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Show 8 TilE GOLDEN IIOUR. Free States. Did they go South, they must go crawling; or \Vest, it mu t be to Luild the higlnvays of America as convicts with '1lavcry's ball and chain tied to their feet ; whilst at home they saw their sacred growths, Religion, Education, Literature, and Social Science, with a wor1n gnawing at every core. At length this pitiful handful, having blighted a hundred thousand square miles of the finest land. in the world, having kept uncultivated thrice a much n1orc, having locked up in in1penctrablc barriers the riche. t 1netals on the continent, having produced an average of a hundred thousand white adnlts in every Southern State who cannot road or write, having kept the whole country in discord and hot ·water for two gcneratiouD, have finally plunged it into civil war. Of the 348,000 owners of slaves in America, only 18,000, at the highest cstin1ate, are loyal ; and the ·e, being generally in the Border States, where large plantations of slaves arc not found, own an average of 2;t slaves apiece. One fortnight's expenses of the present war would pay $ 500 for each slave held by any person at present pretending to be loyal. A man once saw a fiery dragon descending the side of a distant mountain: starting back in terror, his eye reached a true point of perspective, and he pcrcci vcd that the dragon \Vas the minutest of spiders, which bad swung itself down too close to his eye for right vision. IN CHANCERY. I I. IN CIIANCERY. IF there were no question of the suppression of a vat rebellion involved in the present relations of the nation with Slavery, it would be a mo1ncntous question how this small slaveholding interest has gained such an asccndcncy in the government that it is not held as attainted even by treason. Arc these slaveholders, in number about equal to the population of one of our third-rate cities, the royal fa1nily of a king that can do no wrong? It is a question of some intcrc t to thirty millions of men, who, fondly imagining thcmsel vcs living under a democratic govcrntncnt, sec their rulers su pending universal guaranties of Liberty rather than touch the right of eighteen thousand men to do wrong,- pulling dow·n the very rafters of the house, rather than destroy the rats' nests. Before this nation stand two classes of subjects. The one is a class of those who, having received every benefit at the hands of the nation, and no burden, have yet betrayed and wronged it, and inflicted every stab they could upon it. The other class is of those who have received at the hands of the nation nothing but degradation and wrong, who, having every reason to betray it, have yet never betrayed it or harmed it. And, lo, between these two the nation prefers to let 1* |