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 danger, thus conveying a negative rebuke of that spirit which assumed to be wiser than they. This was more to his taste, and accorded better with his method of dealing with an evil than positive condemnation.

True, ho was in favor of making free speech an indictable offense, but his argument was so plausibly worded as to make it appear something else than an open denial of the constitutional right of freedom of speech. His intentions might not have been bad, nothing more nor less than to preserve the fraternal feeling he supposed to exist between the north and south, without which the ship of state would flounder, and all these magnificent proportions of an overarching structure which stretched forth its friendly arms to embrace the oppressed of all lands who sought its protection, would crumble into atoms.

The slave, what was he? Only a wedge to make it still firmer, the fruit of whose toil would help to swell the streams of benevolence so profusely applied to the evangelization of heathen lands. Did he suffer? No matter, if thereby the Union was made stronger.

Before order was fully restored a young man was seen to approach the stand, a stranger to most who occupied it, but familiar to many persons in the galleries who shouted and cheered anew; for what reason they did not themselves know. It was Walter Claremont. No little interest was manifested at the youthful appearance of one who had the boldness to come forward after so much distinguished talent, and his winning appearance prepossessed all in his