from the South.' Will there not? Wait until the South has been well
subdued, thoroughly Butlered and vigorously Northed; wait till the
Yankee is at home there, and then see if there will be 'no demand for
Northern manufactures.' Quite as tender to the rebels is the spirit of
the following from the Boston _Post_ of May 31st:

'Senator Sumner,' a correspondent writes, 'in an argument against
the proposed tax on cotton, not only opposed it as _an act of
injustice to the unrepresented South_--for grain, hemp, and flax
are left untouched--but as oppressive on manufacturers.' Mr.
Sumner's sense of justice is called into exercise only when it
suits its owner's convenience. He has no thought of 'injustice to
the unrepresented South,' when he wishes to tax negroes, emancipate
slaves, and confiscate Southern property.'

Such remarks require no comment. If a rebel in arms, disgraced by every
infamy of treason, is only to be treated as his representatives would
like, then it is indeed time for the honest friends of the Union to
inquire what safeguard we have in the future against national ruin?

* * * * *

MY MOCKING-BIRD.

With wings a-quiver, eyes irate,
He watched me coming near,
Each plume upon his panting breast
Astir with kindling fear.

My hand, though always kindly stretched,
He _would_ not think it good;
And as I placed some sugar in,
He pecked, and drew my blood.

So have I seen the souls caged here,
To learn celestial speech
From angels chanting love so near
They seemed within arm reach;

When closer to them drew God's power,
In wrath or terror stand;
And while he dropped the sweet, dart up
And rend His dear, warm hand.

* * * * *

The London _Times_ is becoming malignantly consistent, and has declared
that there should be at present nothing more said of intervention in
American affairs, because it would have the effect to immediately
strengthen the Federal army.

'If we wish to give the Civil War a new impetus, to recruit for the
North with a vigor with which they never can again recruit for
themselves, we have only to take some step, we do not say what
step, but any step which can be represented as being an
interference on our part in the quarrel. The spirit of conquest is
worn out, but we know the Americans too well to dou