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Show 70 TilE GOLDEN HOUR. willino· to deliver a lecture in Now IIavon in defence of th~ institution of lavery. My 1nin<l fixed upon George Fitzhu~·h, of King George County, Va., ·who had written ·works on the ".B-,ailurc of Prcc ocioLy ," and ''The ~ ociology of the South." 1fr. Fitzhugh went to New IIavcn, and gave, on tho evening of hi arn·v a1 , a locjtll'O entitled "Free Society a .B\t,ilurc." v ' Wendell Phillips \vas pro out, an<l h eard the lecture, and ~fr. Fitzhugh evidently took plea ure in seeing hitn. Fitzhugh'~ 1notbod of praYing Free ocioty a failure was by thcoric and speculations \vhich had got into the crevice· and under the cav~s of .his brain, like the bats in the rickety old 1nan ·1on, s1tuatod on the fag-end of a once noble o tate, in which he resided. This spot of " the sacred ·oil" he had never left for a 1nonth, and of Free ocicty, of cour e, knew nothing. At Now IIavcn he fell, I am happy to say, into very different hand from tho c of the llon. Mr. of Bo ton, or of Polonius at Newport. Tic was tho guest of that honest and noble man, if God ever mauc one, the late 11r. Samuel Foote. On the next morning after the lecture, ~fr. Foote took Mr. Fitzhugh in a buggy, and drove throughout the beautiful town of New Ilaven and it environs; howed hi1n houses and cottages which would be marvels of elegance in Virginia, and infor1ncd hi1n, without any allusion to log-cabins, that many of these mansions belonged to 1ncchanics, and so1no even to day-laborers. Fitzhuah was thunder-. trickcn. Tic had proved 0 THROUGH 'ELF- CONQUE 'T TO CONQUEST. 71 Free Society. a failur. e without cvc1· loa v1. ng 1u •s S Late; nobody replied to hnn, but he \vent 1 101no answered. lie always pr I Cr\>~cd an o1ni nou sil -. 1. • • I cncc auou L tho VISit; buL he ackno\vloclo· d hi 1ni ·L"lrc 1 t N • b <-II .~ a )OU orth-ern ·oc1cty, and though Loforc that he 1 d · · . 1a Invana-bly pnntcd a pa1nphlct every si·x mo11ti1s I· n f:a vor of the " ociology of tho South " I hclio.,.'c 1 1 • ' r 10 1as not penned a l1uc of the kind sjncc 'rho o·, 1 · • • bl ave anc 1111_ presstVO rcLukc of s~unnol Foot 'Vll ,• I . , 0 S1111p y sa1u that he "'vould take hi1n (F.' itz~ huo·h) 0 ll t t 0 , CO 1l OW Free Society had failed," \Vas never lo 't. l\fr. Foote was a gontlc1nan in an old sen c \vh1·cl1 · t· ' IS so1no uncs forgotten even in schola tic Boston · tl1' at 1· s, 11 0 was gentle, but always 1nan. If N orthcrn men woulu oftener rcfra1·n f rotn a,u,n o-gating their 1nanhood and landcritla tl101· .. b r O\Vn coun-try,- did they act this 1nanly and gentle part toward Southern 1ncu, -I can in1aginc many benefits which must ilo\v fron1 such a cour c. Tho South ·would respect tho North, and the scntitncnt of tho North. The South alway boliovou that Lhc North woul~ cringe to the last, as she had been doinO' .Cor r.1ft · o 1J y year . What say you, gontle1ncn, arc we done crin ai11 0' ? • b b . Or 1s Mr. Vallandigham and his posture to bo fir t endured, then pitied, then embraced,_ as, according to the poet, i the way \vith 1noral rnon~tcrs ? " I do not trust hirn,'' said Richolicu of tho soldier; " he bows too low." ITa m I c t never d e p1· sos Polonn· ts more than ·when tho latter fools him to the top of |
