. : [booklet]. me is written to proveslavery a very good thing,we never hear of a man whowishes to take the good ofit by being a slave himself. I should be the most ^- presumptuous blockheadupon this footstool if I forone day thought that Icould discharge the dutieswhich have come uponme since I came into thisoffice without the aid andenlightenment of Onewho is stronger and wiserthan all others. Our Government restsin public opinion. Who-ever can change publicopinion can change theGovernment practically just so opinion on any subject always hasa central idea. That central idea
. : [booklet]. me is written to proveslavery a very good thing,we never hear of a man whowishes to take the good ofit by being a slave himself. I should be the most ^- presumptuous blockheadupon this footstool if I forone day thought that Icould discharge the dutieswhich have come uponme since I came into thisoffice without the aid andenlightenment of Onewho is stronger and wiserthan all others. Our Government restsin public opinion. Who-ever can change publicopinion can change theGovernment practically just so opinion on any subject always hasa central idea. That central idea in ourpolitical public opinion at the beginningwas the equality of men. And its con-stant working has been a steady progresstoward a practical equality of all men. One war at a time is enough. I know I am right because I knowLiberty is right. If men never began to drink theywould never become drunkards. Let not him who is houseless pulldown the house of another, but let himwork diligently and build one for His life was gentle, And the elements so mixed in him, That Nature might stand up And say to all the world, This was a man. There is no grievance that is a fit ob-ject of redress by mob law. Let us have faith that right makesmight, and in that faith let us to the enddare to do our duty as we understand is prior to and independent ofcapital. Capital is only the fruit of laborand could never have existed first. Laboris the superior of capital and deservesmuch the higher consideration. No menliving are more worthy to be trusted thanthose who toil up from poverty. A house divided against itself cannotstand. I believe this Goverment cannotendure permanently half„;.,-,„.^ slave and half free. I donot expect the Union to bedissolved, but I do expectit will cease to be will become all onething or all the other. In the right to eat thebread which his own handearns the negro is myequal, and the equal ofJudge Douglass, and theequal of every living man.
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