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way, and be off, which a raw, fiery, conceited youth feels to sunder wholesome domestic ties. The stimulus was within, not from without. It is to be regretted that the editor of this, in so many respects valuable, pamphlet, in speaking of Northern men of influence who belong to the K.G.C., or its other aids, should have cited under the vague heading of 'said to be,' the New-York _Herald, Journal of Commerce, Express_, 'and a French newspaper' in New-York City, the Boston _Courier and Post_, the Hartford _Times_, the Albany _Atlas and Argus_, the Rochester _Union_, the Buffalo _Courier_, the Cincinnati _Enquirer_, the Detroit _Free Press_, the Chicago _Times_, and the Milwaukee _News_. While we entertain no doubt that among the editors of these newspapers are men who are at heart as traitorous and as Southern as their colleagues of any Richmond journal, [we have ourself seen a small Secession flag paraded on the desk of an editor of one of the above-mentioned publications,] we must still protest against any other than _definite_ charges, even against men whose daily deeds and utterances of treason have been of more real service to the South than all the trash and trickery of Quack Bickley himself. It is indeed charged that 'these are the principal names on the lists of traveling messengers for those States,' but it should be remembered that such accusation requires clear proof. With this single exception, we commend the pamphlet in question as a document well worth perusal and investigation. The subject, as it stands, appears trashy and melodramatic; but be it remembered the Southern mind is prone to trash and romance, and quacks and adventurers would be more likely to be found actively working to aid treason founded on folly than would men of real ability. * * * * * COLUMBIA'S SAFETY. Where lies thy strength, my Country--where alone? Let ages past declare-- Nay, let thine own brief history make known, Thy sure dependence, where. 'Tis not in boasting--that's the poltroon's wit, The coward's shield of glass, A coin whose surface, silver's counterfeit, With fools alone shall pass. 'Tis not in threats--these are the weapons light Of brutes, and not of men: A barking dog's despised; but if he bite, Wo to his clamors then! 'Tis not in bargains made to cover wrong! There open weakness lies; A righteous cause is in itself most stro
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