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1001 56| distinguished him from all the reformers of the day that I know.~ 1002 2 | declined that, but he also refused to train when warned, and 1003 49| the slaveholder prevail? I regard this event as a touchstone 1004 57| Look at the chaplain of the regiment! We are hoping only to live 1005 36| dust of politics into the region of truth and manhood. No 1006 28| as if a publisher should reject the manuscript of the New 1007 39| other man whom I know. I rejoice that I live in this age, 1008 54| recognize and accept this relation. They say, virtually, "We' 1009 46| It is a relief to turn from these slanders 1010 63| whatever; as if vows and religion were out of date as connected 1011 64| devoted himself, and how religiously, and then reflect to what 1012 9 | loose morals was suffered to remain there, unless, indeed, as 1013 10| their blood. When some one remarked that, with the addition 1014 8 | and eat parched corn in remembrance of that time. They were 1015 54| sometimes, as I go by, it reminds me, at best, of those farmers 1016 48| is the farthest possible removed from the ordinary ruffian, 1017 72| greatest service a man can render to God."~ 1018 59| along. No temple's veil was rent, only a hole dug somewhere. 1019 30| they may as well lie to and repair.~ 1020 54| bestows most of its labor on repairing that. When I hear it at 1021 20| Governor of Virginia is reported to have said, using the 1022 43| the North sent a few sane representatives to Congress for, of late 1023 50| the whole heart, are not represented! A semihuman tiger or ox, 1024 31| that you would lose your reputation so? What you lost at the 1025 57| slaveholder, in order to rescue the slave. I agree with 1026 12| experienced soldier, keeping a reserve of force and meaning, "They 1027 52| High treason, when it is resistance to tyranny here below, has 1028 2 | was fined for it. He then resolved that he would never have 1029 66| Northern man? Is there no resource but to cast this man also 1030 54| is losing its power and respectability as surely as water runs 1031 1 | my countrymen generally, respecting his character and actions. 1032 70| easy-chairs, and thus he wounded responds from the floor of the armory, 1033 13| his real survey he would resume his imaginary one, and run 1034 43| Sharp's rifles, while he retained his faculty of speech - 1035 41| have already in silence retracted their words.~ 1036 49| liberators of the slave, it reveals itself a merely brute force, 1037 56| fight, proceeding coolly, reverently, humanely to work, for months 1038 61| and words do not create a revival, it will be the severest 1039 2 | Brown, was an officer in the Revolution; that he himself was born 1040 56| thought, without expecting any reward but a good conscience, while 1041 12| He was not in the least a rhetorician, was not talking to Buncombe 1042 4 | the soil of England was so rich, and that of Germany (I 1043 52| whom West Point cadets and rifled cannon point not. Can all 1044 7 | slanting the wrong way, and righted up a falling man.~ 1045 67| the everlasting laws which rightfully bind man, that would be 1046 45| in it insane. It has the ring of a saner sanity than an 1047 55| could pay them. They were ripe for her gallows. She has 1048 36| and vengeance of mankind, rising above them literally by 1049 54| decent highway. The only free road, the Underground Railroad, 1050 77| scene, no longer going to Rome for a subject; the poet 1051 66| hang him at the end of a rope! You who pretend to care 1052 13| reach Kansas by any direct route, at least without having 1053 48| removed from the ordinary ruffian, fanatic, or madman."~ 1054 53| Massachusetts, but such are they who rule and are obeyed here. It 1055 8 | prayerful; not thinking much of rulers who did not fear God, not 1056 54| respectability as surely as water runs out of a leaky vessel, and 1057 6 | he was concealed under a "rural exterior"; as if, in that 1058 26| whites of his eyes on the Sabbath, and the blacks all the 1059 55| devoted humanity; ready to sacrifice his life at any moment for 1060 57| are hoping only to live safely on the outskirts of this 1061 66| Who is it whose safety requires that Captain Brown 1062 30| taken the wind out of their sails - the little wind they had - 1063 54| thus the government, its salary being insured, withdraws 1064 25| of out-houses. Invent a salt that will save you, and 1065 45| insane. It has the ring of a saner sanity than an ordinary 1066 45| has the ring of a saner sanity than an ordinary discipline 1067 61| be the severest possible satire on the acts and words that 1068 54| own purse and magnanimity saves all the fugitive slaves 1069 41| editors, his abettors, are saving their country and their 1070 66| offered himself to be the saviour of four millions of men.~ 1071 13| say, that at a time when scarcely a man from the Free States 1072 77| painter will paint that scene, no longer going to Rome 1073 59| You've got to stay after school. We make a needless ado 1074 23| might open the district schools with the reading of it, 1075 10| able to find more than a score or so of recruits whom he 1076 55| their leader, no doubt, scoured the land far and wide, seeking 1077 66| stands veiled and music is a screeching lie. Think of him - of his 1078 11| habits, and at sixty was scrupulous about his diet at your table, 1079 59| sentence which some worthy got sculptured on his gravestone once. 1080 27| Austrias, and Chinas, and South Sea Islands. Our crowded society 1081 10| several of them had already sealed the contract with their 1082 27| market-place. Impassable seas suddenly find their level 1083 14| could not be got together in season."~ 1084 49| government looks up from its seat on the gasping four millions, 1085 54| even, behind whom worked in secret a Vigilant Committee? But 1086 58| so much by the fighting sects as by the Quakers, and not 1087 45| an ordinary organization, secure. Take any sentence of it - " 1088 7 | university of the West, where he sedulously pursued the study of Liberty, 1089 2 | him in that employment, seeing a good deal of military 1090 | seem 1091 | seemed 1092 | seems 1093 55| very best men you could select to be hung. That was the 1094 46| them to be firm, and to sell their lives as dear as they 1095 50| are not represented! A semihuman tiger or ox, stalking over 1096 43| you are about to hang, to send to the other world, though 1097 36| exist. When a man stands up serenely against the condemnation 1098 23| Served him right" - "A dangerous 1099 72| my opinion, the greatest service a man can render to God."~ 1100 54| perform menial or indifferent services. Of course, that is but 1101 19| politicians may prove that only seventeen white men and five negroes 1102 61| revival, it will be the severest possible satire on the acts 1103 54| course, that is but the shadow of a government whose existence 1104 23| some pastors are wolves in sheep's clothing. "The American 1105 28| editorial. Some voluminous sheets decided not to print the 1106 57| or to hunt Indians, or shoot fugitive slaves with them, 1107 57| philanthropy which neither shoots me nor liberates me. At 1108 54| withdraws into the back shop, taking the Constitution 1109 16| it a failure, or did it show a want of good management, 1110 10| here, some years ago, he showed to a few a little manuscript 1111 40| party which is so anxiously shuffling him and his plot out of 1112 14| suffering from poverty, and from sickness which was the consequence 1113 30| deed, and at once, on all sides, we hear people and parties 1114 27| history or space; but let some significant event like the present occur 1115 53| to pay the penalty of her sin.~ 1116 20| praise a man for attacking singly an ordinary band of thieves 1117 49| oppressing mankind. There sits a tyrant holding fettered 1118 11| of Spartan habits, and at sixty was scrupulous about his 1119 2 | least as much experience and skill as to lead them in battle. 1120 30| much pains to wash your skirts of him. No intelligent man 1121 14| some years he has had to skulk in swamps, suffering from 1122 70| armory, clear as a cloudless sky, true as the voice of nature 1123 46| relief to turn from these slanders to the testimony of his 1124 7 | have left a Greek accent slanting the wrong way, and righted 1125 34| The slave-ship is on her way, crowded with 1126 34| mid-ocean; a small crew of slaveholders, countenanced by a large 1127 56| for months if not years, sleeping and waking upon it, summering 1128 13| could collect, openly and slowly drove an ox-cart through 1129 26| are well disposed, but sluggish by constitution and by habit, 1130 9 | rather,' said he, 'have the small-pox, yellow fever, and cholera, 1131 34| large body of passengers, is smothering four millions under the 1132 59| interpreted it in a grovelling and snivelling sense; we've wholly forgotten 1133 57| unavoidable. We preserve the so-called peace of our community by 1134 23| life-membership" in such societies as these. A life-membership 1135 58| which is encouraged, not by soldiers, but by peaceable citizens, 1136 63| abolish slavery could only be somebody appointed by the President, 1137 | sometimes 1138 | somewhere 1139 29| auctioneers, who sing an obscene song, in order to draw a crowd 1140 29| no admiration, nor true sorrow even, but call these men " 1141 58| laid it down for him. What sort of violence is that which 1142 20| part of his soul-and such a soul! - when you do not. No doubt 1143 20| considerable part of his soul-and such a soul! - when you 1144 9 | fit men to oppose these Southerners. Give me men of good principles - 1145 27| a distance in history or space; but let some significant 1146 27| crowded society becomes well spaced all at once, clean and handsome 1147 28| steep. They should have been spared this contrast - been printed 1148 11| saying that he must eat sparingly and fare hard, as became 1149 62| superior to nature. He has a spark of divinity in him.~ "Unless 1150 11| He was a man of Spartan habits, and at sixty was 1151 19| think much as the present speaker does about him and his enterprise. 1152 38| found myself thinking and speaking of him as physically dead.~ 1153 46| and hangmen. Governor Wise speaks far more justly and appreciatingly 1154 43| sense. He was too fair a specimen of a man to represent the 1155 54| barrel made to hold? They speculate in stocks, and bore holes 1156 28| conventions! Office-seekers and speech-makers, who do not so much as lay 1157 57| is quite sane for one to spend his whole life in talking 1158 31| so? What you lost at the spile, you would gain at the bung.~ 1159 19| position and probable fate is spoiling many a man's day here at 1160 12| overstate anything, but spoke within bounds. I remember, 1161 21| crop of heroes is sure to spring up. This is a seed of such 1162 50| A semihuman tiger or ox, stalking over the earth, with its 1163 17| success, foolishly, to "his star," or to any magic. He said, 1164 6 | converted him. Ethan Allen and Stark, with whom he may in some 1165 39| Brown in the Massachusetts State-House yard than that of any other 1166 10| bound themselves; and he stated that several of them had 1167 28| have since seen one noble statement, in a Boston paper, not 1168 1 | correct the tone and the statements of the newspapers, and of 1169 39| but I would rather see the statue of Captain Brown in the 1170 39| not believe in erecting statues to those who still live 1171 59| lesson yet. You've got to stay after school. We make a 1172 22| a poet laureate; but the steady, and for the most part successful, 1173 28| descent to them was too steep. They should have been spared 1174 27| level between us, or dumb steppes stretch themselves out there. 1175 46| white prisoners, Brown, Stevens, and Coppoc, it was hard 1176 8 | not? Some of the Puritan stock are said to have come over 1177 54| hold? They speculate in stocks, and bore holes in mountains, 1178 24| changes the worshipper into a stone image himself; and the New 1179 23| could afford to print that story of Putnam. You might open 1180 26| provided you will let him go straight to bed and sleep quietly 1181 8 | but men of simple habits, straightforward, prayerful; not thinking 1182 71| in what a sweet and noble strain he proceeds, addressing 1183 27| this distance and this strangeness between us and our nearest 1184 28| great game is the game of straws, or rather that universal 1185 27| intelligence, and faith, and not streams and mountains, that make 1186 49| government puts forth its strength on the side of injustice, 1187 3 | several of his sons thither to strengthen the party of the Free State 1188 27| between us, or dumb steppes stretch themselves out there. It 1189 12| he appeared incomparably strong, and eloquence in Congress 1190 50| have fought well on their stumps when their legs were shot 1191 19| to be something more than stupid and timid chattels, pretending 1192 25| forward, and invent a new style of out-houses. Invent a 1193 29| reduce the number of his subscribers. They do not believe that 1194 19| have rejoiced if it had succeeded. They at most only criticise 1195 57| his method who quickest succeeds to liberate the slave. I 1196 16| Not to mention his other successes, was it a failure, or did 1197 22| steady, and for the most part successful, charge of this man, for 1198 19| seen him here can pursue successfully any other train of thought, 1199 27| market-place. Impassable seas suddenly find their level between 1200 14| had to skulk in swamps, suffering from poverty, and from sickness 1201 19| anxiety to prove this might suggest to themselves that all is 1202 20| pardon me, for an instant suggested a likeness in him dying 1203 29| insane," or "crazed." It suggests what a sane set of editors 1204 61| was lately contemplating suicide has now something to live 1205 56| sleeping and waking upon it, summering and wintering the thought, 1206 66| party. A man such as the sun may not rise upon again 1207 62| by the Missourians as a supernatural being." Sure enough, a hero 1208 24| hence are begotten fear, superstition, bigotry, persecution, and 1209 26| doesn't wish to have any supplementary articles added to the contract, 1210 2 | experience how armies are supplied and maintained in the field - 1211 43| Sharp's rifle of infinitely surer and longer range.~ 1212 27| got beyond compliments and surfaces with them before; we become 1213 13| thus completed his real survey he would resume his imaginary 1214 13| of a surveyor, with his surveying compass exposed in it, and 1215 46| intelligent. His men, too, who survive, are like him.... Colonel 1216 63| he did - that he did not suspect himself for a moment! They 1217 56| government, he might have been suspected. It was the fact that the 1218 14| lurking in a particular swamp, his foes commonly did not 1219 14| years he has had to skulk in swamps, suffering from poverty, 1220 71| And in what a sweet and noble strain he proceeds, 1221 20| so brave. It turns what sweetness I have to gall, to hear, 1222 55| far and wide, seeking to swell his troop. These alone were 1223 11| scrupulous about his diet at your table, excusing himself by saying 1224 13| As for his tact and prudence, I will merely 1225 19| most only criticise the tacties. Though we wear no crape, 1226 25| churches, and your narrow and tall churches! Take a step forward, 1227 27| are between a wandering Tartar and a Chinese town. The 1228 61| die, have at the same time taught us how to live. If this 1229 61| These men, in teaching us how to die, have at the 1230 42| crashing into their obscene temples. They are made to stand 1231 52| art of the cannon-founder tempt matter to turn against its 1232 2 | much so, that though he was tempted by the offer of some petty 1233 58| well, and treated him so tenderly. He lived for him. He took 1234 6 | practical as that class is, and tenfold more so. He was like the 1235 54| to work for you on these terms, only don't make a noise 1236 45| admire his heroism, have no test by which to detect a noble 1237 20| pair of boots, or a vote of thanks, it must be a failure. " 1238 | therefore 1239 20| singly an ordinary band of thieves or murderers. I hear another 1240 52| form in which the founder thinks he casts it more essential 1241 3 | sent several of his sons thither to strengthen the party 1242 27| becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the market-place. Impassable 1243 27| and a Chinese town. The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in 1244 1 | do not wish to force my thoughts upon you, but I feel forced 1245 41| millions of slaves, and a thousand sane editors, his abettors, 1246 20| disparagingly, that "he threw his life away," because 1247 | throughout 1248 20| government. Which way have they thrown their lives, pray? - such 1249 35| personally interfered with or thwarted in some harmless business 1250 50| represented! A semihuman tiger or ox, stalking over the 1251 27| foreign countries, of other times and races of men, placing 1252 19| something more than stupid and timid chattels, pretending to 1253 1 | do my part to correct the tone and the statements of the 1254 67| necessity for a man's being a tool to perform a deed of which 1255 50| heart taken out and the top of its brain shot away. 1256 13| discussing, of course, the single topic which then occupied their 1257 19| circumstances which do not touch his body or purse. I put 1258 49| I regard this event as a touchstone designed to bring out, with 1259 | towards 1260 20| that he was dead, one of my townsmen observed that "he died as 1261 23| some time or other. The Tract Society could afford to 1262 14| than Free State men, and transact some business, without delaying 1263 12| speech, as of action; a transcendentalist above all, a man of ideas 1264 12| Not yielding to a whim or transient impulse, but carrying out 1265 29| And so they do like some travelling auctioneers, who sing an 1266 58| fellow-man so well, and treated him so tenderly. He lived 1267 36| know it, ye Liberators, ye Tribunes, ye Republicans? - and we 1268 32| are simply at their old tricks still.~ 1269 67| not. Let lawyers decide trivial cases. Business men may 1270 36| we are lifted out of the trivialness and dust of politics into 1271 41| use of this word is a mere trope with most who persist in 1272 45| I have told everything truthfully. I value my word, sir." 1273 16| it was not profitable to try to hold slaves in his neighborhood? - 1274 56| wearisomely playing the same old tune, and then passing round 1275 54| Vigilant Committee. They have tunnelled under the whole breadth 1276 20| thought he looked so brave. It turns what sweetness I have to 1277 41| besides - as many at least as twelve disciples - all struck with 1278 29| look at everything by the twilight of politics, express no 1279 29| anything which he knows will ultimately and permanently reduce the 1280 34| humanity were ever found unaccompanied by its deeds, and you could 1281 57| these things would be by me unavoidable. We preserve the so-called 1282 54| The only free road, the Underground Railroad, is owned and managed 1283 48| purport, that "it is vain to underrate either the man or his conspiracy.... 1284 67| and which ever pass your understanding? I do not believe in lawyers, 1285 43| constituents? If you read his words understandingly you will find out. In his 1286 14| saying, "It is perfectly well understood that I will not be taken." 1287 14| handful of men were willing to undertake it, and a large body could 1288 23| dangerous man" - "He is undoubtedly insane." So they proceed 1289 44| It does not know of what undying words it is made the vehicle.~ 1290 5 | in the permanence of this Union. Slavery he deemed to be 1291 7 | But he went to the great university of the West, where he sedulously 1292 33| a feeling of indignation unparalleled."~ 1293 22| think that that will go unsung?~ 1294 13| exposed in it, and so passed unsuspected, and had ample opportunity 1295 | until 1296 20| malefactor, though one of unusual "pluck" - as the Governor 1297 19| is any such who gets his usual allowance of sleep, I will 1298 46| commanded his men with the utmost composure, encouraging them 1299 48| Vallandigham, though less valuable, is of the same purport, 1300 44| undying words it is made the vehicle.~ 1301 59| sloughed along. No temple's veil was rent, only a hole dug 1302 66| being done, beauty stands veiled and music is a screeching 1303 61| generous blood into her veins and heart than any number 1304 36| against the condemnation and vengeance of mankind, rising above 1305 12| without ever giving the least vent to his pent-up fire. It 1306 44| reports the conversation verbatim! It does not know of what 1307 27| become aware of as many versts between us and them as there 1308 54| water runs out of a leaky vessel, and is held by one that 1309 24| which is the effect of our vice; and hence are begotten 1310 34| crowded with its dying victims; new cargoes are being added 1311 36| though he were of late the vilest murderer, who has settled 1312 4 | Germany they are gathered into villages at night. It is a pity that 1313 57| right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, 1314 54| this relation. They say, virtually, "We'll be glad to work 1315 70| cloudless sky, true as the voice of nature is: "No man sent 1316 28| least. To turn from the voices and deeds of earnest men 1317 42| speech and action! and what a void their silence! They are 1318 12| his pent-up fire. It was a volcano with an ordinary chimney-flue. 1319 28| paper, not editorial. Some voluminous sheets decided not to print 1320 36| the judges that American voters, or office-holders of whatever 1321 63| any work whatever; as if vows and religion were out of 1322 56| not years, sleeping and waking upon it, summering and wintering 1323 16| dozen human beings, and walk off with them by broad daylight, 1324 36| If Walker may be considered the representative 1325 27| them as there are between a wandering Tartar and a Chinese town. 1326 2 | also refused to train when warned, and was fined for it. He 1327 19| allowance of sleep, I will warrant him to fatten easily under 1328 30| t take so much pains to wash your skirts of him. No intelligent 1329 21| and does not depend on our watering and cultivating; that when 1330 34| as easily as water with a watering-pot, and so lay the dust. What 1331 54| government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then 1332 75| rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed 1333 75| as I do those of the most wealthy and powerful."~ 1334 58| question is not about the weapon, but the spirit in which 1335 56| phrase is, monotonously and wearisomely playing the same old tune, 1336 16| them by broad daylight, for weeks if not months, at a leisurely 1337 77| shall then be at liberty to weep for Captain Brown. Then, 1338 6 | she was in the wrong. A Western writer says, to account 1339 | whether 1340 12| distinguished him. Not yielding to a whim or transient impulse, but 1341 71| free those you wilfully and wickedly hold in bondage."~ 1342 55| scoured the land far and wide, seeking to swell his troop. 1343 71| far as to free those you wilfully and wickedly hold in bondage."~ 1344 28| New Testament, and print Wilson's last speech. The same 1345 54| of those farmers who in winter contrive to turn a penny 1346 56| waking upon it, summering and wintering the thought, without expecting 1347 54| its salary being insured, withdraws into the back shop, taking 1348 67| is justified, and all the wits in the world cannot enlighten 1349 23| reader that some pastors are wolves in sheep's clothing. "The 1350 20| must be a failure. "But he won't gain anything by it." 1351 24| is the all but universal woodenness of both head and heart, 1352 4 | one time he was engaged in wool-growing, and he went to Europe as 1353 54| Oriental Cadi even, behind whom worked in secret a Vigilant Committee? 1354 20| idea of gain but in this worldly sense. If it does not lead 1355 49| a merely brute force, or worse, a demoniacal force. It 1356 24| hearts. The curse is the worship of idols, which at length 1357 24| which at length changes the worshipper into a stone image himself; 1358 10| who could fill that office worthily. It is easy enough to find 1359 70| easy-chairs, and thus he wounded responds from the floor 1360 70| Insane!" "Vindictive!" So ye write in your easy-chairs, and 1361 20| cold-blooded way in which newspaper writers and men generally speak 1362 9 | camp," as one has recently written, and as I have myself heard 1363 73| with the oppressed and the wronged, that are as good as you, 1364 19| when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.~ 1365 20| murderers. I hear another ask, Yankee-like, "What will he gain by it?" 1366 39| Massachusetts State-House yard than that of any other man 1367 20| for being hung, take the year round; but then he stands 1368 9 | he, 'have the small-pox, yellow fever, and cholera, all 1369 12| what distinguished him. Not yielding to a whim or transient impulse, 1370 44| And the New York Herald reports the conversation 1371 | yours 1372 | yourself