ford, and some more in store for him when the Weeds and Hughes
will come and give an account of their doings in Europe.

The report of the battle against Casey, as published by the rebel
General Johnston, is a masterpiece of military style, and shows how
skilfully the attack was combined. The Southern leaders have
exclusively in view the triumph of their cause. With many of our
leaders, the people's cause is made to square with their little
selfishness.

Guerillas spread like locusts. Perhaps they are the results of our
Union-searching, slavery-saving policy.

AUGUST, 1862.

Emancipation -- The President's hand falls back -- Weed sent for
-- Gen. Wadsworth -- The new levies -- The Africo-Americans not
called for -- Let every Northern man be shot rather! -- End of
the Peninsula campaign -- Fifty or sixty thousand dead -- Who is
responsible? -- The army saved -- Lincoln and McClellan -- The
President and the Africo-Americans -- An Eden in Chiriqui --
Greeley -- The old lion begins to awake -- Mr. Lincoln tells
stories -- The rebels take the offensive -- European opinion --
McClellan's army landed -- Roebuck -- Halleck -- Butler's
mistakes -- Hunter recalled -- Terrible fighting at Manassas --
Pope cuts his way through -- Reinforcements slow in coming --
McClellan reduced in command.

_Vulgatior fama est_, that Mr. Lincoln was already raising his hand to
sign a stirring proclamation on the question of emancipation; that
Stanton was upholding the President's arm that it might not grow weak
in the performance of a sacred duty; that Chase, Bates, and Welles
joined Stanton; but that Messrs. Seward and Blair so firmly objected
that the President's outstretched hand slowly began to fall back; that
to precipitate the mortification, Thurlow Weed was telegraphed; that
Thurlow Weed presented to Mr. Lincoln the Medusa-head of Irish riots
in the North against the emancipation of slaves in the South; that Mr.
Lincoln's mind faltered (oh, Steffens) before such a Chinese shadow,
and that thus once more slavery was saved. _Relata refero._

General Wadsworth is the good genius of the poor and oppressed race.
But for Wadsworth's noble soul and heart the Lamons and many other
blood-hounds in Washington would have given about three-fourths of the
fugitives over to the whip of the slavers.

Within the last four weeks 600,000 new levies are called to arms. With
the 600