second opportunity would be neglected. But
the London shop-keeper who has seen that lady perhaps hundreds of times,
still rushes out in wild haste, with eyes wide open, to behold her when
she drives past. 'They can never get enough of it.' As one of their own
writers has observed, a London tradesman may have been swindled a
hundred times by real or sham noblemen, and yet no sooner does some
flaunting cheat with the _air noble_ enter his shop, than the cockney
bows low and implores patronage with a cringing zeal only equaled by his
'uppishness' to humbler customers.

The truth simply is, that English thinkers wrongly judge our people to
be like their own, and as capable of promptly submitting to acknowledged
superiors. In the same blindness and ignorance, they see only two
parties, equal in all respects in this war, and realize nothing of the
innate vitality and irresistibly accretive power of free-labor, science,
and progress, when brought into opposition with a conservatism which
scorns every thing pertaining to the rights of the majority. Misled by
their associations, they believe that the 'Aristocratic' party must
triumph in the end, forgetting that even in their own country capital is
gradually destroying the old land-marks which divided the privileged
classes from the masses. We who virtually occupy a higher stand-point in
history, though, perhaps, we are newer dwellers in our domain and not as
yet as comfortable in it as they in theirs, can, however, afford to
laugh at their opinions and threats. A nation, whose utmost effort could
not raise above thirty thousand men for a war in which the point of
honor between themselves and the French was at stake, is not the one to
lay down laws to the American North, which could--probably without
drafting--bring its million into the field. It is worth remembering
that, had they sent us their Warrior, as they threatened after the Mason
and Slidell difficulty, she would have met with the Monitor!

* * * * *

Three hundred thousand men are wanted--and that right early!

Let there be meetings, speeches, subscriptions--let every thing that is
vigorous and impulsive and patriotic thrill the people forthwith: Let
there be no lagging in the good cause. Never since the war begun was
there a time when a fierce rally was more needed. We have it in our
power to crush this rebellion to atoms, if the people will but once
arouse in their might. Even this d