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Show 54 Tllli GOLDEN HOUR. . 1 . ·l . , cts the risincr day, must be traced of the night, w nc 1 grc b - • . . . b t 1 tcly it would ·e m that lns Muse to tlns llomcr ' u a tl tory of Unuinc, and gradually threatens to reverse le s . . 1 Wl t lse can be said concerning lns lose her sou · 1a e . ? Tl . fable compares those ·who ·would Polliwog fable · us . t end so far as tlns govcrntnent declare Slavery a an ' . . d t tl C P hilotadpoles who, unpatlcnt at is concernc , o lOS . tl b which N aturc leads polliwog to the slow grow 1 Y . . . d ttino· off the tails of the for1ner. froo· 1nst to on en b b' . II writes . " I would do nothing hastily After tlus omcr . . . a· t' l llOI' presume to jog the elbow of PrOYlor Vlll 1C 1 ve y, N d e ·ate measures for me till we arc sure donee. o esp r 11 tl ·e llopolcss -flectere si nequeo SUPE-that a o 1crs a1 ' ROS Acheronta 1nove bo . " I~ other word ' the slaughter at 1'Ianas cs, Ball's Bluff, Winchester, Shiloh, are mild meas~r~ ; the c 1 to the gods · but to release m1lhons frmn are appea s ' . . d ungeons, .ttetter~ auction-blocks and ra1 c thcn1 to hfc, .LI ...., , ' this is a " desperate measure," tlu ·s l·S t o " n1 ovc l1ell " '. Is it possible that any cataract should have been so far fonncd over this once clear eye, that it now sees a state of Slavery to be a nor1nal phase in the condition of human beings? 0 Homer, once you sang as if you saw that Slavery, and not emancipation, was the murderous lopping off of the poor polliwog's tail! So far as the principle, "From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text, is concerned, it is certainly true. Only, to apply it in THE GRADUAL PLAN. 55 the present case as againsL in11nc liaLc emancipation gives an odd sugge 'Lion of a Sl epy IIolto·w so1ncwhcrc ncar CainLridgc. Docs IIon1cr ren1en1bcr nothing of the long anu fearful year' in which \VC have gone - Cocl kno\ s ho\V \VCarily and sl<nvly- fron1 sLop to sLop up to thi.· our Conln1enccnlCilL-Day? To speak or ClnancipaLion now as hasty, or a leap over cs.·cn tinl sLeps, is as if IIotncr should go to the next Senior who havincr ' b n1adc his grauuation pooch, aL the end of a full Col-lege course, is about to receive hi· diplo1na, and Ray: " ~1y dear young 1nan, jest1:nct lente .' You n1ust n't think of a diplo1na until you have been here four years yet. Co1nc over, - our Ollenclorf cia. s 111cets at ten uow ." Or here, ay, is an old tree which has been ~lowly roLting, until a breath only may bring it to the earth ; no\v, 1uercly bccau c it falls with a crash, and the splinters fly, ball \Ve accuse the blithe breeze which diu the work of being a rcvoluLionary tornado movin cr ' b A.cheron ? Let us trust that Proviclcncc will "prcsu1nc to jog the elbow" of lloincr, that he may no longer nod whilst the first page in God's account with America is closing, and ·when it is plain that upon the virtue and earnestness of the current hour it must depend whether there shall be any balance in favor of this nation to be carried to the fresh page, or to entitle it to further trust. |