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Show TilE GOLDEN HOUR. l . tl at such a brain as that 1 o --e unequa ' l that the sta ccs w r t be riskod against even . W 'b ~ t ·'s coulJ. no of Dmuel c s er h less this boor. They 1 f Texans, lUUC many hnndrec s 0 ... . ad bull at ~1:ar hf1elu . . l t a certarn In were wtlltng tla t cotnpellcd Mr. 'Vebster to l ld meet the Texan, bn S lOU decline. . cadino- wiLh delight the . ublic IS now r ( b The roadtng p . f Theodore vVin throp. y Oll cxqt u. 't dolineatwns o B t " 1 1 c , " J 0 hn ron , anc d " Cecil Drccme, who have rca 1 . k a n10n1ent of such an B tl ertoft " t 1111 " Eli win ro 1 ' b . o- at Lhe n1crcy of ·otne . . uch culture, elnb . 1 itnagtnatron, s . b 1 Where arc lus cqna s d r ttlc drulnmet- oy . . wretchc 1 f L on of Baker, or of Fttz-in the South? or those o y ' James O'Brien ? . 1. tic anJ we allude to . Ininor 1ncqua l ' But these are t tl --c is a fearful inequality 1 t ·ctneinbcr tha lei them on Y o 1 . • d co such men as those . f which pro u in the in t1tn Ions l . ch I roduco Floyds and d and those w n I have nalnC ' . rrh t Inillions of men not . l oals but to Clb Twiggscs 111 s l . ' . fi of any i1nportance. . . or sciCntl c man . one htcr ary . rrl t to itnpcrrl LIBERTY • t we have no rib 1 .An1ericans. ll •t to remain in peril, that we . or to a ow 1 one hour, 11 a "whip the South." l the world that we c n . . Inay slOW t f the Interior rmsed IS The point which the Secre ar!t o d it is far beneath . t f sectional van I y' an but a po1n o . 1 . . . Is it a point of d · ue 1n t us cr1s1s. the trcmen ous ISS tl . t it excels Slavery as ·u Freedom to prove 1<1 .. pride Wl l ? Wl this war began, the successes b t h . of men len l u c er . . d f Slavery and t le were more frequently on the Sl e o ' A POST-PRANDIAL POINT. 75 wisest said: " There arc gloriou · obstacles to the success of the North ! Free in. ti tutions do not breed the requisite number of Floyd.· and 1\virrgscs- thieve and traitors- for thL work ; :B,rccc.lon1's sons cannot hate and sting like vipers ; th y ·will not poi. ·on sprinrrs, and put up ful ·c banners to lure a foe into trap . . " 'rllCrc 'Was roo1n for so1nc pride in that direction. But the ·c <rlo- . b rious obstacles arc fading; the thir t for Routhcrn Lloocl grows; and pre. ently the North will Le dcn1oralizcd enough to equal the rccklcssne · and ·pitc of ~ la-very. Once, says a fable, there ·wa a tag \vhich had long, branching horns, of which it was very prouu ; but of its feet it ·was very much a han1ed. One day this stao· b ' pursued by hounds, found its de. pi..;cd feet quite ser-viceable; and indeed. the feet \Vould have saved hi1n had it not been for the horns of which he was so proud, for the c beco1ning entangled in o1ne bushes the stao-was overtaken by the hounds. ' b The North can \vin no 1nilitary laurels in this confEct; should it gain the victory, the world will co as little glory in it as it saw in our victory over Mexico. Let the North not covet a distinction which she can never possess, thanks to the superior glories of Liberty! To the proposition from South Carolina, that her sons should. meet more than their number of ~Ia - sachusetts men, and decide the i ·sue in this country hy this duel of States, a hre\vd rc i<lent of the 01<1 Bay propo ed, as an an1cndnlcut, that these should meet, but that, instead of using ·weapons of death, va t blank-books |