m the vandals who would subjugate us.
Our manners and customs are different; our tastes and talents are
different; our geographical position is different; and in
conformity with natural laws, nature and instinct, our
currency,--weights and measures, should be different.

'The basis of integral limit of value proposed for our currency, is
the star, which is to be divided into one hundred equal parts, each
part to be called a centime, namely: 10 centimes--1 tropic;
10 tropics--1 star; 10 stars--1 sol.

'These denominations for our currency have been selected for three
reasons: first, they are appropriate to ourselves as a people;
second, they are emblems of cheerfulness, honor, honesty of
purpose, solidity, and stability; and third, the words used are
simple, easily remembered, and are common to several languages. I
will, in addition, observe that similar characteristics distinguish
the proposed tables of weights and measures.'

'Stars'--'centimes'--'tropics,' and 'sols.' Why these words should be
more significant of cheerfulness, honor, honesty, and solidity, than
dollars and dimes, cents and mills, is not, as yet, apparent. As set
forth in this recommendation, it would really appear that the root of
all evil would have its evil properties extracted by giving the radical
a different name. To be sure, the wages of sin thus far in the world's
history, have generally been found equivalent to death, whether they are
termed guineas, francs, thalers, cobangs, pesos, sequins, ducats, or
dollars. But in Dixie--happy Dixie!--they only need another name, and
lo! a miracle is to be wrought at once.

There is something in this whole proposition which accurately embodies
the whole Southern policy. While the rest of the world is working to
assimilate into civilization, they are laboring to get away and
apart--to be different from everybody else--to remain provincial and
'peculiar.' It is the working of the same spirit which inspires the
desire to substitute 'State rights' or individual will, or, in plain
terms, lawlessness and barbarism for enlightenment and common rights. It
is a craving for darkness instead of light, for antiquated feudal
falsehood instead of republican truth; and it will meet with the destiny
which awaits every struggle against the great and holy cause of
humanity.

_KYNG COTEN._

A 'DARK' CONCEIT.

(_Being an ensample of a lo