hey have not cheerfully
obeyed themselves. What is the trouble between us?" Slavery,
slavery is the trouble. Slavery is a "divine institution." My
friends, it is a fact that the South has incorporated slavery
into her religion; that is the most fearful thing in this
rebellion. They are fighting, verily believing that they are
doing God service. Most of them have never seen the North. They
understand very little of the working of our institutions; but
their politicians are stung to the quick by the prosperity of the
North. They see that the institution which they have established
can not make them wealthy, can not make them happy, can not make
them respected in the world at large, and their motto is, "Rule
or ruin."

Before I close, I would like, however strange it may seem, to
utter a protest against what Mrs. Stanton said of colonizing the
aristocrats in Liberia. I can not consent to such a thing. Do you
know that Liberia has never let a slave tread her soil?--that
when, from the interior of the country, the slaves came there to
seek shelter, and their heathen masters pursued them, she never
surrendered one? She stands firmly on the platform of freedom to
all. I am deeply interested in this colony of Liberia. I do not
want it to be cursed with the aristocracy of the South, or any
other aristocracy, and far less with the Copperheadism of the
North. (Laughter). If these Southern aristocrats are to be
colonized, Mrs. President, don't you think England is the best
place for them? England is the country which has sympathized most
deeply with them. She has allowed vessels to be built to prey
upon our commerce; she has sent them arms and ammunition, and
everything she could send through the West India Islands. Shall
we send men to Liberia who are ready to tread the black man under
their feet? No. God bless Liberia for what she has done, and what
she is destined to do. (Applause).

I am very glad to say here, that last summer I had the pleasure
of entertaining several times, in our house, a Liberian who was
well educated in England. He had graduated at Oxford College, and
had a high position there. His health broke down, and he went to
Liberia. "When I went to Liberia," said he, "I had a first-rate
education, and I supposed, of course, I would