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 278 AN AMERICAN FARMER IN ENGLAND. 



very necessary part of all rightful government. Where it is not, 

 we say this is no true and rightful government 



But we shall be at once asked, Is your fugitive law designed 

 for such purposes ? Do your slaveholders govern the simple- 

 minded Africans, whom they keep in restraint on these principles ? 



So far as they do not, their claim is " heretical and blasphe- 

 mous." 



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 slaveholders, they are false to 

 the basis of our Union and blasphemous 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 barbarian purposes, they must complain, threat- 

 en, expostulate, and compromise in vain. If we drive back the 

 truth of God, we must expect ever-recurring, irrestrainable, irre- 

 sistible reaction. The law of God in our hearts binds us in 

 fidelity to the principles of the Constitution. They are not to be 

 found in "Abolitionism," nor are they to be found remember it, 

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

 unredeeming slavery. 



And so we hold that party in England, who regard their labor- 

 ing class as a permanent providential institution, not to be im- 

 proved in every way, educated, fitted to take an equal share with 

 all Englishmen in the government of the commonwealth of Eng- 

 land, to be tyrants, and insolent rebels to humanity. (Many of 

 them as good-souled men as the world contains, nevertheless.) 



I have before said, and I repeat it with confidence, that I 



