God help them if the tempest swings
The pine against the palm!"
[CHAPTER VII.]
—— Thou sure and firm-set earth,
Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear
Thy very stones prate of my whereabout.
Macbeth.
Abolition Tendencies of Kentuckians.
There were two of my acquaintances (one very prominent in the Secession movement) with whom, while they had no suspicion of my real business, I could converse with a little frankness. One of them desired war, on the ground that it would unite the inhabitants of all the border slave States, and overpower the Union sentiment there.
"But," I asked, "will not war also unite the people of the North?"
"I think not. We have a great many earnest and bold friends there."