. This vast domain, if the South succeeds, will be cultivated in
large tracts by slaves; but with our success, the State title will be
forfeited to the Government, and the land colonized by loyal freemen,
and subjected to the Homestead law, so that educated free white labor
can raise there sugar, cotton, rice, tobacco, and indigo, as well as the
crops of the North. It appears by the history of the reign of Henry II.,
that Ireland (in the year 1102) was the _first country which abolished
slavery_, England still retaining it for many centuries; and Germany
scarcely participated in the African slave trade. And now those two
brave and mighty races, the Celtic and Teutonic, so devoted to liberty
and the rights of man, will never erect the temple of their faith upon
the Confederate _corner stone_, the ownership, of man by man, and of
labor by capital. No--they are fighting in the great cause, (now,
henceforth, and forever inseparable,) of LIBERTY and UNION. And when, as
the result of this rebellion, slavery shall disappear from our country,
the words of the Sermon on the Mount, announcing the brotherhood of man,
and adopted by our fathers in the Declaration of American Independence,
may be inscribed on our banner, 'that _all men_ are created EQUAL; that
they are endowed by their CREATOR with _inalienable_ RIGHTS; that among
these are life, LIBERTY, and the pursuit of happiness.' Such was the
faith plighted to God, our country, and humanity, on the day of the
nation's birth; in crushing this rebellion, and inaugurating the reign
of universal freedom, we are now fulfilling that pledge. Slavery having
struck down our flag, having dissevered our States, having, with
sacrilegious steps, entered our holy temples, separated churches, and
erected a government based on dehumanizing man, under the _Union as it
was_: liberty will reunite us by fraternal and indissoluble ties, under
the UNION AS IT WILL BE.

LITERARY NOTICES

THE PATIENCE OF HOPE. By the Author of A PRESENT
HEAVEN. With an Introduction by JOHN G. WHITTIER,
'_Et teneo et teneor._' Boston: Ticknor & Fields.

A work less remarkable for talent than for tender, pious feeling--less
marked by genius than goodness, yet of a kind which the impartial critic
will still sincerely commend, simply because its defects are negative
while its merits are positive and apparent to all who will read only a
few pages in it. The author seems to us as one who has gleane