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Show 120 TilE GOLDEN HOUR. In all this the nation heart; nnly the echo of it own 1O U d Sl101.C . ...n'yr 11at arc leader. · to do when, at a ti1ne w 1l Cn tl 1C V Cl'Y c•x i tcncc of tl1 c 11 ation is threatened, t 1l CJ 11 car SCUS..l ,u· l c 111011 ac. ·kinou· old. cant q uc 'Lions ahout tl e NcoToc and what to do ·with thCJn? l b ' • . l . Is the N cgro descended fronl the ·~unc ongula p:ur with the Caucasian ? _ For \vhat is the usc of our natl.o n , s b c1. nba- saved , if it j not ethnologically a-r d? Will not the N cgro steal our ilvcr spoon ? II ow dreary \Ycrc a poonlc s nationality ! (A happy thought ! \V c can e1nploy Floyd or son1c other Cauca ian as a n1i · ionary to inculcate hone ty to Negroc .) What is meant in the Scriptures by " Cnr.·cd be C anaan " ?. For, of course ' national cxi tcncc i.· noth-inO' if not exegetical? bA o·ain what is t 11 c on·g L· n o f c v1·l ?· For i .. not death b ' better than nn teleological life ? That we honld be spending three millions a day, and our 1ncn peri hing by thousaud ·, \YhiL t we discu s the de tiny and capacity of the negro, rc1ninus one of the po ition taken by 1\.nacharsi Clootz in the French Assctnbly, " that the de1nocratic principle \va of such itnportancc, that it would be cheaply purcha..:ed by the total destruction of the human race fro1n the face of the planet" ! What shall be done with the Negro, forsooth! Can we do any worse ·with him than we have done, and arc doing? Can he be any henxicr buruen to us than now, THE GOLDEN llOUR. 121 when he is the fulcrun1 on which turns every lever set to overthrow our liberties and li vcs ? 1\fay \YO 110 t respectfully submit that it i · about as mtlcl 1 a c • \YC can attend to, to take care of ocicty in 18G2, without adju ting tho social relations and conditions of 18G2 ? ~1ay it not be surmised that the future will have brains to attend to its own affair ? May we not suO'crc t al , hb • ' so, that, having once dccidcu what \vc would " do with the Negro," Ahnighty God docs n't seem to have been over plea cd at our di:po ·a.l of hhn in that instance, and seems very likely to have a share in any future di ·po ·al of him? Accuse not thy generals, 0 American nation! Thou art the druggcu sleeper. Before thee with thy heavyeyed millions, Liberty, in sight of the swords and stave of avowed foes and seeming friends, which threaten its lifo, stands appealing, '' Coulust thou not watch with me one hour ? " It 1nay be that Liberty shall have to say presently to the sltunbcring sentinels, "Sleep 011 now: my hour is come" ; -and must needs pass to its resurrection through the dark portal of her chosen nation's grave. 6 |