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Show 88 TilE GOLDEN HOUR. to hold slaves, no man has yet been bold enough lo claim that the United States has a title to hold them; et it is restraining of their freedom thou ands of men Yas free as the President. The Pre 1·a en t 11 a J· Ut 1· m-ported a million slaves into the State of Georgia, ]'lorida, and South Carolina. A pretty big beam, I think, the Northern eye is carrying, as it goes to pull out the mote in the Southern eye ! Buchanan announced that the Constitution carries Slavery wherever it goes: it has remained for the first Republican government to make the theory fact. But is to do this worth the heart-breaks, the butchery, by ·which alone we can march South? XV. T II E C 0 N S E C RAT I 0 N 0 F II E R 0 I S ~1. IN the old Ilebrcw Chronicles it is related that, on one occasion, David was in an hold, and the garri on of the Phili tines was in Bethlehem. " And David longed, and said, 0 that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem which is by tho gate ! .And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Phili tines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and THE CONSECRATIO:N OF HEROI l\f. 89 brought it to Davia · neverthclc ·s 1 1-, · ' I 1e wou u not dnnk thereof, but p ured it out un lo the I ·d A d 1 . • ..JOl • n 10 satd Be rt far fro1n 1nc, 0 Lord that I ·1\o 11,, d ~ 1 · · ' ' I t u o "ll . l not this. th.e blood of the lllCll lll{·t t wont I. n J.C pa'rd y of thetr 11 \'O, ? 'rlwrcfore he \vould not drink iL" Thu~ to all noble 1nindf) hcrois· n1 1·s l{'O i. cvcr conse-crated, and con ·ccratcs all it touches • Tl1 0 conunoncst thing have a new and hio·hcr value wile tl L . . b , n 1cy uccomc assoCiated "\V.l th deeds of devotion and courage. 'I, he eros , to wh1ch the Christian world cl1' 11gs , was not a whit 1norc re. pcctablc than a orr allo\' rs , u n t1'l a IIo ro ,s blood consecrated it. . Our countrymen, our COlnpanions, friends, and rclattvcs, have gone forth in J. co1)ardy of tl · 1· ' lOU' lVCS to re. cover for th.i nation certain forts , arscllals , t err: 1. t o-nes, -for wlnch the nation lonoo· cd · "Tl11's nat 1• 0n d ocs not yet sec that when the c fort , ancl States arc recov-ered for us, :taincd with the ruddy Llood of thousands of its noble youth,- each the 1nonun1cn t of fallen heroes, -they w1ll cc1n very different from forts and arsenal ; that, if thus recovered, they will be altars consecrated to the humanity "\vhich died to rescue thcln fla1ning "\Vith the fire of J u tice and Liberty. ' 'l~hc fir t American Revolution began as a proto t aga1nst a tax upon tea and a few other articles. Even after Concord and Lexington the removal of a few pence from the duty on tea "\Voulu have stopped the war. At this di tance that 1 oks to us as a very in icrnificant fight : one Inight ahno t call it a tempest in °a tea-pot. |
