1 jcaiitv or in surprise, exclaim ; :Cfod of gvamtuer what a
change."
JTc \-ordd see no slaves thronging the jungles and fields
of our yeolant, South, or human chattels bartered and sold,
he would see no auction blocks, suspending between heaven
and earth, the imsce of Cod, and the horrific hammer of the
crier, down, to knock it off to the highest bidder. He
would, see no heaving hearts and streaming e\es, nor would
he hear the anguished groans of the life-separated slave,
augmented by the sorrows of unrequited toil; neither would
he see a country of inexhanstahle resources and incalcula¬
ble blessings, staggering beneath a burden ol organized crime
over which heaven's displeasure was bickering with a lurid
Hare, ary! the stentorian voh c of iinuiutihle justice clamoring
for revolution and reliu'in. lint, instead, be would seo a
nation, whose Ir.d'warks and safe guards were the symmetri¬
cal notes of the -ms ebanls < >i a.jubilee welcome, where
all races, tongru.-., . ml people, can in mingled unity claim a
common interest and boast a common destiny. lie would
see the previous w;-wcs of mi is country, luxuriating in the
glories of libe-f;, V-.r a letters, st-'ping withhold tread in
aspiring paths, lending upward, moving onward, and march¬
ing forward to honor, fame and immortality.
The black .skin of the negro heretofore at great discount,
when thrown in the scales, ot" manhood equality, would be
seen reposing securely under the shades of a floating ban¬
ner, which recognises no distinction between colors or races,
nor proscribes a man for either his religious or political
creed.
Our country would present the aspects of a rcdeemod
land, ami our people a nebulous galaxy of living gtanduer,
frescoing as it were with surpassing beaatv, the intermina¬
ble arches of an expanded temple, which have been reared
by more thun transcendental skill, and are supported by the
flaming columns of omnipotent sanction.
We are moved as •by the genious of undeiirable forces,
whirled as by the might of th it invissible, yet im.com pre *
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