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Show 148 THE GOLDEN HOUR. and admire before your Revolution, and not hn tie it off as a shatn, let it be one spheral and vital, loading on springtide and "\Vaving sun1tner-fielcl , for you and for the weary worlcl. !leavens ! what an opporLunity you have for this! The most imminent danger now, as it has been fr01n the first, is that we may be induced by the sen1i-loyal States, whose treachery is all the 1noro dangcrou uecause it believes it~elf the only loyalty, to allow lavery to remain unburied, to be rcvi vcd uncler their moon hine. Few as arc tho slaveholders and the slaves in tho e Border States, let us not be deceived into thinking thorn of little in1portancc in the i ·sue. There 1s a Gcrrnan n1axitn ·which reads, "Gi vc tho Devil a lock of your hair, and he will be sure to get your whole head." Three IIc sian flies only were seen upon the cabinwall of a Dutch ship which approached an .An1crican "\vharf; now what field in tho continent has not known the <leva tations of the lie · ·ian fly ? Six N or\\yay rats swatn a hore fron1 another Dutch shjp in our \Vaters ; now where is the cellar without thetn? T\vo hundred and forty years ago twenty slaves ·were brought to Jatnestown, Va., in Dutch ship No. 3; -110\V where can you go, frorn Bunker llill to Surnter, without hearing the rattle of a slave's chain ? Brothers, let us make a clean sweep of this thing whilst we are about it! SURSUM CORDA. 140 An ancient Per, ian scripture says : " J usticc is so dear to the heart of N atnrc, that if at last an atom of injustice should be found, tho blue sky .. woulcl shrivel like a snake- ·kin to ca t it off." A single ·lave hold in this nation will break it to fragtnonts again, and as often as we try it ; jn t as a single powder-grain ignited at the heart of the rock of Gibraltar would rive it a under. vVill those who kno\v that tho rights of tho pooro, t 1nan arc of more itnportance than a thou and unions, ever keep silent or patient with even one fetter in t ho land ? By God, NEVER! 'rhcse slaves of the loyal States we take because they arc essential to any permanent peace in the country, and if we arc cotnpcllcd to abnormal strife for peace, we have a military right to strive for a permanent peace, and not merely to defeat an anny in this or that engagement. We take these slaves as we have taken tho houses and stock of loyal men on our 1narch. Let them bring in their bills. Doubtless we shall have to pay 1norc than tho number of loyal slaveholders would 1tvarrant ; for we shall be sure to find, "\vhen pay-day corncs, that every slaveholder had been all along a very Audiel for fidelity: but who shall stop to count the money that goes to ranso1n a race and a nation from tho slavery which buys and sells tho bodies of the one and the souls of the other ? We shall need liberation first in these Border States, not only because we must make a clean sweep of the |