branding iron, who are our bullies--who insist upon forced labor, and repudiate all compensation to the toiling millions of slaves--who repudiate, among slaves, the marital and parental relation, and class them by law as chattels--who forbid emancipation--who make it a crime to teach slaves to read or write--ay, even the Bible--who keep open the interstate slave-trade (more horrible than the African, making Virginia a human stock farm), tearing husband from wife, and parents from children--founding a government boldly announcing the doctrine of _property_ in man, based avowedly on the divinity, extension, and perpetuity of slavery--these are our bullies; and when they are overthrown, we shall commence a new career of peaceful progress and advanced civilization. And why sow the seeds of international hatred between England and America? Is war really desired between the two countries, or is it supposed that we will yield to foreign intervention without a struggle? No, the North will rise up as one man, and thousands even from the South will join them. The country will become a camp, and the ocean will swarm with our privateers. Rather than submit to dismemberment or secession, which is anarchy and ruin, we will, we must fight, until the last man has fallen. The Almighty can never prosper such a war upon us. If the views of a foreign power have been truly represented in Parliament, and such an aggression upon us is contemplated, let him beware, for in such a contest, the political pyramid resting upon its apex, the power of one man, is much more likely to fall, than that which reposes on the broad basis of the will of the people. Returning from this episode, I resume the narrative.