, 1863-12-18


on doing whnt they could to hold things
as they were: 10 emharrass. not so .mnc1,
the :war ne, g.: hut the war 50 far. as II
made FIR the destruction of' z,ovorr ,rhor
have II. cnnstitntcd in fart q eo,t If s1.vo,,--
: Protection Society Thc;r n,t,ro1- o,1;or
have. hen onr Northorn C.onnarhoaas
f.om whom thcv Scarcely d;ffar 1,v on 10
shaac
.cRut ncr,,,ns # ia ;5;scororoa .,,., ~,
,>srrI;.r ,,a,r = toa;,~ w, s.s 49, a;.a~ as s..s
-. aad ~ 49, ..ah11..3:... ~ @ ~ - ~ ~. aeel-
1 s, ":.a .,a ''s c,! p.oua1y - laa. no' 1af
So e,,e,' -. ~ na,-.. .s - ~ ~ .oy sone
,oa;nn;nn ~ tho ~ 49, ~. Nat,s:~" oa - tus
nst'rs1 1s'.n +,st tha ponsar ets.". "s s,as mo,s
CHERISH fhe honc of heinz ala ~ ha,a s ~,
to alayerv Their intereats-or enn,,asaa a vi
in,creats,-h1;ndod +nen, ~ tn Fsr. 49,.
.slnverv uns the causc NJ ~, tho +ro,,11a
n r. s,or Prov lint - d;5 -" ~
var tier honc rn. that Il wo,,,a ~ IN t.,,,.s ~
mn necessity nf 1bo var 90 ;ts ca,,sa. ~
whatever m;r1,t I've tine as reoor,7cd cauecs
tl,oV cherished a sc,f;s,, hone of r,o;n1, .1,,a
IN m throu,h thc war and leen tbe ;nst,-
tuition tolcrably safe. And for tlis thew
have worked with the industry of beavers
and with the zeal Of fanatics.
But the unwilling scholars in q rood.
thorough school have to learn somcf1ing,
What the love Of study and the appcals OF
ambition do not effect, hickory rods, ycxins
the cloth which protects. the sitting part,
trcomplishcs; slowly, it may be, but somc-
times thoroughly. Our Border States have
hcen the school room where hickory rods
have hisscd and whizzed with terrible con-
sipuitv and emn1asis. Thcv haze boen
tie STAMPING ground Of the war Here
armies hare marched md camnod o,d
strapr1ed and n1uniicrcd and ,m,naa
f,ncoe md fouri,+ h.tt,oz pou;,o- ass
+,,,,,aar .na 81 I.-a sono 49,. -. 49,.
,,o,, ,,o;.a 49, -, t,,..,,,1. , - 49, ~.
. e.N.-s 49, -. w aa.,' ,s 1.oA .,uo saaA.n VI tno
~. <'.'>. &.e -. ~ 44o'o p4osnea away COY
:: woos ..nu o"Is . ncs1s' sinu pfoken up tne
,. ucns " ~ Au4s " sttnln' anu ict IN any
hgnl "''e9e II llao never 'nousato OF shining
bciore. ......
ana lnese has pecn dreadful deal OF
rubbing OF eyes, and headaching with new
ideas, working imprcgnation and getting
birth, along that border belt The people
have seen-arc seeing-that to keep old
things through such eras Of change is sim
ply impossible. The antediluyians might
as well have thought to save their sugar
through Noah's flood. You cannot set mn
a foundry in powder;house without some
risk to one institution at least.
:. Tho result is that our Border State men,
as such, orc eVaporating. This is q fact
more than ever distinct within the short
time that Congress has been together: Be-
fore it net, large expectations were in
dulged on the part Of our. peace men of
help from the Border States to their
schemes of trouble-making. It was for
gotten that opinion .was all the time pro-
crossing, and nowhere so fast as in the
Border States, These men have beep sig
nally disappointed. The Border State
men arc like other men. They no longer
act, as such, together. They divide and
take their places with tho different parties,
according to their atfinities.
What has thus been begun will be hence
forth fully carried ont. The Border State
party will disappear. From that rcrion.
now and then, very likely, some bcniehtcd
constituency will elect benishtcd repre-
sentative: and he will wander ;nto the
darkness Of the so-ca11ed democracr Rut
in the main, it can scarcely be doubted
that the Border States viii be found with
the party Of progress; and their men, in
stead Of holding on to the caudaI end Of it
and being thus pulled along, will be in
the advance and lead it. All this is but
the philosophy Of their position. Once
cut them loose from the body Of death to
which they have been tied; once let them
give up the idea OF slavery as good and
useful thing, and no men will be fteer in
their notions, or more cnterprising in their
undertakings. They will Of necessity find
themselves face to face with thousand
tnlnes "hlch Will need reform. And being
Oh tne very ground where these reforms
UT !" w "iougna' 1hey VIII understand