of every Catholic country in the world) overawed and paralyzed by the insidious arts of a most bigoted and fanatical priesthood, what degrees of jesuitical tomfoolery and fraud may we not be prepared to witness among the masses?

Between the northern confines of Mexico and the southern limits of Patagonia, there is a very small number of good men, white men, men of pure Castilian descent, such men, for instance as Mitre, Elizalde, Costa, Sarmiento, Paz, Gutierrez, Zuviria, Urquiza, and Ugarte, In everything, except in their blind and disgraceful submission to Catholicism, these gentlemen, and a few others like them, are eminently able and exemplary; but, then, they are as only a dozen stalwart and impatient lions among vast multitudes of slow-gaited pismiresand who, forsooth, has ever heard of a great or glorious nation of pismires?

The pismires here referred to, are two-legged pismires, frail-limbed, and weak-headed, and are more diversified in color than Joseph's coat-the very dull and deleterious colors peculiar to negroes, Indians, and nonwhite hybrids, being predominant. In the immediate fossilization of all these pismires, and in the complete extinguishment of the Roman Catholic religion, the most pressing and important interests of both Heaven and Earth would be promoted. Let these uppermost and transcendent interests be promoted accordingly!

From the anarchical and ruinous condition of things which, for so long a while, has prevailed all over Spanish and Portuguese America, have not we, of Germanic and Anglican America, certain special and important lessons to learn? What is the real character of those men who,

having conspicuously portrayed before them the Principles of Good, on the one hand, and the Principles of Evil, on the other, at once precipitate themselves into a loud acclaim of the latter as more estimable and worthy than the former? The most charitable view that we can take of such men, is that they are led into error through the impulses of very frail and faulty judgments; and it is alone with this view of them, that there can be found any manner of excuse for their fatal proceedings. The only other view which, upon any basis of reason or probability, we may take of the action of such men, is that they are unconscionable hypocrites, and that they are influenced by motives of downright deception and dishonesty. With our feet well balanced upon these two stand-points of vision, and with even moderately good eye-sight, we shall be able to discern clearly, at a single glance, and at a distance so near as to excite disgust, the deplorable character of the two-thirds majority of the Black Congress.

If we would have North America reduced from its lofty position of Peace, Prosperity, and Progress, and lowered down to the deep depths of Disorder, Disrepute and Desolation, which have been reached in South America; if we would have our Southern States debased into a Mexico, a Central America, a Jamaica, or a Hayti; or if we would otherwise labor to degrade Heaven-descended white men from the high and sacred civilization which they have attained, and to place them, and to keep them forever, upon the low level of base-born and barbarous black men-then we should be very zealous and particular to continue in power the two-thirds majority of the Black Congress. On the other hand, however, if we would tenaciously and virtuously retain in our possession all the good which, under a beneficent Providence, we have thus far achieved; if to that we would add something better; if

we would steadily grow in grace, and in the knowledge of God; if we would, as far as possible, make ourselves the efficient advocates and furtherers of every good word and work; if, with the instinct and foresight of true statesmanship, we would, in no measure, oppress the Southern States, but give them a fair chance to recover from all the disasters which Negroes, Slavery, and Rebellion, have brought upon them,—aye, a just and fair chance also to surpass, if they can, in Mental, Moral, and Material progress, even the most advanced of the other states themselves, then, as the first step fit and necessary to be taken in order to accomplish these noble ends, must we use at once, every constitutional means at our command, to send, as soon as the statutes of elections will allow, all of the more Radical members of the Black Congress back to their own private homes, and there, to say the least, until they shall have become perceptibly better and wiser, hold them rigidly aloof from all public pursuits.

Let us do these things without unnecessary delay. At the very next regular elections, let us choose, in lieu of the degenerate and degraded Black Congress, a White Congress; let us also elect a White Republican President; and, with White Republicans filling all the minor offices of the land, and with the negroes and all other non-whites subjected to a just and effective process of fozzilisation or removal, we shall soon be on the highroad to a degree of excellence, greatness, and power, hitherto altogether unknown and unexpected in the affairs of men.

CHAPTER XI.

THE FUTURE OF NATIONS.

In the most civilized countries, the tendency always is, to obey even unjust laws, but, while obeying them, to insist on their repeal. This is because we perceive that it is better to remove grievances than to resist them. While we submit to tho particular hardship, we assail the system from which the hardship flows.BUCKLE.

In all the large movements of human affairs, as in the operations of nature, the great law is gentleness-violence is the last resource of weakness-NICHOLAS BIDDLE.

I have said that I do not understand the Declaration of Independence to mean that all men are created equal in all respects. Certainly the negro is not our equal in color-perhaps not in many other respects. * * * I did not at any time say I was in favor of negro suffrage. Twice-once substantially, and once expressly-I declared against it. ** * *I am not in favor of negro citizenship.-ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

EXPLANATION.

SOON after the news of the assassination of President Lincoln was received in the River Plate, a rumor reached Buenos Ayres, from Rosario, that Captain R., formerly of Kentucky, who had been known as one of Morgan's most daring and efficient raiders, but who had been captured and finally released, and, at his own request, permitted to leave the United States—and who is now residing near Rosario, in the Argentine Republic-had given a dinner in celebration of that surpassingly foul and flagitious crime.

The rumor had been in circulation but a little while, when Captain R. came down to Buonos Ayres, and, in company with Colonel M., formerly of Charleston, South Carolina, who had also been in the rebel service, called

on me, at the Consulate, and assured me, in the most earnest and solemn manner, that there was not one word of truth in the report. Although Captain R.'s name and exploits had been frequently mentioned to me, yet I had never seen him until, accompanied by Colonel M., he called at the Consulate..

I quickly perceived that Captain R. was really and deeply grieved at the circulation of a false report, which was calculated to render him odious in the estimation of every loyal American who heard it, whether at home or abroad. He seemed to be particularly anxious that the rumor might be restricted to the limits which it had already reached, and that it should, if possible, be prevented from spreading to his friends in Kentucky. Yet he was aware that one or more of the departments of government at Washington would be likely to receive information of what was here current against him; and, in order to counteract the prejudices and wrong impressions which might result from such information, he asked me if I would assist him in making the facts of his case known to the Hon. Wm. H. Seward, Secretary of State. Fully persuaded of the Captain's innocence, I cheerfully signified my willingness to comply with his request; and advised him to return to Rosario, and there procure, and forward to me, the several exonerative affidavits which he said he could, if necessary, obtain from the very persons who were reported to have been invited by him to partake of the dinner in question.

Captain R. did as I suggested; and I lost no time in transmitting to our Government the solemn declarations of himself and friends, in disproof of a most heartless and atocious calumny-a calumny of which, it would seem, a fellow-Kentuckian, an unprincipled personal enemy, was the author.

In the course of his conversation with me, Captain R.