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Show lGO THE GOLDEN HOUR. the banner of Liberty ; with that sacred ens1gn floating over hin1, let hi1n stand or be stricken do\vn. Up, heart ', and. let each deliver his own soul! Up, and the govenuuent ·will be forced. to obey you, for you will bear the tables of eternal law in your hands! 1\fen need. not be dozing in a White Ilou c, or wrangling in a Capitol, to be strong : each step upward. in office n1arks another shackle as nn1od. But true hearts arc free,- free to stand, or be hanged, if need be, - and Liberty may yet need her martyrs in the North. If this country is to be saved, the Abolitioni ts are to save it ; and, though they seo1n few in ntun!Jers, they arc not by a thou andth so few as wore Christians ·when Jesus suffered, or Proto tant 'vhen Luther spoke. There is need only that we should stand as one man, and unto the end, for an absolutely Free Republic, wearing to promote eternal strife until it be attained,- until in waters which Agitation, the angel of Froodon1, has troubled, the di ·cased nation shall bathe, ancl be 1nadc every whit ·whole. 'l.,ho Golden IIonr is before us : there is in America enough wi ·dotn and courage to coin it, ere it pa sos, into national honor and peace, if it is all put forth. Up, hearts !uu TilE END. Cambridge : ' tt>rcotype<lnnd Printeu hy \Vt'lrh, Bigelow, & Co. |
