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Show 44 TilE GOLDEN IIOUR. . ,· g the modern discovery of Roman aqueducts, Ignorin . ' , 1 l . ·l makes a hydrant In one s ya1 d the water-love ' w nc 1 . .. a better. It IS a rude~ answer the sainC purpose, OI far lJcln. nd oui.. e.n r 'l'zation to think that numbers I l ness . mbers arc as weak as they an conquer for us. nu .. c W . beyond that in our municipal are strong· 0 are · It . estimated that t·wenty pohcemcn governments. IS . d d. crsc the larcrcst r1ot or ttunult can conquer an Isp b . No~ york 'Vby ? Because each that could occur Ill \ . . . policeman has t11 e n1 oral power of .t ho nation at lns back whi. lst t 11 e I:lO tors arc mere b1ts of chaos. "'\V c do n' ot have t o so t one half of a city to keep the other h a1 f 1. n OI· dcr · I have seen a half-dozen b.u rly ruffians l cd t o pn··s on by a 1uan weaker than either of them, bu t w1 1 0 llad an IDEA syn1bolcd in the star on lu .s b1, eas· t , .,.·v11ilst tho ruffians had none. 'Vhcn y our connt 1, y 11 as an idea in this war' it need only send South a moderate police force. Nat Turner and John Brown, with stars out of heaven on their breasts, holding commi sions fron1 Aln1i.o·hty God to put down the organic di order in the outh' ~rov.ed that Slavery cannot stir but as Frocdotn pcr1n1ts It; but ~IcClellan, with 700,000 men under him for six months, proved that men unar1ncd with ideas arc as unable to cope with the kindled ferocity of ·wrong, as they arc without guns to cope \Vith half their number of tigers. In a fearful sense our rucn arc yet unarmed. . It is a common phrase with many of those who ev1- LIBERTY'S LEGITIMATE WEAPON. 45 dently think that tho Union would be no thin rr without b Slavery, that an edict of e1nancipation ·would not roach or free a single slave, and, to usc a favorite phrase with certain journals, "\vould not be worth tho paper upon which it should be written." I observe, ho\vevor, that those always end their argn1nonts by saying, For God's sake, do not try it! It is quito ro1narkablo how nervous they arc, lest an edict should be put forth which could have no effect \vhatovor. Have \VO con ·idorcd ·well \Vhat would be the practical bearing if our govornn1ont should declare every slave free ? Slavery \Vould by this stroke of tho pen be exposed to the antislavery feeling of tho world. If John Brown had a successor, he would n1arch South under protection of tho flag under which the old captain \vas hung. "\Vhitc and black cru aden; \Vould ri o in Canada, Kansas, Ohio, Hayti, New England, following now hermit-leaders to r.oscue tho holy places of humanity. Hayti would no longer need bog laborers to co1no to her shores, and pay them for co1ning: she need only send her ships to crui~o ncar tho inlets and crooks of the Southern coat, and pick tho1n up as they should. escape. It is not to tho point, observe, to say that such an edict would not at once free the slaves practically ; it would practically do a better thing, -it would recall to ltis ho1ne, whe1·e he ought to be, every soldier no'w in arms against the United States. It is 1nanifcst that the South \Vould not be able to resist the antislavery ern- |