| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Collected Articles by Frederick Douglass: and impositions, and supplanted by true and legitimate governments,
in the formation of which loyal men, black and white, shall participate.
It is not, however, within the scope of this paper to point out
the precise steps to be taken, and the means to be employed.
The people are less concerned about these than the grand end to be attained.
They demand such a reconstruction as shall put an end to the present anarchical
state of things in the late rebellious States,--where frightful murders and
wholesale massacres are perpetrated in the very presence of Federal soldiers.
This horrible business they require shall cease. They want a reconstruction
such as will protect loyal men, black and white, in their persons and property;
such a one as will cause Northern industry, Northern capital, and Northern
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Second Home by Honore de Balzac: the brush of Teniers and of Rembrandt, to give a true notion of this
night-scene.
"Now I have squared accounts with hell, and had some pleasure for my
money," said the Count in a deep voice, pointing out the indescribable
physiognomy of the gaping scavenger to the doctor, who stood
stupefied. "As for Caroline Crochard!--she may die of hunger and
thirst, hearing the heartrending shrieks of her starving children, and
convinced of the baseness of the man she loves. I will not give a sou
to rescue her; and because you have helped her, I will see you no
more----"
The Count left Bianchon standing like a statue, and walked as briskly
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: country?"
"It lies underground. Its communications with the upper world are
few, and where they are, no one that I have ever spoken to knows. I
have scoured the valleys and the hills. I have been to the very gates
of Lichstorm. I am old, so that your aged men would appear newborn
infants beside me, but I am as far from Threal as when I was a green
youth, dwelling among a throng of fellow phaens."
"Then, if my luck is good, yours is very bad.... But when you have
found Faceny, what do you gain?"
Leehallfae looked at him in silence. The smile faded from aer face,
and its place was taken by such a look of unearthly pain and sorrow
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