he several districts of the South.
Without wages, without family rights, whipped and beaten by
thousands, given up to the most horrible outrages, without that
protection which his value as property formerly gave him. Again,
he is liable without farther guarantees, to be plunged into
peonage, serfdom or even into chattel slavery. Have we any true
sense of justice, are we not dead to the sentiment of humanity if
we shall wish to postpone his security against present woes and
future enslavement till woman shall obtain political rights?

Rev. HENRY WARD BEECHER said: It seems that my modesty in not
lending my name has been a matter of some grief. I will try
hereafter to be less modest. When I get my growth I hope to
overcome that. I certainly should not have been present to-day,
except that a friend said to me that some who were expected had
not come. When a cause is well launched and is prospering, I
never feel specially called to help it. When a cause that I
believe to be just is in the minority, and is struggling for a
hearing, then I should always be glad to be counted among those
who were laboring for it in the days when it lacked friends. I
come to bear testimony, not as if I had not already done it, but
again, as confirmed by all that I have read, whether of things
written in England or spoken in America, in the belief that this
movement is not the mere progeny of a fitful and feverish
_ism_--that it is not a mere frothing eddy whose spirit is but
the chafing of the water upon the rock--but that it is a part of
that great tide which follows the drawing of heaven itself. I
believe it to be so. I trust that it will not be invidious if I
say, therefore, I hope the friends of this cause will not fall
out by the way. If the division of opinion amounts merely to
this, that you have two blades, and therefore can cut, I have no
objection to it; but if there is such a division of opinion in
respect to mere details, how important those details are, among
friends that are one at the bottom where principles are, that
there is to be a falling out there, I shall exceedingly regret
it; I shall regret that our strength is weakened, when we need it
to be augmented most, or concentrated.

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