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Show 284 \Vhy did Richmond and llost.on weep upon one another's necks? Why did Nullifiers of tho South take up the wail of the Cottonocracy nt the North, and bear it on over the lnnd ? \Vhencc this sudden opening of eyes which could before sec no good thing coming forth from the New England Nazareth? 'fhc reason is plain enough. 'fhc South lived, ancl the North thrived, upon the sacrifice of every sixth man, woman, and child in tho land. 'l'hcy had agreed to do it, they liked it, they called it J... . iberalism, National Spirit, and Enlightened Patriotism. Daniel Webster crr•bodied this Spirit in his Speech of the Seventh of March. Tie incarnated tho Surrender of tho North to the South. There once had been some false pretences of a Northern Spirit, which would sometimes threaten to rouse and resist the outrages of Slavery. But Sin very had been ever predominant, nay, omnipotent, in the affairs of the Nation. Men were tired of a show of virtue when they had it not; and when 'Mr. \Vcbstor, as their fugleman, gave the n:TiCIJI SM. :185 signal, they were all ready and eager to obey it, and Callow him whithersoever he went. 11hey hoped, poor fools, that he nucl they would receive the gift of power nnU place and prei.iminence, as the reward of this confession of their meanness of spirit. ~rhcy have had empty praise enough ; but the promotion was reserved for older and better soldiers. Their mouths are filled with ashes, and all they have to do is to prove that it is the fruit of Paradise. In their own defence, they arc obliged to maintain his impeccable character and his infallible wisdom, or they themselves must share the disgrace of their dishonored divinity. If he bo not divine, why, what arc they ? If the idol be pulled down, it must fall on the heads of its worshillpors. As they will not forsake it, they must uphold it. But Time, the Iconoclast, sweeps silently onward, and with the very winnowing of his wings overturns Idol and Idol 'fcmplc. IIis path is ~h·ewed with the fragments of names once worshipped, of creeds once adored, of opinions once |