the preacher alike are dragged at the chariot-wheels of a slaveholding republic.
A kindly and generous spirit, filled like that of Whittier, 'with all gentleness and calmest hope,' makes a sacrifice of its most cherished delights and occupations when it springs to the defence of the difficult pass which commands the battlefield of Christian Freedom, with the determination to defend it unto blood, and yet to shed none.
Except in this difference of opinion as to the mode of effecting deliverance from oppression, Whittier is the Korner of America.[1]
- ↑ How many hearts among the American Abolitionists, beat in sympathy with the feelings thus expressed by the Hero-poet of Germany:
'Let me prove a worthy son of my Father-land. Now, when I know how far this world's happiness can reach; now, when all the stars of good fortune shine over me, fair and propitious; now is it by my God, a noble spirit which stirs in me; now do I give a mighty proof that no offering is too great for man's highest blessing—the Freedom of his Country! The great moment calls for great hearts; and within me do I feel the power to be a rock amidst the raging of the waves of nations. I must away—and throw my breast with the fearless force against this storm of seas. Shall I be cowardly content with my Lyre to arouse my conquering brothers, by sounding after them songs of triumph? No. I know what anx-
