tate ever failed to obtain justice (that is to say,
in the language of Original Democracy, his _nigger_) in a Northern
court? Has Massachusetts ever mobbed an envoy or brutally assaulted
a Senator of South Carolina? Has any Northern State ever nullified
an article of the Federal Constitution, as every seaboard
Slave-State has always done in respect to the colored citizens of
the North? When a man's allowing himself to be kicked comes to be
reckoned an outrage on the kicker, then Mr. Cushing's notion of what
constitutes a "just cause of war" will deserve as much consideration
as Mr. G.T. Curtis's theory that hustling a deputy-marshal is
"levying" it. We can remember when the confirmation of an ambassador
to England (where the eminent fitness of the nomination was
universally conceded) was opposed by several Southern Senators on
the ground that he had expressed an interest in the success of West
India emancipation. If Original Democrats have their way, it will
not be long before it is made constructive treason to have read that
chapter of the Acts of the Apostles which relates the misguided
philanthropy of Philip in endeavoring to convert an Ethiopian into
anything but a chattel.

We are inclined to think that a too amiable willingness to be kicked
has been generally considered "just cause of war as between foreign
governments,"--especially on the part of the stronger of the two.
History seems to show this,--and also, that the sooner a nation gets
over its eccentric partiality for this kind of appeal to its
reasoning faculty, the more likely it is to avoid the risks of war.
At any rate, the forbearance of the South has been such, that, in
spite of the great temptation, she has hitherto refrained from
sending her fleets and armies northward, and we are glad to find
that Mr. Cushing is inclined to take a cheerful view of the
permanency of our institutions. He tells us, it is true, in one place,
that the success of the Republican Party would be "the _de facto_
dissolution of the Union"; but in a moment of calmer reflection he
assures us that there are thirty million Americans who stand ready
"to devour and swallow up" the "handful of negrophilist Union-haters."
We have great faith in the capacity of the American people, yet we
somewhat doubt whether any one of them could swallow up what he had
already devoured, unless, indeed, he performed that feat which has
hitherto been the opprobrium of Jack-puddings, and jumped down hi