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Show 10 THE GOLDEN HOUR. its severest blow fall on the poor man it has wronged, even when he would befriend it, though it strengthen the arms which threaten its life and the lives of its bravest children! Can any one account for the infatuation which seizes our public men whenever they catch a glimpse of an African, or anything that concerns an A.frican '? II ow often have we got hold of sgmc man whom we thought a free-sailer, and sent him to Washington only to see him at the first step on its thre~hold turn out a sailer of freedom! .iE op tells of a cat ·which ha<l been transforn1cd into the for1n of a woman. On one occasion, sitting at a table with a co1u pany, none of which suspected that she vi'"as really a cat, a 1nou ·c made it appearance on the floor; whereupon, forgetting th-e lnunan part she was playing, this fc1ine female leaped forward, up ct the table, and devonro<l the mouse before the a ·toni hod company. Mural: Instinct will tell, under whatever forms. Never be sure that your politician, ho\vevcr transfor1ncd he 1nay seem, is a genuine man, until yon have seen a negro pass safely within reach of his official paw. Get close enough to the interior life of an American politician, and you \Vill be pretty sure to ftnd that it stands in hi. religious faith, that the stripes in our flag haYe a Swedenborgian correspondence to stripes on a black 1nan's back. It is to be feared that in this they represent the prejudice or the indifference of the people. Lately I saw two negroes thrn t fron1 a IN CHANCERY. 11 car in New York, on a night so stormy and bitter that it would have been cruel to expel a brute. A dog in the same car slept at the feet of his master, undisturbed. Thus is Slavery rotting the very heart of Manhood throughout this country. We have learned nothing of Slavery, if we have not learned this truth, to wit,- TIIAT SLAVERY liAS NO W1LL OF ITS O\VN. There has been a delusion in this country, that Slavery is a free-agent; and when, in Kanzas, the ballot of Freedom was responded to by the torch and bowie-knife,- when, in the whole nation, the ballot was replied to by a bomb in to Fort Sumter,- \VC began to awake to the perception that Slavery has no free choice. Slavery is more a slave than any 1nan it fetters. It had no choice but to ftre on Sumter. Chemi 'try does not more by fixed laws make a boulder, than by fixed laws Slavery hurls it at the head of Wen dell Phillips. Slavery is in the coils of Fate, and tnust, if it exi ts, obey its own dark laws. The other day a man- and that is a rarer creature than is generally supposeJ- stood upon the soil of Virginia. Slavery said, "lie i · fir1n, truthful, intelligent,- the gamest man I ever saw,"- then proceeded to hang him. Slavery woul<l have hung him had it been Jesus Christ, because it n1ust. The co1ntnon sense of th ~ country has already eon1c to the conclusion that Slavery i.· the cause of the war. But it must be seen that war is the legitimate appcn- |