THE GREAT BATTLE BETWEEN SLAVERY AND FREEDOM,
CONSIDERED IN
TWO SPEECHES,
DELIVERED BEFORE THE AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY AT NEW YORK.
THE PRESENT ASPECT OF THE ANTI-SLAVERY ENTERPRISE, AND OF THE VARIOUS FORCES WHICH WORK THEREIN.
Delivered on the Morning of May 7, 1856.
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen,—After that Trinitarian introduction,[1] in which I am presented before you as one anti-Slavery nature in three persons,—a fanatic an infidel, and a traitor,—I am sure a Unitarian minister will bring his welcome along with him. And yet I come under great disadvantages: for I follow one whose colour is more than the logic which his cause did not need (alluding to Mr. Remond); and another whose sex is more eloquent than the philosophy of noblest men (referring to Mrs. Blackwell), whose word has in it the wild witchery which takes captive your heart. I am neither an African nor a woman. I shall speak, therefore, somewhat in the way of logic, which the one rejected; something also, perhaps, of philosophy, which the other likewise passed by. Allow me to say, however, still further, by way of intro-
- ↑ The President, Mr. Garrison, thus introduced Mr. Parker to the audience:—
"Ladies and Gentlemen,—The fanaticism and infidelity and treason which are hateful to the traffickers in slaves and the souls of men must be well-pleasing to God, and are indications of true loyalty to the cause of liberty. I have the pleasure of introducing to you a very excellent fanatic, a very good infidel, and a first-rate traitor, in the person of Theodore Parker, of Boston."
