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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to okay f Daily with

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Speaker 1: Meet Your Girl. Danielle Moody doing a pre record on

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Speaker 1: the fourth of July. I tweeted folks a couple of

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Speaker 1: weeks ago that I didn't really know what there was

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Speaker 1: to celebrate this fourth of July. It's sure as hell

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Speaker 1: is an independence. It's sure as hell is not freedom

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Speaker 1: for more than half of the population who has a uterus,

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Speaker 1: that our rights have been taken away. If you are

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Speaker 1: a queer person, if you are a black person, if

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Speaker 1: you are a black bipop queer person, if you are

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Speaker 1: a non Christian person, your rights, your dignity, your safety,

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Speaker 1: your ability to create a life for yourself and your

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Speaker 1: family is under attack. And it is under attack because

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Speaker 1: we have a radicalized Supreme Court, we have a violent

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Speaker 1: insurrectionist party, and then we have the Democrats who have

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Speaker 1: shown themselves, shown themselves all the way out to be

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Speaker 1: nation is in. And so on this fourth of July,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to do what many of my predecessors and

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Speaker 1: many people have done on this day, which is read

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Speaker 1: Frederick Douglas's speech that he gave in eighteen fifty two

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Speaker 1: entitled What to the Slave is the fourth of July.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to read it in its entirety because what

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Speaker 1: I find right now, and I don't find solace in it,

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Speaker 1: it actually makes me quite sad, is that there was

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Speaker 1: a time when I would sit in this chair and

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Speaker 1: sit back and say, oh, my God, how far we

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Speaker 1: have come. How far my people, Black people in this

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Speaker 1: country and throughout the diaspora have come out of a

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Speaker 1: violent institution of slavery and been able to ascend to

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Speaker 1: some of the highest places in this nation and in

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Speaker 1: the world, despite not receiving reparations, despite not receiving the

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Speaker 1: same rights right as our fellow white counterparts in this country,

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Speaker 1: despite all of the obstacles, some violent and others just

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Speaker 1: through violence through policy, that have been placed in our way,

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Speaker 1: that we are still here, that we are still fighting,

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Speaker 1: we are still speaking out. We are this nation's canaries

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Speaker 1: in the coal mine. We're the ones that warn everybody

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Speaker 1: about what is coming. But for those that are white

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Speaker 1: insists and wealthy and privileged and hetero, they think that

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Speaker 1: about the rest of the citizens in this country that

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Speaker 1: they won't put their privilege out front and on the

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Speaker 1: a press. And So as I sit here on the

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Speaker 1: precipice of this fourth of July, when when you're listening

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Speaker 1: to this it will be the fourth of July, I

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Speaker 1: want you to really ask yourself what does it mean

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Speaker 1: land of the free, because we are not free. And

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Speaker 1: there are those people who are just waking up to

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Speaker 1: that because they have had the false sense of security

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Speaker 1: that Rove Wade could never possibly be overturned because it

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Speaker 1: was quote unquote precedent that once you have achieved rights

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Speaker 1: know that to be untrue. So for all of us

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Speaker 1: who had been on the front lines, yelling, scratch, shouting

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Speaker 1: we've hit the fucking iceberg. So today I feel no

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Speaker 1: question that people need to be asking themselves is what

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Speaker 1: Because a fight is exactly what we are going to need.

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Speaker 1: We are going to need warriors on the field. We're

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Speaker 1: lives now. Maybe just maybe this egregious, offensive, disastrous decision

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Speaker 1: so we all don't fucking blow up the one goddamn

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Speaker 1: you Frederick Douglas's What to the Slave Is? The fourth

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Speaker 1: of July only fifth, eighteen fifty two, Frederick Douglas was

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Speaker 1: Whatever the expectations of the audience, on that seventy sixth

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Speaker 1: Douglas's speech is now what I will begin, mister President,

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Speaker 1: friends and fellow citizens. He who could address this audience

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Speaker 1: I do not remember to have appeared as a speaker

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Speaker 1: I know that apologies of this sort are generally considered

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Speaker 1: on the present occasion. The papers and the play cards

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Speaker 1: This certainly sounds large and out of the common way.

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Speaker 1: For it is true that I have often had the

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Speaker 1: their familiar faces nor the perfect gage I think I

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Speaker 1: The fact is, ladies and gentlemen, the distance between this

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Speaker 1: I am here today is to me a matter of

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Speaker 1: astonishment as well of gratitude. You will not therefore be

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Speaker 1: no elaborate preparation, nor grace my speech with any high

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Speaker 1: and trusting to your patient and generous indulgence, I will

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Speaker 1: the birthday of your national independence and of your political freedom. This,

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Speaker 1: and that day. This celebration also marks the beginning of

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Speaker 1: the Republic of America is now seventy six years old.

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Speaker 1: I am glad, fellow citizens, that your nation is so

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Speaker 1: young seventy six years. Though a good old age for

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Speaker 1: by thousands. According to this fact, you are, even now,

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Speaker 1: this is so. There is hope in the thought, and

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Speaker 1: hope is much needed. Under the dark clouds which lower

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Speaker 1: May he not hope that high lessons of wisdom, of justice,

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Speaker 1: the reformers the reformer's brow heavier, Its future might be

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Speaker 1: But your fathers, who had not adopted the fashionable idea

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Speaker 1: To say now that America was right and England was

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Speaker 1: Would to God, both for your sakes and hours, that

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Speaker 1: nation's sympathy could not warm him? Who's abordent and dead

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Speaker 1: to the claims of gratitude, that would not thankfully acknowledge

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00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 1: such priceless benefits, who so stolid and selfish that would

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Speaker 1: not give his voice to swell the hallelujahs of a

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Speaker 1: nation's jubilee when the chains of servitude had been tom

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Speaker 1: from their limbs. I am not that man. In a

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00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 1: case like that, the dumb might eloquently speak and the

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Speaker 1: lame man leap as a heart. But such is not

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Speaker 1: the state of the case. I say it with a

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Speaker 1: sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not

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Speaker 1: included within the pale of this glorious anniversary. Your high

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00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:48,560
Speaker 1: independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings

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00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 1: in which you this day rejoice are not enjoyed in common.

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00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:58,959
Speaker 1: The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence bequeathed

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Speaker 1: by your fathers is shared by you, not by me.

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00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 1: The sunlight that brought life and healing to you has

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Speaker 1: brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July

448
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Speaker 1: is yours, not mine. You may rejoice. I must mourn

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Speaker 1: to drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated

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Speaker 1: temple of liberty and call upon him to join you

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Speaker 1: in the joyous Anthems were in humane, mockery and sacrilegious irony.

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Speaker 1: Do you mean, citizens, to mock me by asking me

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Speaker 1: to speak today? If so, there is a parallel to

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Speaker 1: your conduct. And let me warn you that it is

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Speaker 1: dangerous to copy the example of a nation whose crimes

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Speaker 1: lowering up to heaven were thrown down by the breath

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Speaker 1: of the Almighty, burying that nation in irrecoverable ruin. I

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Speaker 1: can today take up the plaintiff lament of appealed and

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Speaker 1: woe smitten people by the rivers of Babylon. There we

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Speaker 1: sat down, Yeah, we wept when we remembered Zion. We

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Speaker 1: hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst of

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Speaker 1: thereof For there they that carried us away captive required

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Speaker 1: of us a song, and they who wasted us required

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Speaker 1: of us mirth, saying, sing us one of those songs

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Speaker 1: of Zion? How we can sing the Lord's song in

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Speaker 1: a strange land? If I forget THEE O Jerusalem, let

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Speaker 1: my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not

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Speaker 1: remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of

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Speaker 1: my mouth. Fellow citizens, above your national tumultuous day, I

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Speaker 1: hear the mournful wail of millions whose chains heavy and

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Speaker 1: grievous this day, are today rendered more intolerable the jubilee

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Speaker 1: shouts that reach them. If I do forget, if I

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Speaker 1: do not faithfully remember those bleeding children of sorrow this day,

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Speaker 1: may my right hand forget her cunning, and may my

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Speaker 1: tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth. To forget

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Speaker 1: them to pass lightly over their wrongs and to chime

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Speaker 1: in with the popular theme, would be treason most scandalous

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Speaker 1: and shocking, and would make me a reproach before God

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Speaker 1: and the world. My subject, then, fellow citizens, is American slavery.

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Speaker 1: I shall see this day in its popular characteristics from

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Speaker 1: the slave's point of view, standing there identified with American bondmen,

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Speaker 1: making his wrongs mine. I do not hesitate to declare

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Speaker 1: with all my soul that the character and conduct of

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Speaker 1: this nation never looked blacker to me than on the

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Speaker 1: fourth of July. Whether we turn to the declarations of

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Speaker 1: the past or to the professions of the present, the

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Speaker 1: conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. America

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00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 1: is false to the past, false to the present, and

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Speaker 1: solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. Standing

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Speaker 1: with God and the crushed and bleeding slave. On this occasion,

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Speaker 1: I will, in the name of humanity which is outraged,

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Speaker 1: in the name of liberty which is fettered, in the

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Speaker 1: name of the Constitution and the Bible, which are disregarded

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Speaker 1: and trampled upon, dare to call in question and to

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Speaker 1: denounce with all the emphasis. I can command everything that

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Speaker 1: serves to perpetuate slavery, the great sin and shame of America.

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Speaker 1: I will not equivocate, I will not excuse. I will

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Speaker 1: use the severest language I can band. And yet not

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Speaker 1: one word shall escape me that any man whose judgment

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Speaker 1: is not blinded by prejudice, or who is not at

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Speaker 1: heart a slaveholder, shall not confess to be fight and just.

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Speaker 1: But I fancy I hear some of my audience say,

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Speaker 1: it is just in this circumstance that you and your

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00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:27,279
Speaker 1: brother abolitionists fail to make a favorable impression on the

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Speaker 1: public mind. Would you argue more and denounce less, Would

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00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:35,360
Speaker 1: you persuade more and rebuke less? Your cause would be

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00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:40,399
Speaker 1: much more likely to succeed. But I submit, where all

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Speaker 1: is plain, there is nothing to be argued. What point

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Speaker 1: in the antislavery creed would you have me argue on

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00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:50,880
Speaker 1: what branch of the subject do the people of this

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Speaker 1: country need? Light must I undertake to prove that I

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Speaker 1: that the slave is a man? That point is conceded already.

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Speaker 1: Nobody doubts it. This slave holders themselves acknowledge it in

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Speaker 1: the enactment of laws for their government. They acknowledge it

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Speaker 1: when they punish disobedience on the part of the slave.

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Speaker 1: There are seventy two crimes in the state of Virginia which,

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Speaker 1: if committed by a black man, no matter how ignorant

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Speaker 1: he be, subject him to the punishment of death, while

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00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:29,400
Speaker 1: only two of the same crimes will subject a white

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00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 1: man to the like punishment. Hey there, I want to

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Speaker 1: your podcast. New episodes every Tuesday. What is this but

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Speaker 1: the acknowledgement that the slave is a moral, intellectual, and

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Speaker 1: responsible being. The manhood of the slave is conceded. It

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00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 1: is admitted in the fact that the Southern statue books

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00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:53,880
Speaker 1: are covered with enactments forbidding under severe fines and penalties,

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Speaker 1: the teaching of the slave to read or to write.

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Speaker 1: When you can point to any such laws in reference

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Speaker 1: to the beasts of the field, then I may consent

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Speaker 1: to argue the manhood of the slave. When the dogs

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Speaker 1: in your streets, when the fowls of the air, when

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Speaker 1: the cattle on your hills. When the fish of the

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Speaker 1: sea and the reptile that crawl shall be unable to

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Speaker 1: distinguish the slave from a brute, there will I argue

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Speaker 1: with you that the slave is a man. For the present,

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Speaker 1: it is enough to affirm the equal manhood of the

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Speaker 1: Negro race. It is not astonishing that while we are plowing, planting,

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Speaker 1: and reaping, using all kinds of mechanical tools, erecting houses,

557
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Speaker 1: constructing bridges, building ships, working in metals of brass, iron, copper, silver,

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Speaker 1: and gold. That while we are reading, writing, and ciphering,

559
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Speaker 1: acting as clerks, merchants, secretaries, having among us lawyers, doctors, ministers, poets, authors, editors,

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Speaker 1: or raiders and teachers. That while we are engaged age

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Speaker 1: in all manners of enterprises common to other men, digging

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Speaker 1: gold in California, capturing the whale in the Pacific, feeding

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Speaker 1: sheep and cattle on the hillside, living, moving, acting, thinking, planning,

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Speaker 1: living in families as husbands, wives and children, and above all,

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Speaker 1: confessing and worshiping the Christians God, and looking hopefully for

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Speaker 1: life and an immorality beyond the grave. We are called

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Speaker 1: upon to prove that we are men. Would you have

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Speaker 1: me argue that man is entitled to liberty, that he

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Speaker 1: is the rightful owner of his body. You have already

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Speaker 1: declared it, must I argue the wrongfulness of slavery? Is

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Speaker 1: that a question for Republicans? Is it to be settled

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Speaker 1: by the rules of logic and argumentation? As a matter

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Speaker 1: beset with great difficulty involving a doubtful application of the

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Speaker 1: principle full of justice, hard to be understood. How should

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Speaker 1: I look today, in the presence of Americans dividing and

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Speaker 1: subdividing a discourse to show that men have a natural

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Speaker 1: right to freedom, speaking of it relatively and positively, and

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Speaker 1: negatively and affirmatively. To do so would be to make

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Speaker 1: myself ridiculous, and to offer an insult to your understanding.

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Speaker 1: There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven

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Speaker 1: that does not know that slavery is wrong for him?

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Speaker 1: What am I to argue that it is wrong to

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Speaker 1: make men brutes, to rob them of their liberty, to

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Speaker 1: work them without wages, to keep them ignorant of their

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Speaker 1: relations to their fellow men, to beat them with sticks,

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Speaker 1: to play their flesh with the lash, to load their

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Speaker 1: limbs with irons, to hunt them with dogs, to sell

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Speaker 1: them at auction, to sunder their families, to knock out

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Speaker 1: their teeth, to bum their flesh, to starve them into

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00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 1: obedience and submission to their masters. Must I argue that

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Speaker 1: a system thus marked with blood and stained with pollution

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Speaker 1: is wrong? No, I will not. I have better employments

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Speaker 1: for my time and strength than such arguments would imply.

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Speaker 1: What then remains to be argued? Is it that slavery

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Speaker 1: is not divine, that God did not establish it that

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Speaker 1: our doctors of divinity are mistaken? There is blasphemy in

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Speaker 1: the thought that which is inhumane cannot be divine? Who

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00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:50,560
Speaker 1: can reason on such a proposition? They that can, may

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Speaker 1: I cannot. The time for such an argument is past.

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Speaker 1: At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument

601
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:10,440
Speaker 1: is needed. Oh, had I the ability, could I reach

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Speaker 1: the nation's ear, I would today pour at a fiery

603
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 1: stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke.

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Speaker 1: For it is not light that is needed but fire.

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00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:32,120
Speaker 1: It is not the gentle shower but thunder. We need

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Speaker 1: the storm, the whirldwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of

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00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:39,520
Speaker 1: the nation must be quickened. The consciousness of the nation

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00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 1: must be roused. The priority or the nation must be startled.

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00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:50,799
Speaker 1: The hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed. It is

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Speaker 1: crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.

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Speaker 1: What to the American slave is the fourth of July?

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00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:12,799
Speaker 1: I answer a day that reveals to him, more than

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Speaker 1: all other days in the year, the gross injustice and

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00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:21,319
Speaker 1: cruelly to which he is the constant victim. To him,

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00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:27,680
Speaker 1: your celebration is a sham, your boasted liberty and unholy license,

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00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:33,480
Speaker 1: your national greatness swelling vanity. Your sounds of rejoicing are

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00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:39,400
Speaker 1: empty and heartless. Your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence,

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00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:44,400
Speaker 1: Your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery. Your prayers

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Speaker 1: and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all of your

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00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:54,799
Speaker 1: religious parade and solemnity, are to him mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety,

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Speaker 1: and hypocrisy, a thin veil to cover up crimes which

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Speaker 1: would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a

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Speaker 1: nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and

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Speaker 1: more bloody than are the people of these United States

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Speaker 1: at this very hour. Go where you may search where

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Speaker 1: you will roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of

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Speaker 1: the old world, traveled through South America, search out every abuse,

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Speaker 1: and when you have found the last, lay your facts

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Speaker 1: by the side of everyday practices of this nation, and

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Speaker 1: you will say with me that for revolting barbarity and

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Speaker 1: shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without rival. Take the American slave trade,

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Speaker 1: which we are told by the papers, is especially prosperous.

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Speaker 1: Just now, ex Senator Benton tells us that the price

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Speaker 1: of men was never higher than now. He meant the

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Speaker 1: fact to show that slavery is in no danger. This

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Speaker 1: trade is one of the peculiarities of American institutions. It

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Speaker 1: is carried on in all the large towns and cities

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Speaker 1: in one half of this Confederacy, and millions are pocketed

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00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:26,800
Speaker 1: every year by dealers in this horrid traffic. In several states.

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Speaker 1: This trade is a chief source of wealth. It is called,

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Speaker 1: in contradiction to the foreign slave trade, the internal slave trade.

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Speaker 1: It is probably called so too, in order to divert

643
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:42,400
Speaker 1: from it the horror with which the foreign slave trade

644
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:46,279
Speaker 1: is contemplated. That trade has long since been denounced by

645
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:50,520
Speaker 1: this government as piracy. It has been denounced with burning

646
00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:54,120
Speaker 1: words from the high places of the nation as an

647
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:59,040
Speaker 1: examable traffic. To arrest it, to put an end to it,

648
00:47:59,239 --> 00:48:03,839
Speaker 1: this nation keeps a squadron at immense costs on the

649
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:09,320
Speaker 1: coast of Africa. Everywhere in this country, it is safe

650
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:12,240
Speaker 1: to speak of this foreign slave trade as a most

651
00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 1: inhumane traffic, opposed alike to the laws of God and

652
00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:24,360
Speaker 1: of man. The duty to extirpate and destroy it is

653
00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:28,279
Speaker 1: admitted even by our doctors of Divinity. In order to

654
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:30,840
Speaker 1: put an end to it, some of these last have

655
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:35,920
Speaker 1: consented that their colored brethren, nominally free, should leave the

656
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 1: country and establish themselves on the western coast of Africa.

657
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:44,320
Speaker 1: It is, however, a notable fact, that while so much

658
00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:48,759
Speaker 1: exploration is poured out by Americans upon those engaged in

659
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:51,560
Speaker 1: the foreign slave trade, the men engage in the slave

660
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:56,360
Speaker 1: trade between the states pass without condemnation, and their business

661
00:48:56,800 --> 00:49:05,719
Speaker 1: is deemed honorable. Behold the practical operation of this internal

662
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:10,200
Speaker 1: slave trade, the American slave trade, sustained by the American

663
00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:14,680
Speaker 1: politics and American religion. Here you will see men and

664
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:18,400
Speaker 1: women reared like swine for the market. You know what

665
00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:22,160
Speaker 1: it is, a swine drover. I will show you a

666
00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:28,920
Speaker 1: man drover. They inhabit all our southern states. They permevaluate

667
00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:32,440
Speaker 1: the country and crowd the highways of the nation with

668
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:38,040
Speaker 1: droves of human stock. You will see one of these

669
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:42,400
Speaker 1: human flesh jobbers, armed with pistol, whip and bowie knife,

670
00:49:42,719 --> 00:49:46,080
Speaker 1: driving a company of a hundred men, women and children

671
00:49:46,120 --> 00:49:49,120
Speaker 1: from the Potomac to the slave market a New Orleans.

672
00:49:50,080 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 1: These wretched people are to be sold singingly or in

673
00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:59,760
Speaker 1: lots to suit purchasers. They are food for the cotton

674
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:04,160
Speaker 1: field and the deadly sugar mill. Mark the sad procession

675
00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:07,879
Speaker 1: as it moves wearily along, and the inhumane wretch who

676
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:12,440
Speaker 1: drives them. Hear his savage yells and his blood chilling

677
00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:17,959
Speaker 1: oaths as he hurries on his aggrided captives. There see

678
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:22,560
Speaker 1: the old man, with locks thinned and gray. Cast one glance,

679
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 1: if you please, upon the young mother, whose shoulders are

680
00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:29,560
Speaker 1: bare to the scorching sun, her briny tears falling on

681
00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:33,080
Speaker 1: the brow of the babe in her arms. See too

682
00:50:33,239 --> 00:50:37,239
Speaker 1: that the girl thirteen weeping, Yes, weeping as she thinks

683
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:40,160
Speaker 1: of the mother from whom she has been torn. The

684
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:46,640
Speaker 1: droves moves tartedly, heat and sorrow have merely consumed their strength.

685
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:49,640
Speaker 1: Suddenly you hear a quick snap, like the discharge of

686
00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:53,480
Speaker 1: a rifle. The fetters clank in the chain rattles simultaneously,

687
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:57,920
Speaker 1: Your ears are saluted with a scream that seems to

688
00:50:57,920 --> 00:51:00,280
Speaker 1: have torn its away to the center of your soul.

689
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:04,000
Speaker 1: The crack you heard was the sound of the slave whip.

690
00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:07,760
Speaker 1: The scream you heard was from the woman you saw

691
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:12,560
Speaker 1: with the babe. Her speed had faltered under the weight

692
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 1: of her child and her chains. That gash on her

693
00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:28,160
Speaker 1: shoulder tells her to move on. Follow the drove to

694
00:51:28,239 --> 00:51:33,279
Speaker 1: New Orleans. Attend the auction. See men examined like horses.

695
00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:37,400
Speaker 1: See the forms of women rudely and brutally exposed. The

696
00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:42,880
Speaker 1: shocking gaze of American slave buyers. See this drove souled

697
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:48,320
Speaker 1: and separated forever, and never forget the deep sad sobs

698
00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:53,880
Speaker 1: that arose from the scattered multitude. Tell me, citizens, where

699
00:51:54,080 --> 00:51:57,680
Speaker 1: under the sun you can witness a spectacle more fiendish

700
00:51:57,719 --> 00:52:01,080
Speaker 1: and shocking. Yet, this is but a glance at the

701
00:52:01,120 --> 00:52:05,239
Speaker 1: American slave trade as it exists at this moment in

702
00:52:05,280 --> 00:52:11,640
Speaker 1: the ruling part of the United States. I was born

703
00:52:11,719 --> 00:52:16,040
Speaker 1: amid such sights and scenes. To me, the American slave

704
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:20,360
Speaker 1: trade is a terrible reality. When a child, my soul

705
00:52:20,480 --> 00:52:23,719
Speaker 1: was often pierced with a sense of its horrors. I

706
00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:30,200
Speaker 1: lived on Philpot Street, Fells Point, Baltimore, and have watched

707
00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:34,360
Speaker 1: from the wharves the slave ships in the basin, anchored

708
00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:38,360
Speaker 1: from the shore with their cargoes of human flesh, waiting

709
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:43,279
Speaker 1: for favorable winds to waff them down the Chesapeake. There

710
00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:48,359
Speaker 1: was at this time a grand slave mart kept at

711
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:52,520
Speaker 1: the head of Pratt Street by Austin Woodfolk. His agents

712
00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:56,400
Speaker 1: were sent into every town in county in Maryland, announcing

713
00:52:56,440 --> 00:53:00,840
Speaker 1: their arrival through the papers and on flaming handbill headed

714
00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:05,719
Speaker 1: cash for negroes. These men were generally well dressed and

715
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:10,000
Speaker 1: very captivating in their manners, ever ready to drink, to treat,

716
00:53:10,040 --> 00:53:13,279
Speaker 1: and to gamble. The fate of many a slave was

717
00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:16,600
Speaker 1: depended upon the turn of a single card, and a

718
00:53:16,680 --> 00:53:19,600
Speaker 1: many a child has been snatched from the arms of

719
00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:22,960
Speaker 1: its mothers by bargains arranged in the state of a

720
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:30,040
Speaker 1: brutal drunkenness. The fleshmongers gather up their victims by the

721
00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:34,160
Speaker 1: dozens and drive them chained to the general depot in Baltimore.

722
00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:37,560
Speaker 1: When a sufficient number have been collected here, a ship

723
00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:40,680
Speaker 1: is charted for the purpose of conveying the four long

724
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:44,480
Speaker 1: crew to Mobile or to New Orleans. From the slave

725
00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:47,360
Speaker 1: prison to the ship, they are usually driven in the

726
00:53:47,440 --> 00:53:51,680
Speaker 1: darkness of night, for since the antislavery agitation, a certain

727
00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:58,520
Speaker 1: caution is observed in the deep, still darkness of midnight.

728
00:53:59,239 --> 00:54:03,399
Speaker 1: I have been often aroused by the dead heavy footsteps

729
00:54:03,400 --> 00:54:07,320
Speaker 1: and the piotous cries of the chain gangs that passed

730
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:11,600
Speaker 1: our door. The anguish of my boyish heart was intense,

731
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:15,160
Speaker 1: and I was often consoled when speaking to my mistress

732
00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:18,600
Speaker 1: in the morning, to hear her say that the custom

733
00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:22,160
Speaker 1: was very wicked, that she hated to hear the rattle

734
00:54:22,239 --> 00:54:26,560
Speaker 1: of the change and the heartrending cries. I was glad

735
00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:31,560
Speaker 1: to find one who sympathized with me in horror, fellow citizens,

736
00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:38,319
Speaker 1: this murderous traffic is today in active operation in this

737
00:54:38,440 --> 00:54:42,399
Speaker 1: boasted republic. In the solitude of my spirit, I see

738
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:45,560
Speaker 1: clouds of dust raised on the highways of the South.

739
00:54:46,120 --> 00:54:49,680
Speaker 1: I see the bleeding footsteps. I hear the doleful wail

740
00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:53,680
Speaker 1: of fettered humanity on the way to the slave markets,

741
00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:56,960
Speaker 1: where the victims are to be sold like horses, sheep,

742
00:54:57,239 --> 00:55:03,440
Speaker 1: and swine, knocked off to the highest bidder. There I

743
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:09,120
Speaker 1: see the tenderest ties, ruthlessly broken to gratify the lust, caprice,

744
00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:12,640
Speaker 1: and rapacity of the buyers and sellers of men. My

745
00:55:12,760 --> 00:55:18,080
Speaker 1: soul sickens at the site in this land your father's loved,

746
00:55:18,320 --> 00:55:22,200
Speaker 1: the freedom which they toiled to win? Is this the

747
00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:27,400
Speaker 1: earth whereon they moved? Are these the graves they slumber in?

748
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:35,000
Speaker 1: But is still more inhumane, disgraceful, and scandalous state of

749
00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:38,480
Speaker 1: things remained to be presented By an Act of American

750
00:55:38,560 --> 00:55:42,640
Speaker 1: Congress not yet two years old, Slavery has been nationalized

751
00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:46,320
Speaker 1: in its horrible and revolting form by the Act. Mason

752
00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:50,440
Speaker 1: and Dixon's line has been obliterated. New York has become

753
00:55:50,600 --> 00:55:54,000
Speaker 1: as Virginia, and the power to hold, hunt, and sell men,

754
00:55:54,120 --> 00:55:57,239
Speaker 1: women and children as slaves remains no longer a mere

755
00:55:57,320 --> 00:56:00,520
Speaker 1: state institution, but it is now an institut tuition of

756
00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:05,520
Speaker 1: the whole United States. The power is co extensive with

757
00:56:05,600 --> 00:56:10,520
Speaker 1: the star spangled banner and American Christianity. Where these go

758
00:56:11,560 --> 00:56:15,439
Speaker 1: may also go the merciless slave hunter where these are,

759
00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:20,200
Speaker 1: man is not sacred. He is a bird for the

760
00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:25,600
Speaker 1: sportsman's gun. By that most foul and fiendish of all

761
00:56:25,680 --> 00:56:28,600
Speaker 1: human decrees, the liberty and person of every man are

762
00:56:28,640 --> 00:56:33,720
Speaker 1: put in peril. Your broad, republican domain is hunting ground

763
00:56:34,080 --> 00:56:39,800
Speaker 1: for men, not for thieves and robbers, enemies of society merely,

764
00:56:40,080 --> 00:56:45,759
Speaker 1: but for men guilty of no crime. Your lawmakers have

765
00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:51,960
Speaker 1: commanded all good citizens to engage in this hellish sport,

766
00:56:52,680 --> 00:56:57,160
Speaker 1: Your President, your secretary of State, your lord's nobles in

767
00:56:57,360 --> 00:57:00,640
Speaker 1: force as a duty you owe to your free, glorious

768
00:57:00,680 --> 00:57:04,959
Speaker 1: country and to your God that you do this accursed thing.

769
00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:09,200
Speaker 1: Not fewer than forty Americans have within the past two

770
00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:13,280
Speaker 1: years been hunted down and, without a moment's warning, hurried

771
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:18,200
Speaker 1: away in chains and co signed to slavery and excruciating torture.

772
00:57:19,480 --> 00:57:22,240
Speaker 1: Some of these have had wives and children depended on

773
00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:25,680
Speaker 1: them for bread, but of this no account was made.

774
00:57:26,120 --> 00:57:28,880
Speaker 1: The right of the hunter to his price stands superior

775
00:57:29,440 --> 00:57:32,240
Speaker 1: to the right of marriage, and to all the rights

776
00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:39,919
Speaker 1: in this republic, the rights of God included. For black men,

777
00:57:41,480 --> 00:57:47,000
Speaker 1: there are neither law, justice, humanity, not religion. The fugitive

778
00:57:47,040 --> 00:57:52,320
Speaker 1: slave law makes mercy to them a crime, and bribes

779
00:57:52,360 --> 00:57:56,000
Speaker 1: the judge who tries them. An American judge gets ten

780
00:57:56,080 --> 00:57:58,840
Speaker 1: dollars for every victim he co signs to slavery in

781
00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:02,760
Speaker 1: five when he fails to do so, the oath of

782
00:58:02,800 --> 00:58:07,280
Speaker 1: any two villains is sufficient under his hell black enactment

783
00:58:07,560 --> 00:58:11,760
Speaker 1: to send the most pious and exemplary black men into

784
00:58:11,800 --> 00:58:17,160
Speaker 1: the remorseless jaws of slavery. His own testimony is nothing.

785
00:58:18,160 --> 00:58:21,680
Speaker 1: He can bring no witness for himself. The Minister of

786
00:58:21,720 --> 00:58:24,760
Speaker 1: American Justice is bound by the law to hear but

787
00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:29,160
Speaker 1: one side, and that side is a side of the oppressor.

788
00:58:30,040 --> 00:58:33,720
Speaker 1: Let this damning fact be perpetually told. Let it be

789
00:58:34,040 --> 00:58:38,080
Speaker 1: thundered around the world, that in tyrant, killing, king hating

790
00:58:38,360 --> 00:58:42,800
Speaker 1: people loving, democratic Christian America, the seats of justice are

791
00:58:42,840 --> 00:58:46,560
Speaker 1: filled with judges who hold their offices under an open

792
00:58:46,680 --> 00:58:50,160
Speaker 1: and palpable bribe, and are bound in deciding in the

793
00:58:50,200 --> 00:58:53,919
Speaker 1: case of a man's liberty, to hear only his accusers,

794
00:58:55,800 --> 00:58:59,480
Speaker 1: in glaring violation of justice and shameless disregard of the

795
00:58:59,480 --> 00:59:04,960
Speaker 1: forms of administrating law, in cunning arrangement to entract the defenseless,

796
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:09,440
Speaker 1: and in diabolical intent, this fugitive slave law stands alone

797
00:59:09,520 --> 00:59:13,960
Speaker 1: in the annals of tyrannical legislation. I doubt if there

798
00:59:14,040 --> 00:59:17,280
Speaker 1: be another nation on the globe having the brass and

799
00:59:17,360 --> 00:59:20,960
Speaker 1: the baseness to put such a law on the statute books.

800
00:59:21,560 --> 00:59:24,680
Speaker 1: If any man in this assembly thinks differently from me

801
00:59:24,840 --> 00:59:28,280
Speaker 1: in this matter, and feels able to disprove my statements,

802
00:59:28,480 --> 00:59:31,600
Speaker 1: I will gladly confront him at any suitable time and

803
00:59:31,760 --> 00:59:37,560
Speaker 1: place he may select. I take this law to be

804
00:59:37,600 --> 00:59:41,680
Speaker 1: one of the grossest infringements of Christian liberty. And if

805
00:59:41,760 --> 00:59:44,200
Speaker 1: the churches and the ministers of our country were not

806
00:59:44,320 --> 00:59:49,160
Speaker 1: stupidly blind or most wickedly indifferent, they too would so

807
00:59:49,360 --> 00:59:57,120
Speaker 1: regard it. At the very moment that they are thanking

808
00:59:57,160 --> 01:00:00,320
Speaker 1: God for the enjoyment of civil and religious liberty and

809
01:00:00,400 --> 01:00:03,080
Speaker 1: for the right to worship God. According to the dictates

810
01:00:03,120 --> 01:00:06,880
Speaker 1: of their own consciousness, they are utterly silent in the

811
01:00:06,960 --> 01:00:09,960
Speaker 1: respect to a law which rob's religion of its chief

812
01:00:10,040 --> 01:00:14,280
Speaker 1: significance and makes it utterly worthless to a world lying

813
01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:18,840
Speaker 1: in wickedness. Did this law concern the quote meant and

814
01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:22,880
Speaker 1: niece and common abridge the fight to sing psalms, to

815
01:00:22,880 --> 01:00:25,360
Speaker 1: partake of the sacrament, or to engage in any of

816
01:00:25,360 --> 01:00:28,280
Speaker 1: the ceremonies of religion, It would be smitten by the

817
01:00:28,280 --> 01:00:32,680
Speaker 1: thunder of a thousand pulpits. A general shout would go

818
01:00:32,840 --> 01:00:37,720
Speaker 1: up from the church, demanding repeal, repeal, instant, repeal, and

819
01:00:37,800 --> 01:00:40,400
Speaker 1: it would go hard with the politicians who presume to

820
01:00:40,400 --> 01:00:43,760
Speaker 1: solicit the votes of the people without inscribing his motto

821
01:00:44,040 --> 01:00:48,120
Speaker 1: on his banner. Further, if this demand were not complied

822
01:00:48,200 --> 01:00:51,560
Speaker 1: with another, Scotland would be added to the history of

823
01:00:51,600 --> 01:00:55,840
Speaker 1: religious liberty, and the stern old conveners would be thrown

824
01:00:56,000 --> 01:01:00,480
Speaker 1: into the shade. A John Knox would be seen at

825
01:01:00,520 --> 01:01:03,880
Speaker 1: every church door and heard from every pulpit. A fillmore

826
01:01:03,920 --> 01:01:06,800
Speaker 1: would have no more quarter than was shown by Knox

827
01:01:06,880 --> 01:01:10,720
Speaker 1: to the beautiful but treacherous Queen Mary of Scotland. The

828
01:01:10,840 --> 01:01:14,760
Speaker 1: fact that the Church of our country, with fractional exceptions,

829
01:01:14,880 --> 01:01:19,040
Speaker 1: does not esteem the fugitive slave Law as a declaration

830
01:01:19,040 --> 01:01:23,440
Speaker 1: of war against religious liberty implies that the Church regards

831
01:01:23,520 --> 01:01:27,440
Speaker 1: religion simply as a form of worship, an empty ceremony,

832
01:01:27,520 --> 01:01:32,560
Speaker 1: and not a vital principle requiring active benevolence, justice, love,

833
01:01:32,760 --> 01:01:38,920
Speaker 1: and goodwill towards man. It esteemed sacrifice above mercy, psalm,

834
01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:44,080
Speaker 1: singing above right, doing solemn meetings above practical righteousness, a

835
01:01:44,160 --> 01:01:47,760
Speaker 1: worship that can be conducted by person who refuse to

836
01:01:47,800 --> 01:01:50,400
Speaker 1: give shelter to the house, lists, to give bread to

837
01:01:50,440 --> 01:01:54,480
Speaker 1: the hungry, clothing to the naked, and who enjoy obedience

838
01:01:54,560 --> 01:01:57,800
Speaker 1: to a law. Forbidding these acts of mercy is a curse,

839
01:01:58,120 --> 01:02:03,240
Speaker 1: not a blessing to mankind. The Bible addresses all such

840
01:02:03,320 --> 01:02:09,520
Speaker 1: persons as scribes, pharisees, hypocrites, who pay tithe of men

841
01:02:09,600 --> 01:02:12,640
Speaker 1: to a niece and cuman and have omitted the weightier

842
01:02:12,760 --> 01:02:16,880
Speaker 1: matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith. But the

843
01:02:16,960 --> 01:02:20,600
Speaker 1: Church of this country is not only indifferent to the

844
01:02:20,600 --> 01:02:25,880
Speaker 1: wrongs of die slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors.

845
01:02:26,280 --> 01:02:29,880
Speaker 1: It has made itself the bulwark of American slavery and

846
01:02:30,000 --> 01:02:33,960
Speaker 1: the shield of American slave hunters. Many of its most

847
01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:38,640
Speaker 1: eloquent divines, who stand as the very lights of the Church,

848
01:02:38,760 --> 01:02:42,080
Speaker 1: have shamelessly given the sanction of religion and the Bible

849
01:02:42,320 --> 01:02:46,960
Speaker 1: to the whole slave system. They have taught that man

850
01:02:47,200 --> 01:02:50,360
Speaker 1: may properly be a slave, that the relation of the

851
01:02:50,440 --> 01:02:55,120
Speaker 1: master and slave is ordained of God, that to send

852
01:02:55,160 --> 01:02:58,560
Speaker 1: back an escape bondmen to his master is clearly the

853
01:02:58,640 --> 01:03:02,160
Speaker 1: duty of all followers of Lord Jesus Christ, and this

854
01:03:02,400 --> 01:03:09,960
Speaker 1: horrible blasphemy is palmed off upon the world of Christianity.

855
01:03:10,800 --> 01:03:17,200
Speaker 1: For my part, I would say, welcome infidelity, Welcome atheism,

856
01:03:17,800 --> 01:03:21,160
Speaker 1: Welcome anything in preference to the Gospel it's preached by

857
01:03:21,200 --> 01:03:25,919
Speaker 1: those divines. They covered the very name of religion into

858
01:03:26,000 --> 01:03:29,320
Speaker 1: an engine of tyranny and a barbarous cruelty, and to

859
01:03:29,440 --> 01:03:34,200
Speaker 1: serve to confirm more infidels in this age than all infidels.

860
01:03:34,200 --> 01:03:39,520
Speaker 1: Writing of Thomas Payne, Voltaire Balenbroch put together have done

861
01:03:40,760 --> 01:03:44,520
Speaker 1: these ministers make religion a cold and flinty hearted thing,

862
01:03:44,960 --> 01:03:48,680
Speaker 1: having neither principles of right action nor bowels of compassion.

863
01:03:49,240 --> 01:03:52,440
Speaker 1: They strip the God of its beauty and leave the

864
01:03:52,480 --> 01:03:56,240
Speaker 1: throng of religion a huge, horrible, repulsive form. It is

865
01:03:56,280 --> 01:04:01,520
Speaker 1: a religion for oppressors, tyrants, man stealers, thugs. It is

866
01:04:01,600 --> 01:04:05,720
Speaker 1: not that pure and undefiled religion which is from above,

867
01:04:05,880 --> 01:04:10,280
Speaker 1: and which is first pure, then peaceable, easy to be entreated,

868
01:04:10,360 --> 01:04:15,320
Speaker 1: full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy,

869
01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:19,640
Speaker 1: But a religion which favors the rich against the poor,

870
01:04:19,640 --> 01:04:23,560
Speaker 1: which exalts the proud over the humble, which divides mankind

871
01:04:23,600 --> 01:04:27,560
Speaker 1: into two classes, tyrants and slaves, which says to the

872
01:04:27,640 --> 01:04:31,240
Speaker 1: man in Chaine, stay there, and to the oppressor oppress on.

873
01:04:31,560 --> 01:04:34,640
Speaker 1: It is a religion which may be professed and enjoyed

874
01:04:34,840 --> 01:04:38,960
Speaker 1: by all the robbers and enslavers of mankind. It makes

875
01:04:39,040 --> 01:04:43,360
Speaker 1: God a respecter of persons, denies his fatherhood of the race,

876
01:04:43,600 --> 01:04:46,800
Speaker 1: and tramples in the dust the great truth of brotherhood

877
01:04:46,840 --> 01:04:50,360
Speaker 1: of man. All this will affirm to be true of

878
01:04:50,360 --> 01:04:53,280
Speaker 1: the popular Church and the popular worship of our land

879
01:04:53,320 --> 01:04:56,440
Speaker 1: and nation. A religion, a church and a worship which,

880
01:04:56,600 --> 01:04:59,560
Speaker 1: on the authority of inspired wisdom, we pronounced to be

881
01:04:59,600 --> 01:05:04,120
Speaker 1: an a domination in the sight of God. In the

882
01:05:04,200 --> 01:05:07,640
Speaker 1: language of Isaiah, the American Church might be well addressed.

883
01:05:07,920 --> 01:05:12,160
Speaker 1: Bring no more vain ablations in sense in an abomination

884
01:05:12,280 --> 01:05:15,800
Speaker 1: unto me, the new moons and Sabbaths, the calling of assemblies,

885
01:05:15,840 --> 01:05:18,840
Speaker 1: I cannot away with. It is inequity. Even in the

886
01:05:18,920 --> 01:05:22,800
Speaker 1: solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts. My

887
01:05:22,960 --> 01:05:26,000
Speaker 1: soul hateth they are a trouble to me. I am

888
01:05:26,040 --> 01:05:29,600
Speaker 1: weary to bear them. And when ye spread forth your hands,

889
01:05:29,600 --> 01:05:33,440
Speaker 1: I will hide mine eyes from you. YEA, when ye

890
01:05:33,680 --> 01:05:36,880
Speaker 1: make many prayers, I will not hear your hands are

891
01:05:36,920 --> 01:05:40,120
Speaker 1: full of blood. Cease to do evil, learn to do well,

892
01:05:40,360 --> 01:05:44,440
Speaker 1: Seek judgment, Relieve the oppressed, Judge for the fatherless, Plead

893
01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:53,000
Speaker 1: for the widow. The American Church is guilty when viewed

894
01:05:53,080 --> 01:05:56,640
Speaker 1: in connection with what is doing to uphold slavery, but

895
01:05:56,720 --> 01:06:01,600
Speaker 1: it is superlatively guilty when viewed in connection with its

896
01:06:01,640 --> 01:06:07,320
Speaker 1: ability to abolish slavery. The sin of which it is

897
01:06:07,320 --> 01:06:10,480
Speaker 1: guilty is one of omission as well as of commission.

898
01:06:11,200 --> 01:06:14,960
Speaker 1: Albert Barnes but uttered what the common sense of every

899
01:06:14,960 --> 01:06:18,280
Speaker 1: man at all, observant of actual state of the case,

900
01:06:18,320 --> 01:06:22,880
Speaker 1: will receive as truth when he declared that quote, there

901
01:06:22,960 --> 01:06:25,760
Speaker 1: is no power out of the church that could sustain

902
01:06:25,920 --> 01:06:30,720
Speaker 1: slavery an hour if it were not sustained in it.

903
01:06:34,040 --> 01:06:37,200
Speaker 1: Let their religious press, the pulpit, the Sunday School, the

904
01:06:37,200 --> 01:06:42,520
Speaker 1: conference meeting, the great accessful missionary Bible, and the tract

905
01:06:42,560 --> 01:06:46,680
Speaker 1: associations of the land array their immense powers against slavery

906
01:06:46,960 --> 01:06:50,360
Speaker 1: and slaveholding, and the whole system of crime and blood

907
01:06:50,440 --> 01:06:53,720
Speaker 1: would be scattered to the winds. And that they do

908
01:06:53,800 --> 01:06:58,600
Speaker 1: not do this involves them in the most awful responsibility

909
01:06:58,600 --> 01:07:04,040
Speaker 1: of which the mode can conceive. In prosecuting the anti

910
01:07:04,200 --> 01:07:07,880
Speaker 1: slavery enterprise. We have been asked to spare the Church,

911
01:07:07,960 --> 01:07:11,800
Speaker 1: to spare the ministry. But how we ask could such

912
01:07:11,800 --> 01:07:15,440
Speaker 1: a thing be done. We are met on the threshold

913
01:07:15,680 --> 01:07:18,840
Speaker 1: of our efforts for the redemption of the slave by

914
01:07:18,880 --> 01:07:21,720
Speaker 1: the Church and the ministry of the country in battle

915
01:07:21,880 --> 01:07:28,000
Speaker 1: arrayed against us. We are compelled to fight or flee

916
01:07:29,240 --> 01:07:32,800
Speaker 1: from what quarter I beg to know has proceeded a

917
01:07:32,840 --> 01:07:37,800
Speaker 1: fire so deadly upon our ranks. During the last two years,

918
01:07:37,920 --> 01:07:41,920
Speaker 1: as from the northern pulpit, as the champions of oppressors

919
01:07:42,320 --> 01:07:46,000
Speaker 1: and the chosen men of American theology have appeared men

920
01:07:46,120 --> 01:07:50,120
Speaker 1: honored for their so called piety and their real learning.

921
01:07:50,760 --> 01:07:53,240
Speaker 1: The Lords of Buffalo, the Springs of New York, the

922
01:07:53,320 --> 01:07:57,200
Speaker 1: Landthards of Auburn, the Coaxes, the Spencers of Brooklyn, the Ganets,

923
01:07:57,240 --> 01:08:00,200
Speaker 1: the Sharps of Boston, the Duties of Washington, and other

924
01:08:00,240 --> 01:08:03,120
Speaker 1: great religious lights of the land have an utter denial

925
01:08:03,200 --> 01:08:06,560
Speaker 1: of authority of him by whom the profess to be

926
01:08:06,640 --> 01:08:10,320
Speaker 1: called to the ministry deliberately taught us. Against the example

927
01:08:10,360 --> 01:08:14,520
Speaker 1: of Hebrews and against the remonstrance of Apostles. They teach

928
01:08:15,080 --> 01:08:18,240
Speaker 1: that we ought to obey man's law before the law

929
01:08:18,439 --> 01:08:33,679
Speaker 1: of God. My spirit wearies of such blasphemy. And how

930
01:08:33,800 --> 01:08:36,840
Speaker 1: such men can be supported as the standing types and

931
01:08:36,960 --> 01:08:40,599
Speaker 1: representatives of Jesus Christ is a mystery which I leave

932
01:08:40,720 --> 01:08:44,559
Speaker 1: others to penetrate. In speaking of the American Church, however,

933
01:08:44,760 --> 01:08:48,040
Speaker 1: let it be distinctly understood that I mean the great

934
01:08:48,160 --> 01:08:52,840
Speaker 1: mass of the religious organizations of our land. There are exceptions,

935
01:08:53,040 --> 01:08:56,400
Speaker 1: and I think God that there are noble men may

936
01:08:56,400 --> 01:09:00,439
Speaker 1: be found scattered all over these northern states, of whom

937
01:09:00,600 --> 01:09:04,680
Speaker 1: Henry Ward Beecher of Brooklyn, Samuel J. May of syracusan

938
01:09:04,760 --> 01:09:09,760
Speaker 1: my esteemed friend Reverend R. R. Raymond on the platform,

939
01:09:09,840 --> 01:09:14,639
Speaker 1: are shining examples. And let me say further that upon

940
01:09:14,720 --> 01:09:18,160
Speaker 1: these men lies the duty to inspire our ranks with

941
01:09:18,280 --> 01:09:22,120
Speaker 1: their high religious faith in zeal And to cheer us

942
01:09:22,240 --> 01:09:26,400
Speaker 1: in the great mission of the slave's redemption from his chains.

943
01:09:27,880 --> 01:09:31,080
Speaker 1: One is struck with the difference between the attitude of

944
01:09:31,120 --> 01:09:35,040
Speaker 1: the American Church towards the antislavery movement and the occupied

945
01:09:35,320 --> 01:09:38,120
Speaker 1: by the Church in England towards a similar movement in

946
01:09:38,160 --> 01:09:44,360
Speaker 1: that country. There the Church, true to its mission of ameliorating, elevating,

947
01:09:44,360 --> 01:09:48,759
Speaker 1: and improving the condition of mankind came forward promptly bound

948
01:09:48,760 --> 01:09:51,680
Speaker 1: by the wounds of the West Indian slave, and restored

949
01:09:51,760 --> 01:09:55,320
Speaker 1: him to his liberty. There the question of emancipation was

950
01:09:55,439 --> 01:09:58,920
Speaker 1: highly religious question. It was demanded in the name of

951
01:09:59,000 --> 01:10:02,120
Speaker 1: humanity and according to the law of the Living God.

952
01:10:03,280 --> 01:10:07,120
Speaker 1: The Sharps, the Clarksons, the williber Forces, the Buxton, the Burchells,

953
01:10:07,160 --> 01:10:11,760
Speaker 1: the Cannibs were alike famous for their piety and for

954
01:10:11,880 --> 01:10:17,160
Speaker 1: their philanthropy. The anti slavery movement there was not an

955
01:10:17,200 --> 01:10:19,960
Speaker 1: anti church movement for the reason that the Church took

956
01:10:20,000 --> 01:10:23,759
Speaker 1: its full share in prosecuting that movement. And the anti

957
01:10:23,760 --> 01:10:27,360
Speaker 1: slavery movement in this country will cease to be an

958
01:10:27,439 --> 01:10:31,040
Speaker 1: anti church movement when the Church of this country shall

959
01:10:31,080 --> 01:10:40,920
Speaker 1: assume a favorable instead or a hostile position towards the movement. Americans,

960
01:10:42,400 --> 01:10:47,280
Speaker 1: your republican politics, not less than your Republican religion, are

961
01:10:47,439 --> 01:10:52,160
Speaker 1: flagrantly inconsistent. You boast of your love of liberty, your

962
01:10:52,200 --> 01:10:57,200
Speaker 1: superior civilization, and your pure Christianity, while the whole political

963
01:10:57,200 --> 01:10:59,639
Speaker 1: power of the nation, has embodied in the two great

964
01:10:59,680 --> 01:11:04,160
Speaker 1: political parties, is solemnly pledged to support and perpetuate the

965
01:11:04,280 --> 01:11:09,280
Speaker 1: enslavement of three millions of your countrymen. You hurl your

966
01:11:09,320 --> 01:11:14,200
Speaker 1: anathemas at the crowded head tyrants of Russia and Austria,

967
01:11:14,439 --> 01:11:18,560
Speaker 1: and pride yourselves on your democratic institutions, while you yourselves

968
01:11:19,120 --> 01:11:22,240
Speaker 1: consent to be the mere tools and bodyguards of the

969
01:11:22,280 --> 01:11:27,240
Speaker 1: tyrants of Virginia and Carolina. You invite to your shores

970
01:11:27,400 --> 01:11:31,599
Speaker 1: fugitives of oppression from abroad, honor them with banquets, greet

971
01:11:31,640 --> 01:11:35,320
Speaker 1: them with ovations, cheer them, toast them, salute them, protect them,

972
01:11:36,040 --> 01:11:39,280
Speaker 1: and pour out money to them like water. But the

973
01:11:39,400 --> 01:11:45,400
Speaker 1: fugitives from your own land you advertise, hunt, arrest, shoot,

974
01:11:45,640 --> 01:11:52,800
Speaker 1: and kill. You glory in your refinements and your universal education.

975
01:11:52,960 --> 01:11:56,840
Speaker 1: Yet you maintain a system as barbarious and dreadful as

976
01:11:56,840 --> 01:12:00,599
Speaker 1: ever stained in the character of a nation, assist begun

977
01:12:00,840 --> 01:12:06,680
Speaker 1: and avarice, supported in pride, and perpetuated in cruelty. You

978
01:12:06,800 --> 01:12:11,200
Speaker 1: shed tears overfallen hungry, and make the sad story of

979
01:12:11,200 --> 01:12:14,320
Speaker 1: her wrongs the theme of your poets, statesmen, and orators,

980
01:12:14,720 --> 01:12:17,360
Speaker 1: till your gallant sons are ready to fly to arms

981
01:12:17,360 --> 01:12:21,719
Speaker 1: to vindicate her cause against her oppressors. But in regard

982
01:12:21,760 --> 01:12:25,040
Speaker 1: to the ten thousand wrongs of the American slave, you

983
01:12:25,080 --> 01:12:28,800
Speaker 1: would enforce the strictest silence, and would hail him as

984
01:12:28,840 --> 01:12:31,080
Speaker 1: an enemy of the nation who dares to make those

985
01:12:31,080 --> 01:12:36,800
Speaker 1: wrongs the subject of public discourse. You are all on

986
01:12:36,960 --> 01:12:40,360
Speaker 1: fire at the mention of the liberty for France or

987
01:12:40,400 --> 01:12:45,200
Speaker 1: for Ireland, or are as cold as an iceberg at

988
01:12:45,200 --> 01:12:49,960
Speaker 1: the thought of liberty for the enslaved of America. You

989
01:12:50,160 --> 01:12:53,799
Speaker 1: discourse eloquently on the dignity of labor, Yet you sustain

990
01:12:53,880 --> 01:12:57,719
Speaker 1: a system which, in its very essence cast a stigma

991
01:12:57,960 --> 01:13:02,640
Speaker 1: upon labor, can bear your bosom to the storm of

992
01:13:02,840 --> 01:13:07,439
Speaker 1: British artillery, throw off a threpenny tax on tea, and

993
01:13:07,520 --> 01:13:11,719
Speaker 1: yet ring the last hard earned fathering from the grass

994
01:13:11,720 --> 01:13:15,920
Speaker 1: of the black laborers of your country. You profess to

995
01:13:16,000 --> 01:13:20,280
Speaker 1: believe quote that one of one blood, God made all

996
01:13:20,400 --> 01:13:23,040
Speaker 1: nations of men to dwell on the face of all earth,

997
01:13:23,600 --> 01:13:27,160
Speaker 1: and hath commanded all men everywhere to love one another.

998
01:13:27,520 --> 01:13:33,280
Speaker 1: Yet you notoriously hate and glory in your hatred all

999
01:13:33,360 --> 01:13:37,200
Speaker 1: men whose skins are not colored like your own. You

1000
01:13:37,360 --> 01:13:40,960
Speaker 1: declare before the world, and are understood by the world,

1001
01:13:41,040 --> 01:13:45,240
Speaker 1: to declare that you hold these truths to be self evident,

1002
01:13:45,600 --> 01:13:48,519
Speaker 1: that all men are created equal, and are endowed by

1003
01:13:48,520 --> 01:13:52,519
Speaker 1: their creator with the certain inalienable rights, and that among

1004
01:13:52,600 --> 01:13:56,040
Speaker 1: these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And

1005
01:13:56,160 --> 01:14:01,439
Speaker 1: yet you hold securely in a bondage which, according to

1006
01:14:01,520 --> 01:14:05,240
Speaker 1: your own Thomas Jefferson, is worse than ages of that

1007
01:14:05,240 --> 01:14:09,120
Speaker 1: which your father's rose in rebellion to oppose. A seventh

1008
01:14:09,160 --> 01:14:15,679
Speaker 1: part of inhabitants of your country, Fellow citizens, I will

1009
01:14:15,760 --> 01:14:20,800
Speaker 1: not enlarge further on your national inconsistencies. The existence of

1010
01:14:20,880 --> 01:14:24,519
Speaker 1: slavery in this country brands your Republicanism as a sham,

1011
01:14:25,000 --> 01:14:29,479
Speaker 1: your humanity as a base pretense, and your Christianity a lie.

1012
01:14:30,720 --> 01:14:34,560
Speaker 1: It destroys your moral power abroad, It corrupts your politicians

1013
01:14:34,560 --> 01:14:37,960
Speaker 1: at home. It SAPs the foundation of religion. It makes

1014
01:14:37,960 --> 01:14:42,080
Speaker 1: your name a hissing and a byword to a mocking earth.

1015
01:14:42,920 --> 01:14:46,719
Speaker 1: It is the antagonistic force in your government, the only

1016
01:14:46,760 --> 01:14:52,040
Speaker 1: thing that seriously disturbs and endangers your union. It fetters

1017
01:14:52,040 --> 01:14:55,639
Speaker 1: your progress. It is the enemy of improvement, the deadly

1018
01:14:55,720 --> 01:15:00,200
Speaker 1: foe of education. It fosters pride, it breeds insolence, It

1019
01:15:00,280 --> 01:15:03,439
Speaker 1: promotes vice, It shelters crime. It is occurs to the

1020
01:15:03,479 --> 01:15:06,760
Speaker 1: earth that supports it. And yet you cling to it

1021
01:15:07,439 --> 01:15:11,080
Speaker 1: as if it were the sheet anchor of all your hopes. Oh,

1022
01:15:11,360 --> 01:15:16,400
Speaker 1: be warned, Be warned, Be warned. A horrible reptile is

1023
01:15:16,439 --> 01:15:20,040
Speaker 1: coiled up in your nation's bosom. The venomous creature is

1024
01:15:20,120 --> 01:15:24,040
Speaker 1: nursing at the tender breast of your youthful republic. For

1025
01:15:24,160 --> 01:15:27,720
Speaker 1: the love of God, tear away and fling from the

1026
01:15:27,800 --> 01:15:31,920
Speaker 1: hideous monster, and let the weight of twenty millions crush

1027
01:15:31,960 --> 01:15:37,799
Speaker 1: and destroy it forever. But it is answered in reply

1028
01:15:37,920 --> 01:15:41,880
Speaker 1: to all this, that precisely what I have now denounced

1029
01:15:42,080 --> 01:15:46,800
Speaker 1: is in fact guaranteed and sanctioned by the Constitution of

1030
01:15:46,800 --> 01:15:49,920
Speaker 1: the United States, that the right to hold and to

1031
01:15:50,040 --> 01:15:53,400
Speaker 1: hunt slaves is a part of that constitution framed by

1032
01:15:53,439 --> 01:15:59,080
Speaker 1: the illustrious fathers of this Republic. Then I dare to affirm,

1033
01:15:59,200 --> 01:16:04,840
Speaker 1: notwithstanding all I have said before, your father stooped, baselessly

1034
01:16:05,000 --> 01:16:10,720
Speaker 1: stooped to palter with us in a double sense, and

1035
01:16:10,880 --> 01:16:14,599
Speaker 1: keep the word of promise to the ear, but break

1036
01:16:14,640 --> 01:16:18,919
Speaker 1: it to the heart. And instead of being the honest

1037
01:16:18,960 --> 01:16:22,559
Speaker 1: men I have before declared them to be, they were

1038
01:16:22,920 --> 01:16:28,760
Speaker 1: the veriest impostors that they that ever practice one on mankind.

1039
01:16:29,800 --> 01:16:33,439
Speaker 1: This is the inevitable conclusion, and from it there no escape.

1040
01:16:33,960 --> 01:16:36,960
Speaker 1: But I differ from those who charge this baseness on

1041
01:16:37,040 --> 01:16:40,320
Speaker 1: the framers of the Constitution of the United States. It

1042
01:16:40,479 --> 01:16:44,240
Speaker 1: is a slander upon their memory. At least so I believe.

1043
01:16:44,720 --> 01:16:47,679
Speaker 1: There is not time now to argue the constitutional question

1044
01:16:47,720 --> 01:16:50,400
Speaker 1: at length, nor have I the ability to discuss it

1045
01:16:50,479 --> 01:16:53,599
Speaker 1: as it ought to be discussed. The subject that has

1046
01:16:53,680 --> 01:16:57,960
Speaker 1: been handled with masterly power by Lizadore Spooner Esquire, by

1047
01:16:58,120 --> 01:17:02,320
Speaker 1: William Goodwill, by Samuel will Sue Well Esquire, and last,

1048
01:17:02,400 --> 01:17:06,760
Speaker 1: though not least, by Garrett Smith. These gentlemen have, as

1049
01:17:06,800 --> 01:17:10,719
Speaker 1: I think fully and clearly, vindicated the Constitution from any

1050
01:17:10,760 --> 01:17:18,479
Speaker 1: design to support slavery. For an hour, fellow citizens, there

1051
01:17:18,560 --> 01:17:20,840
Speaker 1: is no matter in respect to which the people of

1052
01:17:20,880 --> 01:17:24,120
Speaker 1: the North have allowed themselves to be so ruinously imposed

1053
01:17:24,200 --> 01:17:27,880
Speaker 1: upon as that of the pro slavery character of the Constitution.

1054
01:17:28,479 --> 01:17:31,719
Speaker 1: In that instrument, I hold there is neither warrant, license

1055
01:17:31,800 --> 01:17:35,280
Speaker 1: nor sanction of hateful thing, but interprets at it ought

1056
01:17:35,280 --> 01:17:40,040
Speaker 1: to be interpreted. The Constitution is a glorious liberty document.

1057
01:17:40,479 --> 01:17:45,800
Speaker 1: Read its preamble, consider its purposes. Is slavery among them?

1058
01:17:46,400 --> 01:17:49,639
Speaker 1: Is it at the gateway? Or is it in the temple,

1059
01:17:50,280 --> 01:17:54,240
Speaker 1: it is neither. While I do not intend to argue

1060
01:17:54,280 --> 01:17:57,519
Speaker 1: this question on the present occasion, let me ask if

1061
01:17:57,520 --> 01:18:00,880
Speaker 1: it not be somewhat. It's singular that, if the Constitution

1062
01:18:00,920 --> 01:18:03,400
Speaker 1: were intended to be by its framers and adopters a

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Speaker 1: slave holding instrument, why neither slavery, slave holding, nor slave

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Speaker 1: can anywhere be found in it? What would be thought

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Speaker 1: of an instrument drawn up legally, legally drawn up for

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Speaker 1: the purpose of entitling the city of Rochester to a

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Speaker 1: track of land in which no mention of land was made. Now,

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Speaker 1: there are certain rules of interpretation for the proper understanding

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Speaker 1: of all legal instruments. These rules are well established. They

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Speaker 1: are plain common sense rules such as you and I

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Speaker 1: and all of us can understand and apply without having

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Speaker 1: passed years in the study of law. I scout the

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Speaker 1: idea that the question of the constitutionality or the unconstitutionality

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Speaker 1: of slavery is not a question for the people. I

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01:18:50,280 --> 01:18:53,479
Speaker 1: hold that every American citizen has a right and a

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Speaker 1: fight to form an opinion of the Constitution, and to

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Speaker 1: propagate that opinion, and to do all to use all

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Speaker 1: honorable means to make this opinion. The prevailing one. Without

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Speaker 1: this fight, the liberty of an American citizen would be

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Speaker 1: an insecure as that of a Frenchman. Ex Vice President

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Speaker 1: Dallas tells us that the Constitution is an object to

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Speaker 1: which no American mind can be too attentive, and no

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Speaker 1: American heart to devote it. He further says, the Constitution,

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Speaker 1: in its words, is plain and intelligible, and is meant

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Speaker 1: for the homebred, unsophisticated understandings of our fellow citizens. Senator

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Speaker 1: Baron tells us that the Constitution is the fundamental law,

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Speaker 1: that which controls all others, the charter of our liberties,

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01:19:39,920 --> 01:19:43,320
Speaker 1: which every citizen has as a personal interest in understandingly

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01:19:43,400 --> 01:19:47,479
Speaker 1: thoroughly the testimony of the Senator Breeze Lewis case, and

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01:19:47,600 --> 01:19:51,120
Speaker 1: many others that might be named, who are everywhere esteemed

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01:19:51,120 --> 01:19:55,400
Speaker 1: as a sound lawyer's so regard the Constitution. I take

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Speaker 1: it therefore, that it is not presumption and a private

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01:19:58,680 --> 01:20:02,479
Speaker 1: citizen to form an opinion and of that instrument. Now

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01:20:03,640 --> 01:20:06,800
Speaker 1: take the Constitution according to its plain breading, and I

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01:20:06,880 --> 01:20:10,280
Speaker 1: defy the presentation of a single pro slavery clause in it.

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Speaker 1: On the other hand, it will be found to contain

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Speaker 1: principles and purposes entirely hostile to the existence of slavery.

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Speaker 1: I have detained my audience entirely too long. Already, at

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Speaker 1: some future period I will gladly avail myself of an

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01:20:26,040 --> 01:20:29,240
Speaker 1: opportunity to give this subject a full and fair discussion.

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01:20:29,680 --> 01:20:34,160
Speaker 1: Allow me to say, in conclusion, notwithstanding the dark picture

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01:20:34,240 --> 01:20:37,439
Speaker 1: I have this day presented of the state of the nation,

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01:20:38,600 --> 01:20:44,519
Speaker 1: I do not despair of this country. Allow me to say,

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01:20:45,120 --> 01:20:53,040
Speaker 1: in conclusion, notwithstanding there are forces in operation which must

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01:20:53,479 --> 01:20:58,640
Speaker 1: inevitably work the downfall of slavery. The arm of the

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01:20:58,720 --> 01:21:02,320
Speaker 1: Lord is not short, and the doom of slavery is certain.

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01:21:03,200 --> 01:21:07,799
Speaker 1: I therefore leave where I began with hope, while drawing

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01:21:07,960 --> 01:21:11,879
Speaker 1: encouragement from the Declaration of Independence, the great principles it contains,

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01:21:11,880 --> 01:21:16,080
Speaker 1: and the genius of American institutions. My spirit is also

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01:21:16,240 --> 01:21:20,960
Speaker 1: cheered by the obvious tendencies of the age. Nations do

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01:21:21,160 --> 01:21:24,000
Speaker 1: not now stand in the same relation to each other

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01:21:24,320 --> 01:21:28,320
Speaker 1: that they did so ages ago. No nation can now

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01:21:28,439 --> 01:21:31,879
Speaker 1: shut itself up from the surrounding world and trout around

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01:21:31,920 --> 01:21:36,120
Speaker 1: in the same old path of its fathers without interference.

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01:21:36,840 --> 01:21:41,560
Speaker 1: The time was when such could be done. Long established

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01:21:41,560 --> 01:21:46,280
Speaker 1: customs of hurtful character could formerly fence themselves in and

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01:21:46,360 --> 01:21:51,320
Speaker 1: do their evil work with social impunity. Knowledge was then

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01:21:51,360 --> 01:21:54,920
Speaker 1: confined and enjoined by the privileged few, and the multitude

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01:21:54,960 --> 01:21:59,320
Speaker 1: walked on in mental darkness. But a change has now

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01:21:59,360 --> 01:22:03,360
Speaker 1: come over the affairs of mankind. Walled cities and empires

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01:22:03,400 --> 01:22:07,360
Speaker 1: have become unfashionable. The arm of commerce has borne away

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01:22:07,600 --> 01:22:11,840
Speaker 1: the gates of the strong city. Intelligence is penetrating the

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01:22:11,920 --> 01:22:16,960
Speaker 1: darkest corners of the gulb. It makes its pathway over

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01:22:17,040 --> 01:22:21,599
Speaker 1: and under the sea, as well as on the earth. Wind, steam,

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Speaker 1: and lightning are its charted agents. Oceans no longer divide,

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01:22:27,280 --> 01:22:31,040
Speaker 1: but link nations together. From Boston to London is now

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01:22:31,080 --> 01:22:37,760
Speaker 1: a holiday excursion. Space is comparatively annihilated. Thoughts expressed on

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Speaker 1: one side of the Atlantic are distinctly heard on the other.

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01:22:43,200 --> 01:22:46,799
Speaker 1: The far often almost fabulous Pacific rolls in the grandeur

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01:22:46,840 --> 01:22:50,160
Speaker 1: at our feet. The celestial empire. The mystery of ages

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01:22:50,240 --> 01:22:54,519
Speaker 1: is being solved. The fiat of the almighty Let there

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01:22:54,560 --> 01:22:58,360
Speaker 1: be Light has not yet spent its force, no abuse,

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01:22:58,479 --> 01:23:02,960
Speaker 1: no outrage. Rather, in tase, sport or avarice can now

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01:23:03,040 --> 01:23:07,519
Speaker 1: hide itself from all pervading light. The iron shoe and

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01:23:07,600 --> 01:23:11,000
Speaker 1: the crippled foot of China must be seen in contrast

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Speaker 1: with nature. Africa must rise and put on her yet

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01:23:15,439 --> 01:23:20,000
Speaker 1: unwoven garment. Ethiopia shall stretch out her hand unto God.

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Speaker 1: In the fervent aspirations of William Lloyd Garrison, I say,

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Speaker 1: and let every heart join in saying it. God's speed

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01:23:29,520 --> 01:23:34,000
Speaker 1: the year of jubilee the wide world, or when from

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01:23:34,040 --> 01:23:38,519
Speaker 1: their galling change set free the oppressage shall vilely bend

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01:23:38,560 --> 01:23:42,080
Speaker 1: the knee and wear the yoke of tyranny like brutes

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01:23:42,160 --> 01:23:46,720
Speaker 1: no more. That year will come, and freedom's reign to

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01:23:46,920 --> 01:23:53,400
Speaker 1: man his plundered fights against restore. God speed the day

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01:23:53,479 --> 01:23:57,160
Speaker 1: when human blood shall cease to flow, and every climb

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01:23:58,560 --> 01:24:03,200
Speaker 1: be understood the claims of human brotherhood, and each return

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01:24:03,320 --> 01:24:07,040
Speaker 1: for evil good, not blow for blow. That day will

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01:24:07,080 --> 01:24:11,560
Speaker 1: come all feuds to end, and change into a faithful

1149
01:24:11,640 --> 01:24:16,960
Speaker 1: friend each foe. God Speed the hour, the glorious hour

1150
01:24:17,479 --> 01:24:21,639
Speaker 1: when none on earth shall exercise a lordly power, nor

1151
01:24:21,840 --> 01:24:26,880
Speaker 1: in a tyrant's presence, cower, but all to Manhood's statue

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01:24:27,320 --> 01:24:32,400
Speaker 1: tower by equal birth. That hour will come to each

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01:24:32,479 --> 01:24:36,320
Speaker 1: to all, and from his prison house the thrall go

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01:24:36,479 --> 01:24:41,960
Speaker 1: forth until that year day hour arrive with head and

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01:24:42,120 --> 01:24:46,320
Speaker 1: heart and hand. I'll strive to break the rod and

1156
01:24:46,439 --> 01:24:52,000
Speaker 1: the rend, the give, the spoil of this prey, divide, deprive,

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01:24:52,760 --> 01:24:57,400
Speaker 1: so witness heaven and never from my chosen post, whatever

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01:24:57,960 --> 01:25:02,160
Speaker 1: the peril or the cost, be driven. Hey, I'm David

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Speaker 1: Plots of Slates Political Gabfest. As another election season accelerates,

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01:25:07,360 --> 01:25:09,799
Speaker 1: it can be tricky to sort through all the noise

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01:25:09,880 --> 01:25:12,959
Speaker 1: and the news. Each week on the Gapfest, John Dickerson,

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01:25:13,000 --> 01:25:16,240
Speaker 1: Emily Bathlon and I decipher the headlines, break down the races,

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01:25:16,280 --> 01:25:19,720
Speaker 1: and tell you what issues really matter. We do not

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01:25:19,920 --> 01:25:23,200
Speaker 1: always agree, We definitely do not always agree, but we

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01:25:23,520 --> 01:25:26,439
Speaker 1: always deliver thoughtful debate and we always have a good time.

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Speaker 1: So subscribe to Slight's Political Gapfest, New episodes every Thursday.

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Speaker 1: That is it for me Today. On Woke at Daily

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Speaker 1: Power to the people and to all the people Power,

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01:25:43,080 --> 01:25:47,960
Speaker 1: Get woke and stay woke as fuck. Get a behind

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01:25:53,560 --> 01:25:56,360
Speaker 1: with Trevor Noah. Every week, host Roy Wood Junior goes

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01:25:56,400 --> 01:25:58,800
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01:26:02,040 --> 01:26:04,880
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Speaker 1: look at how and why these topics matter. Listen to

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