The teacher, besides sharing these feelings with the pupil, must look with grateful pride upon a tribute which, so long as it endures, will proclaim the dignity of his profession.

I found him the same in purpose and aspiration as I had always known him,--earnest, thoughtful, and intent on all that helped the good of man, with the same completeness of intelligence, and the same large, loving heart.

But I felt that I could not address you on any other subject until I had mingled my feelings with yours, and our hearts had met in sympathy for our great bereavement.

On one side is the Republican party, openly declaring its principles, and looking with confidence to the Future.

Threats of disunion, and menaces of violence, in constant cry, do not disturb it.

Differing from each other superficially, they all concur in practical support of Slavery.

At this moment, when the propagandists of Slavery insist upon its extension into the Territories, all these three factions lend themselves actively or passively to this work, and thus become practically Proslavery.

Unwilling here in Massachusetts openly to advocate a wrong so unmistakable as Slavery, they find excuse in alleged danger to the Union, and bend before the threats and menaces of Slave-Masters.

Not in the name of Freedom, which is really in danger, but in the name of the Union, which is only threatened, do they all three rally against the Republican party.

In their flexibility to threats and menaces, they show a want of that backbone which characterizes the Republican party.

That is, they ask you to abandon cherished convictions, and to allow Slavery, with all its Barbarism, to enter the outlying Territories of the Republic, simply because certain Slave-Masters threaten disunion.

Instead of opposing the treason which is threatened, Freedom-loving voters of the North are summoned to surrender.

Instead of scorning the violence which is menaced, we are asked to cringe before it.

No man so audacious here in Massachusetts as to argue for Slavery openly.

It is therefore by appeal for the Union that people are deluded.

In this way the weak are cajoled, the timeserving are seduced, and the timid are frightened; and people professing opposition to Slavery gravely come forward as supporters of these Proslavery factions.

But since this is not the first time such cries are heard,--since, indeed, they have been long sounding in our ears, so that their exact value is perfectly understood from the very beginning,--there seems no longer excuse or apology for…

They are to be treated as threats, and nothing more.

Look at them from the outset, and you will see their constant recurrence as weapons of political warfare.

Georgia and South Carolina announced that they would not come into the Union, unless the African Slave-Trade, so dear in their sight, was allowed for twenty years under the Constitution; and the North ignominiously yielded this barbarous…

The cry from these States was then, “We will not come in.” Ever since it has been, “We will not stay in.

Citizens at the North, while avowing hostility to Slavery, professed to be alarmed for the Union.

Again they bowed, and in 1850 assisted in those Acts of Compromise, by which the Territories of Utah and New Mexico were left open to Slavery, and a Fugitive Slave Bill was passed, outraging alike every principle of Constitutional Liberty…

Again the threats are renewed with increased animosity, and you are asked to vote against a statesman of marked abilities and blameless character, representing the early sentiments of the Fathers, simply because Slave-Masters menace…

Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.