The Delaware Herald

The following is an extract from Theodore Parker's recent speech on the Nebraska Bill in Faneuil Hall. It is a fine specimen of eloquence:

"Gentlemen, I am no madman. I am a cool, calm man, who has studied the facts of our nation's history, and know them well. I have studied the ideas which were the programme of principles in the revolution, and which were the programme of purpose in the formation of the constitution, and it is to these great truths, there embodied and written by God in the hearts of men, that I call your attention, and I ask you to swear allegiance by your wives and your children, by the bones of your mothers that are underground, and by the soul of the Almighty God whose higher law rules earth and sea, and sky, and time, and eternity. [Loud cheers.]

Well, if we are beaten on the Nebraska measure, and on the other measures, let us retreat with our face to the foe, never flinching, losing everything but our honor. Let us fight the battle from line to line, from State to State, until we are driven back to old Massachusetts. Then let us fight it from town to town until we are driven back to the old rock of Plymouth, and there with the soul of our fathers still in us, taught by the experience of a hundred years, and rich with the promise of all eternity in our bosoms, let us gather together the last shreds of the sacred Mayflower, build our ship, take on board what is left of Puritan integrity and republican virtue, launch our bark upon the waves—go to Greenland, or to Africa, found institutions, and secure the glorious liberty of the children of God.'"