very
for us, as it demonstrated how superior our Government is to yours. If
Mr. Buchanan would come here, we would raise him to the peerage, and, in
commemoration of his two great acts, would give him the double title of
the Duke of Lecompton and Disunion. Floyd, Cobb, and Thompson should
each be earls. Thompson should be called Earl Arnold, in gratitude for
the services to us of the celebrated Benedict Arnold.

I told Mr. M. how much we had condemned his fugitive slave law; but he
convinced me that it was a most humane and excellent measure. Fugitives
from the kindest masters, and ungrateful for all the blessings of
slavery, why should they not be brought back in chains? He reminded me
of Generals Shields, Corcoran, and Meagher, Irishmen commanding Irish
troops for the North, and said they should be brought back to Ireland
and hung on Emmet's scaffold. You know we keep that scaffold still
standing, as a terror to Irish rebels, although we admire so much
rebellion in America. Mr. M. spoke also of Sigel, Heintzelman,
Rosecrans, Asboth, and expressed his surprise that the Bourbon princes
would fight side by side with the _mudsills_ of the North.

In a few years, Mr. M. said, the South would establish a monarchy, and
that a son of the Queen should marry a daughter of Jefferson Davis, and
thus unite the two dynasties by kindred ties. It was his opinion that
the South would limit the right of suffrage to slaveholders, numbering
about two hundred thousand; that they would have a house of peers, lords
temporal and spiritual, composed (including bishops) of all who held
over five hundred slaves; but that their Archbishop of _Canting_bury
should own at least one thousand. He thought the number requisite for
the peerage would be enlarged after the reopening of the African slave
trade, which would soon furnish England cheap cotton. His remarks on
this subject reminded me how large a portion of my fortune was
accumulated, during the last century, by the profits of the African
slave trade. Mr. M. told me the King of Dahomey would furnish the South
one hundred thousand slaves a year, for twenty dollars each, and that
England should have the profits of the trade as before, and Liverpool
again be the great slave port. He alluded to the CONTINENTAL
MONTHLY, which he said was an abolition journal, and denounced
Kirke, Kimball, Leland, Henry, Greeley, Stanton, and Walker. He was
specially severe on Walker and Stanton, charging them with