in,--the Angel of Strength there with
him to comfort him. He was arousing his sleeping disciples
for the last time, and was telling them, 'Pray, lest ye
enter into temptation.' Judas came and gave him a kiss. To
the eleven it seemed the friendly kiss, obeying 'the will of
God.' To the Marshal it also seemed a friendly
kiss,--obeying 'the law of man.' So, in the same act, he
obeys 'the law of God' and 'the will of man,' and there is
no 'incompatibility!'

"Of old it was said, 'Thou canst not serve God and mammon.'
He that said it, has been thought to know something of
morals,--something of religion.

"Till the fugitive slave law was passed, we did not know
what a great saint Iscariot was. I think there ought to be a
chapel for him, and a day set apart in the calendar. Let him
have his chapel in the navy yard at Washington. He has got a
priest there already. And for a day in the calendar--set
apart for all time the seventh of March!"

"Last Thanksgiving day, I said it would be difficult to find
a magistrate in Boston to take the odium of sending a
fugitive back to slavery. I believed, after all, men had
some conscience, although they talked about its being a duty
to deliver up a man to bondage. Pardon me, my country, that
I rated you too high! Pardon me, town of Boston, that I
thought your citizens all men! Pardon me, lawyers, that I
thought you had been all born of mothers! Pardon me,
ruffians, who kill for hire! I thought you had some animal
mercy left, even in your bosom! Pardon me, United States'
commissioners, marshals, and the like, I thought you all had
some shame! Pardon me, my hearers, for such mistakes. One
commissioner was found to furnish the warrant [Mr. George T.
Curtis]! Pardon me, I did not know he was a commissioner; if
I had, I never would have said it!

"Spirits of tyrants, I look down to you! Shade of Cain, you
great first murderer, forgive me that I forgot your power,
and did not remember that you were parent of so long a line!
And you, my brethren, if hereafter I tell you that there is
any limit of meanness or wickedness which a Yankee will not
jump over, distrust me, and remind me of this day, and I
will take it back!

"Let us look at the public conduct of any commissioner who
will send an