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as the agent of swords.
But the arena of argument needs discipline, no less than that of arms.
It is this which the antislavery party seem to me not only to overlook, but to despise They do not put their valor to drill.
Neither on the field nor the platform has courage any inherent capacity — f taking care of itself.
The writer then proceeds to make a quotation from
Mr. Emerson, the latter part of which I will read:--
Let us withhold every reproachful, and, if we can, every indignant remark.
In this cause, we must renounce our temper, and the risings of pride.
If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter compared with the last decorations and completions of his own comfort,--who would not so much as part with his ice-cream to save them from rapine and manacles,--I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing, than by robbing them.
If the Virginian piques himself on the picturesque luxury of his vassalage, on the heavy Ethiopian manners of his house-servants, their silent obedience, their hue of bronze, their turbaned heads, and would not exchange them for the more intelligent but precarious hired services of whites, I shall not refuse to show him that, when their free papers are made out, it will still be their interest to remain on his estates; and that the oldest planters of Jamaica are convinced that it is cheaper to pay wages than to own slaves.
The critic takes exception to
Mr. Garrison's approval of the denunciatory language in which
Daniel O'Connell rebuked the giant sin of
America, and concludes his article with this sentence:--
When William Lloyd Garrison praises the great Celtic monarch of invective for this dire outpouring, he acts the part of the boy who fancies that the terror is in the war-whoop of the savage, unmindful of the quieter muskets of the civilized infantry, whose unostentatious execution blows whoop and tomahawk to the Devil.
