ness. place. Public opinion is of very slow, very temperate, and very judicious formation. It is the aggregate of small truths, and the experience of successive days and years, which, heaped together, form a general principle, which is of instant conviction in every bosom. It only requires to receive a name in order to become a law; and a law which is precipitately imposed upon a people, in advance of the formation of this sort of public opinion, will soon be openly abolished, or become obsolete in the progress of events. For my own part, I am satisfied with the existing laws until the convictions of the majority, and the progress of experience, shall call for their improvement. I have no respect for those who set themselves up for makers of public opinion; and as for the "hell-broth" so compounded, I know not any draught which would not be more wholesome than that which makes the body politic a body plethoric, and leaves no remedy to the physician but the cautery and the knife. no aspect of it which is not so. The kindness of the master to the slave, is likened to the kindness which he has for his dog-the affection of the slave, and his respect for one whom he looks up to as greatly superior, is ascribed to the fear of punishment, or the utter fatuity of his intellect. Every anecdote of cruelty which she hears is religiously written down, and honestly believed;-and even the jealous apprehensions of a jaundiced wife, who fears that her husband is no better than he should be, are chronicled with a sad solemnity, which is amusing, as the fruit of slavery. The outrages of the borderers-the frontier law of 'regulation,' or 'lynching,' which is common to new countries all over the world, are ascribed to slavery. Miss M., along with too many others, seems to think that none but well-bred, quiet, peaceable men should tame the wilderness. All her stories of great crime, of burning and hanging, and stabbing, which she has raked up with such exquisite care, are stories of the borders. They belong to that period in the history of society, when A goodly portion of the two volumes of Miss Marticivilization sends forth her pioneer to tame the wilder-neau, is made up of the conversations and opinions of Your well-bred city gentleman is no pioneer-Americans, who are nameless, and of her examination he belongs to a better condition of things and to after of these conversations. She sets up these argumentatimes. It is the bold, reckless adventurer-the dissolute outcast the exile from crime, or from necessities of one sort or another-who goes forth to contend with the wild beasts, the stubborn forests, and the savage tribes who prowl among them. These people naturally enough become as wild almost as those whom they conquer; but they have their uses. They are the lower limbs of civilization, and the links which connect the wilderness with the city. They prepare the way for civilization, if uncivilized themselves;-and how ever much we may deplore the crimes which they sometimes commit, we must content ourselves with the knowledge that these crimes seem to be unavoidable under the circumstances, and will continue, as they have been, to be committed, by the same class of men, whenever in a new country the presence of such adventurers becomes necessary. Still there have been crimes and outrages which are without their excuse, and I do not seek to excuse them. I look upon all violence and all injustice as brutal, whether it be the burning of the convent, the assault upon the trembling nuns, and their subsequent denial of justice—the frequent murders of women in places professing to be civilized, and where they are pleased to declaim very much about the outrages upon the borders, or the cruel 'lynchings' at the south of the sturdy incendiary. These atrocities in the settled communities of our country, may, most generally, be ascribed to the constant appeals which are made to what is called 'public opinion'—an appeal to a something--a power beyond the laws-which is expected to take the form of an equitable jurisdiction, and remedy their supposed deficiences. This I take to be one of the great causes of so much mobbing and lynching in modern periods among us. 'Public opinion,' so called, is very apt to become public action; and the mob, whom an editor invokes to ridicule the militia law, will not hesitate long to tar and feather the colonel, who is something of a martinet, and desires to sustain it. But it is not public opinion which is thus in-timate. Fortunately, since the days of Lady Blessingvoked--it is popular passion and a vain insolence which is cherished and brought into activity by such appeals, and which then becomes a tyranny, being out of its tive ninepins with the utmost gravity, and bowls them down with great rapidity and wonderful adroitness. Many of her arguments are carried on with women; and as there are very few women so 'cunning of fence' on her own ground as this professional disputant, it is easy to see not only that she obtained no great victory, but that she derived no increase of knowledge from the controversy. Her own estimate of the mental pretensions of the American women, should have saved her from a misplaced confidence either in their evidence or judgment. Indeed, she only confides in their opinions when it answers her purpose to do so. She describes them as little above fatuity. The three chapters devoted to this subject, under the general head of “Woman," is a singular and contradictory compound of truth and error-which nothing but a rabid desire for publication could have suffered her to put forth. Their minds, according to her estimate, with few exceptions, are little else than a blank. They have little or no practical philosophy-no thought;-and they confound learning with wisdom. Wherever she heard of a woman having a local celebrity, she was sure to find her a mere linguist; and she winds up her generally contemptuous estimate of the sex, by ascribing drunkenness to the more enlightened among them-a vice, perhaps, more utterly foreign to the native female American, than to the woman of any other country on the face of the globe. "It is no secret on the spot, that the habit of intemperance is not unfrequent among women of station and education in the most enlightened parts of the country. I witnessed some instances and heard of more. It does not seem to me to be regarded with all the dismay which such a symptom ought to excite." The wonder is, that with such an estimate of the sex, she should have drawn most of her authorities from them. This she does commonly on the subject of slavery. Her dialogues are mostly had with them; and these are silly enough, in most cases, to support her es ton's protracted conversations with Lord Byron, men are not satisfied with reports of this description, unless they have proof that the stenographer has been by and busy. in their domestic interests, than I ever hope benefit from its additional votes in the national assembly. It may be added, however, that the Texians tell a different story from Miss Martineau, respecting the settlement of their country. Certainly, one tribute of applause cannot be withheld from them. If they have usurped the possession of a territory not their own, they have exhibited the most singular and noble forbearance as victors towards their captives-a forbearance the more wonderful, indeed, as it was so utterly undeserved by the merciless and false-hearted savages, whom it was their good fortune to overcome.* "In Miss Martineau insists upon the greater dependance of the south upon the Union, than of any other portion, and ascribes to the slave system the weakness from which this dependance is supposed to spring. case of war they might be only too happy if their slaves did run away, instead of rising up against them at home." I must again remind her of a period, the history of which she has possibly never read, or possi Another source of authority with Miss Martineau, is the public men of our country—the members of Congress of both parties; and those, seemingly, among the most violent. It does appear to me that she could not have erred more strikingly than in this particular, since the furious partizan, whether in England or America, is usually the last person in the world from whom the unprejudiced and ungarbled truth can be derived. That she should not have given the most implicit confidence to their statements, is the legitimate conclusion from her own report of them. She tells us that they strove to make a partizan of her,—sought to secure her favorable opinions-and, on all occasions, exhibited no less earnestness in making proselytes to the party, than they would have done in securing them for the cause of truth. It is true, she is, here and there, annoyed with something in their conduct that seems to startle her with the semblance of an inconsistency; but she does not, even then, doubt the good faith of the speaker. She suspects the judgment first-ay, always, with a selfconfidence in her own, which is thoroughly English-bly forgotten. The slave population of Carolina was the weakness-anything but the prejudice and the interest of party. The politicians of Carolina give heed, and bow ready assent to her anti-slavery propositions; and when she believes that she has them all snugly within the hem of her garment, she is thunderstruck to hear them vote aloud in approbation of Governor McDuffie's thoroughgoing, yet only half-elaborated, opinions in behalf of slavery. To this day she does not dream that a polite southern gentleman, in a ball room, would infinitely prefer bowing assent to all her propositions, than gravely undertake to refute them through the medium of her 'charming' trumpet. quite equal in number to its white population in 1776, and, with the exception of two small corps of cavalry, which the British incorporated with their arms, and uniformed with their scarlet, the entire mass of them adhered, with unshaken fidelity, to the fortunes of their masters-never deserting them either in trial, or danger, or privation, and exhibiting amidst every reverse of fortune that respect, that propriety of place, which did not presume in adversity, and took no license from the disorders of the times; and this decorum was exhibited, we may add, at a time, when, to the danger of invasion from a foreign power, was added the greater curse of a reckless and unsparing civil war at home. Perhaps the whole world cannot exhibit an instance, so singular and so worthy of grateful remembrance, as that of the conduct of the serviles of Carolina, during the seven years war of the Revolution. "It was necessary to purchase Florida because it was a retreat for runaways." This was one reason; but Miss M. seems to have been imperfectly acquainted with the history of Florida. It may be well to inform her, that one of the best reasons for the purchase of that country, is kindred to that reason which prompts the Of the causes of the Seminole war, she gives the folUnited States and Great Britain to maintain so jealous lowing account. "According to the laws of the slave a watch upon the island of Cuba, in order to prevent it states, the children of the slaves follow the fortunes of from falling into the possession of any great maritime the mother. It will be seen, at a glance, what consepower. From the first, Florida, under the Spaniards, quences follow from this; how it operates as a premium has been the scourge of the southern states. As colo- upon licentiousness among white men; how it prevents nies and states, they were subjected to the continual any but mock marriages among slaves; and, also, what incursions of the savages under Spanish prompting; effect it must have upon any Indians, with whom slave and the wars of the borders between the two people, women have taken refuge. The late Seminole war were among the most sanguinary of those that ever arose out of this law. The escaped slaves had intertook place in America. St. Augustine was emphati- married with the Indians. The masters claimed the cally styled by the early English settlements in the children. The Seminole fathers would not deliver south, the "Sallee of America." In later days a more them up. Force was used to tear the children from urgent necessity arose for the acquisition of this terri- their parent's arms, and the Indians began their despe tory; as it furnished a foothold during the war of 1812 rate, but very natural war of extermination." Such is to our affectionate mother, England, to plant her stan- the story of Miss Martineau. Without doubt it came dard upon it, and summon her red brethren to pile up from the mint of the abolitionists-the people of such the scalps of her banished children beneath it. Had veracity. This version is entirely new in the south. Miss Martineau read this history, she might have found stronger reasons for the acquisition of this territory by the United States, than the recovery of its fugitive slaves; though that is reason quite enough in our estimation to justify the purchase. Of the Texian invasion, upon which her eloquence is purely invective, I do not propose to say anything, except that I, for one, among thousands in the south, apprehend more injury, from its competition with the southern Atlantic states, It is a budget of errors, one growing out of the other. The laws of Florida do not prevail over the Indians. The children of slaves only follow the condition of the mother, where the laws prevail. If a runaway woman * Miss Martineau styles the victory of the Texians over Santa Anna, in which he was made prisoner, "the unfortunate defeat of the Mexicans." She has not a word to spare touching the massacre of the Alamo ;' and yet she looks upon the taking of life as crime-to say nothing of the criminality of a violation of faith to those who surrender upon a solemn pledge of safety. VOL. III.-83 is recovered from the Indian territory, her child will, of riors, or their extermination. Their only safety will be course, follow her condition under the laws of the state found in their enslavement, or in their removal to a rewhence she escapes; and there may have been an in-gion where the hunting grounds are open and uncirstance where the child of an Indian father is thus re- cumscribed. They must perish or remove;-unless covered with the slave mother, and carried back into they conform to the established usages of the states in bondage, but I am disposed to doubt even this. The which they linger, and fall into the customs of the supeoccurrence is rare, if it ever does or did take place. The rior people. The Government of the United States Seminoles own slaves, which are either brought from has aimed at their removal for many years; but this the Island of Cuba, or are stolen from the whites at re-removal has been resisted in various quarters, and mote periods. They are only transferred from one kind chiefly by the instrumentality of those universal phiof slavery to another; since they are sold by the Indians, lanthropists, who are now known as abolitionists. and are liable to all their caprices of sudden rage, drunk- They were strenuous in opposing it, and did not conenness and occasional bursts of gloomy ferocity, and a fine their opposition to the councils of our own nation. malice which seems natural to them. Under these influ- They preached resistance to the Indians themselves, ences the slave is frequently murdered, and his murderer and encouraged them to stay where they were and is unpunished. It is only such philanthropists as mo- starve. Their eloquence in these exhortations overdern abolition provides, who esteem it better for the looked the absolute necessities of the Indian, and was negro to be the slave to the savage, than to the civilized chiefly devoted to the imaginary privations consequent man. The Indians do not often have intercourse with upon his removal. They dwelt pathetically upon the their slaves. They are a cold and sterile people, as is loss of his homes, and his banishment from his forefathe case with most of the wandering tribes. Fecundity ther's graves; and in dilating upon privations such as is one of the fruits of a settled and stationary popula- these, they entirely forgot all the more serious evils tion. The marriages among the negro slaves of the arising from the state of sufferance in which he dwelt, whites are much more formal, and quite as rigidly ob- in an abridged territory, and under a government, served, as among the Indians, who are polygamists or whose regulations, his necessities and his ignorance, anything. They are creatures of impulse, having no- alike, drove him momently to violate. In the poverty thing but the mood of the moment for their laws. The of the Indians, they must either beg, steal, or starve. rule, that the child shall follow the condition of the In seeking to avoid the latter, the commission of crime mother, is not a stimulant to licentiousness among the is frequent. They become embroiled with the whites, whites, unless we assume the male blacks to be impo-whom they despoil of their hogs and cattle, and whattent; and then there would be no blacks after a second ever else they can lay their hands on-they refuse generation. Miss M. knows but little of human pas-obedience to the authorities they offend--they fly from sion, if she supposes that in matters of this nature, the the officers of justice, and seek for shelter in their wild mercenary desire of gain will prompt the white man to recesses-their swamps and everglades. They are such excesses, other provocatives being wanting. So pursued, and from their refractoriness, are treated, far from this being the motive, it may be stated here naturally enough, as outlaws by their pursuers. The with perfect safety, that the greater number of the numbers on both sides accumulate, and blood is shed, southern mulattoes have been made free in conse- and can only cease to be shed in the utter exterminaquence of their relationship to their owners. Of late tion of the inferior class. To avoid this dreadful nedates some arbitrary laws have been passed in Carolina, cessity, the government has been laboring to remove which forbid the citizens to free their slaves. I do not them to other homes and a wider extent of country, approve of these laws myself, but they have their ad- where they may follow, without let or hindrance, the vocates among the majority; and reasons of state customs which they like. And this removal is but a policy are given in their behalf, which are imposing small and partial evil, in comparison with the many enough, if not altogether sound. The war in Florida evils which must follow upon their stay. Our homes arose from other and more natural causes, which the depend for their comfort, not so much upon the assophilosophical mind of Miss Martineau would have soon ciations of our childhood, as upon their fitness for our enough ferreted out, if the demon of abolition had not mental and moral condition. Men-civilized men, possessed her brain, and too entirely darkened her whose sensibilities upon such matters are duly educated, vision. The hunting grounds of the Indians were too and made fine and susceptible by the institutions of somuch circumscribed by the gradual gathering of the ciety-daily dispose of their dwellings and depart into whites around them, to permit them to procure suste- strange lands; and while we doubt not that all men nance after their customary habits. The game had must feel a sense of regret at parting from the homes of become scarce, and, as they had not yet been taught infancy and youth, we should be paying but a sorry the first lesson of Christianity, as it is the first decree of tribute to their manliness and proper nature, in regardGod-namely, the necessity of labor-they were half ing this as a sore and overwhelming evil. The Indian, the time in a state of starvation. Their contact with too, of all people in the world, is the last to feel much, the civilized must always result,-as such contact has if any regret, at such a necessity. It is no great sacrieverywhere resulted—either in their subjection as infe- fice for him. From the moment that his eyes opened *I am persuaded that it would be a wholesome policy to re- upon the light, he has been a wanderer. He has never voke these laws. It would, in the first place, prevent their fre-known a fixed abode, until the appearance and settlequent evasion. A more important consideration is, that it would give to the owner a power now denied, of doing full justice to the claims of the faithful and the intellectual, without compelling him to banish them from their native homes while bestowing upon them their own mastery. ment of the whites formed a point of attraction, to which, with all the consciousness of his inferiority, he tacitly inclined. His fathers before him were wanderers, and according to their histories, their whole dotes, however, which are given by Miss M. which are inconsistent with other relations in the same pages, that the observing reader will readily detect and contrast them for himself. They will do no harm, and, indeed, the work itself will do no harm. On the contrary, I am disposed to think it will be of some considerable service. Like the book of Mrs. Trollope, it tells us some home truths, North and South, in spite of its errors and erroneous assumptions. We sincerely hope that it will be read with that unprejudiced attention, which will enable the reader to see and estimate the frequent truth which gleams up amidst the wilderness of words in which it is enveloped. lives have been passed in bearing their stakes from the wilderness to the seaside, and from the seaside to the wilderness again. The habitations of the Indians prove all this. During the space of three hundred years the time of our acquaintance with them-they have made no improvements—they have built no house of sufficient comfort or importance to be occupied by two successive generations. Their habitations have been such only as they could readily remove, or leave, without loss, to the use of some succeeding occupant. Their towns-if the collections of filthy wigwams in which they fester and breed vermin, may be called towns-general principle, and, in many cases, are so decidedly are few, far between, and the men seldom in them. Their women have ever been their drudges, in the most degrading slavery--brutes without indulgence, and slaves to the most vicious caprices of their masters, without restraint or redress, unless it comes in the sudden vengeance of some irritable relation. Such people have no idea of home. That is their best home which gives them elbow room, and full forests in which to hunt. The Florida war has sprung entirely from the want of such freedom; and we may add, that most of our Indians wars have arisen from the same single cause. The philanthropists who would keep them in a region in which they have no resources of life, are those only to whom such wars are to be ascribed. Still, we do not deny the wanton injustice, and the occasional cruelty of the base white borderer. It would be won-stantly, and is forever searching after exceptions. She derful, indeed, if such people did forbear the commission of injustice, Their labors are not of such a sort as would lead us to hope for their forbearance; and the necessities of the savage give them but too frequent provocation for the exercise of their unrestrained and brutal propensities. The true evil is in the condition of things which keeps the two races in contact, yet not in connection. The inferior people must fly from the presence, or perish before the march of approaching civilization. I have now gone through most of the points which concern or affect South Carolina in these two volumes. I have confined myself to that State-simply, in order that my answer should be comprised within the limits of a magazine paper; and as I felt myself more at home in that region. There are sundry little anec *The account which the Aborigines gave of themselves to the first discoverers, represented them to be the invaders of a people far superior to themselves in civilization, which their greater numbers and savage ferocity destroyed. This was the boast of the Indian to the white man. The antique remains of works, fortifications, temples and other fabrics, which are dispersed all over the country, confirm this intelligence; without regarding the obvious fact that these were remains utterly beyond the ability of the Indians to erect. This history, we may add, is the history of the world, as we read it everywhere. The moment that civilization pauses in her conquests, she is overrun by the savage. She cannot rest in her conquests. She must conquer, not only to improve the savage, but to save herself. Let her pause, with an inferior tribe beside her, not acknowledging her sway, and she is overthrown. It would have been easy to show many errors in these books, extending from Maine to Mexico, arising only from the too ready disposition of Miss Martineau to theorize upon the slightest surfaces of fact: but this is a labor which will no doubt find a pen more able than mine in the several regions which she has wronged. A work like that of this lady, who seems to think, and certainly tries to do so, as well as her hurry, and the variety of her topics will permit,--is the proper one for dissection. To point out her errors may be of excellent use in England, where they know so little about their own descendants, Miss Martineau is a monstrous proser. She is probably one of those persons who never believe that they have been talking all the while. She declaims con scruples at no game-fears no opponent,—and whether the meat be washed or unwashed,-hawk or heron,-it is all the same to her. She discusses the rights of man, and-Heaven save the mark !-the rights of women too, with her chambermaid, when she cannot corner a senator. Smart exceedingly-well practised in the minor economies of society, and having at her tongue's end all the standards of value in the grain, cotton, beef and butter markets, she does not scruple to apply them to the more mysterious involutions of the mental and moral organization of tribes and nations. It is but too evident that with all her cleverness, she lacks that more advantageous wisdom which begins with humility. She is too dogmatical ever to be wise. She comes to teach, not to learn. She gets nothing from her hearer, for she does not hear him. If she listens, it is simply because she is confident that her answer is ready. That she has never listened while in America, is evident from these volumes; though I doubt not that a great many words have gone through her trumpet. Miss Martineau came to America with two or three texts in her memory, which she assumed to be the standards by which our institutions and our people were to be tried. These texts were arbitrarily in her memory-not in her mind. She has taken them upon trust, and has not condescended to analyze them. One of these is the doctrine of majorities. These she insists will be right-right in the end. This arbitrary law applied to sundry cases in her mind, to which it is not common to apply it in America, alarms her by the annoying inconsistency which follows; and hence her wild chapter about the rights of women-their exclusion from the offices, the suffrage, and the authorities and count so confidently upon their universal degeneracy; though, with a strange inconsistency, admitting them in some wonderful instances of moral and mental achievement, to have gone, at times, so far beyond all the rest of the nations. they evidently were not thinking of the accouchement of a lady, but of a nation. Their work was limited entirely to the claims of the citizen, each in his place, upon the government which he was required to sustain, for the protection,—while he obeyed its laws and performed his duties—of his life, his liberty, his pursuits, and his possessions. That God has not created the physi cal man, or the mental man, alike and equal, is not less true, than it is in perfect harmony with all his creations. Nothing, indeed, can be more remarkable or more de of state. Certainly, if mere numbers are to be considered the sources of power in a state, the inference is necessary that women are to be considered parties to the government; but the fact that they are not, in a country professing to be ruled by a majority, should have prompted Miss Martineau to an inquiry into the rights of the majority, and the definition of this phrase in its received political sense. Now the truth is, the doctrine of majorities is simply the doctrine of physical power, determinable by an abstract standard, which obviates the necessity of the application of brute force.lightful to the mind and eye, in the examination of the The majority tells us where the brute force lies, and works of the Deity, than the endless varieties and the we submit to it in most cases where the authority brings boundless inequalities of his creations. Whether we with it no greater hardships than would follow our re- survey the globe which we inhabit, the sky which casistance to it. When the injustice of a majority passes nopies, the seas which surround us, or the systems beyond the ordinary bounds of patience, it is resisted; which give us light and loveliness, we are perpetually and the ultima ratio regum is resorted to by the minority, called upon to admire that infinite variety of the Creaeither in hope or desperation. There is no abstract tor, which nothing seems to stale. The stars are lovely charm, in mere numbers, to compel the obedience of in their inequalities, the hills, the trees, the rivers and those who are wronged, and who think themselves so. the seas; and it is from their very inequalities that But when it is known that votes represent men-able- | their harmonies arise. Were it otherwise, the eye bodied and armed men-the case is different. We at would be pained by the monotony of the prospect everyonce see the enemy with which we have to contend, where. As it is, we love to watch, and learn with deand the superior capacities which he possesses of coer-light "how to name the bigger light and how the cion. The doctrine of majorities is in truth no new less." They have their names as they are unlike and doctrine. It is as old as the hills. The only difference unequal. It is because these shine in their places, howbetween times past and times present consists, simply, ever inferior to other orbs, that they are lovely. They in the superior facilities, which, in modern times, we en-are all unequal, but each keeps its place; and the beau joy, of determining where the power lies, without any ty which they possess and yield us, results entirely resort to blows. It is more easy, now-a-days, to com- from their doing so. A greater philosopher than Thopute the strength of the opposition, than it was in the dis-mas Jefferson—and we may add, after a long intervaltant periods when war was almost invariably the result Jeremy Bentham and Miss Martineau, has given us a of ignorance on both hands-and never was the doc- noble passage devoted to this subject, which is no less trine more clearly illustrated than in the wars of Napo-philosophical than poetical-indeed, it is the true poet leon Bonaparte, whose many successes were the sheer alone, who is the perfect and universal philosopher. result of his attention to this fact. His mode of con- Let us hear William Shakspeare. I quote from "Troicentrating his force at a given point, in advance of his lus and Cressida." The speech is made by Ulysses at enemy, was the true secret of his wonderful victories. the close of the seventh year of the siege, when the Minorities would never submit to the frequent injustice Greeks, emulous of each other, each striving for sway, of majorities, but that they well know that the court of begin to despair of success in the continued disappointdernier resort is one just as little likely to give them re-ments of the war. After a prefatory passage, he says: dress, as the power which robs them of their rights by a mere resort to the numeration table. "Degree being vizarded, The unworthiest shows as fairly in the mask. The Heavens themselves, the planets and this centre, Her other texts are also drawn from the governing principles of our society-Her deductions from these principles, sometimes at variance with those practically drawn from them in the United States,-are the occasion of much complaint and fault-finding. One of these, that "all men are created equal," is a subject of some disputation among philosophers in every country; and the dispute is not likely to be settled soon. Our forefathers, when they declared this truth to be self-evident, were not in the best mood to be philosophers, however well calculated they may have been to become patriots. They were rather angry in the days of the declaration; and hence it is that what they alleged to be "self-evident" then, is a source of very great doubt at present, when we are comparatively cool. But the truth is, that neither they nor we can well determine this subject. Nobody now-a-days is born naked. We are none of us in a state of nature. The artifices of life are around us, and we receive them with the light. But, not to gainsay our fathers, for whom we have every possible respect, let us endeavor to support their proposition. We must regard their assertion in a limited sense, for I tion, it might be so yet. What plagues, and what portents? What mutiny ? *This line would be an admirable application, in the shape of a motto, to what should be the feeling, and the communion of our confederacy. With the whole passage, as our rule of ae |