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Showing Their Colors

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
June
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
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"VVe did not quite finish with the so-called Journal of Commerce, yesterday. It accuses us, our readers will remember, of thenwful and sfartling heresy of advocating physical force against slaveholdera and for the deüverance of the slaves, os if to hare caught us in a confession of sentiments favorable to such force, were to seal the question of our madness and ruin. W ho would have thought it! At length, after ten years of arguing, these abolitionists have showed their colors. They are for settling the question with cold steel! Cold steel! Think of ihat, Christian peopie of America! Think of Robespierre! Think of the universal infidelity! Think of blood, clotting in our gutters and standing in puddles in the midst of ous streets! Such are notes of "horror" which David Hale, the defender of commercial Christianity, utters at the ideaof compelling the slaveholders todo an act of justice. Now, let us see what "colors" David Hule and nis commercial Christianity show. Let us see what relation ihey liold to "cold steel," on this subject. They are not non-resistants; they ore not disunionists. They go to support ihe constitution of tho United States, Dot as it readsmerely; not as the great self-evident truths at the foundation of justice and just law require it to be construed, but as the slaveholders of the United States construe it. They swear to keep their steel sharp for the suppression of domestic violence, meaning, in this case of slavery, to do it by assisling the wrong-doers and skedding the blood of the tcronged. For more than half a century ihey have settled this question of slavery by "cold steel" and "physical power," andsettled it wrong - settled it knowingly and confessedly wrong! Pretty authorities they, to talk of "bloody civil war," who, by "cold steel," physical annies and navies, physical cast iron, brass, charcoal, and saltpetre have kept two or three unofTending millions of our fellow countrymen in the most deplorable of conditions to which civil war ever leads; wlro have kept them in fact in perpetual civil war, routed, fear-struck, trampled down under the bloody hoof of the proud battle-horso. And if now, from the midst of the dust, blood, and despair of thiafifty years' rout and putting to thesword, wilhout quarter, the poor vanquished should take heart enough to strike one blow at their merciless victors, to retrieve their nnspeakable losses, here stand David Hale and commercial Christianity, armed to the teeth in physical steel, ready to sever the first niuscle that contracts for liberty! Magnajiimous, valorous, high souled commercial Chi istians! How their mighty hearts throb to strike for the strong and baughty (their generous cuatomers) against tho wcak, the timid, the despainng! With whal noble ardor will they trample out in blood the first discernible spark of manhood in that clnss which has no money. And if any poor straggler from the great vanquished, groaning, wailing host has the rare fortune to escape from tbo hoof of the war-horse, the rifle of the rider, and from the fangs of the trained blood-houud, ou: of slavcry's special jurisdictiun, liere stand David Hale and commercial Christianity nguin, with phyüioal constables, pbysícal dongeons, phyical brutcs, m fhO apa uí judgeö afilia

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Signal of Liberty
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