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the new-made grave. And it is no child’s play,— no work merely 
of to-day,— but a life-service. It is easy to boast of putting on 
the harness, and to be lull of courage, when quiet sits by one’s 
own fireside, and when the crowd are pressing eagerly on to vic¬ 
tory, with banners waving, and music filling the air; but it is 
another thing in this frontier land, where for very weariness with 
watching the soul faints, where there is no gloss of military 
trappings, where the plumes are tattered, and the little army, 
weary and struggling, is passing through sorrow and the wilder¬ 
ness. 
In the prospect of freedom’s bulwarks raised high and strong 
we can yet exult. It will be accomplished by no magic power, 
but by faithful service, and patient endurance. Strong arms will 
hew out the timber, dig broad and deep the trenches, and rear 
high the walls. It will cost many tears and cares, anxieties and 
prayers, and the sorrow of many spirits hopeful to-day. It may 
cost many valued lives; but we will lay each corner-stone of this 
altar of freedom with the serene, abiding strength of a holy faith; 
trust all to Him who inaketh “ the darkness as the noonday,” and 
the end will be glorious. 
Sheriff Jones called at the door, before the day was over, for S* 
and T., two young men of New England origin, and of whom she 
may well be proud. They went with him to Lecompton for trial, 
having been engaged in the “ rescue ” case, and from that court 
will appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States, hoping 
thus to test the validity of the territorial laws. We hope this 
willingness of theirs to be the instruments in testing these laws 
will not be at too great a cost. Another of the rescuers was sit¬ 
ting in the parlor when Jones called for Smith and Tappan, upon 
whom he had previously served the warrant; but his eye did not 
fall upon the man he had so much longed to arrest. 
22 d. — A convention was holden to-day in Lawrence to nomi¬ 
nate state officers. It was fully attended. The forenoon was 
warm and pleasant; but the change in the weather, soon after 
dinner, was terrible. 
The cold every moment increased, and snow commenced falling 
with the evening shadows. E. wrapped herself in blankets, and 
