he defeat of
Fernando Wood, like the breaking up of the Peace Party, like the rapidly
progressing crusade against old political corruption, it shows that
there is a reformation afoot which will work wonders, and prove to the
world that the mass of corruption in this country, so generally
attributed to the working of republican institutions, is in reality due
to a diametrically opposite cause--to the influence of a party which in
all its feelings is essentially that of despotism. May we all live to
see its last trace obliterated from the free North.

LITERARY NOTICES

THE REJECTED STONE: OR, INSURRECTION vs.
RESURRECTION. By a Native of Virginia. Boston: Walker,
Wise & Company, 245 Washington Street.

It is to be regretted that the native of Virginia who penned this volume
has not published his name, that the world might know who it was that
produced the most vigorous, unflinching, and brilliant work which has
thus far resulted from the war. In sober seriousness, we have not as
yet, in any journal or in any quarter, encountered such a handling of
facts without gloves; such a rough-riding over old prejudices,
timidities, and irresolution; such reckless straight-forwardness in
declaring what should be done to settle the great dispute, or such
laughing-devil sarcasm in ripping up dough-face weakness and
compromising hesitation. Its principle and refrain, urged with abundant
wit, ingenuity and courage, is simply EMANCIPATION--not on the narrow
ground of abolition, but on the necessity of promptly destroying an evil
which threatens to vitiate the white race. In the beginning the author
points out the inevitableness of the present war, and that our political
system has been hitherto a sacrifice to Slavery for the time, but also a
running up of arrears in favor of Liberty.

'In forming this government, Slavery clutched at the strength of
the law; Freedom relied on the inviolable justice of the ages. They
have both had, they must have, their reward. That it was and is
thus, is apparent from the very clauses under which Slavery claims
eminent domain in this country; they are all written as for an
institution passing away; the sources of it are sealed up so far as
they could be; and all the provisions for it--the crutches by which
it should limp as decently as possible to the grave--were so worded
that, when Slavery should be buried, no dead letter would stand