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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: No Compromise with Slavery + An Address Delivered to the Broadway Tabernacle, New York + +Author: William Lloyd Garrison + +Release Date: January 7, 2008 [EBook #24194] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY *** + + + + +Produced by Jeannie Howse, Bryan Ness and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This +book was produced from scanned images of public domain +material from the Google Print project.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> + +<div class="tr"> +<p class="cen" style="font-weight: bold;">Transcriber's Note:</p> +<br /> +<p class="noin">Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For a complete list, please see the +<a href="#TN">end of this document</a>.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> + + +<h1>No Compromise with Slavery.</h1> + +<br /> +<br /> + +<h2>AN ADDRESS</h2> + +<h4>DELIVERED<br /><br /> +IN THE</h4> + +<h3>BROADWAY TABERNACLE, NEW YORK,</h3> + +<h4>FEBRUARY 14, 1854,</h4> + +<h5>BY</h5> +<h3>WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON.</h3> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<h5>NEW YORK:<br /> +AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY,<br /> +142 NASSAU STREET,<br /> +1854.</h5> + +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> +<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[3]</a></span><br /> +<br /> + +<h2>ADDRESS.</h2> +<br /> + +<p><span class="sc">Ladies and Gentlemen</span>: An earnest espousal of the Anti-Slavery +cause for a quarter of a century, under circumstances which have +served in a special manner to identify my name and labours with it, +will shield me from the charge of egotism, in assuming to be its +exponent—at least for myself—on this occasion. All that I can +compress within the limits of a single lecture, by way of its +elucidation, it shall be my aim to accomplish. I will make a clean +breast of it. You shall know all that is in my heart pertaining to +Slavery, its supporters, and apologists.</p> + +<p>Of necessity, as well as of choice, I am a "Garrisonian" +Abolitionist—the most unpopular appellation that any man can have +applied to him, in the present state of public sentiment; yet, I am +more than confident, destined ultimately to be honourably regarded by +the wise and good. For though I have never assumed to be a +leader—have never sought conspicuity of position, or notoriety of +name—have desired to follow, if others, better qualified, would go +before, and to be lost sight of in the throng of Liberty's adherents, +as a drop is merged in the ocean; yet, as the appellation alluded to +is applied, not with any reference to myself invidiously, but to +excite prejudice against the noblest movement of the age, in order +that the most frightful system of <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[4]</a></span>oppression ever devised by human +ingenuity and wickedness may be left to grow and expand to the latest +generation—I accept it as the synonym of absolute trust in God, and +utter disregard of "that fear of man which bringeth a snare"—and so +deem it alike honourable and praiseworthy.</p> + +<p>Representing, then, that phase of Abolitionism which is the most +contemned—to the suppression of which, the means and forces of the +Church and the State are most actively directed—I am here to defend +it against all its assailants as the highest expediency, the soundest +philosophy, the noblest patriotism, the broadest philanthropy, and the +best religion extant. To denounce it as fanatical, disorganising, +reckless of consequences, bitter and irreverent in spirit, infidel in +heart, deaf alike to the suggestions of reason and the warnings of +history, is to call good evil, and evil good; to put darkness for +light, and light for darkness; to insist that Barabbas is better than +Jesus; to cover with infamy the memories of patriarchs and prophets, +apostles and martyrs; and to inaugurate Satan as the God of the +universe. If, like the sun, it is not wholly spotless, still, like the +sun, without it there is no light. If murky clouds obscure its +brightness, still it shines in its strength. If, at a seems to wane to +its final setting, it is only to reveal itself in the splendour of a +new ascension, unquenchable, glorious, sublime.</p> + +<p>Let me define my positions, and at the same time challenge any one to +show wherein they are untenable.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span>I. I am a believer in that portion of the Declaration of American +Independence in which it is set forth, as among self-evident truths, +"that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their +Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, +liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Hence, I am an Abolitionist. +Hence, I cannot but regard oppression in every form—and most of all, +that which turns a man into a thing—with indignation and abhorrence. +Not to cherish these feelings would be recreancy to principle. They +who desire me to be dumb on the subject of Slavery, unless I will open +my mouth in its defence, ask me to give the lie to my professions, to +degrade my manhood, and to stain my soul. I will not be a liar, a +poltroon, or a hypocrite, to accommodate any party, to gratify any +sect, to escape any odium or peril, to save any interest, to preserve +any institution, or to promote any object. Convince me that one man +may rightfully make another man his slave, and I will no longer +subscribe to the Declaration of Independence. Convince me that liberty +is not the inalienable birthright of every human being, of whatever +complexion or clime, and I will give that instrument to the consuming +fire. I do not know how to espouse freedom and slavery together. I do +not know how to worship God and Mammon at the same time. If other men +choose to go upon all-fours, I choose to stand erect, as God designed +every man to stand. If, practically falsifying its heaven-attested +principles, this nation denounces me for refusing to imitate its +example, <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span>then, adhering all the more tenaciously to those principles, +I will not cease to rebuke it for its guilty inconsistency. +Numerically, the contest may be an unequal one, for the time being; +but the Author of liberty and the Source of justice, the adorable God, +is more than multitudinous, and he will defend the right. My crime is, +that I will not go with the multitude to do evil. My singularity is, +that when I say that Freedom is of God, and Slavery is of the devil, I +mean just what I say. My fanaticism is, that I insist on the American +people abolishing Slavery, or ceasing to prate of the rights of man. +My hardihood is, in measuring them by their own standard, and +convicting them out of their own mouths.</p> + +<div class="block"><p>"Woe to the rebellions children, saith the Lord, that take +counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but +not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin.</p> + +<p>That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my +mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, +and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!</p> + +<p>Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the +enact in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.</p> + +<p>Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a +book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:</p> + +<p>That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children +that will not hear the law of the Lord.</p> + +<p>Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy +not unto us right things; speak unto us smooth things; +prophesy deceits; get you out of the way, turn aside out of +the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before +us.</p> + +<p>Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel: Because <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span>ye +despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, +and stay thereon:</p> + +<p>Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to +fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh +suddenly, at an instant."</p></div> + +<p>II. Notwithstanding the lessons taught us by Pilgrim Fathers and +Revolutionary Sires, at Plymouth Rock, on Bunker Hill, at Lexington, +Concord and Yorktown; notwithstanding our Fourth of July celebrations, +and ostentatious displays of patriotism; in what European nation is +personal liberty hold in such contempt as in our own? Where are there +such unbelievers in the natural equality and freedom of mankind? Our +slaves outnumber the entire population of the country at the time of +our revolutionary struggle. In vain do they clank their chains, and +fill the air with their shrieks, and make their supplications for +mercy. In vain are their sufferings portrayed, their wrongs rehearsed, +their rights defended. As Nero fiddled while Rome was burning, so the +slaveholding spirit of this nation rejoices, as one barrier of liberty +after another is destroyed, and fresh victims are multiplied for the +cotton-field and the auction-block. For one impeachment of the slave +system, a thousand defences are made. For one rebuke of the +man-stealer, a thousand denunciations of the Abolitionists are heard. +For one press that bears a faithful testimony against Slavery, a score +are ready to be prostituted to its service. For one pulpit that is not +"recreant to its trust," there are ten that openly defend slaveholding +as compatible with Christianity, and scores that are dumb. <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span>For one +church that excludes the human enslaver from its communion table, +multitudes extend to him the right hand of religious fellowship. The +wealth, the enterprise, the literature, the politics, the religion of +the land, are all combined to give extension and perpetuity to the +Slave Power. Everywhere to do homage to it, to avoid collision with +it, to propitiate its favour, is deemed essential—nay, <i>is</i> essential +to political preferment and ecclesiastical advancement. Nothing is so +unpopular as impartial liberty. The two great parties which absorb +nearly the whole voting strength of the Republic are pledged to be +deaf, dumb and blind to whatever outrages the Slave Power may attempt +to perpetrate. Cotton is in their ears—blinds are over their +eyes—padlocks are upon their lips. They are as clay in the hands of +the potter, and already moulded into vessels of dishonour, to be used +for the vilest purposes. The tremendous power of the Government is +actively wielded to "crush out" the little Anti-Slavery life that +remains in individual hearts, and to open new and boundless domains +for the expansion of the Slave system. No man known or suspected to be +hostile to "the Compromise Measures, including the Fugitive Slave +Law," is allowed to hope for any office under the present +Administration. The ship of State is labouring in the trough of the +sea—her engine powerless, her bulwarks swept away, her masts gone, +her lifeboats destroyed, her pumps choked, and the leak gaining +rapidly upon her; and as wave after wave dashes over her, all that +might <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span>otherwise serve to keep her afloat is swallowed by the +remorseless deep. God of heaven! if the ship is destined to go down +"full many a fathom deep," is every soul on board to perish? Ho! a +sail! a sail! The weather-beaten, but staunch ship Abolition, +commanded by the Genius of Liberty, is bearing toward the wreck, with +the cheering motto, inscribed in legible capitals, "<span class="sc">We will not +forsake you!</span>" Let us hope, even against hope, that rescue is not +wholly impossible.</p> + +<p>To drop what is figurative for the actual. I have expressed the belief +that, so lost to all self-respect and all ideas of justice have we +become by the corrupting presence of Slavery, in no European nation is +personal liberty held at such discount, as a matter of principle, as +in our own. See how clearly this is demonstrated. The reasons adduced +among us in justification of slaveholding, and therefore against +personal liberty, are multitudinous. I will enumerate only a dozen of +these: 1. "The victims are black." 2. "The slaves belong to an +inferior race." 3. "Many of them have been fairly purchased." 4. +"Others have been honestly inherited." 5. "Their emancipation would +impoverish their owners." 6. "They are better off as slaves then they +would be as freemen." 7. "They could not take care of themselves if +set free." 8. "Their simultaneous liberation would be attended with +great danger." 9. "Any interference in their behalf will excite the +ill-will of the South, and thus seriously affect Northern trade and +commerce." 10. "The Union can be <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span>preserved only by letting Slavery +alone, and that is of paramount importance." 11. "Slavery is a lawful +and constitutional system, and therefore not a crime." 12. "Slavery is +sanctioned by the Bible; the Bible is the word of God; therefore God +sanctions Slavery, and the Abolitionists are wise above what is +written."</p> + +<p>Here, then, are twelve reasons which are popularly urged in all parts +of the country, as conclusive against the right of a man to himself. +If they are valid, in any instance, what becomes of the Declaration of +Independence? On what ground can the revolutionary war, can any +struggle for liberty, be justified? Nay, cannot all the despotisms of +the earth take shelter under them? If they are valid, then why is not +the jesuitical doctrine, that the end sanctifies them, and that it is +right to do evil that good may come, morally sound? If they are valid, +then how does it appear that God is no respecter of persons? or how +can he say, "All souls are mine"? or what is to be done with Christ's +injunction, "Call no man master"? or with what justice can the same +duties and the same obligations (such as are embodied in the Decalogue +and the gospel of Christ) be exacted of chattels as of men? But they +are not valid. They are the logic of Bedlam, the morality of the +pirate ship, the diabolism of the pit. They insult the common sense +and shock the moral nature of mankind. Take them to Europe, and see +with what scorn they will be universally treated! Go, first, to +England, and gravely <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span>propound them there; and the universal response +will proudly be, in the thrilling lines of Cowper,</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Inhale our air, that moment they are free!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">They touch our country, and their shackles fall!"<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Every Briton, indignant at the monstrous claim, will answer, in the +emphatic words of Brougham: "Tell me not of rights; talk not of the +property of the planter in his slaves! I deny the right—I acknowledge +not the property! The principles, the feelings of our nature, rise in +rebellion against it. Be the appeal made to the understanding or to +the heart, the sentence is the same that rejects it." And Curran, in +words of burning eloquence, shall reply: "I speak in the spirit of the +British law, which makes liberty commensurate with, and inseparable +from, the British soil—which proclaims, even to the stranger and the +sojourner, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated +by the genius of universal emancipation. No matter in what language +his doom may have been pronounced; no matter what complexion an Indian +or an African sun may have burnt upon him; no matter in what +disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down; no matter +with what solemnities he may have been offered upon the altar of +Slavery; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the +altar and the god sink together in the dust—his spirit walks abroad +in its own majesty—his body swells beyond the measure of his chains, +and he stands redeemed, regenerated and disenthralled, by the +irresistible genius of universal emancipation."</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span>Again—take these slaveholding pleas to Scotland and from the graves +of the dead and the homes of the living, they shall be replied to in +thunder-tones in the language of Burns: "A man's a man, for all that."</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Who would be a traitor knave?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Who would fill a coward's grave?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Who so base as be a slave?<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Let him turn and flee!"<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Pass over to Ireland, and there repeat those excuses for Slavery, and +eight million voices shall reply, in the words of Thomas Moore:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"To think that man, thou just and loving God!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Should stand before thee with a tyrant's rod,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">O'er creatures like himself, with souls from Thee,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Yet dare to boast of perfect liberty!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Away! away! I'd rather hold my neck<br /></span> +<span class="i0">By doubtful tenure from a Sultan's beck,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">In climes where liberty has scarce been nam'd,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Nor any right but that of ruling claim'd,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Than thus to live where boasted Freedom waves<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves!"<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p class="noin">And the testimony of O'Connell, in behalf of all Ireland, shall pass +from mouth to mouth: "I am an Abolitionist. I am for speedy, immediate +Abolition. I care not what caste, creed or colour, Slavery may assume. +Whether it be personal or political, mental or corporeal, intellectual +or spiritual, I am for its instant, its total Abolition. I am for +justice, in the name of humanity, and according to the law of the +living God." "Let none of the slave-owners, dealers in human flesh, +dare to set a foot upon our free soil!" "We are all children of the +same Creator, heirs of the same promise, purchased by the blood of the +same Redeemer—and what signifies of what caste colour or creed we may +be? It is our duty to <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span>proclaim that the cause of the negro is our +cause, and that we will insist upon doing away, to the best of our +human ability, the stain of Slavery, not only from every portion of +this mighty empire, but from the whole face of the earth." "Let the +American Abolitionists be honoured in proportion as the slaveholders +are execrated."</p> + +<p>Pass over to the Continent, even into Papal-ridden Italy, and there +urge the popular pleas in defence of slaveholding, and, from the +Vatican, Pope Gregory XVI. shall reply: "We urgently invoke, in the +name of God, all Christians, of whatever condition, that none +henceforth dare to subject to Slavery, unjustly persecute, or despoil +of their goods, Indians, Negroes, or other classes of men, or to be +accessories to others, or furnish them aid or assistance in so doing; +and on no account henceforth to exercise that inhuman traffic, by +which Negroes are reduced to Slavery, as if they were not men, but +automata or chattels, and are sold in defiance of all the laws of +justice and humanity, and devoted to severe and intolerable labours."</p> + +<p>Proceed to Austria, and there defend the practice of reducing men to +Slavery, and the Austrian code shall proclaim: "Every man, by right of +nature, sanctioned by reason, must be considered a free person. Every +slave becomes free from the moment he touches the Austrian soil, or an +Austrian ship."</p> + +<p>Finally, enter the Tunisian dominions, and there urge the claim of +property in man, and Musheer Ahmed Bashaw Bey shall reply: "We declare +that <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span>all slaves that shall enter our kingdom, by land or by sea, +shall be free; and further order, that every one born a slave in our +dominions shall be considered as free from the very instant of his +birth, and that he shall neither be sold nor bought."</p> + +<p>Thus do I prove that, in regard to personal liberty—the right of +every man to the ownership of his own body—even Italy, Austria and +Tunis are in advance of this boasted Republic, and put it to open +shame!</p> + +<p>III. The Abolitionism which I advocate is as absolute as the law of +God, and as unyielding as His throne. It admits of no compromise. +Every slave is a stolen man; every slaveholder is a man-stealer. By no +precedent, no example, no law, no compact, no purchase, no bequest, no +inheritance, no combination of circumstances, is slaveholding right or +justifiable. While a slave remains in his fetters, the land must have +no rest. Whatever sanctions his doom must be pronounced accursed. The +law that makes him a chattel is to be trampled under foot; the compact +that is formed at his expense, and cemented with his blood, is null +and void; the church that consents to his enslavement is horribly +atheistical; the religion that receives to its communion the enslaver +is the embodiment of all criminality. Such, at least, is the verdict +of my own soul, on the supposition that I am to be the slave; that my +wife is to be sold from me for the vilest purposes; that my children +are to be torn from my arms, and disposed of to the highest bidder, +like sheep in the market. And who am I but a man? <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span>What right have I +to be free, that another man cannot prove himself to possess by +nature? Who or what are my wife and children, that they should not be +herded with four-footed beasts, as well as others thus sacredly +related? If I am white, and another is black, complexionally, what +follows?</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Does, then, th' immortal principle within<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Change with the casual colour of the skin?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Does matter govern spirit? or is mind<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Degraded by the form to which 'tis joined?"<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>What if I am rich, and another is poor—strong, and he is +weak—intelligent, and he is benighted—elevated, and he is depraved? +"Have we not one Father? Hath not one God created us?"</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"How rich, how poor, how abject, how august,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">How complicate, how wonderful is man!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Distinguished link in being's endless chain,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Midway from nothing to the Deity!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">A beam ethereal, sullied and absorpt;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Though sullied and dishonoured, still divine!"<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Such is man, in every clime—above all compacts, greater than all +institutions, sacred against every outrage, priceless, immortal!</p> + +<p>By this sure test, every institution, every party, every form of +government, every kind of religion, is to be tried. God never made a +human being either for destruction or degradation. It is plain, +therefore, that whatever cannot flourish except at the sacrifice of +that being, ought not to exist. Show me the party that can obtain +supremacy only by trampling upon human individuality and personal +sovereignty, and you will thereby pronounce sentence of death upon it. +Show me the government which can be maintained only by destroying the +rights of a <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span>portion of the people; and you will indicate the duty of +openly revolting against it. Show me the religion which sanctions the +ownership of one man by another, and you will demonstrate it to be +purely infernal in its origin and spirit.</p> + +<p>No man is to be injured in his person, mind, or estate. He cannot be, +with benefit to any other man, or to any state of society. Whoever +would sacrifice him for any purpose is both morally and politically +insane. Every man is equivalent to every other man. Destroy the +equivalent, and what is left? "So God created man in his own +image—male and female created he them." This is a death-blow to all +claims of superiority, to all charges of inferiority, to all +usurpation, to all oppressive dominion.</p> + +<p>But all three declarations are truisms. Most certainly; and they are +all that is stigmatized as "Garrisonian Abolitionism." I have not, at +any time, advanced an ultra sentiment, or made an extravagant <span class="blob" title="See Transcriber's Note at the end of the text for explanation.">demand</span>. +I have avoided fanaticism on the one hand, fully on the other. No man +can show that I have taken one step beyond the line of justice, or +forgotten the welfare of the master in my anxiety to free the slave. +Why, citizens of the Empire State, did you proclaim liberty to all in +bondage on your soil, in 1827, and forevermore? Certainly, not on the +ground of expediency, but of principle. Why do you make slaveholding +unlawful among yourselves? Why is it not as easy to buy, breed, +inherit, and make slaves in this State, compatible with benevolence, +justice, and right, as it is in <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span>Carolina or Georgia? Why do you +compel the unmasked refugee from Van Dieman's Land to sigh for "a +plantation well stocked with healthy negroes in Alabama," and not +allow him the right to own and flog slaves in your presence? If +slaveholding is not wrong under all circumstances, why have you +decreed it to be so, within the limits of your State jurisdiction? +Nay, why do you have a judiciary, a legislative assembly, a civil +code, the ballot box, but to preserve your rights as one man? On what +other ground, except that you are men, do you claim a right to +personal freedom, to the ties of kindred, to the means of improvement, +to constant development, to labour when and for whom you choose, to +make your own contracts, to read and speak and print as you please, to +remain at home or travel abroad, to exercise the elective franchise, +to make your own rulers? What you demand for yourselves, in virtue of +your manhood, I demand for the enslaved at the South, on the same +ground. How is it that I am a madman, and you are perfectly rational? +Wherein is my ultraism apparent? If the slaves are not men; if they do +not possess human instincts, passions, faculties and powers; if they +are below accountability, and devoid of reason; if for them there is +no hope of immortality, no God, no heaven, no hell; if, in short, they +are, what the Slave Code declares them to be, rightly "deemed, sold, +taken, reputed and adjudged in law to be chattels personal in the +hands of their owners and possessors, and their executors, +administrators and assigns, to all intents, constructions, <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span>and +purposes whatsoever;" then, undeniably, I am mad, and can no longer +discriminate between a man and a beast. But, in that case, away with +the horrible incongruity of giving them oral instruction, of teaching +them the catechism, of recognising them as suitably qualified to be +members of Christian churches, of extending to them the ordinance of +baptism, and admitting them to the communion table, and enumerating +many of them as belonging to the household of faith! Let them be no +more included in our religious sympathies or denominational statistics +than are the dogs in our streets, the swine in our pens, or the +utensils in our dwellings. It is right to own, to buy, to sell, to +inherit, to breed, and to control them, in the most absolute sense. +All constitutions and laws which forbid their possession ought to be +so far modified or repealed as to concede the right.</p> + +<p>But, if they are men; if they are to run the same career of +immortality with ourselves; if the same law of God is over them as +over all others; if they have souls to be saved or lost; if Jesus +included them among those for whom he laid down his life; if Christ is +within many of them "the hope of glory;" then, when I claim for them +all that we claim for ourselves, because we are created in the image +of God, I am guilty of no extravagance, but am bound, by every +principle of honour, by all the claims of human nature, by obedience +to Almighty God, to "remember them that are in bonds as bound with +them," and to demand their immediate and unconditional emancipation.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span>I am "ultra" and "fanatical," forsooth! In what direction, or +affecting what parties? What have I urged should be done to the +slaveholders? Their punishment as felons of the deepest dye? No. I +have simply enunciated in their ear the divine command, "Loose the +bands of wickedness, undo the heavy burdens, break every yoke, and let +the oppressed go free," accompanying it with the cheering promises, +"Then shall thy light rise obscurity, and thy darkness be as the +noon-day. And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy +soul in drought, and make fat thy bones; and thou shalt be like a +watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters fail not. And +they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places; thou +shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be +called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell +in." Yet, if I had affirmed that they ought to meet the doom of +pirates, I should have been no more personal, no more merciless, than +is the law of Congress, making it a piratical act to enslave a native +African, under whatever pretence or circumstances; for in the eye of +reason, and by the standard of eternal justice, it is as great a crime +to enslave one born on our own soil, as on the coast of Africa; and +as, in the latter case, neither the plea of having fairly purchased or +inherited him, nor the pretence of seeking his temporal and eternal +good, by bringing him to a civilized and Christian country, would be +regarded as of any weight, so, none of the excuses offered for +slaveholding in this <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span>country are worthy of the least consideration. +The act, in both cases, is essentially the same—equally inhuman, +immoral, piratical. Oppression is not a matter of latitude or +longitude; here excusable, there to be execrated; here to elevate the +oppressor to the highest station, there to hang him by the neck till +he is dead; here compatible with Christianity, there to be branded and +punished as piracy. "He that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he +be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." So reads the +Mosaic code, and by it every American Slaveholder is convicted of a +capital crime. By the Declaration of Independence, he is pronounced a +man-stealer. As for myself, I have simply exposed his guilt, besought +him to repent, and to "go and sin no more."</p> + +<p>What extravagant claim have I made in behalf of the slaves? Will it be +replied, "Their immediate liberation!" Then God, by his prophet, is +guilty of extravagance! Then Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the +Declaration of Independence, and all who signed that instrument, and +all who joined in the Revolutionary struggle, were deceivers in +asserting it to be a self-evident truth, that all men are endowed by +their Creator with an inalienable right to liberty! The issue is not +with me, but with them, and with God. What! is it going too far to +ask, for those who have been outraged and plundered all their lives +long, nothing but houseless, penniless, naked freedom! No compensation +whatever for their past unrequited toil; no redress for their +multitudinous <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a></span>wrongs; no settlement for sundered ties, bleeding +backs, countless lacerations, darkened intellects, ruined souls! The +truth is, complete justice has never been asked for the enslaved.</p> + +<p>How has the slave system grown to its present enormous dimensions? +Through compromise. How is it to be exterminated? Only by an +uncompromising spirit. This is to be carried out in all the relations +of life—social, political, religious. Put not on the list of your +friends, nor allow admission to your domestic circle, the man who on +principle defends Slavery, but treat him as a moral leper. "If an +American addresses you," said Daniel O'Connell to his countrymen, +"find out at once if he be a slaveholder. He may have business with +you, and the less you do with him the better; but the moment that is +over, turn from him as if he had the cholera or the plague—for there +is a moral cholera and a political plague upon him. He belongs not to +your country or your clime—he is not within the pale of civilization +or Christianity." On another occasion he said: "An American gentleman +waited upon me this morning, and I asked him with some anxiety, 'What +part of America do you come from?' 'I came from Boston.' Do me the +honour to shake hands; you came from a State that has never been +tarnished with Slavery—a State to which our ancestors fled from the +tyranny of England—and the worst of all tyrannies, the attempt to +interfere between man and his God—a tyranny that I have in principle +helped to put down in this country, and <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span>wish to put down in every +country upon the face of the globe. It is odious and insolent to +interfere between a man and his God; to fetter with law the choice +which the conscience makes of its mode of adoring the eternal and +adorable God. I cannot talk of toleration, because it supposes that a +boon has been given to a human being, in allowing him to have his +conscience free. It was in that struggle, I said, that your fathers +left England; and I rejoice to see an American from Boston; but I +should be sorry to be contaminated by the touch of a man from those +States where Slavery is continued. 'Oh,' said he, 'you are alluding to +Slavery though I am no advocate for it, yet, if you will allow me, I +will discuss that question with you.' I replied, that if a man should +propose to me a discussion on the propriety of picking pockets, I +would turn him out of my study, for fear he should carry his theory +into practice. 'And meaning you no sort of offence; I added, 'which I +cannot mean to a gentleman who does me the honour of paying me a civil +visit, I would as soon discuss the one question with you as the other. +The one is a paltry theft.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">'He that steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands'—<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p class="noin">but he who thinks he can vindicate the possession of one human being +by another—the sale of soul and body—the separation of father and +mother—the taking of the mother from the infant at her breast, and +selling the one to one master, and the other to another—is a man whom +I will not answer with <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span>words—nor with blows, for the time for the +latter has not yet come.'"</p> + +<p>If such a spirit of manly indignation and unbending integrity pervaded +the Northern breast, how long could Slavery stand before it? But where +is it to be found? Alas! the man whose hands are red with blood is +honoured and caressed in proportion to the number of his victims; +while "he who departs from evil makes himself a prey." This is true, +universally, in our land. Why should not the Slave Power make colossal +strides over the continent? "There is no North." A sordid, truckling, +cowardly, compromising spirit, is everywhere seen. No insult or +outrage, no deed of impiety or blood, on the part of the South, can +startle us into resistance, or inspire us with self-respect. We see +our free coloured citizens incarcerated in Southern prisons, or sold +on the auction-block, for no other crime than that of being found on +Southern soil; and we dare not call for redress. Our commerce with the +South is bound with the shackles of the plantation—"Free-Trade and +Sailors'-Rights" are every day violated in Southern ports; and we +tamely submit to it as the slave does to the lash. Our natural, +God-given right of free speech, though constitutionally recognised as +sacred in every part of the country, can be exercised in the +slaveholding States only at the peril of our lives. Slavery cannot +bear one ray of light, or the slightest criticism. "The character of +Slavery," says Gov. Swain, of North Carolina, "is not to be +discussed"—meaning at the <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</a></span>South. But he goes beyond this, and adds, +"We have an indubitable right to demand of the Free States to suppress +such discussion, totally and promptly." Gov. Tazewell, of Virginia, +makes the same declaration. Gov. Lumpkin, of Georgia, says: "The +weapons of reason and argument are insufficient to put down +discussion; we can therefore hear no argument upon the subject, for +our opinions are unalterably fixed." And he adds, that the Slave +States "will provide for their own protection, and those who speak +against Slavery will do well to keep out of their bounds, or they will +punish them." The Charleston <i>Courier</i> declares, "The gallows and the +stake (<i>i.e.</i> burning alive and hanging) await the Abolitionists who +shall dare to appear in person among us." The Colombia <i>Telescope</i> +says: "Let us declare through the public journals of our country, that +the question of Slavery is not and shall not be open to discussion; +that the system is too deep-rooted among us, and must remain forever; +that the very moment any private individual attempts to lecture us +upon its evils and immorality, and the necessity of putting means in +operation to secure us from them, in the same moment his tongue shall +be cut out and cast upon the dunghill." The Missouri <i>Argus</i> says: +"Abolition editors in slave States will not dare to avow their +opinions. It would be instant death to them." Finally, the New Orleans +<i>True American</i> says: "We can assure those, one and all, who have +embarked in the nefarious scheme of abolishing Slavery at the South, +that lashes will <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span>hereafter be spared the backs of their emissaries. +Let them send out their men to Louisiana; they will never return to +tell their suffering, but they shall expiate the crime of interfering +in our domestic institutions, by being burned at the stake." And +Northern men cower at this, and consent to have their lips padlocked, +and to be robbed of their constitutional right, aye, and their natural +right, while travelling Southward; while the lordly slaveholder +traverses the length and breadth of the Free States, with open mouth +and impious tongue, cursing freedom and its advocates with impunity, +and choosing Plymouth Rock, and the celebration of the landing of the +Pilgrims upon it, as the place and the occasion specially fitting to +eulogize Slavery and the Fugitive Slave Bill!</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Now, by our fathers' ashes! where's the spirit<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Of the true-hearted and th' unshackled gone?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Sons of old freemen! do we but inherit<br /></span> +<span class="i6">Their <i>names</i> alone?<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Is the old Pilgrim spirit quenched within us,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Stoops the proud manhood of our souls so low,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">That Passion's wile or Party's lure can win us<br /></span> +<span class="i6">To silence now?"<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Whatever may be the guilt of the South, the North is still more +responsible for the existence, growth and extension of Slavery. In her +hand has been the destiny of the Republic from the beginning. She +could have emancipated every slave, long ere this, had she been +upright in heart and free in spirit. She has given respectability, +security, and the means of sustenance and attack to her deadliest foe. +She has educated the whole country, and particularly the Southern +portion of it, secularly, theologically <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</a></span>religiously; and the result +is, three millions and a half of slaves, increasing at the appalling +rate of one hundred thousand a year, three hundred a day, and one +every five minutes—the utter corruption of public sentiment, and +general skepticism as to the rights of man—the inauguration of Mammon +in the place of the living God—the loss of all self-respect, all +manhood, all sense of shame, all regard for justice—the Book styled +holy, and claimed to be divinely inspired, everywhere expounded and +enforced in extenuation or defence of slaveholding, and against the +Anti-Slavery movement—colour-phobia infecting the life-blood of the +people—political profligacy unparalleled—the religious and the +secular press generally hostile to Abolitionism as either infidel or +anarchical in its spirit and purpose—the great mass of the churches +with as little vitality as a grave-yard—the pulpits, with rare +exceptions, filled with men as careful to consult the popular will as +though there were no higher law—synods, presbyteries, general +conferences, general assemblies, buttressing the slave power—the +Government openly pro-slavery, and the National District the +head-quarters of slave speculators—fifteen Slave States—and now, the +repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and the consecration of five +hundred thousand square miles of free territory forever to the service +of the Slave Power!</p> + +<p>And what does all this demonstrate? That the sin of this nation is not +geographical—is not specially Southern—but deep-seated and +universal. "The <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</a></span>whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint." We +are "full of wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores." It proves, +too, the folly of all plasters and palliatives. Some men are still +talking of preventing the spread of the cancer, but leaving it just +where it is. They admit that, constitutionally, it has now a right to +ravage two-thirds of the body politic—but they protest against its +extension. This in moral quackery. Even some, whose zeal in the +Anti-Slavery cause is fervent, are so infatuated as to propose no +other remedy for Slavery but its non-extension. Give it no more room, +they say, and it may be safely left to its fate. Yes, but who shall +"bell the cat?" Besides, with fifteen Slave States, and more than +three millions of Slaves, how can we make any moral issue with the +Slave Power against its further extension? Why should there not be +twenty, thirty, fifty Slave States, as well as fifteen? Why should not +the star-spangled banner wave over ten, as well as over three millions +of Slaves? Why should not Nebraska be cultivated by Slave labour, as +well as Florida or Texas? If men, under the American Constitution, may +hold slaves at discretion and without dishonour in one-half of the +country, why not in the whole of it? If it would be a damning sin for +us to admit another Slave State into the Union, why is it not a +damning sin to permit a Slave State to remain in the Union? Would it +not be the acme of effrontery for a man, in amicable alliance with +fifteen pickpockets, to profess scruples of conscience in regard to +admitting another pilfering <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</a></span>rogue to the fraternity? "Thou that +sayest, A man should not steal, dost thou steal," or consent, in any +instance, to stealing? "If the Lord be God, serve Him; but if Baal, +then serve him." The South may well laugh to scorn the affected moral +sensibility of the North against the extension of her slave system. It +is nothing, in the present relations of the States, but sentimental +hypocrisy. It has no stamina—no back-bone. The argument for +non-extension is an argument for the dissolution of the Union. With a +glow of moral indignation, I protest against the promise and the +pledge, by whomsoever made, that if the Slave Power will seek no more +to lengthen its cords and strengthen its stakes, it may go unmolested +end unchallenged, and survive as long as it can within its present +limits. I would as soon turn pirate on the high seas as to give my +consent to any such arrangement. I do not understand the moral code of +those who, screaming in agony at the thought of Nebraska becoming a +Slave Territory, virtually say to the South: "Only desist from your +present designs, and we will leave you to flog, and lacerate, and +plunder, and destroy the millions of hapless wretches already within +your grasp. If you will no longer agitate the subject, we will not." +There is no sense, no principle, no force in such an issue. Not a +solitary slaveholder will I allow to enjoy repose on any other +condition than instantly ceasing to be one. Not a single slave will I +leave in his chains, on any conditions, or under any circumstances. I +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</a></span>will not try to make as good a bargain for the Lord as the Devil will +let me, and plead the necessity of a compromise, and regret that I +cannot do any better, and be thankful that I can do so much. The +Scriptural injunction is to be obeyed: "Resist the devil, and he will +flee from you." My motto is, "No union with slaveholders, religiously +or politically." Their motto is "Slavery forever! No alliance with +Abolitionists, either in Church or State!" The issue is clear, +explicit, determinate. The parties understand each other, and are +drawn in battle array. They can never be reconciled—never walk +together—never consent to a truce—never deal in honeyed +phrases—never worship at the same altar—never acknowledge the same +God. Between them there is an impassable gulf. In manners, in morals, +in philosophy, in religion, in ideas of justice, in notions of law, in +theories of government, in valuations or men, they are totally +dissimilar.</p> + +<p>I would to God that we might be, what we have never been—a united +people; but God renders this possible only by "proclaiming liberty +throughout all the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof." By what +miracle can Freedom and Slavery be made amicably to strike hands? How +can they administer the same Government, or legislate for the same +interests? How can they receive the same baptism, be admitted to the +same communion-table, believe in the same Gospel, and obtain the same +heavenly inheritance? "I speak as unto wise men; judge ye." Certain +propositions have long since been <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</a></span>ceded to be plain, beyond +contradiction. The apostolic inquiry has been regarded as equally +admonitory and pertinent: "What concord hath Christ with Belial? or +what fellowship hath light with darkness?" Fire and gunpowder, oil and +water, cannot coalesce; but, assuredly, these are not more +antagonistical than are the elements of Freedom and Slavery. The +present American Union, therefore, is only one in form, not in +reality. It is, and it always has been, the absolute supremacy of the +Slave Power over the whole country—nothing more. What sectional +heart-burnings or conflictive interests exist between the several Free +States? None. They are homogeneous, animated by the same spirit, +harmonious in their action as the movement of the spheres. It is only +when we come to the dividing line between the Free States and the +Slave States that shoals, breakers and whirlpools beset the ship of +State, and threaten to engulf or strand it. Then the storm rages loud +and long, and the ocean of popular feeling is lashed into fury.</p> + +<p>While the present Union exists, I pronounce it hopeless to expect any +repose, or that any barrier can be effectually raised against the +extension of Slavery. With two thousand million dollars' worth of +property in human flesh in its hands, to be watched and wielded as one +vast interest for all the South—with forces never divided, and +purposes never conflictive—with a spurious, negro-hating religion +universally diffused, and everywhere ready to shield it from +harm—with a selfish, sordid, divided North, <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[31]</a></span>long since bereft of its +manhood, to cajole, bribe and intimidate—with its foot planted on +two-thirds of our vast national domains, and there unquestioned, +absolute and bloody in its sway—with the terrible strength and +boundless resources of the whole country at its command—it cannot be +otherwise than that the Slave Power will consummate its diabolical +purposes to the uttermost. The Northwest Territory, Nebraska, Mexico, +Cuba, Hayti, the Sandwich Islands, and colonial possessions in the +tropics—to seize and subjugate these to its accursed reign, and +ultimately to re-establish the foreign Slave Trade as a lawful +commerce, are among its settled designs. It is not a question of +probabilities, but of time. And whom will a just God hold responsible +for all these results? All who despise and persecute men on account of +their complexion; all who endorse a slaveholding religion as genuine; +all who give the right hand of Christian fellowship to men whose hands +are stained with the blood of the slave; all who regard material +prosperity as paramount to moral integrity, and the law of the land as +above the law of God; all who are either hostile or indifferent to the +Anti-Slavery movement; and all who advocate the necessity of making +compromises with the Slave Power, in order that the Union may receive +no detriment.</p> + +<p>In itself, Slavery has no resources and no strength. Isolated and +alone, it could not stand an hour; and, therefore, further aggression +and conquest would be impossible.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[32]</a></span>Says the Editor of the Marysville (Tenn.) <i>Intelligencer</i>, in an +article on the character and condition of the slave population:</p> + +<div class="block"><p>"We of the South are emphatically surrounded by dangerous +class of beings—degraded, stupid savages—who, if they could +but once entertain the idea that immediate and unconditional +death would not be their portion, would re-enact the St. +Domingo tragedy. But the consciousness, with all their +stupidity, that a ten-fold force, superior in discipline, if +not in barbarity, would gather from the four corners of the +United States and slaughter them, keeps them in subjection. +<i>But, to the non-slaveholding States, particularly, we are +indebted for a permanent safeguard against insurrection.</i> +Without their assistance, the while population of the South +would be too weak to quiet that insane desire for liberty +which is ever ready to act itself out with every rational +creature."</p></div> + +<p>In the debate in Congress on the resolution to censure John Quincy +Adams, for presenting a petition for the dissolution of the Union, Mr. +Underwood, of Kentucky, said:</p> + +<div class="block"><p>"They (the South) were the weaker portion, were in the +minority. <i>The North could do what they pleased with them</i>; +they could adopt their own measures. All he asked was, that +they would let the South know what those measures were. One +thing he knew well; that State, which he in part represented, +had perhaps a deeper interest in this subject than any other, +except Maryland and a small portion of Virginia. And why? +Because he knew that to dissolve the Union, and separate the +different States composing the confederacy, making the Ohio +River and the Mason and Dixon's line the boundary line, <i>he +knew as soon as that was done, Slavery was done</i> in Kentucky, +Maryland and a large portion of Virginia, and it would extend +to all the States South of this line. <i>The dissolution of the +Union was the dissolution of Slavery.</i> It has been the common +practice for Southern men to get up on this floor, and <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[33]</a></span>say, +'Touch this subject, and we will dissolve this Union as a +remedy.' <i>Their remedy was the destruction of the thing which +they wished to save</i>, and any sensible man could see it. If +the Union was dissolved into two parts, the slave would cross +the line, and then turn round and curse the master from the +other shore."</p></div> + +<p>The declaration of Mr. Underwood as to the entire dependence of the +slave masters on the citizens of the nominally Free States to guard +their plantations, and secure them against desertion, is substantially +confirmed by Thomas D. Arnold, of Tennessee, who, in a speech on the +name subject, assures us that they are equally dependent on the North +for <i>personal protection</i> against their slaves. In assigning his +reasons for adhering to the Union, Mr. Arnold makes use of the +following language:</p> + +<div class="block"><p>"The Free States had a majority of 44 in that House. Under the +new census, they would have 53. The cause of the slaveholding +States was getting weaker and weaker, and what were they to +do? He would ask his Southern friends what the South had to +rely on, if the Union were dissolved? Suppose the dissolution +could be peaceably effected (if that did not involve a +contradiction in terms), what had the South to depend upon? +<i>All the crowned heads were against her. A million of slaves +were ready to rise and strike for freedom at the first tap of +the drum.</i> If they were cut loose from their friends at the +North (friends that ought to be, and without them, the South +had no friends), <i>whither were they to look for protection</i>? +How were they to sustain an assault from England or France, +with the cancer at their vitals? The more the South reflected, +the more clearly she must see that she has a deep and vital +interest in maintaining the Union."</p></div> + +<p>These witnesses can neither be impeached nor ruled out of Court, and +their testimony is true. While, therefore, the Union is preserved, I +see no end <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[34]</a></span>to the extension or perpetuity of Chattel Slavery—no hope +for peaceful deliverance of the millions who are clanking their chains +on our blood-red soil. Yet I know that God reigns, and that the slave +system contains within itself the elements of destruction. But how +long it is to curse the earth, and desecrate his image, he alone +foresees. It is frightful to think of the capacity of a nation like +this to commit sin, before the measure of its iniquities be filled, +and the exterminating judgments of God overtake it. For what is left +us but "a fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation"? Or +is God but a phantom, and the Eternal Law but a figment of the +imagination? Has an everlasting divorce been effected between cause +and effect, and is it an absurd doctrine that, as a nation sows, so +shall it also reap? "Wherefore, hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful +men that rule this people: Because ye have said, We have made a +covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the +overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us; for +we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid +ourselves: Therefore, thus saith the Lord God, Judgment will I lay to +the line, and righteousness to the plummet; and the hail shall sweep +away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the +hiding-place: And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your +agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge +shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it."</p> + +<p>These are solemn times. It is not a struggle for <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[35]</a></span>national salvation; +for the nation, as such, seems doomed beyond recovery. The reason why +the South rules, and North falls prostrate in servile terror, is +simply this: With the South, the preservation of Slavery is paramount +to all other considerations—above party success, denominational +unity, pecuniary interest, legal integrity, and constitutional +obligation. With the North, the preservation of the Union is placed +above all other things—above honour, justice, freedom, integrity of +soul, the Decalogue and the Golden Rule—the Infinite God himself. All +these she is ready to discard for the Union. Her devotion to it is the +latest and the most terrible form of idolatry. She has given to the +Slave Power a <i>carte blanche</i>, to be filled as it may dictate—and if, +at any time, she grows restive under the yoke, and shrinks back aghast +at the new atrocity contemplated, it is only necessary for that Power +to crack the whip of Disunion over her head, as it has done again and +again, and she will cower and obey like a plantation slave—for has +she not sworn that she will sacrifice everything in heaven and on +earth, rather than the Union?</p> + +<p>What then is to be done? Friends of the slave, the question is not +whether by our efforts we can abolish Slavery, speedily or +remotely—for duty is ours, the result is with God; but whether we +will go with the multitude to do evil, sell our birthright for a mess +of pottage, cease to cry aloud and spare not, and remain in Babylon +when the command of God is, "Come out of her, my people, that ye be +not <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[36]</a></span>partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." +Let us stand in our lot, "and having done all, to stand." At least, a +remnant shall be saved. Living or dying, defeated or victorious, be it +ours to exclaim, "No compromise with Slavery! Liberty for each, for +all, forever! Man above all institutions! The supremacy of God over +the whole earth!"</p> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> + + +<div class="tr"> +<p class="cen"><a name="TN" id="TN"></a>Typographical errors corrected in text:</p> +<br /> +Page 7: Eurpean replaced with European<br /> +Page 9: justication replaced with justification<br /> +Page 26: appaling replaced with appalling<br /> +<br /> +<p class="noin">On page 16 there is a partially blocked word in the +scanned image. From the context it is very likely that the word is 'demand':</p> + + <p class="noin" style="margin-left: 5%; margin-right: 5%;">"I have not, at any time, advanced an ultra sentiment, + or made an extravagant ——nd. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: No Compromise with Slavery + An Address Delivered to the Broadway Tabernacle, New York + +Author: William Lloyd Garrison + +Release Date: January 7, 2008 [EBook #24194] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY *** + + + + +Produced by Jeannie Howse, Bryan Ness and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This +book was produced from scanned images of public domain +material from the Google Print project.) + + + + + + + + * * * * * + + +-----------------------------------------------------------+ + | Transcriber's Note: | + | | + | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For | + | a complete list, please see the end of this document. | + | | + +-----------------------------------------------------------+ + + * * * * * + + + + +No Compromise with Slavery. + +AN ADDRESS +DELIVERED +IN THE +BROADWAY TABERNACLE, NEW YORK, +FEBRUARY 14, 1854, +BY +WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON. + +NEW YORK: +AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY, +142 NASSAU STREET, +1854. + + + + +ADDRESS. + + +LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: An earnest espousal of the Anti-Slavery cause +for a quarter of a century, under circumstances which have served in a +special manner to identify my name and labours with it, will shield me +from the charge of egotism, in assuming to be its exponent--at least +for myself--on this occasion. All that I can compress within the +limits of a single lecture, by way of its elucidation, it shall be my +aim to accomplish. I will make a clean breast of it. You shall know +all that is in my heart pertaining to Slavery, its supporters, and +apologists. + +Of necessity, as well as of choice, I am a "Garrisonian" +Abolitionist--the most unpopular appellation that any man can have +applied to him, in the present state of public sentiment; yet, I am +more than confident, destined ultimately to be honourably regarded by +the wise and good. For though I have never assumed to be a +leader--have never sought conspicuity of position, or notoriety of +name--have desired to follow, if others, better qualified, would go +before, and to be lost sight of in the throng of Liberty's adherents, +as a drop is merged in the ocean; yet, as the appellation alluded to +is applied, not with any reference to myself invidiously, but to +excite prejudice against the noblest movement of the age, in order +that the most frightful system of oppression ever devised by human +ingenuity and wickedness may be left to grow and expand to the latest +generation--I accept it as the synonym of absolute trust in God, and +utter disregard of "that fear of man which bringeth a snare"--and so +deem it alike honourable and praiseworthy. + +Representing, then, that phase of Abolitionism which is the most +contemned--to the suppression of which, the means and forces of the +Church and the State are most actively directed--I am here to defend +it against all its assailants as the highest expediency, the soundest +philosophy, the noblest patriotism, the broadest philanthropy, and the +best religion extant. To denounce it as fanatical, disorganising, +reckless of consequences, bitter and irreverent in spirit, infidel in +heart, deaf alike to the suggestions of reason and the warnings of +history, is to call good evil, and evil good; to put darkness for +light, and light for darkness; to insist that Barabbas is better than +Jesus; to cover with infamy the memories of patriarchs and prophets, +apostles and martyrs; and to inaugurate Satan as the God of the +universe. If, like the sun, it is not wholly spotless, still, like the +sun, without it there is no light. If murky clouds obscure its +brightness, still it shines in its strength. If, at a seems to wane to +its final setting, it is only to reveal itself in the splendour of a +new ascension, unquenchable, glorious, sublime. + +Let me define my positions, and at the same time challenge any one to +show wherein they are untenable. + +I. I am a believer in that portion of the Declaration of American +Independence in which it is set forth, as among self-evident truths, +"that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their +Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, +liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Hence, I am an Abolitionist. +Hence, I cannot but regard oppression in every form--and most of all, +that which turns a man into a thing--with indignation and abhorrence. +Not to cherish these feelings would be recreancy to principle. They +who desire me to be dumb on the subject of Slavery, unless I will open +my mouth in its defence, ask me to give the lie to my professions, to +degrade my manhood, and to stain my soul. I will not be a liar, a +poltroon, or a hypocrite, to accommodate any party, to gratify any +sect, to escape any odium or peril, to save any interest, to preserve +any institution, or to promote any object. Convince me that one man +may rightfully make another man his slave, and I will no longer +subscribe to the Declaration of Independence. Convince me that liberty +is not the inalienable birthright of every human being, of whatever +complexion or clime, and I will give that instrument to the consuming +fire. I do not know how to espouse freedom and slavery together. I do +not know how to worship God and Mammon at the same time. If other men +choose to go upon all-fours, I choose to stand erect, as God designed +every man to stand. If, practically falsifying its heaven-attested +principles, this nation denounces me for refusing to imitate its +example, then, adhering all the more tenaciously to those principles, +I will not cease to rebuke it for its guilty inconsistency. +Numerically, the contest may be an unequal one, for the time being; +but the Author of liberty and the Source of justice, the adorable God, +is more than multitudinous, and he will defend the right. My crime is, +that I will not go with the multitude to do evil. My singularity is, +that when I say that Freedom is of God, and Slavery is of the devil, I +mean just what I say. My fanaticism is, that I insist on the American +people abolishing Slavery, or ceasing to prate of the rights of man. +My hardihood is, in measuring them by their own standard, and +convicting them out of their own mouths. + + "Woe to the rebellions children, saith the Lord, that take + counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but + not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin. + + That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my + mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, + and to trust in the shadow of Egypt! + + Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the + enact in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. + + Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a + book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: + + That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children + that will not hear the law of the Lord. + + Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy + not unto us right things; speak unto us smooth things; + prophesy deceits; get you out of the way, turn aside out of + the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before + us. + + Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel: Because ye + despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, + and stay thereon: + + Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to + fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh + suddenly, at an instant." + +II. Notwithstanding the lessons taught us by Pilgrim Fathers and +Revolutionary Sires, at Plymouth Rock, on Bunker Hill, at Lexington, +Concord and Yorktown; notwithstanding our Fourth of July celebrations, +and ostentatious displays of patriotism; in what European nation is +personal liberty hold in such contempt as in our own? Where are there +such unbelievers in the natural equality and freedom of mankind? Our +slaves outnumber the entire population of the country at the time of +our revolutionary struggle. In vain do they clank their chains, and +fill the air with their shrieks, and make their supplications for +mercy. In vain are their sufferings portrayed, their wrongs rehearsed, +their rights defended. As Nero fiddled while Rome was burning, so the +slaveholding spirit of this nation rejoices, as one barrier of liberty +after another is destroyed, and fresh victims are multiplied for the +cotton-field and the auction-block. For one impeachment of the slave +system, a thousand defences are made. For one rebuke of the +man-stealer, a thousand denunciations of the Abolitionists are heard. +For one press that bears a faithful testimony against Slavery, a score +are ready to be prostituted to its service. For one pulpit that is not +"recreant to its trust," there are ten that openly defend slaveholding +as compatible with Christianity, and scores that are dumb. For one +church that excludes the human enslaver from its communion table, +multitudes extend to him the right hand of religious fellowship. The +wealth, the enterprise, the literature, the politics, the religion of +the land, are all combined to give extension and perpetuity to the +Slave Power. Everywhere to do homage to it, to avoid collision with +it, to propitiate its favour, is deemed essential--nay, _is_ essential +to political preferment and ecclesiastical advancement. Nothing is so +unpopular as impartial liberty. The two great parties which absorb +nearly the whole voting strength of the Republic are pledged to be +deaf, dumb and blind to whatever outrages the Slave Power may attempt +to perpetrate. Cotton is in their ears--blinds are over their +eyes--padlocks are upon their lips. They are as clay in the hands of +the potter, and already moulded into vessels of dishonour, to be used +for the vilest purposes. The tremendous power of the Government is +actively wielded to "crush out" the little Anti-Slavery life that +remains in individual hearts, and to open new and boundless domains +for the expansion of the Slave system. No man known or suspected to be +hostile to "the Compromise Measures, including the Fugitive Slave +Law," is allowed to hope for any office under the present +Administration. The ship of State is labouring in the trough of the +sea--her engine powerless, her bulwarks swept away, her masts gone, +her lifeboats destroyed, her pumps choked, and the leak gaining +rapidly upon her; and as wave after wave dashes over her, all that +might otherwise serve to keep her afloat is swallowed by the +remorseless deep. God of heaven! if the ship is destined to go down +"full many a fathom deep," is every soul on board to perish? Ho! a +sail! a sail! The weather-beaten, but staunch ship Abolition, +commanded by the Genius of Liberty, is bearing toward the wreck, with +the cheering motto, inscribed in legible capitals, "WE WILL NOT +FORSAKE YOU!" Let us hope, even against hope, that rescue is not +wholly impossible. + +To drop what is figurative for the actual. I have expressed the belief +that, so lost to all self-respect and all ideas of justice have we +become by the corrupting presence of Slavery, in no European nation is +personal liberty held at such discount, as a matter of principle, as +in our own. See how clearly this is demonstrated. The reasons adduced +among us in justification of slaveholding, and therefore against +personal liberty, are multitudinous. I will enumerate only a dozen of +these: 1. "The victims are black." 2. "The slaves belong to an +inferior race." 3. "Many of them have been fairly purchased." 4. +"Others have been honestly inherited." 5. "Their emancipation would +impoverish their owners." 6. "They are better off as slaves then they +would be as freemen." 7. "They could not take care of themselves if +set free." 8. "Their simultaneous liberation would be attended with +great danger." 9. "Any interference in their behalf will excite the +ill-will of the South, and thus seriously affect Northern trade and +commerce." 10. "The Union can be preserved only by letting Slavery +alone, and that is of paramount importance." 11. "Slavery is a lawful +and constitutional system, and therefore not a crime." 12. "Slavery is +sanctioned by the Bible; the Bible is the word of God; therefore God +sanctions Slavery, and the Abolitionists are wise above what is +written." + +Here, then, are twelve reasons which are popularly urged in all parts +of the country, as conclusive against the right of a man to himself. +If they are valid, in any instance, what becomes of the Declaration of +Independence? On what ground can the revolutionary war, can any +struggle for liberty, be justified? Nay, cannot all the despotisms of +the earth take shelter under them? If they are valid, then why is not +the jesuitical doctrine, that the end sanctifies them, and that it is +right to do evil that good may come, morally sound? If they are valid, +then how does it appear that God is no respecter of persons? or how +can he say, "All souls are mine"? or what is to be done with Christ's +injunction, "Call no man master"? or with what justice can the same +duties and the same obligations (such as are embodied in the Decalogue +and the gospel of Christ) be exacted of chattels as of men? But they +are not valid. They are the logic of Bedlam, the morality of the +pirate ship, the diabolism of the pit. They insult the common sense +and shock the moral nature of mankind. Take them to Europe, and see +with what scorn they will be universally treated! Go, first, to +England, and gravely propound them there; and the universal response +will proudly be, in the thrilling lines of Cowper, + + "Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs + Inhale our air, that moment they are free! + They touch our country, and their shackles fall!" + +Every Briton, indignant at the monstrous claim, will answer, in the +emphatic words of Brougham: "Tell me not of rights; talk not of the +property of the planter in his slaves! I deny the right--I acknowledge +not the property! The principles, the feelings of our nature, rise in +rebellion against it. Be the appeal made to the understanding or to +the heart, the sentence is the same that rejects it." And Curran, in +words of burning eloquence, shall reply: "I speak in the spirit of the +British law, which makes liberty commensurate with, and inseparable +from, the British soil--which proclaims, even to the stranger and the +sojourner, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated +by the genius of universal emancipation. No matter in what language +his doom may have been pronounced; no matter what complexion an Indian +or an African sun may have burnt upon him; no matter in what +disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down; no matter +with what solemnities he may have been offered upon the altar of +Slavery; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the +altar and the god sink together in the dust--his spirit walks abroad +in its own majesty--his body swells beyond the measure of his chains, +and he stands redeemed, regenerated and disenthralled, by the +irresistible genius of universal emancipation." + +Again--take these slaveholding pleas to Scotland and from the graves +of the dead and the homes of the living, they shall be replied to in +thunder-tones in the language of Burns: "A man's a man, for all that." + + "Who would be a traitor knave? + Who would fill a coward's grave? + Who so base as be a slave? + Let him turn and flee!" + +Pass over to Ireland, and there repeat those excuses for Slavery, and +eight million voices shall reply, in the words of Thomas Moore: + + "To think that man, thou just and loving God! + Should stand before thee with a tyrant's rod, + O'er creatures like himself, with souls from Thee, + Yet dare to boast of perfect liberty! + Away! away! I'd rather hold my neck + By doubtful tenure from a Sultan's beck, + In climes where liberty has scarce been nam'd, + Nor any right but that of ruling claim'd, + Than thus to live where boasted Freedom waves + Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves!" + +And the testimony of O'Connell, in behalf of all Ireland, shall pass +from mouth to mouth: "I am an Abolitionist. I am for speedy, immediate +Abolition. I care not what caste, creed or colour, Slavery may assume. +Whether it be personal or political, mental or corporeal, intellectual +or spiritual, I am for its instant, its total Abolition. I am for +justice, in the name of humanity, and according to the law of the +living God." "Let none of the slave-owners, dealers in human flesh, +dare to set a foot upon our free soil!" "We are all children of the +same Creator, heirs of the same promise, purchased by the blood of the +same Redeemer--and what signifies of what caste colour or creed we may +be? It is our duty to proclaim that the cause of the negro is our +cause, and that we will insist upon doing away, to the best of our +human ability, the stain of Slavery, not only from every portion of +this mighty empire, but from the whole face of the earth." "Let the +American Abolitionists be honoured in proportion as the slaveholders +are execrated." + +Pass over to the Continent, even into Papal-ridden Italy, and there +urge the popular pleas in defence of slaveholding, and, from the +Vatican, Pope Gregory XVI. shall reply: "We urgently invoke, in the +name of God, all Christians, of whatever condition, that none +henceforth dare to subject to Slavery, unjustly persecute, or despoil +of their goods, Indians, Negroes, or other classes of men, or to be +accessories to others, or furnish them aid or assistance in so doing; +and on no account henceforth to exercise that inhuman traffic, by +which Negroes are reduced to Slavery, as if they were not men, but +automata or chattels, and are sold in defiance of all the laws of +justice and humanity, and devoted to severe and intolerable labours." + +Proceed to Austria, and there defend the practice of reducing men to +Slavery, and the Austrian code shall proclaim: "Every man, by right of +nature, sanctioned by reason, must be considered a free person. Every +slave becomes free from the moment he touches the Austrian soil, or an +Austrian ship." + +Finally, enter the Tunisian dominions, and there urge the claim of +property in man, and Musheer Ahmed Bashaw Bey shall reply: "We declare +that all slaves that shall enter our kingdom, by land or by sea, +shall be free; and further order, that every one born a slave in our +dominions shall be considered as free from the very instant of his +birth, and that he shall neither be sold nor bought." + +Thus do I prove that, in regard to personal liberty--the right of +every man to the ownership of his own body--even Italy, Austria and +Tunis are in advance of this boasted Republic, and put it to open +shame! + +III. The Abolitionism which I advocate is as absolute as the law of +God, and as unyielding as His throne. It admits of no compromise. +Every slave is a stolen man; every slaveholder is a man-stealer. By no +precedent, no example, no law, no compact, no purchase, no bequest, no +inheritance, no combination of circumstances, is slaveholding right or +justifiable. While a slave remains in his fetters, the land must have +no rest. Whatever sanctions his doom must be pronounced accursed. The +law that makes him a chattel is to be trampled under foot; the compact +that is formed at his expense, and cemented with his blood, is null +and void; the church that consents to his enslavement is horribly +atheistical; the religion that receives to its communion the enslaver +is the embodiment of all criminality. Such, at least, is the verdict +of my own soul, on the supposition that I am to be the slave; that my +wife is to be sold from me for the vilest purposes; that my children +are to be torn from my arms, and disposed of to the highest bidder, +like sheep in the market. And who am I but a man? What right have I +to be free, that another man cannot prove himself to possess by +nature? Who or what are my wife and children, that they should not be +herded with four-footed beasts, as well as others thus sacredly +related? If I am white, and another is black, complexionally, what +follows? + + "Does, then, th' immortal principle within + Change with the casual colour of the skin? + Does matter govern spirit? or is mind + Degraded by the form to which 'tis joined?" + +What if I am rich, and another is poor--strong, and he is +weak--intelligent, and he is benighted--elevated, and he is depraved? +"Have we not one Father? Hath not one God created us?" + + "How rich, how poor, how abject, how august, + How complicate, how wonderful is man! + Distinguished link in being's endless chain, + Midway from nothing to the Deity! + A beam ethereal, sullied and absorpt; + Though sullied and dishonoured, still divine!" + +Such is man, in every clime--above all compacts, greater than all +institutions, sacred against every outrage, priceless, immortal! + +By this sure test, every institution, every party, every form of +government, every kind of religion, is to be tried. God never made a +human being either for destruction or degradation. It is plain, +therefore, that whatever cannot flourish except at the sacrifice of +that being, ought not to exist. Show me the party that can obtain +supremacy only by trampling upon human individuality and personal +sovereignty, and you will thereby pronounce sentence of death upon it. +Show me the government which can be maintained only by destroying the +rights of a portion of the people; and you will indicate the duty of +openly revolting against it. Show me the religion which sanctions the +ownership of one man by another, and you will demonstrate it to be +purely infernal in its origin and spirit. + +No man is to be injured in his person, mind, or estate. He cannot be, +with benefit to any other man, or to any state of society. Whoever +would sacrifice him for any purpose is both morally and politically +insane. Every man is equivalent to every other man. Destroy the +equivalent, and what is left? "So God created man in his own +image--male and female created he them." This is a death-blow to all +claims of superiority, to all charges of inferiority, to all +usurpation, to all oppressive dominion. + +But all three declarations are truisms. Most certainly; and they are +all that is stigmatized as "Garrisonian Abolitionism." I have not, at +any time, advanced an ultra sentiment, or made an extravagant demand. +I have avoided fanaticism on the one hand, fully on the other. No man +can show that I have taken one step beyond the line of justice, or +forgotten the welfare of the master in my anxiety to free the slave. +Why, citizens of the Empire State, did you proclaim liberty to all in +bondage on your soil, in 1827, and forevermore? Certainly, not on the +ground of expediency, but of principle. Why do you make slaveholding +unlawful among yourselves? Why is it not as easy to buy, breed, +inherit, and make slaves in this State, compatible with benevolence, +justice, and right, as it is in Carolina or Georgia? Why do you +compel the unmasked refugee from Van Dieman's Land to sigh for "a +plantation well stocked with healthy negroes in Alabama," and not +allow him the right to own and flog slaves in your presence? If +slaveholding is not wrong under all circumstances, why have you +decreed it to be so, within the limits of your State jurisdiction? +Nay, why do you have a judiciary, a legislative assembly, a civil +code, the ballot box, but to preserve your rights as one man? On what +other ground, except that you are men, do you claim a right to +personal freedom, to the ties of kindred, to the means of improvement, +to constant development, to labour when and for whom you choose, to +make your own contracts, to read and speak and print as you please, to +remain at home or travel abroad, to exercise the elective franchise, +to make your own rulers? What you demand for yourselves, in virtue of +your manhood, I demand for the enslaved at the South, on the same +ground. How is it that I am a madman, and you are perfectly rational? +Wherein is my ultraism apparent? If the slaves are not men; if they do +not possess human instincts, passions, faculties and powers; if they +are below accountability, and devoid of reason; if for them there is +no hope of immortality, no God, no heaven, no hell; if, in short, they +are, what the Slave Code declares them to be, rightly "deemed, sold, +taken, reputed and adjudged in law to be chattels personal in the +hands of their owners and possessors, and their executors, +administrators and assigns, to all intents, constructions, and +purposes whatsoever;" then, undeniably, I am mad, and can no longer +discriminate between a man and a beast. But, in that case, away with +the horrible incongruity of giving them oral instruction, of teaching +them the catechism, of recognising them as suitably qualified to be +members of Christian churches, of extending to them the ordinance of +baptism, and admitting them to the communion table, and enumerating +many of them as belonging to the household of faith! Let them be no +more included in our religious sympathies or denominational statistics +than are the dogs in our streets, the swine in our pens, or the +utensils in our dwellings. It is right to own, to buy, to sell, to +inherit, to breed, and to control them, in the most absolute sense. +All constitutions and laws which forbid their possession ought to be +so far modified or repealed as to concede the right. + +But, if they are men; if they are to run the same career of +immortality with ourselves; if the same law of God is over them as +over all others; if they have souls to be saved or lost; if Jesus +included them among those for whom he laid down his life; if Christ is +within many of them "the hope of glory;" then, when I claim for them +all that we claim for ourselves, because we are created in the image +of God, I am guilty of no extravagance, but am bound, by every +principle of honour, by all the claims of human nature, by obedience +to Almighty God, to "remember them that are in bonds as bound with +them," and to demand their immediate and unconditional emancipation. + +I am "ultra" and "fanatical," forsooth! In what direction, or +affecting what parties? What have I urged should be done to the +slaveholders? Their punishment as felons of the deepest dye? No. I +have simply enunciated in their ear the divine command, "Loose the +bands of wickedness, undo the heavy burdens, break every yoke, and let +the oppressed go free," accompanying it with the cheering promises, +"Then shall thy light rise obscurity, and thy darkness be as the +noon-day. And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy +soul in drought, and make fat thy bones; and thou shalt be like a +watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters fail not. And +they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places; thou +shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be +called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell +in." Yet, if I had affirmed that they ought to meet the doom of +pirates, I should have been no more personal, no more merciless, than +is the law of Congress, making it a piratical act to enslave a native +African, under whatever pretence or circumstances; for in the eye of +reason, and by the standard of eternal justice, it is as great a crime +to enslave one born on our own soil, as on the coast of Africa; and +as, in the latter case, neither the plea of having fairly purchased or +inherited him, nor the pretence of seeking his temporal and eternal +good, by bringing him to a civilized and Christian country, would be +regarded as of any weight, so, none of the excuses offered for +slaveholding in this country are worthy of the least consideration. +The act, in both cases, is essentially the same--equally inhuman, +immoral, piratical. Oppression is not a matter of latitude or +longitude; here excusable, there to be execrated; here to elevate the +oppressor to the highest station, there to hang him by the neck till +he is dead; here compatible with Christianity, there to be branded and +punished as piracy. "He that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he +be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." So reads the +Mosaic code, and by it every American Slaveholder is convicted of a +capital crime. By the Declaration of Independence, he is pronounced a +man-stealer. As for myself, I have simply exposed his guilt, besought +him to repent, and to "go and sin no more." + +What extravagant claim have I made in behalf of the slaves? Will it be +replied, "Their immediate liberation!" Then God, by his prophet, is +guilty of extravagance! Then Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the +Declaration of Independence, and all who signed that instrument, and +all who joined in the Revolutionary struggle, were deceivers in +asserting it to be a self-evident truth, that all men are endowed by +their Creator with an inalienable right to liberty! The issue is not +with me, but with them, and with God. What! is it going too far to +ask, for those who have been outraged and plundered all their lives +long, nothing but houseless, penniless, naked freedom! No compensation +whatever for their past unrequited toil; no redress for their +multitudinous wrongs; no settlement for sundered ties, bleeding +backs, countless lacerations, darkened intellects, ruined souls! The +truth is, complete justice has never been asked for the enslaved. + +How has the slave system grown to its present enormous dimensions? +Through compromise. How is it to be exterminated? Only by an +uncompromising spirit. This is to be carried out in all the relations +of life--social, political, religious. Put not on the list of your +friends, nor allow admission to your domestic circle, the man who on +principle defends Slavery, but treat him as a moral leper. "If an +American addresses you," said Daniel O'Connell to his countrymen, +"find out at once if he be a slaveholder. He may have business with +you, and the less you do with him the better; but the moment that is +over, turn from him as if he had the cholera or the plague--for there +is a moral cholera and a political plague upon him. He belongs not to +your country or your clime--he is not within the pale of civilization +or Christianity." On another occasion he said: "An American gentleman +waited upon me this morning, and I asked him with some anxiety, 'What +part of America do you come from?' 'I came from Boston.' Do me the +honour to shake hands; you came from a State that has never been +tarnished with Slavery--a State to which our ancestors fled from the +tyranny of England--and the worst of all tyrannies, the attempt to +interfere between man and his God--a tyranny that I have in principle +helped to put down in this country, and wish to put down in every +country upon the face of the globe. It is odious and insolent to +interfere between a man and his God; to fetter with law the choice +which the conscience makes of its mode of adoring the eternal and +adorable God. I cannot talk of toleration, because it supposes that a +boon has been given to a human being, in allowing him to have his +conscience free. It was in that struggle, I said, that your fathers +left England; and I rejoice to see an American from Boston; but I +should be sorry to be contaminated by the touch of a man from those +States where Slavery is continued. 'Oh,' said he, 'you are alluding to +Slavery though I am no advocate for it, yet, if you will allow me, I +will discuss that question with you.' I replied, that if a man should +propose to me a discussion on the propriety of picking pockets, I +would turn him out of my study, for fear he should carry his theory +into practice. 'And meaning you no sort of offence; I added, 'which I +cannot mean to a gentleman who does me the honour of paying me a civil +visit, I would as soon discuss the one question with you as the other. +The one is a paltry theft. + + 'He that steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; + 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands'-- + +but he who thinks he can vindicate the possession of one human being +by another--the sale of soul and body--the separation of father and +mother--the taking of the mother from the infant at her breast, and +selling the one to one master, and the other to another--is a man whom +I will not answer with words--nor with blows, for the time for the +latter has not yet come.'" + +If such a spirit of manly indignation and unbending integrity pervaded +the Northern breast, how long could Slavery stand before it? But where +is it to be found? Alas! the man whose hands are red with blood is +honoured and caressed in proportion to the number of his victims; +while "he who departs from evil makes himself a prey." This is true, +universally, in our land. Why should not the Slave Power make colossal +strides over the continent? "There is no North." A sordid, truckling, +cowardly, compromising spirit, is everywhere seen. No insult or +outrage, no deed of impiety or blood, on the part of the South, can +startle us into resistance, or inspire us with self-respect. We see +our free coloured citizens incarcerated in Southern prisons, or sold +on the auction-block, for no other crime than that of being found on +Southern soil; and we dare not call for redress. Our commerce with the +South is bound with the shackles of the plantation--"Free-Trade and +Sailors'-Rights" are every day violated in Southern ports; and we +tamely submit to it as the slave does to the lash. Our natural, +God-given right of free speech, though constitutionally recognised as +sacred in every part of the country, can be exercised in the +slaveholding States only at the peril of our lives. Slavery cannot +bear one ray of light, or the slightest criticism. "The character of +Slavery," says Gov. Swain, of North Carolina, "is not to be +discussed"--meaning at the South. But he goes beyond this, and adds, +"We have an indubitable right to demand of the Free States to suppress +such discussion, totally and promptly." Gov. Tazewell, of Virginia, +makes the same declaration. Gov. Lumpkin, of Georgia, says: "The +weapons of reason and argument are insufficient to put down +discussion; we can therefore hear no argument upon the subject, for +our opinions are unalterably fixed." And he adds, that the Slave +States "will provide for their own protection, and those who speak +against Slavery will do well to keep out of their bounds, or they will +punish them." The Charleston _Courier_ declares, "The gallows and the +stake (_i.e._ burning alive and hanging) await the Abolitionists who +shall dare to appear in person among us." The Colombia _Telescope_ +says: "Let us declare through the public journals of our country, that +the question of Slavery is not and shall not be open to discussion; +that the system is too deep-rooted among us, and must remain forever; +that the very moment any private individual attempts to lecture us +upon its evils and immorality, and the necessity of putting means in +operation to secure us from them, in the same moment his tongue shall +be cut out and cast upon the dunghill." The Missouri _Argus_ says: +"Abolition editors in slave States will not dare to avow their +opinions. It would be instant death to them." Finally, the New Orleans +_True American_ says: "We can assure those, one and all, who have +embarked in the nefarious scheme of abolishing Slavery at the South, +that lashes will hereafter be spared the backs of their emissaries. +Let them send out their men to Louisiana; they will never return to +tell their suffering, but they shall expiate the crime of interfering +in our domestic institutions, by being burned at the stake." And +Northern men cower at this, and consent to have their lips padlocked, +and to be robbed of their constitutional right, aye, and their natural +right, while travelling Southward; while the lordly slaveholder +traverses the length and breadth of the Free States, with open mouth +and impious tongue, cursing freedom and its advocates with impunity, +and choosing Plymouth Rock, and the celebration of the landing of the +Pilgrims upon it, as the place and the occasion specially fitting to +eulogize Slavery and the Fugitive Slave Bill! + + "Now, by our fathers' ashes! where's the spirit + Of the true-hearted and th' unshackled gone? + Sons of old freemen! do we but inherit + Their _names_ alone? + + "Is the old Pilgrim spirit quenched within us, + Stoops the proud manhood of our souls so low, + That Passion's wile or Party's lure can win us + To silence now?" + +Whatever may be the guilt of the South, the North is still more +responsible for the existence, growth and extension of Slavery. In her +hand has been the destiny of the Republic from the beginning. She +could have emancipated every slave, long ere this, had she been +upright in heart and free in spirit. She has given respectability, +security, and the means of sustenance and attack to her deadliest foe. +She has educated the whole country, and particularly the Southern +portion of it, secularly, theologically religiously; and the result +is, three millions and a half of slaves, increasing at the appalling +rate of one hundred thousand a year, three hundred a day, and one +every five minutes--the utter corruption of public sentiment, and +general skepticism as to the rights of man--the inauguration of Mammon +in the place of the living God--the loss of all self-respect, all +manhood, all sense of shame, all regard for justice--the Book styled +holy, and claimed to be divinely inspired, everywhere expounded and +enforced in extenuation or defence of slaveholding, and against the +Anti-Slavery movement--colour-phobia infecting the life-blood of the +people--political profligacy unparalleled--the religious and the +secular press generally hostile to Abolitionism as either infidel or +anarchical in its spirit and purpose--the great mass of the churches +with as little vitality as a grave-yard--the pulpits, with rare +exceptions, filled with men as careful to consult the popular will as +though there were no higher law--synods, presbyteries, general +conferences, general assemblies, buttressing the slave power--the +Government openly pro-slavery, and the National District the +head-quarters of slave speculators--fifteen Slave States--and now, the +repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and the consecration of five +hundred thousand square miles of free territory forever to the service +of the Slave Power! + +And what does all this demonstrate? That the sin of this nation is not +geographical--is not specially Southern--but deep-seated and +universal. "The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint." We +are "full of wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores." It proves, +too, the folly of all plasters and palliatives. Some men are still +talking of preventing the spread of the cancer, but leaving it just +where it is. They admit that, constitutionally, it has now a right to +ravage two-thirds of the body politic--but they protest against its +extension. This in moral quackery. Even some, whose zeal in the +Anti-Slavery cause is fervent, are so infatuated as to propose no +other remedy for Slavery but its non-extension. Give it no more room, +they say, and it may be safely left to its fate. Yes, but who shall +"bell the cat?" Besides, with fifteen Slave States, and more than +three millions of Slaves, how can we make any moral issue with the +Slave Power against its further extension? Why should there not be +twenty, thirty, fifty Slave States, as well as fifteen? Why should not +the star-spangled banner wave over ten, as well as over three millions +of Slaves? Why should not Nebraska be cultivated by Slave labour, as +well as Florida or Texas? If men, under the American Constitution, may +hold slaves at discretion and without dishonour in one-half of the +country, why not in the whole of it? If it would be a damning sin for +us to admit another Slave State into the Union, why is it not a +damning sin to permit a Slave State to remain in the Union? Would it +not be the acme of effrontery for a man, in amicable alliance with +fifteen pickpockets, to profess scruples of conscience in regard to +admitting another pilfering rogue to the fraternity? "Thou that +sayest, A man should not steal, dost thou steal," or consent, in any +instance, to stealing? "If the Lord be God, serve Him; but if Baal, +then serve him." The South may well laugh to scorn the affected moral +sensibility of the North against the extension of her slave system. It +is nothing, in the present relations of the States, but sentimental +hypocrisy. It has no stamina--no back-bone. The argument for +non-extension is an argument for the dissolution of the Union. With a +glow of moral indignation, I protest against the promise and the +pledge, by whomsoever made, that if the Slave Power will seek no more +to lengthen its cords and strengthen its stakes, it may go unmolested +end unchallenged, and survive as long as it can within its present +limits. I would as soon turn pirate on the high seas as to give my +consent to any such arrangement. I do not understand the moral code of +those who, screaming in agony at the thought of Nebraska becoming a +Slave Territory, virtually say to the South: "Only desist from your +present designs, and we will leave you to flog, and lacerate, and +plunder, and destroy the millions of hapless wretches already within +your grasp. If you will no longer agitate the subject, we will not." +There is no sense, no principle, no force in such an issue. Not a +solitary slaveholder will I allow to enjoy repose on any other +condition than instantly ceasing to be one. Not a single slave will I +leave in his chains, on any conditions, or under any circumstances. I +will not try to make as good a bargain for the Lord as the Devil will +let me, and plead the necessity of a compromise, and regret that I +cannot do any better, and be thankful that I can do so much. The +Scriptural injunction is to be obeyed: "Resist the devil, and he will +flee from you." My motto is, "No union with slaveholders, religiously +or politically." Their motto is "Slavery forever! No alliance with +Abolitionists, either in Church or State!" The issue is clear, +explicit, determinate. The parties understand each other, and are +drawn in battle array. They can never be reconciled--never walk +together--never consent to a truce--never deal in honeyed +phrases--never worship at the same altar--never acknowledge the same +God. Between them there is an impassable gulf. In manners, in morals, +in philosophy, in religion, in ideas of justice, in notions of law, in +theories of government, in valuations or men, they are totally +dissimilar. + +I would to God that we might be, what we have never been--a united +people; but God renders this possible only by "proclaiming liberty +throughout all the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof." By what +miracle can Freedom and Slavery be made amicably to strike hands? How +can they administer the same Government, or legislate for the same +interests? How can they receive the same baptism, be admitted to the +same communion-table, believe in the same Gospel, and obtain the same +heavenly inheritance? "I speak as unto wise men; judge ye." Certain +propositions have long since been ceded to be plain, beyond +contradiction. The apostolic inquiry has been regarded as equally +admonitory and pertinent: "What concord hath Christ with Belial? or +what fellowship hath light with darkness?" Fire and gunpowder, oil and +water, cannot coalesce; but, assuredly, these are not more +antagonistical than are the elements of Freedom and Slavery. The +present American Union, therefore, is only one in form, not in +reality. It is, and it always has been, the absolute supremacy of the +Slave Power over the whole country--nothing more. What sectional +heart-burnings or conflictive interests exist between the several Free +States? None. They are homogeneous, animated by the same spirit, +harmonious in their action as the movement of the spheres. It is only +when we come to the dividing line between the Free States and the +Slave States that shoals, breakers and whirlpools beset the ship of +State, and threaten to engulf or strand it. Then the storm rages loud +and long, and the ocean of popular feeling is lashed into fury. + +While the present Union exists, I pronounce it hopeless to expect any +repose, or that any barrier can be effectually raised against the +extension of Slavery. With two thousand million dollars' worth of +property in human flesh in its hands, to be watched and wielded as one +vast interest for all the South--with forces never divided, and +purposes never conflictive--with a spurious, negro-hating religion +universally diffused, and everywhere ready to shield it from +harm--with a selfish, sordid, divided North, long since bereft of its +manhood, to cajole, bribe and intimidate--with its foot planted on +two-thirds of our vast national domains, and there unquestioned, +absolute and bloody in its sway--with the terrible strength and +boundless resources of the whole country at its command--it cannot be +otherwise than that the Slave Power will consummate its diabolical +purposes to the uttermost. The Northwest Territory, Nebraska, Mexico, +Cuba, Hayti, the Sandwich Islands, and colonial possessions in the +tropics--to seize and subjugate these to its accursed reign, and +ultimately to re-establish the foreign Slave Trade as a lawful +commerce, are among its settled designs. It is not a question of +probabilities, but of time. And whom will a just God hold responsible +for all these results? All who despise and persecute men on account of +their complexion; all who endorse a slaveholding religion as genuine; +all who give the right hand of Christian fellowship to men whose hands +are stained with the blood of the slave; all who regard material +prosperity as paramount to moral integrity, and the law of the land as +above the law of God; all who are either hostile or indifferent to the +Anti-Slavery movement; and all who advocate the necessity of making +compromises with the Slave Power, in order that the Union may receive +no detriment. + +In itself, Slavery has no resources and no strength. Isolated and +alone, it could not stand an hour; and, therefore, further aggression +and conquest would be impossible. + +Says the Editor of the Marysville (Tenn.) _Intelligencer_, in an +article on the character and condition of the slave population: + + "We of the South are emphatically surrounded by dangerous + class of beings--degraded, stupid savages--who, if they could + but once entertain the idea that immediate and unconditional + death would not be their portion, would re-enact the St. + Domingo tragedy. But the consciousness, with all their + stupidity, that a ten-fold force, superior in discipline, if + not in barbarity, would gather from the four corners of the + United States and slaughter them, keeps them in subjection. + _But, to the non-slaveholding States, particularly, we are + indebted for a permanent safeguard against insurrection._ + Without their assistance, the while population of the South + would be too weak to quiet that insane desire for liberty + which is ever ready to act itself out with every rational + creature." + +In the debate in Congress on the resolution to censure John Quincy +Adams, for presenting a petition for the dissolution of the Union, Mr. +Underwood, of Kentucky, said: + + "They (the South) were the weaker portion, were in the + minority. _The North could do what they pleased with them_; + they could adopt their own measures. All he asked was, that + they would let the South know what those measures were. One + thing he knew well; that State, which he in part represented, + had perhaps a deeper interest in this subject than any other, + except Maryland and a small portion of Virginia. And why? + Because he knew that to dissolve the Union, and separate the + different States composing the confederacy, making the Ohio + River and the Mason and Dixon's line the boundary line, _he + knew as soon as that was done, Slavery was done_ in Kentucky, + Maryland and a large portion of Virginia, and it would extend + to all the States South of this line. _The dissolution of the + Union was the dissolution of Slavery._ It has been the common + practice for Southern men to get up on this floor, and say, + 'Touch this subject, and we will dissolve this Union as a + remedy.' _Their remedy was the destruction of the thing which + they wished to save_, and any sensible man could see it. If + the Union was dissolved into two parts, the slave would cross + the line, and then turn round and curse the master from the + other shore." + +The declaration of Mr. Underwood as to the entire dependence of the +slave masters on the citizens of the nominally Free States to guard +their plantations, and secure them against desertion, is substantially +confirmed by Thomas D. Arnold, of Tennessee, who, in a speech on the +name subject, assures us that they are equally dependent on the North +for _personal protection_ against their slaves. In assigning his +reasons for adhering to the Union, Mr. Arnold makes use of the +following language: + + "The Free States had a majority of 44 in that House. Under the + new census, they would have 53. The cause of the slaveholding + States was getting weaker and weaker, and what were they to + do? He would ask his Southern friends what the South had to + rely on, if the Union were dissolved? Suppose the dissolution + could be peaceably effected (if that did not involve a + contradiction in terms), what had the South to depend upon? + _All the crowned heads were against her. A million of slaves + were ready to rise and strike for freedom at the first tap of + the drum._ If they were cut loose from their friends at the + North (friends that ought to be, and without them, the South + had no friends), _whither were they to look for protection_? + How were they to sustain an assault from England or France, + with the cancer at their vitals? The more the South reflected, + the more clearly she must see that she has a deep and vital + interest in maintaining the Union." + +These witnesses can neither be impeached nor ruled out of Court, and +their testimony is true. While, therefore, the Union is preserved, I +see no end to the extension or perpetuity of Chattel Slavery--no hope +for peaceful deliverance of the millions who are clanking their chains +on our blood-red soil. Yet I know that God reigns, and that the slave +system contains within itself the elements of destruction. But how +long it is to curse the earth, and desecrate his image, he alone +foresees. It is frightful to think of the capacity of a nation like +this to commit sin, before the measure of its iniquities be filled, +and the exterminating judgments of God overtake it. For what is left +us but "a fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation"? Or +is God but a phantom, and the Eternal Law but a figment of the +imagination? Has an everlasting divorce been effected between cause +and effect, and is it an absurd doctrine that, as a nation sows, so +shall it also reap? "Wherefore, hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful +men that rule this people: Because ye have said, We have made a +covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the +overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us; for +we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid +ourselves: Therefore, thus saith the Lord God, Judgment will I lay to +the line, and righteousness to the plummet; and the hail shall sweep +away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the +hiding-place: And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your +agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge +shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it." + +These are solemn times. It is not a struggle for national salvation; +for the nation, as such, seems doomed beyond recovery. The reason why +the South rules, and North falls prostrate in servile terror, is +simply this: With the South, the preservation of Slavery is paramount +to all other considerations--above party success, denominational +unity, pecuniary interest, legal integrity, and constitutional +obligation. With the North, the preservation of the Union is placed +above all other things--above honour, justice, freedom, integrity of +soul, the Decalogue and the Golden Rule--the Infinite God himself. All +these she is ready to discard for the Union. Her devotion to it is the +latest and the most terrible form of idolatry. She has given to the +Slave Power a _carte blanche_, to be filled as it may dictate--and if, +at any time, she grows restive under the yoke, and shrinks back aghast +at the new atrocity contemplated, it is only necessary for that Power +to crack the whip of Disunion over her head, as it has done again and +again, and she will cower and obey like a plantation slave--for has +she not sworn that she will sacrifice everything in heaven and on +earth, rather than the Union? + +What then is to be done? Friends of the slave, the question is not +whether by our efforts we can abolish Slavery, speedily or +remotely--for duty is ours, the result is with God; but whether we +will go with the multitude to do evil, sell our birthright for a mess +of pottage, cease to cry aloud and spare not, and remain in Babylon +when the command of God is, "Come out of her, my people, that ye be +not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." +Let us stand in our lot, "and having done all, to stand." At least, a +remnant shall be saved. Living or dying, defeated or victorious, be it +ours to exclaim, "No compromise with Slavery! Liberty for each, for +all, forever! Man above all institutions! The supremacy of God over +the whole earth!" + + * * * * * + + +-----------------------------------------------------------+ + | Typographical errors corrected in text: | + | | + | Page 7: Eurpean replaced with European | + | Page 9: justication replaced with justification | + | Page 26: appaling replaced with appalling | + | | + | On page 16 there is a partially blocked word in the | + | scanned image. From the context it is very likely that | + | the word is 'demand': | + | | + | "I have not, at any time, advanced an ultra sentiment, | + | or made an extravagant ----nd. 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