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Show 154 TIIE GOLDEN HOUR. log, tho way is to strike that wedge." Lot us take tho Pro ·idont at his word, and stril.,..c ! Ilo\V can you strike ? Lot every lllan, WOl11an, anu chilu in thi nation send hi or her prayer to the Capitol to have lavery aboli ·hod. And warn your repro ontativo to help this 1nca. nrc or hang hitnsclf on Capitol IIill before cotning back. You need not be particulae about tho ·way: \Yhoro there 's a \vill, there's a \vay. All tho ·o technicalities arc o n1uch thin di gni o for a wavering pnrpo o: lot Congro:-;s or tho Pro iclcnt ri o to the point of striking -,lavery dead, and \vhothor they arc tatos or Torritorie. , or whether Andy Johnson is a military or civic officer, will be but a strife of word . The right to open school for N ogroos in North Carolina, again t the laws of that State, includes tho right to ot every lave in it free. Upon the North tho guilt of this Rebellion is hoavie, t; and upon tho North the retribution \vill be hca,·ic t. Tho North has been cruel to tho South,cruel as is he who continuos to trust to an infant the knife with which it has already ga hcd its ftc h. 0 Nor thorn Conscience, trace hone tly tho blooddrippings of this Rebellion, even if they lead to thine own door! If one should see a fellow-man drinking poison, and should not strain every sinew to stop it, the law holus hin1 ju. tly a tho niciuc' Innrclorcr. IIow long have you sat with folded arms seeing your Southern brother SURSUM CORDA. 155 drinkinO' this vile drug, \Vhich has finally maddened hi1n! IIo,v long dicl your roprc. on tati vo, , your clcrgynlcn, your merchant:, cry !lush to all who lifted up tho warning \Oico,- \Vhilst to tho .·lave'· cry your oars wore stopped ·with cotton, to his opprc ·or your tongue \vas s\vootonod with sugar? And no'v ·when havino- ' b gone forward upon tho logical path, cleared by your-selves,- 1nolJLing and hanging all who \vould have saved thorn,- thoy roach tho inovitalJlo climax of their fearful disease, still you will not be htu11auo onoutrh to b t ake tho poi ·on frorn their. lips ; even now you arc talking in cold blood about Jatnaica and sutrar ancl b ' whether by emancipation sugar rose a cent or a con t and a quarter; still, whil t your loft eye is on your banner, your right is on your hog head! Nearly every human being sharing the blood of him \vho writes tho e words is arrayed against this country. You think them guilty traitors ? But I rornombor hoV\7 Nor thorn preacher proved to them that they stood upon tho Rock of A.gc. , how to them Northern roprosontativos cried, " Groat i · lavery, and tho Con. titution is its prophet ! "- and I will not fling hard nan1os at them, lo t they should strike loading Union men who do ertod the South at tho one mornent when thoro might have boon son1e courage in clinging to her; the "Ever strong upon the stronger side." But you, true-hearted Northmen, I itnploro, oro you go further in this butchery, to try if you cannot SA .. VE |
