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Show 40 TilE GOLDEN HOUR. . · d that the . manarror rushed up and ClfCUS- b "It 1s sal 1 that it was a constitutional argument to s lOW began an d 1 ·ed that his gun was also anaconda ; but tho 1nan oc ar nstitutionally a gun, and fired away. co 1 t 1 ·ned the snake was, I have " Who the man t la n . d. covered however, that he 1s t et learned . I have lS ' no y . . . t f " b . f the present Adlnnus ra Ion. not a mem cr o 1 .1.t y victory contemplate, or can it Does a pure y ml I ar .. . b d drivin o· the snake under the effect anytlnng eyon b . ' say " having got 1t under a barn ? " But," one may ' . . . . t there." Certainly: and 1f that barn, we can keep 1 . . . . . f . _to sit beside barns, watclnng is what hfo IS given or' . . .t . all rig·ht; but 1f any Inotnbcr of snakes,- then l lS . . 1 B . G tard or of the 500th rcgu11ent of the Nattona arn l ' . " . 1 f tl 0 Snake-watc 1ers o future should cons1dcr the sit- l ' uail.o n ,, l. n t 11 e l'l g ll t of certain ·work he may have been . 1 b't f accomplishino· he Inay conclude that 111 the 1a 1 o o' the sna1 r e 1. s 11 0 ldi.J)Ob ' hiln ' as much as he bolus the snake. . When Ainorica has to swerve from the orl)lt of her destiny to stand guarding eight hundred thousand square m1'l os of her territory froln the ravag..e s of rebel-lion; when she has to hold her Union by mihtary for~e; when for this end our children n1ust be turned aside from the noble aims fostered by free institutions and the arts of peace, drafted to swell and preserve the vast standing army which such a state of things would require,_ then Atnerica, degraded into a military nation, FIGHTING THE DEVIL \VITI! FIRE. 41 would be overcome of evil. ITer victory would fetter most of all her own limbs. Even trade could not stand such a condition. The Nortlnvc t needs the ~1is issippi River, but it uoos not wish to sit forever, five hundred thousand strong, on the banks of that stream, to sec that it docs n't flow away again into a foreign land. Trade can usc tl1c river 01lly by being able to leave it, and go home and trade in full faith that this river \Vill rc1nain loyal. It is this vanqui hed victory alone which the sword can by any possibility win for us. Has the sword ever done any but a partial and patched work ? In our American Revolution against England, war was declared as ju tly and prosecuted as succe sfnlly as ever before or since in the history of the world ; but our difficulties to-day prove that the sword did not do the work then as igned it cleanly. The sword had conquered victory and a forced peace ; but then it had to hold them ; in gaining colonial independence thus it hau made a giant foe, who, it kncvv, would. make other attempts at subjugation. So the Colonies, in order to combine against any possible attack from a foreign usurper, must surrender to an internal usurper. The Union was formed for the co1nmon defence ; it was more a military than a civil measure. It had to be made at once. The rights of man were co1npron1iscd for the emergency ; for all the tates n1u t cotnbino, whatever seeds of future disunion they miO'ht brino· 5 b with thetn. We see to-day that this overswift formation |