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Show 60 THE GOLDEN IIOUR. . de And mark the difference between slaves) to our Sl • ld go and those who would come. those who won . . The .11. 1 went would prove by the1r go1ng ro1 1011 w 10 .. etended or at lea t half-hearted, that they were pr ' . 1 ld show that their loyalty was but a fnends ; t 1ey won . cover for t 11 e prcser.. vation of Slavery, -that the Un1on n1cant !J.O' r tll em nol'ih ino- if not hu1nan chattels. The b' . four m1'1 11' ons wllo would be riveted to our sule . by tln.s one blo w wor'" lld be those upon wholn we mlght depen d , s1. nce tl1 eir every pos ible int.e re.s t woul. d then be .ll lVO1 v e d l. ll Olli" success ' Now, 1t 1 the 1ntcrc t of t 11 e negro tl1 a t the country should be cliviclcd, un- less 11 e 1· s t o be emancipated '· for di union would at least bring Freedom's southern line do,vn to l\Ia on and Dixon's. The million who would abandon our cause 'vou1d be chiefly 011 the border, within territory already under military occupation ; their disaffection ·would only need a little 1nore vigilance on our part, an l that would be a "\vi e thing in any case. The four n1illions who would be our dctcnni ned co-laborer fro1n that moment arc chiefly in di ·loyal territory under rebel occupation ; they are there where we are striving, by expensive and perilous expeditions, to carry Union n1en; and by being salable property they arc protected as no othel' soldiers we could have there wonld be. Thus, even so far as the two are of military importance, the emancipation method offers far more than the mere fighting 1nethod. But there is another force HOvV TO HITCH OUR WAGON TO A STAR. 61 brought into the action by emancipation which would change this war of disunion into a putting forth of unifying energies, which would be as irrcsi tiblc in establishing our social unity as are our 1nountains and valleys and rivers in c tablishing our geographical unity. X. HOW TO IIITCII OUR WAGON TO A STAR. IT is one of the signs of the times, that the revolution was strong enough to take up bodily the Sage of Concord, and set hi1n in the capital of this nation to instruct our rulers. The advice he gave them may be stunmcd up in the one sentence, Ilitch your wagon to a star! Why not, Mr. President! You have so1ne difficulty in making things go, po . ibly have some doubt as to whether they can be 1nade to go ; but if you could 1nanage to hitch the Union to a star, that will be suro to move. If you can get the LAWS OF NATURE to aid in the reunion of North ancl South, you need not fear any Confederate effort at keeping th01n apart. The very intensity and virulence of the hatred which the South has for the North suggest that the feeling |
