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ing here to-night. I am accompanied to this meeting by a gentleman from the other side of the Atlantic, of a different complexion from my own, but with the same blood in his veins, the same aspirations after liberty which we all cherish—aspirations so strong that it was not in the power of slavery to suppress them—aspirations so strong, that he escaped from the house of bon dage, guided only by the north star. I want you to hear him, and by your reception of him to rebuke that false democracy which retards, most fatally, not to say injuriously, the progress of freedom ; that puts an argument into the mouth of our opponents; that holds in one hand the declaration that all men are free and independent, and brandishes in the other the scourge and the slave-chain ; that binds the victims of its cupidity and wrong to the horns of the republican altar [much cheering], I want you to proclaim, that while the principle of democracy does not suffer in your estimation by their inconsistency, yet you do feel that a foul stain is cast upon the cause of political freedom throughout the world, by the enslavement of three millions of human beings in that land which should be the sanctuary of liberty [renewed cheering]. I trust that henceforth the progress of this great movement will not only be onward—for that it must be—but that its progress will be greatly accelerated. We shall speedily have a clearer stage on which to woik, a freer people to whom to appeal; and our cause being just, and aided—as I trust we shall be—by the discreet, yet earnest co-operation of the working classee, we shall soon place this movement in a position which shall extort the admiration, if it does not secure the support, of all [loud applause]. We get good by engaging in these movements. The soul is expanded, exalted, and strengthened by grappling with difficulties, and the result is often a greater amount of individual good, and good for our country, than by the actual attainment of the object we proposed to ourselves at setting out [hear, hear]. Lay hold of this cause, then, for its sake, and for your own sake. Let those who have the franchise remember those who have it not. Let ours be the belief, that that
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London Nonconformist
London, Middlesex, GB
Wed, May 27, 1846
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Harvard U.
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