Ape, and the Negro.'

'Article IV.' by E. Delony, of Louisiana, is the great political gun of
the magazine, and inquires: 'What of the the Confederacy--the Present
and the Future?' It is of course full of hope, bluster, and self-praise.
'Our armies,' says Delony, 'are not like the miserable hirelings of
Lincoln--the scum of infamy and degradation--hunted up from the dens,
sewers, and filthy prisons of the North, with the low vandalism of
foreign importations, picked up wherever they can be found. Yet such are
the creatures our brave soldiers have to meet. _Our_ armies are
composed of men who have not volunteered for pay, nor for food or
clothing!'

Since copying this paragraph, it was recalled to us--within a few
hours--by meeting some half-dozen of the 'scum of sewers' in question,
in the persons of half-a-dozen young gentlemen, privates in a
Massachusetts regiment, several of them college graduates--all of them
sons of wealthy citizens and gentlemen. It would be interesting to
ascertain, taking man for man, what proportion of the Southern and
Northern armies are respectively able to read, or are otherwise
personally familiar with the decencies and proprieties of civilized
life. From this assumption of superiority Mr. Delony argues victory,
asks, 'What about the peace?' and inquires if the Federal Government
will offer to negotiate for it?

'We can _propose_ no terms, but we must _demand_ them. We desire
nothing that is not right and just, and we will submit to nothing
that is wrong. But no peace will be acceptable to the people that
permits the Lincoln Government to hold its Abolition orgies and
fulminate its vile edicts upon slave territory. Much valuable
property of our citizens has been destroyed, or stolen and carried
off by the invaders; this should be accounted for, and paid. The
Yankees were shrewd enough to cheat us out of the navy, but we must
have half of the war-vessels and naval armament in possession of
the North at the commencement of this war. We should enter into no
commercial alliances or complications with them, but assume the
entire control of our commercial policy and regulations with them,
to be modified at our own discretion and pleasure. They have closed
against us all navigation and trade on the Mississippi, Missouri,
and other rivers; it is our right and duty hereafter so to regulate
the navigation of these stre