The National Security and the National Faith
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Excerpt from The National Security and the National Faith: Guarantees for the National Freedman and the National Creditor Fellow-Citizens : Called to preside over this annual Convention, where are brought together the intelligence, the heart and the conscience of Massachusetts, God bless her! I begin by asking you to accept my thanks. Gladly would I leave this post of honor to another ; but I obey your will, In all I have to say I must speak frankly. What has with me become a habit is at this moment more than ever a duty. Who can see peril to his country, and not cry out? Who can see that good ship, which carries the Republic and its fortunes, driving directly upon a lee-shore, and not shout to the pilot, "Mind your helm?" Apologies or roundabout phrases are out of place when danger threatens. Emancipation not Complete, so long as the Black Code Exists. When last I addressed my fellow-citizens on public affairs, at the close of the late Presidential election, as we were about to vote for Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, I undertook to show the absolute identity between Slavery and the Rebellion, so that one could not end without the other. As I finished that address, I said to friends near me, that it was "my last Anti-Slavery speech." I so thought at the time ; for I anticipated the speedy downfall of the Rebellion, carrying with it Slavery. I was mistaken. Neither the Rebellion or Slavery is yet ended. The Rebellion has been disarmed ; but that is all. Slavery has been abolished in name ; but that is all. As there is still a quasi Rebellion, so is there still a quasi Slavery. The work of liberation is not yet completed. Nor can it be completed until the Equal Rights of every person, once claimed as a slave, are placed under the safeguard of irreversible guarantees. It is not enough to strike down the master ; you must also lift up the slave. It is not enough to declare Emancipation. The whole Black Code, which is the supplement of Slavery, must give place to that Equality before the law, which is the very essence of Liberty. It is an old principle of the common law, recognized by all our courts, as announced by Lord Coke, that "where the law granteth anything to any one, that also is granted, without which the thing itself cannot be." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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