bright
j'cllow flowers
in
some places
graceful drapery.
The
The
other side
is
grown up
trees,
Avith
rising
place,
adding
to the retired
and singular
effect
of the Avhole.
The
place
is
specmen of a
America.
It
Playford Hall.
which unite the present with the
past, for
279
which we
must return
Playford Hall
Thomas
\vas as
peculiarly an Englishman,
best kind of English
mind and
of
We
world.
in the
as a race, both in
England
We
-little
have
been
the
race
With regard
I
to benefits
by us imparted
story,
to
conquered nations,
whole, can be
think a better
for the
on the
for us.
made out
Romans than
tribes of
Indian?;,
But
there
is
jury
and,
trials,
when
280
A Day Spent
at
by
that energy
a style of
short, the
philanthropists
In
Anglo-Saxon
is
whatever ho
them up.
in a
modes of gaining
was
and
as to
consume
sugar, rice,
human
existence,
followed that
Some good
people,
was
sympa-
"What
a sorrowful world
we
Playford
live
in," stirred their
IIall.
tlicir tea,
281
sugar into
and went
on
as before, because,
to
do
hadn't
it,
and
if
they didn't do
many
years individuals, at
differ-
re-
tion
had amounted
The
subject
attention of Clarkson
was
first
turned to the
by having
it
he being
at that
time
He
make
of
it
as a col-
He says
all
my
pleas-
damped by
now
con-
282
night
A Day Spent
;
at
in the night I
was uneasy,
had
little rest,
my
eyelids
for orief."
It
so
much
reputation as to write a
to Africa.
work, written
did.
Clarksou was
deliver
summoned from
his
Loudon
publicly.
to
Cambridge, to
prize
essay
He
"
London
The
my
thoughts.
became
at
very seriously
affected while
on the road.
I stopped
my
horse oc-
casionally, dismounted,
and walked.
my
essa}^
I reflected on the
Coming
in
dis-
Wade's
down
my
into
my
mind, that
it
was time
to
that
somebody should
see
these
calamities
an
end."
Playford Hall
These
reflections,
283
off for
as
it
ajipears,
were put
many
do.
He
autumn
woods
solitude,
and find
still
relief to
my mind
'
there
recurred,
Still
;'
the answer
followed as instantaneously,
they are
still
the result
iaterfere.
accompanied
I
it,
began
to
Parliament,
riches,
at the time,
who thought
but here
others,
to myself,
many
that a
difficulties
It struck
me,
among
to
him
magnitude
I
and importance
and with
it
whom
was I
to unite ?
looked so
much
like
one of the
284
A Day Spent
tliat
at
mj
it."
understanding
would be
suspected, if I proposed
He
by
translating
to the public.
this
Immedihe discov-
on the publication of
essay,
interested in this
Being invited
to the
house
'of
"William Dillwyn,
:
"
How
sur-
was
of our conversa-
was engaged, of
g.
all
mind on
"How
had
These
My
mind was
overwhelmed by the thought, that I had been providentially directed to this house
;
Platford Hall.
dence
-v^as
285
tliat tlie
rising."
many
friends of the
and
at last
it
became evident
that in
order to
effect anything,
life,
he must
to this work.
He
fore, to
In
fa-
was any
anj'
cause,
that never
in
that never
never one in
be so ex-
devotion of a whole
towards
it;
and
that, if
rejoice to
have been
come an instrument
its
in forwarding
any part of
progress.
286
to urge that I I
A DAT
Spent at
for tlie cTiurc'li
;
tliat
it;
that
my
my
.
connections
were then
profession,
that,
by appearing
to desert
if
my
my
not un-
happy.
the most.
lated,
When the other objections which I have reoccurred to me, my enthusiasm instantly, like a
consumed them
;
flash of lightning,
I had ambition.
had a
thirst
in I
solitude
under
this
painful conflict.
At
length
success in
my new
undertaking, for
cool-headed
And I
lution,
moment
of this reso-
and
for
some time
afterwards, I
my
life."
In order to show
how
this enterprise
was looked
Playford Hall.
upon and talked of very commonly by
of
tlie
287
majority
men
in these times,
we
Bozzy thus
'^he
wild and
dangerous attempt, which has for some tirH&.been persisted in, to obtain
so very important
cial interest,
had not
who
lead in
it,
made
the vast
body of
planters,
merchants
and
others,
that trade,
could be no danger.
Tlie encouragement
which the
indig-
my
wonder and
abilities
have supported
popularity,
mischief, "
when prosperous
desperate,
or a love of general
is
when
my
opinion
unshaken.
ages
To
abolish a statute
which in
all
God
has
sanctioned, and
man
a portion of
whom
it
own
country,
....d
xutroducesinto
288
A Day Spent
life
;
at
passage to
tlie
West
Indies,
and
their treatment
there, is
humanely
to
regulated.
To
would be
'
One of
the
first
steps of Clarkson
and his
associates,
persons,
the subject.
The
contest
now began
and the
nation, than
which ever
oc-
curred.
The
otheE'
traffic,
I-
.:
he public mind.
Platfobd Hall.
Clarkson was particularly engaged.
239
subject
The
was
hemmed
in with the
same
difficulties that
now
beset
most about
it,
was
est
to
prevent inquirj-.
An
immense moneyed
and was
inter-
investigation,
deter-
mined
Owing
in possess-
fused to communicate
them
and often
after a lon-T
Vv
in search of
an individual
ho
-subject,
find
his
lips
sealed
by
interest or
As
was de-
was asserted
thropy.
It
to
be the
of phila'
of miserable oppression
own
countiy,
wai
that
wafted by
it
to
an asylum
in a Christian
land
known
in his
own
country'.
290
A Day Spent
at
sale.
first
For Clarkson's
things
attention
was
called to
these
by observing them
in the
man informed
him
.
that
many
and
this instrument
was
Of
may be
own
words,
when
stating
was compelled
"
to retire
from the
As
far as I
was then
over.
The nervous
Both
shattered to pieces.
my memory
my hearing failed
me.
Sudden
dizzinesses seized
my head.
seemed
placing
to
wherever I went.
very
stairs
that, misif it
my
^ometimes
fell.
Talking, too,
me
so that proeffect
was
for
Playfoed Hall.
consequence of
to the
tlie
291
For seven
3^ears I
had
my own hand
thirty-five
thousand miles in
my mind
to this
leisure to attend to
my own
concerns.
The various
instances of barbarity
successively to
my
knowledge within
it.
had
The wound
still
Avhich
deeper by those
from
testi-
in quest
of them.
But the
wastnannme^d by
inter-
the persecution,
and whom,
life, it
was
most easy
As
292
ally
A
came
to me,
I^AY
Spent at
the author
when
tlius persecuted, as
From
their suppli-
and wants
it
ungrateful to have
es,
fled.
by
acting together,
had
brought
me
into
though very
reluctantly, to
be borne out of
of
my
I
life."
may
as well
to
whom
who had
One anecdote
will
be
sued evidence.
It
asserted
M not
their
manner,
wouMbe
dreadful
doom in
own
country.
cause
it
it.
It
was
perfectly
wfljpiown
that in very
many
cases slave-
Platford Hall.
traders
293
made
vil-
how
to establish
it ?
gentleman
whom
him
that he
had been
sailor,
in
com-
a very re-
actually been
engaged
in
he had spent
him
at
an inn
knew nothing
of his
name
abode,
all
war in
ordinary, but
ClarkS.^
man
should be produced as
to
go personally
was
found.
and
boarded every
the very
last
and on
was
By
the labors of
all
England.
The
of the
with,
ships, ^||tounts
were^Kulated
294
an industry
A Day Spent
wliicli left
at
cliild
in
England uninstrncted.
In disseminating information,
tlie
women
were particularly
earnest,
and labored
which characterizes
the sex.
It
facts,
seems that
after the
to every
town
in England, Clarkall
the places,
to.
Of the
ing account
"
And
first I-
may
was no town
who had
left off
In
esti-
by
who made
ranks and
dissenters
These were of
all
Eich and
pooi',
churchmen and
Even
grocers
had
left off
In
gentlemen's families, where the master had set the example, the sotf^ts had often voluntarily followed
it
Playford Hall.
295
By
the
was able
to
down
in
my
was the
reality, depth,
feeling,
force
for the
government of
England
as that of Amei";
won.
rill
The
slave-trade
was
finally
abolished
so,
through
but
of
its
But the
rest there
the investigations
itself,
and the
agitation
w"
the Brit'
iirces.
At
nev^Bras
lost.
Tho
296
A Day
Spent at
tlie
principle adopted
by them was
same so suolimely
"
The
field is
the world."
felt
that as the
it
into
why
she
wrong was
Clarkson to his
in the subject,
last
movements
America.
One
read
my
me
anti-slavery
move-
him
to
me
as a cheerful,
frank
human
remarkable of
mm that with
such intense
feel-
for
suflfe'nng as
down
with^pch he was
constantly obliged to be
Platford Hall.
familiar,
297
he never yielded to a
spirit of bitterness or
denunciation.
The
is
as calm
and nnim-
you may
which I
The old
man
was
house
had
to be his castle.
To me
was
queror, as one
who had
who had
and
pra3'er,
and labo||^^K
witiiinticn. cordiality
by
the
widow
of Clarkson,
now
and
She
is
now
quite feeble.
was
jjlaccd
under the
forthwith
who
13*
298
installed
A Day Spent
me
in
at
the
court-j'ard,
whicli
the
room where
for years,
many
labors
had ascended
reward of the
attended
just.
The
servant
who
;
me seemed
to
be quite a
superior
woman
in
the
and was
identified with
its
intel-
A daughter of Clarkson, who was married to a neighboring clergyman, with her husband, was also present
on
this day.
After dinner
we rode out
repose.
It
still,
quiet,
Wos^ old
church, as you
"watches the
resting^Rer
children.
Playfokd Hall.
The
daisy,
299
which
I well
know, the
influence from
but
let
and
life
death.
the churcE^
enclosed
by a
;
railing
it
marble slab
flowers.
was
carefully tended
how
been
there,
knocking
and otherwise
relics of idolatry.
home
my
New
England
countr}'- par-
Tho
cff ct
bcavit-ful to
me.
For a wonder,
it
and
liiis is
300
A Day Spent
The calm
at
of the
after-
edged in England.
stillness
all
seemed
to
fulness
and
rest.
How
if
natural
it
is
to say of
some
places
may be
unchanging peace.
passed
As we
many
Some
by
pansies in one
their
of them
attracted
my
attention
peculiar
On
being
me some
of the
finest.
I do not
in the agri-
still
there are
were allmiese.
The
cottagers
had
that
Playford Hall.
bright,
SOI
see in
self-
rosy look of
liealtli
whicli
we seldom
In
tlie
who
was
:
had grown up
The
subject of conver-
"
The duty
by taking means
thing effective
may be done
slave-trade should
Every great
There
is
movement seems an
end
to the
no
number of
tilings declared
possible,
may do something
room
early
me
to her sitting-room.
The
faithful attendant of
wbom
She wished
his
t||Sjriri|l^^
seals,
^^^^
her husband,
watch and
scripts;
among
these
essay
802
witli wliicli lie
A Day Spent
began
liis
at
career,
and a commentary on
lie liad
my
atten-
it
of the cause,
use
of to arouse the public mind and keep the subject before the attention.
a cameo, with
this
by
ladies.
It
by
its
members
in seal-
hand-
somely engraved on a
and surely
if
the sword of a
consider only
a necessary
evil,
When
I retired to
my room
unceasing
Playford Hall.
slavery in one laud or country, and
influence
tliat
803
tlicir
benign
till
left
upon
^^'^t^^'-'S^ I^^^^.^-L
~^
Cacljiug
ll/rUCH
tljt
^luto
"liieiiiJ.
lias
North and South, concerning the pohcj and propriety of permitting those in bondage to gain the
rudiments of a
common
education.
Many who
conscientiouslr/ (for
In-
deed,
it is
often tried
on
plantations,
strict
even in States
against
it.
where
thWaw
enforces
penalties
faithful
and obedient
and
The
and the
make
the laws.
They believe
805
a talismanic
power
would crush
for ever.
They
believe that
has found
They
many
of
pursued.
More
trouble, vexation,
and insubordination,
by any
other indulgence.
may be
so
it
is
certain that, in
many
instances,
kindness
and
care.
their servants
to
growing
discontented and
docile
make them
this,
and happy,
Searchi^
for the
cause^f
to the
sla^P Could
its
would cease
view,
"
to
wondc
that
"good"
work out
evil."
806
never compromise
of
tlie
magnet.
first place,
its
In the
ders
it,
in
pressions
when made
tried to edu-
of natural inferiority in
We
have no right
to
draw
made on
whose mental
tions,
faculties have,
through
many
genera-
been crippled by
disuse.
my
in
charge, for
negro
girl,
born
Africa "Margru"
On
her ancestory
hung no
of native, wildness.
to
learj^n her
case.
She astonished
all
by
the ease
in
witli
mathematical science.
up
for
speaks well
" "'^i-^h
"the
race,"
but
ill
for
"the systen^
has
807
to
be found
time
and
what
This
themselves
is
able to afford.
Once a week,
in their opinion,
quite often
;
enough
week he may
forget
No wonder
yes,
before the
for
Word
it
of
God
is
unlocked to
whom
I speak as one
who
has
felt
whom
have
his
More
it
attentive
and
had, but
has pained
my
of leading
them even
to the threshold of
knowledge
was
still
808
New
Testament, and
this
"
What do you
!"
think ?"
;
has been
whipping George
"
Why
for
was even
so.
to learn to
"Stammer
in his Testament,
like
any
true-
him
could render.
effect,
The whipping
however.
by her on
poring
mud
fire-place,
!
He started
up
who
it
his
lesson
Whether George,
to
me
exceedingly doubtful.
Thus
;
a slave, to be perfectly
But
bring enlarge-
809
in
its
bodily case.
Let the
key
even
pathway through
thorns.
sown with
And, oh
above
all
fetters shall
be stricken
we
firmly trust, no
I
Jerusalem
(//
ay!-^
FUM-JOTTmeS
LAUGHS
"M
I
tl.e
FOURTH THOUSAND
IN
SIXTY DAYS!
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From
the
title
it
was made
ries.
iip
amusing
sto-
Such, however,
not the
fact.
Many
But
incidents narrated
Fun- Jottings.'
VVilli.s'
will
The work
unques-
written in
It will
Some twenty
ending
in
fun.
and
humor and
sentiment,
'
livelier
efforts.
The most
tliis
" It is a
will be road
by thousands."
Chi-
Some
of
'Sir.
A*^.
Y. Evangelist.
Home
al-
Philadelphia Mirr9h.
title."
N. Y. Tribune.
I\Ir.
volume of
style,
Willis'
most
amusing
vei liscr.
and
will be read
by everybody."
Detroit
Ad-
Willis."
"
Montgomery
is
'
Gazette.
The book
entertaining and
'
now
wide awake during the long nights that are approaching." Phil. News.
" For laughter without folly, for a specific in innocent mirthfulness against ennui
its
and hypo
as a cordial
to the
animal spir-
this
volume
of
'
Fun- Jottings
'
A'.
1'.
Inde-
pendent.
"It
sketches
"
collection of Willis'
dashing
Cincinnati Herald.
Hartford Times.
IMMENSE SALE!
OR,
p|,iisiicrs.
Y., S
What
Cousi:f
Cicely
is
happy
facility,
so
Protestant Churchman.
This book is written in a style well calculated to please, and contains an inestimable moral plain, concise, and void of
superfluities, that a child
may
life-like
good.
Co
Jyhig.
WHAT THE
The
tionable.
PRESS SAY.
first
The
story
is
it
and the affecting interest wiiich attracts and supports the reader's
attention through the wjiole work, frimi
ttie
opening scene
to the
This
is
it
is
al el-
egance equal
quality of
futirths
its
to the
iss'.ics
of
the
contents
v/ill
best writers.
Canandaigua Messenger.
;
neglect of proper parental discipline in infancy in a well written preface, the authoress, " Cousin Cicely," assures us it is substantially
a narrative of
facts.
It
a. perverse child-
is
found in a felon's
cell,
with
the
mark of Cain on
his brow.
The
under her <)wn proper colors hereafter, claims that most of the
incidents are taken from real
lite
;
The
"
writer of
and of mahy
to
!i"
'
(ither
.illed
pleasant volumes
is
talents,
which she
is
Iler charm1,
mg" Silver
Lake
Stories,"
and this
WHAT THE
work
is Arell ca.cul'.ted to
PRESS SAY.
bo'Ji ivith children
do the same,
*
of tJ)e
of va-
Difficiillies
book-
ends,
tell.
Albany
Eve.
Jouinnl.
* *
One
life,
ling
upon home
affections
of
common
narrative.
It
;
tatious praise
will be far
more acceptable
to tlie reader in
tliat
advance,
Albany Atlas.
BY EEY. JOHN
L.
BLAKE, D.D.
AOTHOS OF FABMEe's EVEEY-DAT BOOK; THE FAEMEE AT HOME J AND A GENEEAL BIOGEAPHICAL DICTIONAET.
in the country,
is
work
The
Farm and
taste
is
Wc hope it may be
extensively road, as
in the
partments of science.
it cannot fail to improve the most useful and practical of all de-
From the Uew-York Evangelist. The aim of the author has been to throw over labor, home and agricultural life, their true dignity and charm to introduce the farmer to
;
the delights
and privileges of
It is
his lot
and
its
employments.
We
know
not bo^w
the natural trains of thought of the farmer could be more aptly met
or
more
safely
and agreeably
led,
is
varied discussions.
The range
as
wide as
life itself
morals, religion
everj
rela
and duty
is
From
an author,
tlie
New-York Tribune.
who had
laid the
community under
large obligations
by
the enterprise and tact with which he has so frequently catered to the
popular taste
very
in
the country.
No
lume
From
work
is
entitled to the
warmest thanks^
of the public fur his numei-ous and valuable contributions to our litera-
He
is
truly an
Amorican
last
classic.
We
twenty years, and have always founa them both useful and entertaining in a high degree. His writings on
for the
Agricultui'e contahj
dents, anecdotes,
much
numerous
illustrative iuci
and aphorisms,
in
manner.
By
this
made
ana
Thia
The
style
is
clear, easy,
work
is
an eloquent plea
for the
Agriculture.
We
rofniii
1
11
>urTEanks r tUai
for- th''
new volume
Farm
and the
a charming
title,
man
Eschewing the
dryness of scientific forms and erudite details, the author prest-uts detached, but most entertaining, and often very suggestive articles on a
great variety of topics
from the " Wild Goose" to "Conscience in tlie Value of Lawyers in a Community" to the " ObjecThe book is, in fine, quite unique, and just tions to early Marriages." such a one as the farmer would like to pore over at his fireside on long
Cow,"
from the
"
winter evenings.
From
"The Farm and
merous kindred
insti'uction,
the
New-York Recorder.
is
the Fireside,"
adapted to the
of the farmer.
From
the
Germantown Telegraph.
this
We
and
merit,
social
" Sketches,"
feel
possesses decided
and
commend
itself,
JLife
"
and entert;unment. The sketches comprise " Country generally - some of them are just sufficiently touched with rointei-est
mance
to give
them
addflional zest
and relate
notice as
We
regard
it
as a valuable book,
it
and are sorry our limits will not admit of bestowing upon
it
such a
really deserves.
a collection of miscellaneous sketches .on the Romance Matters of fiict, however, are not ex-
cluded fi'om the volume, which is well adapted for reading in the snatches of leisure enjoyed at the fk^er's fireside.
From
improving the
intellect,
and
COMMENDATIONS OF THE
PEESS.
ft^ndering attractive the vai-ious branches of Agiieultural science. In deed we kiiow no author who has so successfully blended the romantic, the rui'al and beautiful with the poetical, the useful, and true,
This
plain, simple,
is a peculiar featui-e of all his works. His and perspicuous; and, with unusual tact and
h^
is dis-
comprehended by
all classes
of readers.
From
Tlie author's object
is
the
to
New-York Evening
soil
Post.
improve the
not
so
much
istry,
to place in
t)f
raising
large crops
for these
Chem
feet
but
to
make them
how
and ennobling,
on.
and, above
how
we
to the farmer's
spiritual soil.
ence, the
good
"Tile
is
read
in
intended
to be
it
wf
with
way
of raising
made
I'ural
fi-ora
life,
them.
He He
helpmate, discusses
and punctuality
its
in bathing.
In hliort, this
limited
greens,
grow
side
fruits
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