ns now; and it shall go well with him if he
be not subjected to that peculiarly fining method of showing fealty to
slavery, the assaults of a mob.

Now, will any man tell me that such a state of things is natural, and
that such conduct on the part of the people of the north, springs from a
consciousness of rectitude? No! every fibre of the human heart unites
in detestation of tyranny, and it is only when the human mind has become
familiarized with slavery, is accustomed to its injustice, and corrupted
by its selfishness, that it fails to record its abhorrence of slavery,
and does not exult in the triumphs of liberty.

The northern people have been long connected with slavery; they have
been linked to a decaying corpse, which has destroyed the moral health.
The union of the government; the union of the north and south, in the
political parties; the union in the religious organizations of the land,
have all served to deaden the moral sense of the northern people, and to
impregnate them with sentiments and ideas forever in conflict with
what as a nation we call _genius of American institutions_. Rightly
viewed,{346} this is an alarming fact, and ought to rally all that is
pure, just, and holy in one determined effort to crush the monster of
corruption, and to scatter "its guilty profits" to the winds. In a high
moral sense, as well as in a national sense, the whole American people
are responsible for slavery, and must share, in its guilt and shame,
with the most obdurate men-stealers of the south.

While slavery exists, and the union of these states endures, every
American citizen must bear the chagrin of hearing his country branded
before the world as a nation of liars and hypocrites; and behold his
cherished flag pointed at with the utmost scorn and derision. Even now
an American _abroad_ is pointed out in the crowd, as coming from a land
where men gain their fortunes by "the blood of souls," from a land of
slave markets, of blood-hounds, and slave-hunters; and, in some circles,
such a man is shunned altogether, as a moral pest. Is it not time, then,
for every American to awake, and inquire into his duty with respect to
this subject?

Wendell Phillips--the eloquent New England orator--on his return from
Europe, in 1842, said, "As I stood upon the shores of Genoa, and saw
floating on the placid waters of the Mediterranean, the beautiful
American war ship Ohio, with her masts tapering proportionately aloft,
and an east