"What is the difficulty, and what the remedy? Not in the election of Republican Presidents. No. Not in the non-execution of the Fugitive bill. No. But it lies back of all these. It is found in the Atheistic Red Republican doctrine of the Declaration of Independence. Until that is trampled under feet, there can be no peace."--_Dr. Smyth_, a Rebel leader in South Carolina. "Mud-sills" and "poor white trash" seem not to his liking; but what if _they_ should trample _him_ under feet? [Illustration: 0010] |D Stands for _Driver_, His duty, I hear, Is mostly described as the Slave-Overseer. O tell me, I pray you, if any one can, If planters acknowledge the brute as a man! With whip and with pistols, the vagabond wields The law of the Master in hovels and fields, But scarcely removed, in a social degree, Above the rude gang that he governs is _he_, And, like the Slave _Trader_, his service is prized As treason is loved, and the traitor despised! Some persons sneer at any distinction between hirelings of a month or year and hirelings for life--the latter being their definition of Southern Slavery! A taste of the wormwood and the gall might bring them to exclaim with _Sterne_: "Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still Slavery, still thou art a bitter draught; and though thousands in all ages have been made to drink of thee, thou art no less bitter on that account." Suppose the chalice were commended to the lips of Slaveholders? [Illustration: 0011] |E Stands for _Eagle_, In Liberty springs The strength of his beak and the pride of his wings. Though vultures still cloud the political sky, And "carrion, more carrion!" incessantly cry, Shall Slave-craft prevail, and the moralist nod O'er evils reserved in the judgment of God? --The Eagle has come to the rescue of right, And all institutions of fraudulent might, Shall perish and cease from the bountiful clime, Long cursed by the stench of a carrion-crime! The Constitution grants neither right nor authority to interfere with the domestic institutions of any State; but Congress, representing the people and the States, has absolute control in the Territories. "More Slavery!" has been the continual cry of the South. Rebellion provoked the war-power of the President; and it is now probable that the institution which claimed a continent, will be numbered with the abominations that _were!_ Let all the people say Amen. [Illustration: 0012] |F Stands for _Fugitives_ hasting from wrath, And furies are hot on their dangerous path. Away from the cabins of slavery pomp, A refuge they seek in the hideous swamp; Or, haply eluding the hunters of blood, They struggle through thicket and perilous flood, Till, reaching the lines of the Union Host,