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they also breathe a spirit of unkindness, of persecution? Who can have the hardihood to aver it?

Look at the record! The people of the Free States, hitherto divided into parties, and entertaining apparently irreconcilable differences of opinion, are now as one man :Democrats, Republicans, Conservatives, Abolitionists, Compromisers and Submissionists, all have disappeared, and, undivided, shout the rallying cry-"The Constitution and the Laws-God and the Right!" Who is so bold as to charge upon these a desire to perpetrate a wrong?

Look at the record! The press of the Free States from Maine to Minnesota-from Philadelphia to Kansas-heretofore divided as widely as Liberals and Tories, write with one inspiration. "Sustain the Constitution and the Laws-unconditional submission first, peace and compromise afterward!” is their unanimous invocation. Will any one be so presumptuous as to suppose that this unanimity springs from any base motive?

Look at the record! Turn to the action of the American churches. See Roman Catholic and Jew-Universalist and Calvinist Episcopalian and Unitarian-Presbyters, Laymen and Probationers all clasping hands, chaunting liberty's anthem-" God save the Union!" It is a sight more solemn than the uprising for the Crusades—more inspiriting than the song of Miriam. Will Christian men and women in England be so unchristian as to impute to their American brethren any but high and holy motives?

Where is the barbarism, then, of which we speak ? Look at the record which comes to us from the South!

Men hung and scourged-for what? For entertaining Union sentiments!

Men tarred and feathered-for what? and Stripes!

For loving the Stars

Men, women and children, fleeing by hundreds to the Free States, leaving behind them all their precious possessions-for what? For loving liberty of conscience better than tyranny! Vast masses of Southern men arming-for what? To drive the United States Government troops from all its forts, and possessions in the South, built and sustained at a cost vastly greater than the entire revenues from the South for years!

United States arsenals and mints are pillaged-for what? To arm the incendiaries for "protection"-for "defense" against the United States in her effort to recover her property, and to punish the high treason which instigated the robbery!

Read the record! For what was the revolutionary movement concocted-for what is it prosecuted? Hear Mr. Stephens, "Vice-President" of the "Confederacy :"

"But, not to be tedious in enumerating the numerous changes for the better, allow me to allude to one other, though last not least: the new Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institutions-African slavery as it exists among us-the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. THIS WAS THE IMMEDIATE CAUSE OF THE LATE RUPTURE AND PRESENT REVOLUTION."

Read the record! He further says:

We are now the nucleus of a growing power, which, if true to ourselves, our destiny and our high mission, WILL BECOME THE CONTROLLING POWER ON THIS CONTINENT."

After this it is of small account to read that Jefferson Davis issues a proclamation to commission cut-throats on the high seas, offering a bounty of twenty dollars for every Union man killed, and twenty-five dollars for every one taken prisoner, to be placed in hands of the "authorities" for their further vengeance. Even the sickening daily accounts of

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citizens hanging from trees cease to startle us, and we can but exclaim, as we raise our hands to Heaven for the interposition of its righteous allegiance

DO WE LIVE IN AN AGE OF BARBARISM? Englishmen Englishwomen! Can you hesitate to charge your Ministers and the Crown to qualify their unholy and ungrateful act of recognizing the rebellious States as a "belligerent power," co-equal in rights and sympathy to the Free States of the North?

VI.

CONFEDERATE DISHONOR.

IT is not to be supposed that a people who lighly regard political virtue, will be celebrated for moral principle. If a man can take a most solemn and sacred oath of allegiance to his country, and has neither patriotism nor virtue enough to prevent him from deserting that allegiance upon slight pretext, he is not the person to trust in any capacity, no matter if he does come from "one of our first families."

Hence, we are not surprised that the traitors in the Slave States should repudiate their debts of many millions to the North. Incurred by the easy process of selling out their entire crop of cotton before it was grown, and by getting credit, besides, on all the goods and manufactured articles they required, from a silk velvet gown to a saw-mill, it was so delightful to have the pretext of patriotism for the disgraceful act. We have never believed that a community, which made four millions of human beings work hard all their lives for no pay, were honest in the Golden Rule acceptation of the word honesty; but, our Northern manufacturers and merchants "went in" on the chivalry, and—they have come out, shorn. Chivalry has repudiated, and, as in former

cases, has done it from honorable motives-to punish its enemies and learn its friends a lesson !

A good farce, well played, is enjoyable at all times; and, serious as the matter of repudiation is to so many of our business men, we cannot help laughing at the infinite impudence of the whole scheme of secession. Theft of Government property, breaking of solemn oaths, repudiation of debts, over-issuing State bonds for sale on Wall street at sixty per cent. off, proposals for new loans, all are acts in the self-same drama—a drama which no people in the world besides the "chivalry" could play with any hope of success. Such an amount of impudence, duplicity, and moral turpitude could only be found in a community that riots in wealth won from the unpaid labor of a weaker race, and breeds men, women and children for a market.

A good story came to us from a correspondent in London, regarding the reception, by the Barings, of the "Confederate" Commissioners in search of a little loan to help the new power along. As it illustrates, in an affecting manner, not only an episode in the history of the leading "Confederate" States, but shows the Barings, and our countryman, Peabody, in a characteristic light, we will quote it :

"The Commissioners from the Rebel States having been formally introduced to Mr. Bates, the head of the house of Baring Brothers, the great financier told them to proceed. They commenced with a most elaborate and glowing description of the resources and wealth of the Rebel States. After a pause:

"Commissioners-Not quite. [Then a speech from Commissioner No. 2, and a pause.]

"Mr. Bates-Have you finished?

"Commissioners-Almost. [Then a speech from Commissioner

No. 3, and a pause.]

"Mr. Bates-Are you through?

"Commissioners-Yes, sir; you have our case.

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"Mr. Bates-What States, did you say, composed your Confederacy?

"Commissioners-Mississippi, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Texas, and Louisiana.

"Mr. Bates-And Mr. Jefferson Davis is your President? "Commissioners-He is. We are proud of him.

"Mr. Bates-We know Mr. Davis well by reputation. He is the same gentleman who stumped his State for two years in favor of Repudiation, and justified the conduct of Mississippi in the United States Senate. We know the gentleman; and although we have no reason to be proud of him or his antecedents, I think I may safely say, that if you have brought with you to London the necessary funds to pay off principal and interest of the repudiated millions owing to our people by your States of Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida, there is a reasonable prospect of your raising a small amount in this market! Our Mr. Sturgis will be happy to dine you at eight o'clock to-morrow evening." Exeunt omnes.

"While this scene was being enacted at the Barings, Mr. Dudley Mann, waited upon our countryman, Peabody, who holds three hundred thousaud dollars of repudiated Mississippi Bonds on which there is due six hundred thousand dollars of interest. Mr. Mann was very magnificent and grandiloquent, but withal, prosy; and Peabody, suffering from gout and Mississippi repudiation, lost his temper; and shaking his clenched fist at the Rebel, emphatically said, 'If I were to go on 'Change and hunt up the suffering and starved widows and orphans who have been ruined by your infamous repudiation of honest debts, and proclaim that you are here to borrow more of our gold and silver to be again paid by repudiation (as I believe it is my duty to do), you would inevitably be mobbed, and find it difficult to escape with your life. Good morning, sir.'"

But, after all, we have no doubt the Commissioners did obtain English gold and English arms-these Southern gentlemen have "such a winning way with them," as we once heard an old negro say who, having been most brutally lacerated by the lash of the driver, had oil poured over his wounds by his "good massa," standing by during the flogging.