Let us blot out
the word "discouragement" from the anti-slavery vocabulary. Let the
enemies of freedom be discouraged; let the advocates of oppression
despair; but let those who grapple with wrong and falsehood, in the name
of God and in the power of His truth, take courage. Slavery must die.
The Lord hath spoken it. The vials of His hot displeasure, like those
which chastised the nations in the Apocalyptic vision, are smoking even
now, above its "habitations of cruelty." It can no longer be borne with
by Heaven. Universal humanity cries out against it. Let us work, then,
to hasten its downfall, doing whatsoever our hands find to do, "with all
our might."
October, 1843.
DEMOCRACY AND SLAVERY.
[1843.]
THE great leader of American Democracy, Thomas Jefferson, was an ultra-
abolitionist in theory, while from youth to age a slave-holder in
practice. With a zeal which never abated, with a warmth which the frost
of years could not chill, he urged the great truths, that each man should
be the guardian of his own weal; that one man should never have absolute
control over another.
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