vitally concern the people. We shall like to see what reply the Tribune and the Republi cans will make to this reasoning of the poor, whom they propose to cut off from the right of voting.

-Those who say that we have nothing to thank Mr. Lincoln for, have not read history; for if he has done no more he has proved to us that, after all our loud boasting, we are just such slaves and dolts as mankind seems to have been in all ages. We boasted that we were lovers of liberty. Mr. Lincoln has proved that we neither understood nor respected liberty. We no more understood, no more appreciated liberty than the submissive slaves of despotism did two thousand years ago. We will give a perfectly literal prose translation a paragraph in the Tenth Satire of Jouvenal, and you shall judge whether the disgraceful picture is not as good a likeness of yourselves as of the besotted asses of Rome two thousand years ago:

"Sejanus is dragged along by a hook, to be looked at all rejoice, and exclaim, "what lips! what a countenance he has! If you trust me anything, I never loved this man; but under what crime has he fillen?-who was the informer?--from what discoveries? -by what witness has he proved it?" "It was nothing of these-there was no trial, neither accusers nor witnesses; but a letter from Capres." "It is well; I ask no more; but what does the rabble of Remus?" "They follow fortune, as they always do, and hate the condemned."

Now, as if to prove to us that we are just such cowardly knaves ourselves, Mr. Lincoln has caused these very scenes to be re-enacted in our midst. We have seen citizens, our respected neighbors and friends, handcuffed, dragged through these streets, to bastiles. We asked what crime? Who accused them? What witnesses had they? When were they tried? The answer was, there was nothing of all these-there was a dispatch from Washington. We said, "it is well--let us go to Crook & Duff's, and drink!" Then it is after that fashion, Q, boasters and varlets, that you love liberty! All hail, Lincoln, that he has torn the mask from your cowardly faces, and shown yourselves and the world what dastard stuff you are made of! Boast no

more of your love of liberty! Swell and swagger no more! Stand forth, degenerate, abhorred sons of a brave but dishonored ancestry! Stand forth, the scorn, the horror of mankind!

-Shoddyocracy is a new word, born of what Mr. Lincoln calls the "rising occasion." It has completely driven out of the ranks of the living that good old homely, but expressive compound word, Codfish-Aristocracy. Shoddy has driven codfish to its native element, and buried it eternally in the depths of the ocean, while victorious, all-conquering shoddy reigns supreme, and without a rival, on its nativo heath of the United States. As New York is the grand focal point of everything on this continent, it is, of course, the happy centre of Shoddyocracy. Here are gathered the new born gentry from the East, and the far West. All the localities, from Maine to Iowa, havo emptied their surplus stock of elevated vulgarity into the hotels and streets of this favored city, Here they wave more victorious, and twice as brilliant, as our glorious flag. With diamonds as large as saucers, and ears to match, they crowd every street and every alley, by day and night, especially every alley by night, and give the metropolis the appearance of having been conquered by hords of newly civilized barbarians.

-A cotemporary kindly says: "The Republican editors seem to think that their chance of success depends upon the number of lies they can invent about the editor of The Old Guard." Perhaps the ambition of these maligners is natural enough, for a majority of the rascals are like a race of insects whose existence we should know nothing of did they not attempt to bite.

-We publish in this number an excellent likeness of the Hon. Alexander Long, the author of the great peace speech in Congress, which has attracted so much attention both in this country and Europe. No speech, since the commencement of the war, has caused so much profound approval from the tax-payers of the country; and no man in Congress has, within that time, made a repu tation which will occupy a better place in history than Mr. Long has made by a single speech.