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The Emigration Controversy At Bradford. ...
like that against which we protested . Now we tittered no threat , but a warning derived from the past , and we believe our warning to be perfectly accurate . Ifmensinkin misfortune , and are subjected to galling language , they will not forget that language at times when trouble and disorder endow the loAvest orders with great but transient powers . We have no retractation to make on that head ; but if the employing class of Bradford are moving amongst their fellowcountrymen of the working class , with a sincere and frank determination to aid them , and not to coerce them , no writing from a distance can counteract the beneficial effect of such brotherly eo-operation .
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POLICY AND SPEECHES OF THE ANTI SLAVERY LEADERS . We groan under the weight of discussions on universalism . To be something general and nothing in particular , is the ambition of the modern publicist . Congealed , as we haA'e been , within the frozen circles of petty parties , there is something to applaud in the more catholic aspirations of these days , did not the universalist mistake the way of realizing his object . He modifies , qualifies , and tampers with his own truth , so as to make it acceptable to everybody : Avhereas he
_Bhould keep his truth one , clear , and intact , and study the arts of making it _tmderstood by everybody . The form of error here pointed out is chiefly European . The more direct and dashing propagandism of our American brethren is commonly exempt from the sin of qualification . There are , indeed , spread over the States groups of sentimental and transcendental Reformers , who do the universal with so much success , that they go the length , theoretically , of obliterating the distinctions Avhich certain sectarian Naturalists
have set up , betAveen man and the " brute creation . " But our Anti-slavery friends are utterly free from this fault . They raise a noble and generous , a frank , explicit , and unchangeable cry for the emancipation of the negro population . For this they deserve applause , sympathy , and what of help can be rendered from the uttermost bounds of thc earth . But Ave cannot say that they are equally meritorious in point of rhetorical skill . In the remarks lately submitted , in this journal , on the Temperance advocacy , the chief friends of that
cause have failed , as the writer expected they Avould , to distinguish the difference between criticism with a contempt and criticism with a sympathy . There is metre hope that the frienels of the Abolition of negro slavery will judge these papers in a different spirit . In the face of that terrible opposition which the friend of the negro confronts in America , it would be a crime to Avrite one Avord intended to discourage Lloyd Garrison , Henry C . Wright , Wendell , Phillips , and others , whose valorous humanity redeems America in the eyeas of the patriots of Europe .
But an humble , a distant , yet an earnest interest in the same e ; ause , entitles us te ) analyze the nature of that advocacy which , by excess of denunciation , hushes thc voice of reason and humanity in a roar of antagemism , anel enables unrighteous interest to set up a somewhat plausible defence of its appalling cupidity . In treating this subject , we shall neit hesitate to ground _enu argument on a reference , tei the ; Anti-Slavery literature of America . The most disparaging invective , the bitterest personal denunciation , aro the characteristics of that literature . It is not necessary to quote many instances . The allegation will not be denied . On the contrary , there i . s more reason to fear that the invective and the denunciation will be dcfimdcd . Errors of poliey
und errors of speeeh will be ; both held up feir imitation . Garrison would have ; Kossuth ally himself te . tho Anti-Slavery party and denounce half of America , although Kossuth ')* cause demanded an aggregate sympathy of the , States , It might he an error ef judgment in the Hungarian not fo confine his appeal te ) the Free State's , but Garrison and his friends _preieiood in long lottorHH article's , anel _speeches , reported in the Liberator , to write ; Kossuth down . GnrriHe . it represents him ( Kossuth ) as corrupted and terrified by slavery ' s inf hit wo—ns playing the part of a political Cain !* A pparently wounded , us we'll he , might be ; by this _species of unexpected antagonism , the _Ex-Geivcrueir declares that he ; will never interfere in tho question . Struck at by the _e ; _iiemies of freedom in America , anel _atniek at by the
_frioudijiof fteodojn thero , the great Magyar is destroyed by that ™ _foqfi _& _ki 'fiiR disheartening s } H ! ctacle , an
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sullied fame . Because he does not pronounce their war-cry as well as his own , they sow distrust of his integrity , and doubts of his bravery . They declare that the Slave States can have no real sympathy with the Hungarian advocate , and will neutralize his influence , and they ( the Abolitionist party ) do Avhat they can to diminish his influence in the Free States , and thus play into the hands of the Slaveholders . Whereas the Abolitionists might have regretted that Kossuth did not see his way clear to denouncing the legislative slavery taint of America , and . proceeded to show , what is really the case , that all the speeches of the great
orator on American possessions of interest in the cause of freedom abroad , were but magnificent satires on the toleration of slavery at home . By this more patient and catholic policy , Kossuth would have been a power in the hands of the Abolitionists , while they would have augmented his jwst influence . The more masterly the eulogy of freedom is pronounced , and the more the love of it is commended to the popular instinct , the more is augmented the most _poAverful argument that can be addressed to the human intellect—the argument of consistency in favour of freedom for all . Every act of Kossuth ' s life , every word spoken by him , was a blow
struck at American slavery . But by denouncing him and lowering his influence , his friends Avere put at issue Avith the advocates of the negro cause , and their influence began also to be abridged : because Kossuth ' s friends saw no capacity in them to accept the opportunities of the hour , but rather an impetuous disposition to make war upon all who did not fall in with their notions of duty , and act precisely as they would have them . The antagonisms of the Abolitionists was saying practically to Kossuthif you will not help us as Ave prescribe we will not help you . If you do not aid us personally to strike off the
fetters of the black slave Ave will rivet faster the fetters of the Hungarian peasant . This was not intended , but it was done . This was not said in so many words , but this was the result of the Liberators' policy . It was in effect to say , that Hungary must groan in Austrian bondage to the last hour of American injustice . This was the practical answer given to Kossuth by Lloyd Garrison's disparaging parallel between O'Connell and Kossuth , which appears in the Liberator . The world will think that the noble suppliant deserved a different response . Magyar bravery and sacrifices for freedom ought to have been sure and unqualified passports to
the hearts of those who have chanted so many brave lays in honour of liberty . How much more Avisely conceived were the lofty words with wliich Ralph Waldo Emerson welcomed the Magyar Chief to Concord : — " Far be it from us , sir , any tone of patronage ; we ought rather to ask yours . We know the austere condition of liberty—that it must he reconquered over and over again ; yea , day by day ; that it is a state of war ; that it is always slipping from those who boast it , to those who fight for it ; and you , the foremost soldier of freedom in this age—it is for us to crave your judgment—who are we that we should dictate to you ?"
But let us pass from the question of policy to one of speech . In the Liberator of June 29 th last ( a paper wliich we took up at random to see what was going on ) , Henry C . Wright thus speaks in allusion to the course taken by the religious bodies of America with reference to slavery : " The great religious bodies havo moro openly than ever confederated with thieves , and become partakers with adulterers . " If , after _se ) many years of experience , Mr . Wright pens these words , and Mr . Garrison publishes them , the inference is , that this is not tho worst specimen of this stylo e ) f writing that could be selected . The epithets " thieves" and " adulterers "
are properly applicable only to those ; whom the law brands with these ; olle ; nee ; s , anel te _> apply them without qualification or modification to bodies of men , especially to religious bodies of men , is utterly to ignore tho law anel propriety . We ; say propriety advisedly . Propriety in this case will be ; smiled at , _sceirned at . But mark the result . Tho moment tho advocate of humanity entirely ignores law anel propriety in his assaults on wrong , his _eippoiients are ; fret ; to act in tbe same way in Iheir stdf-dofence , und forthwith argument is drowned in _tetrrents of mutual epithets , criminative and recriminative ; and , what is worse , the slaveholder and
the' jiisfifieT e . f slave-holding , is reliewed from the ; defence of their nets , and is enabled to join issue ; upon the tenia anel spirit of their oHsailunt . fi' language ; anel in Avhat , nhtmlel he ; tho _seihmin issue ; of a great argument the ; publie ; emly nee a furious personal scandal . If the _Abeilitionist intend tei fight the ; _slnve-holeling party all this ih intelligible . Boundless invective , _unappeusablo rage , and excited feeling , aro perhaps the necessary prelude * to war ; but if slavery is to bo exterminated by the ; nobler arts of _reutson and humanity , tho criminative , tone eif tho Abolitionists is not ho intelligible as one could wish it . The great _rcligiouu bodies art . _povwrful bodies . Do « t-
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Mr . Wright speak of them to outrage them , or to am vert them to sounder views ? To tell them that _tSv confederate with thieves , and partake with adultere is to outrage them and set their faces against the Ahn ' _litionists' cause for ever . Are the Abolitionists able t defy the great religious bodies ? If so , it m atters nn ? what Mr . Wright says of them . . But if their infln ence is great , and necessary for Abolition to succeed if is merely delaying tbe day of emancipation thus to ad dress them . "Do they not deserve it ? " you _^ " Is it not true ? " you observe . What has that to do with the question ? Is the Anti-Slavery Society a ciety for administering to slaveholders the public cen _! sure that the Abolitionist members consider they dp * serve ? or is it a society for Avinning freedom for th *
poor slave ? Have the auti-slavery advocates undertaken the eternal task of saying all that is true , or the more practical duty of doing all that is good ? If the real business in hand is the gratification of indi gnant feeling by denouncing and punishing oppressors , let the endless and barren task be avowed—let the poor slave receive due . notice that he may no longer grow sick bv hope deferred . But if the object be the single and honourable one we have been led to believe , of winning deliverance for Afric ' s helpless children , then all this shouting of thieves and adulterers is worse than a crime —it is an error ; it is a melancholy waste of opportunity . Considering the men and their humane motives , it is honest , conscientious , and well intended , but fatal to success nevertheless . There is a noble aphorism of
Mazzim ' s , which , indeed , only noble souls can carry out— " Let us anathematize none , but strive to direct all aright . " Of what infinite value to the anti-slavery cause would be the practice of this maxim ! You say this is too much to expect . Is it so ? Remember , that although nnusual moral genius is required to speak well against slavery , yet Abolitionists can display examples of such genius . Who more cautious than Channing ?•—who more self-possessed than Follin?—who more quiet and patient than Prudence Crandall ? ( who opened a school for coloured girls ; her history is given in the Martyr Age . ) Who more generous to her foes , more devoid of selfish fear for
herself , than Angelina Grinke?—or Maria Chapman ? And is not Harriet Beecher StoAve greater than them all ?—she whose Uncle Tom's Cabin has charmed tho Old World and the New . In that inimitable book , aa marvellous for its wisdom as its humour and pathos , which you read in alternate smiles and tears , you find the most magnificent plea for Afric's dark sons and daughters which human genius has yet put on record ; but you find no invective there . Its aim is too high for calling names—its tone is too solemn for epithets . It does not mistrust its own power to extort a verdict , It wastes no time in pronouncing sentence itself ; it draws from the soul and intellect of the reader a double
and enduring condemnation of slavery in every form . You might have taken Webster ' s Dictionary , and extracted every denunciation in tho English language , and poured them from the hig hest altitude of indignation , a rhetorical douche , on the head of Slavery , and it would not have produced half the effect , nor onetenth of the cfl ' ect , of the quiet and temperate eloquence of this wise , moderate , and genuine book . * Before Ave close this argument , wliich we hope to elo in another paper , Mr . Lloyd Garrison shall ho heardI m his own defence ; and we will endeavour to explain tho law , which is higher than earnestness , which ought to govern speech . _ioK '
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OKOBOK DAAVBON . ¥ k bcliovo wo are breaking no . confidence in divul ging _« fact , which will interest several of our realtors at a diHtancc . It is well known to _metsfc of them , that George _UaWWin may bo ce _. nsieloreel the founder of a soot in Binning i _» as unquestionably ho in tho Master of a chapel 1 U w " ' the ; most Catholic doctrines of Christianity receive * 11 _" fullest utterance . It , is natural that , for such a l _>«* e _«* tho _numbers of tho congregation should conceive ) * V found onte ; e _; ni , anel warm _personal uil ' ectiem . i _>" ' _^ case ; anel an attempt is maelo to express that fi _™ m _& l ( J tho presentation of a portrait of thoir respected Mum h
his wife . The ielea orig inated with somo laelioa of the ) _f" _^^ tion , whe . have ; managed tho whole matter with g _^ ability and elelieacy . There are circumstances whw t _^ dor this method of testifying lo tho alfectionj _^ _^ ' __
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* Oi _^ ,,, „ in « ., _„ _- ™ _i . « _ilm _Kznaminor . says , tbat the J lish edition published by Mr . ltosworUi i « [ lie <>"' '„„ ,,, _* .. this _« ido of tho channel in tho _salo of wbioh tin > ]( j l () has direct interest . It is a well printed octavo , h _^ tho _library shelf , and Bold at a prico bkely « _" « k ' > tlm most exacting lovers of cheap literature M . r . > . . publisher , _nelvortisos that the authoress 1 »»»» "V- t | int rest in his editions . Wo trust the public w »\ . k , tho a < iubt in which Mrs . Btowo is roally concerned , ana u" _rtU' » is cleared up , we _^ incline to believe ha . Mi . *» edition *
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 18, 1852, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18091852/page/16/
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