of
starving orphans? It was not in 1839, nor '49, nor '59, that he
held or inculcated such a philosophy. The motto of the
Anti-Slavery _Standard_ was and is "Without Concealment--Without
Compromise." Now under that sublime evangel women are instructed
to bridge over the gulf to colored male enfranchisement with
their own imperiled, nay, sacrificed equal rights. Better now the
"half loaf," festering, putrid with the poison of compromise,
than no bread! Better that the black man have his half loaf,
though he steal it from his mother and sisters, more hungry,
starving, and dying, than himself!

Oh, no! it was never so in the past. Terrible to conservatism as
to slavery itself, was the mighty war-cry of the Abolitionists
for twenty years. "No union with slaveholders!" No compromise
with injustice for an election, or for an hour, not even for a
good ultimate purpose! Colonization proposed a double purpose,
the final extinction of slavery, and a meanwhile redemption of
Africa from the midnight gloom and horror of heathenism. "Get
thee behind me, Satan," was the thundering response and just
rebuke of it by the Abolitionists! "Let us compromise with the
South, and buy up their slaves," said Elihu Burritt and his
overgrown mushroom convention, at Cleveland. "Our curse on your
slave trade, foreign and domestic," was the answering response of
the Garrisonian Invincibles. Many of the oldest leaders and
officers of the society refused even to help an escaped
slave-mother buy her children of her old master. "Let us form a
Republican party," said foxy politicians, and fight the extension
of slavery into Kansas, or any other new territory with ballot,
bullet, and battle-axe, if need be, but leaving the damnable
system in the States with its 4,000,000 of victims and their
posterity still chained under constitutional guarantee and the
army and navy of the nation. "No union with slaveholders," rung
out the lips and lungs of the Abolitionists, in tones that shook
the land from Maine to Mexico! "Fremont and Jessie" harnessed by
constitutional compromise to the Juggernaut car of slavery, were
not to be preferred by them to Beelzebub Buchanan himself. "No
union with slave-holders," though Gabriel were candidate and
chief captain of their hosts!

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