policy consists in the expression of a double hatred, part of
which it bestows on the priests, and part on the slave-dealers, the
American contest has assumed its last phase, the Confederates are
running in breathless haste to demand pardon, and true patriotism is at
last to meet with its reward. This great and noble result will be due to
the Northern generals, _who have carried military glory to so high a
pitch without at the same time compromising American Democracy!_

"Your readers will doubtless consider that the writer of the above lines
undertakes to speak on a subject of which he knows nothing; but what
will they say of a writer who, in the same journal, thus expresses
himself relative to the issues of the coming election?

'Lincoln being elected, the following will be the results: The South
will lose courage and abandon the contest; the lands reduced to
barrenness by servile labour will be again rendered productive by the
labour of the freeman; the Confederates, _who know only how to fight,
and who are supported by the sweat of others_, will purify and
regenerate themselves by the exercise of their own brains and of their
own hands....'

"These strange remarks conclude with words of encouragement to the
robust-shouldered, iron-fronted, firm-lipped Lincoln, and prayers for
the welfare of the American brethren.

"You will not easily credit it, but this article--a very masterpiece of
delirium and absurdity--bears the signature of one of the most eminent
writers of the day, M. Henri Martin, the celebrated historian of France.
(_Index_, Oct. 20, 1864, p. 667.)

A week later _The Index_ was vicious in comment upon the "men and money"
pouring out of _Germany_ in aid of the North. German financiers, under
the guise of aiding emigration, were engaged in the prosperous business
of "selling white-skinned Germans to cut Southern throats for the
benefit, as they say, of the poor blacks." (Oct. 27, 1864, p. 685.) This
bitter tone was indulged in even by the Confederate Secretary of State.
Benjamin wrote to Slidell, September 20, 1864, that France was wilfully
deceiving the South by professions of friendship. The President, he
stated, "could not escape the painful conviction that the Emperor of the
French, knowing that the utmost efforts of this people are engrossed in
the defence of their homes against an atrocious warfare waged by greatly
superior numbers, has thought the occasion opportune for promoting his
own purpos