o longer circulate in
England. Mr. Mason, the Southern ambassador, has convinced us all that
slavery is a divine institution, that whipping and branding are really
good for the negro, and education dangerous. Indeed, we dare not educate
our own working classes. We begin to perceive the truth of the _corner
stone_ principle of the Southern Confederacy, that capital should always
own labor, whether white or black. Then we would have no more strikes,
or riots, or claims for higher wages, or for the right of suffrage, and
all would be peace. You see my opinion of slavery has changed; and so
has that of England in church and state, except the working classes, who
wish to vote, and such pestiferous democrats as Bright and Cobden.

This rebellion came just in the right time for us. In a few years more
of your success, we should have been compelled to establish free
schools, give the vote by ballot, and extend the suffrage, until the
people should rule here, as with you. But now that your rebellion has
proved the failure of republics, we shall yield no more. Slavery, in
dissolving your Union, has accomplished all this for us, and therefore
must be a good institution. Some one has sent me one Edmund Kirke's
anti-slavery novel, entitled, 'Among the Pines.' Your people seem to
have gone crazy over it; but it will have no readers here. Is this Kirke
a Scotchman? I had a tenant called Kirke, who was evicted for avowing
republican opinions. Can this be the same man? I told the Confederate
minister, Mr. Mason, that if some Southron would write a good novel in
favor of slavery, it would have a great circulation here; and he said he
would name this in his next despatch to his Government. He has a fine
aristocratic air, and could scarcely be descended from the women
(imported and sold as wives for a few pounds of tobacco to the
Virginians) who were the mothers of the F. F. V.'s. But Mr. M. says
slavery will soon build up a splendid nobility in the South.

Jefferson Davis is very popular here, and was lately cheered in Exeter
Hall; but Yancey and Wigfall are idolized. Our great favorite in the
North is Ex-President Buchanan. When did the head of a Government ever
before have the courage to aid a rebellion against it, so gracefully
yielding it the national forts, ships, mints, guns, and arsenals? But
what we most admire is his message, in which he proved you have no right
to coerce the South or suppress rebellion. This was a splendid disco