The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-06-09
WASHINGTON, ID. G..
For the National Era.
lcoPYRIeHT SECURED BY THE AUTHoR.l
MARK SUTHERLAND:
OR,
poWEH AND PRINCIPLE.
ny EMMA D. Il. N. soUTHwoRTH.
CHAP. XVI.

CHAP. XVI
Ifany two creatures grew into one,
They shal do moro than the world has done
Tho each apart were never 30 weak,
Va, vainlv thro the world would you seek
For the knowledge and the might
Which in such union, grew their right
Browning.
aRosalie, my own blessed wife, you spoke
the truth, or rather you applied it fifty out
Of the heart are the issues of life!' | feel
and recognise it now! Ii is with far different
emotions that tread this deck, that bears US
on TO the Great West, to those which Cypress
ed and discouraged my soul two years ago; then,
dearest, went forth, alone, unloved unloving
now your form hangs upon my arm, not an en-
cumbrance, but socurce OF strength and joy
But oh Rosalie, how is it-how wiH it be with
YOU? Can you love the wild West as you love
your own sunny SOUTH"
WESTWARD the star of empire wends its
wayp Who can look upon the shores OF
this great river, and note the many thriving
new villages, without joyfally percciving that
The South is beautiful, luxuriant region,
where, tapped in Elyseum,' you may dream
your soul away; but the West is magnificent
iy vigorous land, whose clarion voice summons
you to action! The South might be illustrated
by beautiful epicurienne, like India - the
West only by a vigorous young Titon, like -
"Whom?"
"Mark Sutherland!n answered Rosalie with
her eyes sparkling with delight
They were standing upon the hurricane deck
of the steamer Indian Queen, which was puff.
ing and blowing its rapid course down the Ohio
river. She was leaning on the arm of her hus-
band-their heads were bare, the better to en-.
joy the freshness Of the morning air-her eyes
were sparkling and her cheeks glowing with
animation, and her sunny ringlets, blown back,
fOated on the breeze
From their elevated site they commanded a
view OF both shores of the river, and turned
their eyes alternately from the North to the
South side.
Does my dear Resale perceive any very
remarkable difference in the aspect of these
opposite shores 2" asked Marx bending his Sc
rious gaze upon her.
eyes notice that one shore is thickly stud
ed with thriving villages and fiourishing fields,
while the other is a comparative wilderness,
with here and there plantation house, and at
long intervals stunted town. What can be
the reason of this?"
Have you not already surmised the reason
The blessing, the impetus of freedom inspires
and waits on the genius Of the one-the curse,
the lethargy of slavery, Expresses and impedes
the otherD
The thoughtful eyes of Resale roved slowly
over the scene, and then raised and fixed their
earnest gaze upon her husbands face, and she
said
at is so There is only one set of persons
in the civilized world who are greater moral
sufIerers-more pitiable moral victims-than
the slaves themselves
And they are -
"The slaveholders! y
yes Rosalie; and it is from among their
number that the first great successful reformer
of the great evil must arise"
why do you think so, Mark"
From fitness, we are unwilling to be taught
our duty by an antagonist who reasons in par
tial Ignorance OF the facts judges harshly and
unJustiy, and speaks not the truth in love so
often as ialsehOod in hatred; and from anal
ogy, all great successful reformers that the
world has ever known have arisen-not from
the outside but from the very midst of the evil
70 be reformed. Martin Luther sprang, not
from among the illuminate, but from the bosom
Of the Roman Catholic Church and priesthood ;
nay Christ himself came not in clouds Of glO-
y clothed with the majesty of Godhead from
Heayen-he arose from the midst of the people
whom he came to redeem! So Resale, the
apostle Of liberty to the slave must arise from
among the Shareholders"
She had listened to his words with loving
and reverent attention, and now she fixed her
gaze upon his eyes, and said, with penetrating
earnestness-
Mark Sutherland Thou art the man !'n
His very soul thrilled to her inspiring words
and glance He walked hastily from her side
In agitation, but soon returning, said:
Nay, Rosalie, nay; this mission is not for
me hear no voice from Heaven calling me
to the worklp
hdrs you listened? The voice of God
speaks not often in thunder from Heaven it is
u sui, small voice. breathed from the depths
Oh your spirit. The word God is within you
ne pressed his hand to his brow, throwing
PACK the dark hair that fell in waves around
~ he was still agitated, excited.
You trouble my soul even as the descend.
ing angel troubled the pool Of Bethesda, Rosa
lie /" he said
Only to arouse its powers" she answered,
carrying out the smile. While speaking she
anxously sought his eyes, which at last met
hers IN loving gaze, and then she continued
You have consecrated your mission as only
such mission can be consecrated, by great
sacrifice at its commencement-can you pause,
nowl %
Rosalie! Resale! why had not known you
better before? Why could | not have loved
you only from the first Why have the last two
OF three years Of my life been lonely and
wastedlv
=" had to grow up for you had to be left
70 mature in solitude and silence. | was child
Three years ago.
Ehor ana you are child still, young prestess OF
sn;eay child etill, in all things but the in
'p"'u wisdom of your heart"
we have no time or space to follow the
course OF this young pair, step by step, or to
relate the many Conversations thew held TO.
bsner IN which mutually hand upheld hand
neart strengthened heart. spirit inspired spirit.
uatii the two grew into one-with one heart,
"uii and spirit-one interest, purpose and oh.
The boat wendell on her way. reached the
Mouth of the Ohio river, and turned IN the
,naiIs''Ssippi; and in. five days more landed at
~ new village Of S, in the Northwest
territory 1t was very early in the morning !;
.ue sun had not yet risen, and the fog still lay
s sa'ie and heavy, upon the wilderness shores
a., sn mere the wilderness, exuberant and luxuri-
VIII VIII "a vegetation, lay all around-and the new
no ase OF 5 was Mt the very outskirts OF
r r,Dh civilization. IL WAS situated on the
ana s| -, or east bank Of tho Upper Mississippi,
The ne dwellings were scattered up and down
uno aga bluff so oddly, that passenger, looking
bpd 'ne hamlet said it seemed as if giant
tbS, sihered a handful Of houses and flung
raNJa a. the bluff and that they had settled at
aom where they had fallen.
for 9 young couple were the only passengers
~, and they followed their baggage