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Show .. 66 TilE GOLDEN HOUR. Stn4 () er·e thi. ' had it not been for the exbeen a free wi.Jv . d . · rlice eno·endercd by ultra abolition- Clternent an P1 CJ u'- o . . . f 01 . , 4 this reruark he r s Lo h1s feet, w1th 1sts o uo. A .li ' . l ~ -t es rollin o· like an 111 ·ane 1nan (a· he clenchec 11 , ey o , ll r n ·) and rerna.rk 'tl, that Lhe ~ oulh n1os t as. uret Y '' '" ' . d 1, f·ee within one year, w re tt noL that ·woul uecon1e I . t )lany such scounJr e1s as n1y ·eH to there ,vere oo 1 { 1 l · of '1lav ry " Innocent Goouall or rivet t 1e c u:uns c. • l d t 1 }'1tjle did you know· that yon were Cleve an . 1 w u seeing a picture then ,vhich Art and Po try will co~n-bu. lC t o ce1 e u1,1 · nte as one of the fir t glean1 · of smuty w f t·011out o a na 's lonrr lunacy ! That re1nark of 1 o Br own ' s I·S pr· ec1· ely the s(a nest I over h eard. If the North went South nobly' Slavery ·would clear away like a phantoin of night. What ver be the faults of Southerners, they do like those "\vho 'Land up , quarely for their principle ; in all n1y life in Lhe RonLh, I never remCinber to have heard a dough-face in the North spoken of otherwi e than 'vi th con Le1npt. Let me relate a conversation literally as it occurred a few years ago in Ric1unond, Virginia. o1ne New Y ~rk lawyer had in the case of the Lem1non slaves, wluch involved a principle irnportant to the South, argued the case successfully for Lemmon and lavery. lie then came down to Virginia to be lionized. A dinner was rriven in Riclunond by persons connected ·with the Leg-o . islature, to which this lawyer 'vas invited. llere 1s the conversation, just as it occurred across the tabla fro1n the lawyer, between two members:- THROUGH 'ELF-CONQUEST TO CONQUEST. 67 1st Me1nbe1·. "I don't think 1nuch of that man." 2d Me'lnber. "Nor I." 1s t .17r1./1r .enL. , , IIe 1. · n ' t a geu tlen1an ; but it's well enough to have such 1uen up North." 2d Me rn. " rrhey 're u ·eful enough." 1st lJfent. " To1n, ·why is it they never raise any gen tle1nen up North ? " 2d Mcnt. " 0, I've been North, and I tell you they do have gentle1nen ; but then they're all da1nue<l Abolitionists." Virginia said to Euward Everett, "I envy not the heart or tho head of the man who, trained a1nid free institution. , con1es do,vn to defend. llutnan Slavery" ; * to John Brown Virginia said, "lle is finn, truthful, intelligent,- the ga1nest 1nan I ever saw." t Sitting, last un11ner, in the porch of a hotel at Ne\vport, Rhode I ·land, I heard the original conver ·ation between a Northerner and Southerner which "\V. hakespore has travestied by premeditation in the followincr b conversation between lla1nlet and Polonius :- "Flam. Do you see yonder cloud, that 's almost in the shape of a camel ? " Pol. By the mass, and 't is like a camel, indeed. " Ha1n. ~1ethinks it is like a weasel. " Pol. It is backed like a weasel. "Ha1n. Or like a whale. "Pol. Very like a whale." The lla1nlet in this ca 'e was a wealthy . se1n1- * John Randolph of Roanoke. t Henry A. W isc. |