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Show 6 this wild diseas~ at the South, which has made that section into its own image and likene s,- having been brought by de tiny face to face with this evil in the South, who e spots of contagion he has al o marked on every in titution of the North,- believes that this nation has but one foe, and that it will be pursued by that one everywhere and always until it is no more evaded, but met and destroyed, as it ea ily can be. Convinced that the arch .. traitor is not Davis, but Slavery, and that the age is worthy of an army of saviour , who shall, by its destruction, re cue, be. ides the Union, both lave and rebel, I send forth this work, trusting that it may help forward the day when the only war-cry of our nation shall be,- MERCY TO THE SouTH ! DEATII TO SLAVERY I • TilE GOLDEN HOUR. I. POINT OF PERSPECTIVE. THERE are in the United States- as we are facetiously termed- nearly thirty-four millions of human beings. Of these, three hundred and forty-eight thousand, or about one ninety-eighth of our population, are owners of slaves. This small proportion has, ever since this vvas a nation, preserved in our midst every old form which the nation meant to abandon ; just as if we had never had a Mayflower or Bunker Ilill, the old autocracies and ari~tocracies gathered about the rich board of the New World, the thirty-three millions and two thirds standing behind the chairs of the handful constituting the caste of Owners of Human Beings. For this ninety-eighth of their number the millions must pour out their bard earnings to buy new territory; for this, pour out their blood to rob Mexico of territory; for this, fear to call their souls their own. It 1nade no difference that these lived in so-called |
