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Show 58 THE GOLDEN IIOUH. U . is the class of honest freelncn throughout the nlon, f \. ao·eduon is one that never 1 d The battle o J nne, b . an · C 1, . t t Washinoton ancl Rtehrnond ceases. Let the a.utnc s a b • . . . . d the comnlnnion-talJlc, wtth the 1Jlood Join aO'a1n a1 oun . of theb Chn• t crnCl·irl-C d between them upon. 1t,- a.n d the old sl.C gC o f L'lu1,O l· ty against the U. tnon, ·w.i nch . d (' ,. 1"1 has been ralsC iOI n1otncnt bco·ins agatn. Garnson, u. ' b • . the old stan d aru,,-1 >oar~ cr ' will unfurl lns tann. er of D.t - union ·which he keeps only tucked a\vay ln the Ltb- orator' roo1n as B cnnc tt of the IIcrald keeps the Con-federate fla g' . Tl1 0 clear bno·lc of Phillips sounds the t 0 old martial call again. And all along the sky -lcep- 1. n d .11 awaken and ten thousand trun1pcts a thun ers Wl ' . • 0 proc1 a 1· m tl1 a t the sieOb 'e against the anctent wrong 1s rcnewe d ,-tl1 0 S·le Ob 'C whose arrow arc thoughts, \vho.• e shells are fiery in pirations of truth, whose sword lS the o~- :J·p tn· t o f a J·l1 st God · All thi will go on until the ballot-box is conquered again, and sotne such man as wen dell Phillips is elected Pre idcnt. Then another Sumter gun will be heard. Then will come the war of which the present is but a picket skirmi. h. John Brown will be con11nanding general of all our forces then; and all will not be quiet on the Potornac. His soul will go marching on; 't is a way it has. For I fear that over the eye of this nation Slavery has gradually formed a hard cataract, so that it cannot see the peace and glory which arc an arm's-length before it,- a cataract which only the painful surgery, of the sword can remove. If it be so, we can only WAR FOR THE UNION. 59 say,- Bleed, poor country! Let thy young men be choked with their blood ; let the pale horse tran 1 pie loving hearts and fairest ho1ne · ; if only thus thou can t learn that God al ·o has his government, and that all injustice is scccs. ion fro1n that government, which his ar1n of might \viii be sure to crush out! Tho ·c who oppose the n1cthod of en1n1H.:ipation allco·e thai it would c.xa:pcratc the outh to the utmO Sb t , woulll alienate the1n forever frotn u ·, would unite the Border States with the1n, and unite them all against us as one 1nan. The fear of exasperating the South rmninds one of the toper, who said that, when it got to be twelve o'clock of the night, he diu not care when he went home ; for his ·wife was by that time a · 1nad as she could be, and an hour or o n1aue no difference. The South has about filled the gamut of \vrath. Nor have we seen much difference in its treatn1ent of such Southern pro-slavery n1en as General Ander on and his brother Charles, and anti lavery n1cn. So far as our experience in thi war goes, they had as lief a man should be a Ga1Ti onian as a Lincolnitc. So far as the objection relates to the nppo .. ition that an edict of emancipation ·would turn the Border States against us, jt, being 1nilitary, nu1y ea ily be 1net as such by the fact that, e,~cu if a 1nillion people became estrangccl fro1n us, (the v ry largest c ti1nate,) such an edict would at once bring four million (tho |