The Morality of the Riot: Sermon of Rev. O. B. Frothingham, at Ebbitt Hall, Sunday, July 19, 1863 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from The Morality of the Riot: Sermon of Rev. O. B. Frothingham, at Ebbitt Hall, Sunday, July 19, 1863

Each year their growing power consigns to pau perism millions of laboring people, takes away their occupation, with their occupation their earnings, with their earnings their bread. Cry sadder and more insensate could not be uttered. Of course it must be stifled in the blood of those who raised it, for society must not perish. Man must improve his condition, and if he will be convinced of this only at the barricades, then at the barricades he must learn it, in the spilling of his own blood; but every drop of blood is a tear, and the smothered cry is a smo thered prayer for forgiveness.

I have used this illustration because it is so strik ing. But if ignorance can thus make people dis posed to curse and crucify the veiled benefactors who would enrich them with material goods, of course ignorance would dispose them all the more to curse and crucify those who would benefit them in a higher degree, which they could even less understand and appreciate. If ignorance makes men mad with inventors, how much more will it make them mad with reformers, philanthropists, redeemers, who bring an uncomprehended and altogetht r fathomless benefit to their social and moral estate!

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