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Show 62 THE GOLDEN HOUR. 1 ~bid and not very deep. It is not is extreme Y mot ' ' · . . b ·od 011 any actual diiTcronco, and deliberate, nor as . . 1un~L 1n:1l c up 1n vtoloncc ·what for that very reason ._ l • . tl ... tnrc of thin rrs. Tlns hatred also it lacks 111 10 llu, o , 11 ) too nuickly to have nu1cl.1 depth or has sprung \_ '1 . It tra within a comparat1 voly recent O'CllUlllellOSS. \r c. 0 . 1 t tl So nth was one ·with tho North. "\V c pcnod t 1a IC . . f 1 blood· onr fathers \Vero vv1tlnn our arc 0 t 10 satnc ' . . united. Section has intcrmarnecl w1Lh soc-metnory tion. There has been but one Satanic divider who has d l . between us - lavery. Tho interests opone a c 1as1n ' . of Slavery cannot be Inade tho intore ts of free s~clcty ; and there cannot be one institution of free societysuch as the free press, and free speech, and free school _which i not a bomb- hell for lavery. Free society beincr necessarily a continual a ·sault upon lavery, b Slavery hates the North. It is not the outhern man, it is the virus of Slavery in his veins, which hates the North ; as the Indian plead before the court, that not he, but tho whiskey, co1nmittod the murder. Take that virus away, my Northern friend, and he is a Saxon man she a Saxon won1an, like your elf. Tl:e writer of these pages wa reared in tho 1uicl t of hatred and contctnpt of the N orthorn people, and did himself hate and do pise them cordially during an his early youth; he hold it to be his highm;t atnhition to as it in severing that section frorn the North. But fortune led hitn to a year's residence in a liLLie II '\V TO liiTCII OUR WAGO.N TO A TAR. 63 Quaker settlement where Slavery d ·a t . . 1 no c:x1 t, and wh1ch consequ.e ntly \Vas an o(a. · · is up on a Sl avery-wasted desert; and With this one t p out f tl . 0 1c atmo phore Of lavery, With the fir t olance of UO bt t • . . b u owar<.l that mstitution, a cloud of illu ·ions cleared up, tl1 e anti.p a-thy to Northern 1ncn di ·appeared. and 1 . • • • ' G 1c experienced a revulsion 1n thou· favor which did tl . . 10m oven more than JU ttee. He knows, moreover, the leaders of tl1 e S ou"I} tern Rebellion, many of tho1n I)Orsonally ' a II 0 f tll CID by character, and knows them to be vo 1.y carne ·t mad- Inen; he know that the N orLh can , b y oa1 1· ng up the one source of madness and di union which has V:ithin a few years brought about this alienation, wither it up forever. France and England had a 1nuch longer and more rancorou feud than this between the North and the South. '' I will fight a Frcnchn1an," 'aiel. Lord N olson, "whorev r I can finJ hitn ; wherever he can anchor, my ship hall be there." But a year of a common interest made them allie. · ; lately their overeigns exchanged vi,'its; and it i · the e ·titnate of the best judges that the current generation will boar to its grave all memory of the feud bet\vcon the Eugli ·h and the French. Men will love, and if need. be die for, that by which they and their fa1nilies li vo. If lavery is tho ba is of their ho1nes; if fro1n lave in ·titutions comes the bread that sustains the life of wife and child, then |