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Show 136 NOTE S ON Roll bn.ckwrtrd on its mighty track. A'il. he, Columbia's hope and pri_dc, The slandered nml the sorely trtcd, In his triumphant course tum back. He is not fallen I Seck to IJin~ The chain less and unbidden wmd, Oppo8c the torrent's hcndlong course And turn usi<.lo tho whirlwind's force, But deem uot that tho mighty mind Will cower before the blast of hl\tc, O» qu:1.il n.t dnrk and causcl,...ss ill_, For though all else be dcsoi:Ltc It stoops not from its hig;h f's.ta.tc, A ~11triu s 'mid the ruins still. Jlo is not fallen! Every breeze 'l'ha.t wanders o'er Colurnbir~'s bosom, from wild Penobscot's forest trees, :From ocean shore, from inland sons, Or where the rich magnolia's blossom Floa.ts, snow-like, on the sultry wind, Is booming onwn.rd to his car, A homage to his lofty mind, A meed the fallen never find, A praise which none but patriots hear. Star of the West ! A milli~n eyes Arc turning gb~ly unt_o lum, Tho shrine of old 1dolntncs . Before his waning light grows dm1 ; And men n.wnko as from a. dream Of meteors da;-;;-;ling to Letray, .And bow before hi:s purer beam, Tho earnest of u. bettor day. All hnil! tho hout' is hn.st<.>ning on, When, vninly tried by slander's flnmo, Columbia. shnll behold her son Unlutrmed, without n. laurel gone, As from the flames of llaLylon The ungel-gUtm.led Triad came; UNCLE TOM 'S CABIN. Tlteslanderel' slwll be.silent tllen, His spell shalllcavetheminds of men, And higher glory wait upon The Western Patriot's future fame. l37 Such were formerly l\1r. 'Vhittier's feelings towards a. leading slave-holder. Yet he was then ns much a Quaker as he is now; but he was not then an abolitionist, in any other sense than that in which D:tniel 'V ebster nlwnys was one; and, had his feelings at that time remained the same to 1850, he would have cut off his right hanJ sooner tlw.n have written the lines first above quoted. &d tempora mulantw· ;- Twenty years have maJe a wonderful change in him and his associates. He nnd nine-tenths, ay, ninety-nine-hundredths, of those who act with !tim, were then (those of them, I mean, who were old enOugh to h:Lve an opinion,) as bitterly opposed to Garrison as the sturdiest conson•ntive 'Vhig, or Hunker Democrat, of them ail, as Garrison, ltimself, could testify. But time does not alter truth, and Mr. \\"hitticr must, therefore, excuse me, if, when ho changes, I refuse to "veer and turn'' with him. NOTJ.~ 13.-EXTENSTON 0}.' SI .. AYE TERRITORY. I have already remarked in the preceding Note, that I most fully believe that the extension of slave tcnitory will be for the benefit of the blacks as well as tl1c whites, and that the best interests of the country demand it, as soon as it can be honorably brought about; and I am happy to believe that I cnn find plenty to agree with me "all over our land." Certainly, there has been a wonderful change in men's minds on this subject within the last ten years, and still more within the last fifty. A great deal of superfluous evidence has lately been brobght forward by Free-Soil 18 i\1* |