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1 John C. Hamilton, The Slave Power: Its Heresies and Injuries to the American People: A Speech 1 (1864)

handle is hein.slavery/slvpohi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE SLAVE POWER: ITS HERESIES AND INJURIES TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. -A- SPIEECHI, JOHN C. HAMILTON. / NOVEMBER. 1864. WnrN from a warm serene sky, a clap of thunder suddenly sounds upon the startled ear, excited attention looks up for a moment, and, if the clap is not repeated, subsides and soon forgets. Not so, the cautious mariner. Distrustfiul of the smil- ing skies and of the smooth-faced seas, he furls his sails, and stands with helm in hand, watching the. outburst of the sudden tempest. It comes, but the steady bark rideb on safely through the storm, till hoped for day arrives with its cheering lights and more favoring skies. Different is the fate of the unwary seaman. The torn, ragged sails, the broken masts-the headlong plunges of his ill-fated craft tell the fast-coming doom of hapless ship- wreck. Such is the fate of an uncared-for vessel and its doomed crew. The tidings move us for a time, but its memory only remains in the bosoms of the afflicted few who have lost all they possessed with all they love. But what of the wreck of a great State-of a Government- of a Republic freighted with the happiness of a world - with its promises, with its hopes? Here, nor sympathy nor sorrow are in place. The magnitude of the loss appeals to higher emotions. Indignant scorn and wrathful vengeance call out- demand-insist upon the penalties due to the massive crime of law dethroned-liberty betrayed-tranquillity banished-human- ity dishonored. The penalties indeed follow, but, alas, not only do they come to the guilty few, but to the guiltless many; and tor them they come in every form of human misery - in

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