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Show 108 THE GOLDEN HOUR. simply for lucre and worldly strength, refused to listen to the cries or sobs of four millions of their brethren, - consented that they should be sold into Egypt. Now come the great hails which sweep away the refuge of lies ; and these very societies and churches which most failed to rescue tho ~c torn and blccuing sheep of Chri t's fold, arc the 1110 't SlUHlercd and ruined. They laid up their treasures where Confederates break through anu steal. The n1ost fiouri ·hing societies and churchc now arc those which rebuked slavery too sternly to have any possessions in the South to be lost. Trade has al ·o learned its lc · ·o11. W c had, in the ti1ncs of IIcnry Clay, mc1norial circulated through the North, praying Congress to have the discu sion of Slavery in its halls suppressed. They \VCrc igued principally l>y merchants with large Southern trado. In some cities, ho\VCYcr, there ·were found merchants who would not sign away their independence for Southern custo1n. These the pro-slavery papers were swift in parading as the enemies of the South, and they suffered by the withdrawal of Southern en ton1. The South dealt more largely than ever ·with it " friend·." The others had to r eorganize th ir trade: forcc<l to w plant their businc ·s entirely in the North, those finns are to-day secure ; they have no dreary account of irrecoverable thousands with Southern dealers. Of all such custon1ers they were long ago relieved by their compliant neighbors, now groaning under the sequestration of their property in the outh. TilE DIAL OF GRO\VTHS. 109 And we may rest a. ssurcd that all wllo into their lives and 1 t have woven . n ere ts rotten d threads, 'viii now sec tl t. an blood-rusted 10 Issue torn to t tt the bla ts ·which attend tl . . a crs under . 11 Judgment-day Athc1 'n1, then, _the di bel· f . · 1 10 In the reality f n· · aw ' - can never aa-a· l . (, o lYlne a l n ru c In cl I they will believe thoug·ll ,. . ~nrc I and trade : ' lOr a while It ·u b "believe and tremble." Wl c only to Let us hope al o that tl d lC ay has to close up that old 1)0 . . l onous blo and that the n ew hour 1. s op01u.u ()' advanced enough orn Compro?nise ' Trutlt. Ah, ho\v have we needed tho snow-wl 11' t e peb tals of tl · fl in place of ti t · us ower . la compliant trailin<Y weed' ' A. lion on a plain was ta un t c d bb y a s.c r t 1 . was on a hio·h steep __ ·I~ . . pen , w nch b ' I oc "' With lns inabili t t l' to an equal bcj o·ht Tl 1. Y o c unb b • lC lOll answered " I . o·l . you ha Ye ri en if l'l ' lllib 1t Idee ' 1 ce you I had 1 d " was all this · . craw e · What pros pen ty' tlns ·wealth ti . nationality; the first untainted ' lis spread-eagle Capitol s] d I . breath sent throu o·h the Jowc t lat It wa all a crawlin <Y b . And so, thank God, the heel of " b pro. pcnty. the head f tl our manhood Is ncar c. o lat crpent whose t" 'l church and 'chan 0'0 and , r ai was through b COUI t and O'OVCI'l1lllCllt _In e tablishing the govermnent, o:r fathers c~m m1sed · to da pro- ' - y we reap the harvest of that d . to-day the 1 sec , and poop e arc reading the law that tl l boD'in 'ti } ' lOSC W 10 5 Wl l t lC coinpromi c of . . the 1 pnnctple have o·ivcn msc vcs to the toils of 1' . o g oide 1 d a g Ittcnng, bright-eyed n-sca o serpent' w Iu .c I l must inevitably cru h' |
