ated in that now cursed region, then they will
remain in the, to them, congenial climate, and in the favorable
economical conditions of labor and of existence. Not only those
emancipated will not run North, but the colored population from the
free States, incited and stirred up by natural attractions, will leave
the North for the South, as small streamlets and rivulets run into a
large current or river.

The rebels extend on an immense bow, nearly one hundred miles, from
the lower to the upper Potomac. Our army, two to one, is on the span
of the arc, and we do nothing. A French sergeant would be better
inspired than is McClellan.

FEBRUARY, 1862.

Drifting -- The English blue book -- Lord John could not act
differently -- Palmerston the great European fuss-maker -- Mr.
Seward's "two pickled rods" for England -- Lord Lyons -- His
pathway strewn with broken glass -- Gen. Stone arrested --
Sumner's resolutions infuse a new spirit in the Constitution --
Mr. Seward beyond salvation -- He works to save slavery -- Weed
has ruined him -- The New York press -- "Poor Tribune" -- The
Evening Post -- The Blairs -- Illusions dispelled -- "All quiet
on the Potomac" -- The London papers -- Quill-heroes can be
bought for a dinner -- French opinion -- Superhuman efforts to
save slavery -- It is doomed! -- "All you worshippers of darkness
cannot save it!" -- The Hutchinsons -- Corporal Adams --
Victories in the West -- Stanton the man! -- Strategy (hear!
hear!)

We are obliged, one by one, to eat our official high-toned assertions
and words, and day after day we drift towards putting the rebels on an
equal footing with ourselves. We declared the privateers to be pirates
(which they are), and now we proffer their exchange against our
colonels and other honorable prisoners. So one radical evil generates
numberless others. And from the beginning of the struggle this radical
evil was and is the want of earnestness, of a firm purpose, and of a
straight, vigorous policy by the administration. _Paullatim summa
petuntur_ may turn out true--but for the rebels.

The publication of the English blue book, or of official
correspondence between Lord Lyons and Lord John Russell, throws a new
light on the conduct of the English Cabinet; and, anglophobe as I am,
I must confess that, all things considered, above all the
unhappily-justified distrust of England in Mr. Sewar