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and still the subjugating business will have made no real progress. We have subjugated, temporarily, a few spots. We have stolen, say, 100,000 negroes; we have burned some wheat fields; we have smashed up a few hundred pianoes, and stolen a few thousand spoons; we have slaughtered or maimed for life at least half a million of our people, while we have, perhaps, inflicted nearly half that amount of injury upon the South, and we have rolled up a debt over our heads that amounts to nearly one half of the property of the northern States-and we find the "rebellion" stronger, more determined and defiant than when we began. This is the result of three years of Abolition war. Every negro we have stolen has cost us the lives of five white men, and $24,000. And still the cry is "on into the interior!" Let the Abolitionists, who believe in this sort of thing, go into it themselves, and we shall not oppose so much as the opposition of a word Wilson rejoices in the title of a Colonel, and the burglar and assassin, Jim Lane, is a General-let them lead Wade, and Hale, and Trumbull, and Sumner, and Fessenden, "into the interior"

Then forward march Garrison and Phillips, and Greeley, and Beecher, and Cheever, and Tyng, and Bryant, and Godwin, and Raymond,

"into the interior." Then let the "War Democrats" show fruits of their faith, and march "into the interior!" Governor Seymour and Gov. Parker are wondrous ready to devote the poor people of their States to the horrible Moloch of Abolitionism, and they have enough disciples in the Democratic party to make a respetable brigadelet them show their devotion to the cause they have slaughtered so many men to serve, by all marching toge ther "into the interior !" There are in the South a great many Borodinoes, Moscows, and Dorogobonges to be ta ken. It will take every man in the North to finish the budget of blood. Let them who believe in it go first. Forward march yourselves, ye Abolitionists, and ye picket guards of the Abolitionists, the "War Democrats !" On! on! "into the interior," and to death, all for the glory of the negroes, and for the destruction of the Constitution and laws of your country! We stand here, where our fathers stood, on the sacred ground of State sovereignty, self-government and liberty. There is not a drop of blood in our veins which we will not freely devote to the preservation of the Constitution and Union our fathers made, and to the subjugation of-disunionAbolitionism.

EPIGRAM ON SUMNER.

See how traitor Sumner, Quixote of the nation,
Beats his own windmills in gesticulation!
Proves that the negro's a white man in sable,
The first and divine end of God's human cable.

"Tis well-for his grand-mother, ages ago,
From Demerara came as black as a crow,
So they tell us at Boston, whose sages defend her,
And say fellow-feeling makes Sumner so tender.

COOKING THE HELL BROTH.

(Scene-SHAKSPEARE'S WITCHES.)

Witch-CHASE sings.

Double, double, toil and trouble,
Fire burn and cauldron bubble;
Round about the cauldron go,
In the poison'd entrails throw
Copperhead that under stone

Of prison walls we've killed alone,
Heart of patriot, red and hot,
Boil thou in the charmed pot.

Witch-STANTON.

Double, double, toil and trouble,
Fire burn and cauldron bubble,
Liver of the Parker school,
Spleen of preacher, tongue of fool,
Socinian's eye and Atheist's heart,
Of any, Brownson's better part;
Or Butler's, for the charm will kill
With poisons which they may instil;
With wine from chalice, foeman's blood,
Sacred bread and preacher's rations,
Life-blood of the States and nation's,
Negro's wool and white man's brains,
To miscegenate our vapid veins,
And cherry cheek and ebon lip,
And slime of love that devils sip,
And make the gruel thick and slab,
In throw the heart of brothel's drab,
Add thereto a Sambo's liver,

Fished from old Charon's sluggish river.

Witch-SEWARD.

Make a charm of powerful trouble,
Make the hell-broth boil and bubble:
The Habeas Corpus put it in,

It is the charm by which we'll win,
I'll touch this spring, and ring this bell,
And drag this mighty charm from hell.
Put in FreeSpeech; boil freeman's tongue,
In be the negro's odor flung;
Nor let free-press the cauldron 'scape,
Nor form of girl from negro's rape.
Put in, put in, and stir them well,
I'll pull the string and ring the bell;

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EDITOR'S TABLE.

-Mr. Sumner tells us that "the people of America must work out their liberty, just as the people of France and England solved the problem of Nationality." This, like most that comes from Mr. Sumner, is high-sounding, but senseless. In the first place, whatever liberty the people of England and of France obtained, was worked out through two directly opposite channels. In England, the popular enfranchisement, such as it was, came through the barons, who conquered the kings, and wrenched despotic power from their grasp. But in France it was precisely the reverse. There it was royally which tore despotism from the hands of the barons, and gave birth to all the liberty the people had. That was not much; but it was all. Now, which of these processes does Mr. Sumner propose to take the people of America through? Does not the shallow demagogue know that the problem of liberty, in this country, was worked out by the Revolution, and its foundations were laid deep in the Constitution, where they would have remained in safety forever, if such wretches as himself had never been born. The process which the people of this country have to go through, is to work themselves back to where we were anchored before we were draggedfrom our Constitutional moorings by Abolitionism. Abolitionism, not Secessionism, is the great foe to Constitutional liberty. Secessionism has re-adopted the Constitution in its purity, precisely as it was understood by those who made it. Abolitionism is hard at work to destroy it. Who show the most respect for the Constitution, the Secessionists who are seeking to preserve its spirit by re-adopting its form, or the Abolitionists, who denounce its spirit, and declare it shall not be preserved? There is not a Secessionist in the whole South who entertains the contempt of the Constitution that Sumner and his friends entertain for it. Jeff. Davis, in his last speech in the United States Senate, declared that with the Constitution the South was satisfied-they had always loved it; but it was because the Constitution was not obeyed by the North that they were going to leave us. The cause,

therefore, of all our misery is perfectly simple, and the remedy is simple. Sumner tries in vain to hide it in a mass of senseless verbiage about struggles for liberty in France and England. There was nothing in either case like ours. They had not liberty, and they sought for it through various opposing channels; we had liberty, and we threw it away, at the bid of a mob of ignorant and fiery fanatics, than whom the world never saw wretches more graceless and godless. Men not fit to live, and not prepared to die! Traitors alike to their country and humanity! Despised by every patriot, and abhorred by every Christian! Great only in teaching the art of hale, let their own science be returned to them again. If it be lawful to love one's country, it would seem to be just to hate those who have destroyed it.

-The learned Professor Hugh Falutin's first lecture at Irving Hall was a great success, as all such meritorious performances are among the "intelligent" people of this city. The venerable Mr. Bryant presided. The platform was graced by the presence of the editors of the Tribune, Times, Post, Advertiser, and one or two strange gentlemen of a very dark complexion, supposed to be a delegation from Africa. The learned and accomplished Professor came forward at precisely eight o'clock, and said:

"Ladies and Gentlemen--The subject of this lecture is The Ideal World. By the ideal world we must understand the necessary, the permanent, the immutable, which is not only antecedent and pre-existent, to all other things, but also exemplanatory and representative of them, as containing in it eminently, and after an intelligible manner, all that is in this natural world, according to which it was made, and in conformity to which is all the Truth, Reality, Order, Beauty, and Perfection of nature does consist, aird is to be measured. (Applause.) The system of things existing after this manner is what is called the I'eal World, which is not a contingent, temporary, mutable thing, but a self-existing, eternal, necessary and immutable nature, really simple and one, but yet virtually and eminently multiform and various, and by its multiform variety, having in it the reasons, essences, and specific natures of all things

that is, such degrees of being and perfection as answer to them, and are intelligibly expressive of them, and whereof all things in the natural world are but the fruits and impressions, (tremendous applause,) and I might say the shadows. This is the Ideal World, the kosmos voettos (uproarious applause) so much celebrated by Plotinus and by Philo, in his Cosmorca, in a word, to speak plainly, the Mundo Intelligibili (immense applause) of Erasmus, by which it is demonstrated that Virtue is a Body, and that Bonum is an Animal, (deafening applause,) so that the truly learned perceive that the Ideal World is the first matter, the prima materia on which the stupendous fabric of nature itself depends.”

After this strain did the learned Professor hold an immense audience of the elite and intelligent of this city spell-bound for an hour and a-half. At the conclusion, Mr. Raymond, of the Times, stepped forward and moved a vote of thanks be given to Professor Hugh Falutin for his learned, instructive, and useful lecture. The venerable Mr. Bryant put the motion with his accustomed dignity, which was carried by acclamation, the ladies waiving their handkerchiefs in the most graceful and enthusiastic manner. The audience reluctantly vacated the Hall, showing how reluctant the "intelligent," very "intelligent classes" of this city are to depart from places of instruction and intellectual refinement.

SCRIPTURAL, ECCLESIASTICAL, AND HISTORICAL VIEW OF SLAVERY, FROM THE DAYS OF THE PATRIARCH ABRAHAM TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. ADDRESSED TO THE RIGHT REV. ALONZO POTTER, D. D., BISHOP OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH, IN THE DIOCESE OF PENNSYLVANIA. BY JOHN HOPKINS, D. D., L. L. D., BISHOP OF THE DIOCESE OF VERMONT. New York: W. I. Pooley & Co., Harper's Building, Franklin Square.

This is certainly a remarkable book. The amount of labor which it must have cost the venerable Bishop of Vermont would tire the imagination of any less devoted and painstaking scholar. It seems to have struck the Abolitionists a stunning blow, for none of them have ventured to attempt an answer to its whole world of facts and arguments against them. The great learning brought to the preparation of the work is not more admirable than the zeal and temper with which the author has written. It is true that ne lashes the Bishop of Pennsylvania and

his clergy terribly, but with such a kind and Christian spirit that those who are the victims of his stripes cannot but feel their chastisement to be just. He has completely silenced the batteries of Abolitionism, so that no sound is heard from its old entrenchments except now and then a stray pistol shot from the hand of some raw recruit, whose ignorance may be an excuse for his impotent valor. In the last chapter of the work Bishop Hopkins says: "The position which I occupy is impregnable, for it is defended by the word of God, the voice of the Church, and the Constitution of the country:" So far as his arguments against Abolitionism are concerned, this is entirely true. This work is unanswered and unanswerable, from the stand-point of the Church. It is a vast treasury of fact and argument, to which any mar may resort who wishes to prepare himself to refute the innumerable vagaries and falsehoods put forth by the Abolition clergy. This work of Bishop Hopkins sweeps away a world of Abolition rubbish, and leaves ar excellent foundation for such books as Dr. Van Evrie's work on "Negroes and Negr Slavery," which proves that the so-called negro "slavery" of the South is the natural relation hetween the white and black races, and no way analogous to the ancient system of 'slavery."

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-Nothing marks the progress of civilization in New York more than the great number of people who have bought expensive books, and even whole libraries, within the past two years. A majority of these new patrons of literature are supposed to be contrao tors, who have become suddenly rich by expansion, and their book-buying has been described by Fielding, in his "Voyage to Lisbon," where he mentions one Boyee, a blacksmith at Gosport, who, by smuggling and other honest practices, became possessed of forty thousand pounds. This accomplished person, after procuring abundance of fine things, concluded with having a library, and accordingly sent an order to a bookseller in London for five hundred pounds' worth of his handsomest books. Book-buying was always a passion with rich, vulgar people. Lucian considered this taste for book-buying as so sure a symptom of an illiterate fellow, that he joins the two characters together. Their

intelligence is compared to that of the fool who bought Orpheus' harp, with the belief that it would make admirable music of itself, without either skill or knowledge in the performer, and to the fellow who purchased Epictetus' lamp at a vast sum, in hopes of having with it Epictetus' wisdom. Lucian crries his satire of book-buyers even further, and compares them to those wild Indians who believed that they inherited, not only the spoils, but the abilities of any great enemy they had the luck to kill in battle. But our book-buyers have been in no battle, except that great and successful one upon the Treasury of the United States. And these golden-backed volumes will sit there as the remembrancers of the blood of our countrymen, and of the tears of their widows and orphans.

-The Evening Post talks about “the will of the people." All bloody and brutal revolutionists have ever talked in the same way. The horrible Charles Maxcel, Provost of Paris in 1360, with a band of thirty assassins, murdered the unarmed marshals of Champagne and Normandy in cold blood, and then stepping upon a bench harangued his thirty assassins, saying: "It is done with the will of the people." And all the time that the Provost of Paris was committing these butcheries in the name of "the people," there was not another city in all France that did not protest against them, and refuse to wear the colors of the commune at Paris, or to adhere to their resolutions. A band of assassins in a single city stretched out their bloody hands in the name of "the people of France." Just as the Abolitionists are now prosecuting their infernal revolution in the name of "the people.” In which State, except Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, and Rhode Island, dare the Administration trust an election without the use of soldiers or greenbacks? Leave "the people" of all the States to a fair election, and they would very quick make an end of the reign of Abolitionism. Not such papers as the Post are the organs of the people. The People will at length speak for themselves, and then the Post and all like it will be silent.

-The Republican bugle, the Tribune, has sounded a note which, though new in the pitch, belongs to the music of the Adminis

tration-it is a square, out-and-out announcement of a determination to curtail the right of franchise. It says: "None should be allowed to vote whose voting would likely do more evil than good." This principle has already been applied, illegally, to Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri. But, to keep the Republican party in power, it must be applied to the whole country; and, as they may not have soldiers to spare to work the thing all over, the laws must be altered so as to allow no man to vote whose voting would be likely to do more harm than good -to the Abolitionists. The masses may make up their mind that this thing is to be tried. The Tribune's announcement is for a properly, an educational, and a moral qualification for voting. Now, then, let the masses prepare to meet this question with a front face. If the Shoddyocracy begin to clamor for a restriction of franchise, let the masses take them at their word, and say, It is our principle to let every citizen vote, but if you wish to control this right, we will accommodate you; but we shall begin at what calls itself the upper, instead of at the lower end. The Government is the property of the masses-it is instituted for the good of the great body of the people, and not for the special benefit of an exclusive class, or the rich. All experience has shown that, whenever and wherever they could, the rich have oppressed the poor. Whenever a man becomes enormously rich, he is lifted so far above the people that he looses all sympathy with them, and is almost sure, at last, to work himself into the position of an enemy to their rights and happiness. Then, as the Government is for the protection of the people, and as the very rich are quite sure to be enemies of the people, it must be quite evident that their voting would be likely to do more evil than good to the people. Therefore, let them say to the rich, if you are going to restrict the franchise, we will see that it is cut off at your end of the rope! The great mass of the people are poor-the few are rich. In all countries the few rich have oppressed the many poor. Therefore, for our own protection, it is necessary for us to establish a property qualification, or, more properly, a property disqualification, for we mean that the very rich, by reason of their enmity to the people, shall not be allowed to vote on questions that

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