Papers On the Slave Power First Published in the Boston Whig
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Freedom of speech and of the press among them might soon bring them to an intelligence, and to con- clusions, too threatening to his objects ; so he throws dust in their eyes, and seduces them to part with these inestimable blessings of their birth-right, lest an insurrection of the slaves should follow from discussions which the slaves do not hear and cannot read. But the spell is broken. This is not to be much longer. Brave men, who have not yet learned one-tenth part of their single power, a...re starting up in the slave States, to stand for freedom, and the rights of their much-injured class. Cassius M. Clay's paper, now transferred to hands not less able, and more true, is doing a great and blessed work in Kentucky. It is now passing through a crisis, but there can be only one result. The slaveholders have conspired in some parts of the State, to prevent its circulation. But they had better stop where they are ; they may go further, and fare worse. The hardy working men have got fair hold of it, and it of them ; and (thank God !) it is now a death-grasp, which neither guile nor force of slaveholders will any longer be able to loose.
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