106 AN AMERICAN FARMER IN ENGLAND. 



Education, then, with certain systematic exercise or disci 

 pline of the governed, having reference to and connected with 

 a gradual elevation to equal freedom with the governing, we 

 hold to be a very necessary part of all rightful government. 

 Where it is not, we say this is no true and rightful govern 

 ment, but a despotism and a sin. 



But we shall be at once asked : Is your fugitive law de 

 signed for such purposes *? Do your slaveholders govern the 

 simple-minded Africans whom they keep in restraint on these 

 principles 1 



So far as they do not, their claim is &quot;heretical and blasphe 

 mous&quot; 



Let us never hesitate to acknowledge it any where and 

 every where to acknowledge it and before all people mourn 

 over it. Let us, who need not to bear the heavy burden and 

 live in the dark cloud of this responsibility, never, either in 

 brotherly love, national vanity, or subjection to insolence, fear 

 to declare, that, in the misdirection of power by our slave 

 holders, they are false to the basis of our Union and blasphe 

 mous to the Father who, equally and with equal freedom, 

 created all men. Would that they might see, too, that while 

 they continue to manifest before the world, in their legislation 

 upon it, no other than mean, sordid, short-sighted, and barba 

 rian purposes, they must complain, threaten, expostulate, and 

 compromise in vain. If we drive back the truth of God, we 

 must expect ever-recurring, irrestrainable, irresistible reaction. 

 The law of God in our hearts binds us in fidelity to the prin 

 ciples of the Constitution. They are not to be found in 

 &quot; Abolitionism,&quot; nor are they to be found oh ! remember it, 

 brothers, and forgive these few words in hopeless, dawnless, 

 unredeeming slavery. 



And so we hold that party in England, which regard their 

 labouring class as a permanent providential institution, not 



