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Show 68 THE GOLDEN HOUR. Southerner, with Secession sympathies, thinly disguised under a few star-spangled phrases ; tho co1npliant Polonins was fro1n Boston,- ·whoro tho largest anu tho s1nallcst things arc said and done of any place on this continent. In Boston you shall find your noble t and your 1ncancst 1nan; there you shall find the fn-ithful Senator who will stand for Frecdo1n until he is striclcen down, and there the creature who \vill touch gla ses with the assassin of his own Senator \Vi thin two squares of the prostrate form. W c had brutes enough in Cincinnati to mob Wen dell Phillips ; but no 1nan who could write a sentence could be found here who would justify it : the mob had to go to Beacon Street, Boston, for a defender ; the Courier was ready to do their work! But where else could we have found a Phillips? But, to return, the conversation between the two men in Newport, both per ons of distinction, ·was exactly given in the extract from Ila1nlct. The Bo ·ton ian atoned for saying that he favored the Union, by allowing every noble idea and na1no of A1norica, and especially of his own State, to be vilified in his presence. When is this contemptible and cowardly abase1nent to end? Will the line of such poltroons hold out to the crack of doom? I add my testimony to that of ~1iss Gri1nkc, Mr. Helper, ~1atLie Griffith, and oth "'r natives of the South who have caught a glimpse of the monster, whose coils have been tightening abont THROUGH SELF-CONQUEST TO CONQUEST. 69 the dear lan. d they have hoc n COlnpo II od to leave, and who are doing their u t1uost t o r~ o. cue r. t ; W.l th them I declare, that I have known Ll . · 1 · . no nng o heart-sick-mung,. so c nlhng, so. utterly tl'I ab or l)e al ' as that which calls 1t elf con ·crvat1 ·m in the N orLh. Whe. n I first sat foot in Now E ng· I an d ' I mot at a table 1n Bo ton, the lion. ~1r H . ' f · · cal'l11g that I was rom the South, he in tantl Y t urnc d Iu. s attention .t o J.n o, . and began a series of acl u 1a tI' Ons of Southern In. stitutions .a nd people '· apolooo·l· Z·i ng .r • lOr Ius own rc-gwn ; nccnng at the liberal 1110 11 0 f N ow England as a very s1nall band of crazy £ 11 1 W ' " 0 c · hat deathly colds fell on n1c then I ln·ay rnay never fall 011 him! Through how many toil . and s t r~ ugg1 c s had I come to rc ·t upon the free he(a. rt of N c w E1 n g1 a nd · by what ·weary lnarchcs ancl flinty paths had I coinc t~ do homage to those rucn at whom 11 c \Vas snoor1.n o- as to heralds of this nation' 1)ron1i cd la cl 1 I 0 ' ' 11 • turned a. nd told . him plainly that he hacl rni.s t a1 r en my opln-' wns, winch wore not tho c cotnmo1 1 1. n tl1 0 S outh · a~d that I could not help thinking that such di par~ agements of free men and in tituLions, on the part of those whorn they had fostered we . l'l t . . , IC 1 co erupting With alcohol an inebriate who ·c -r.""'ml'ly . t . 1u. IS s arv1ng at home. I have in my mind a case of a very different kind. It was, I believe, about eight years ago that I was consulted by a COlnmittec at New H a von as to whether I knc·w any gentleman in the ~ outh who ·would be |