The tone which he held toward them, steadily, without shadow of change, was the tone of a righteous man toward the workers of iniquity.

The indifference, the apathy, the pro-slavery sympathy and prejudice of the free States rendered the people of the North hardly less culpable.

They were working iniquity with the people of the South.

This was the long, sharp goad, which the young editor thrust in between the bars of the Union and stirred the guilty sections to quick and savage outbursts of temper against him and the bitter truths which he preached.

Almost directly the proofs came to him that he was HEARD at the South and at the North alike.