h haste, simply guided
by the firm determination that eventually it must be.

We can not insist too strongly on this great truth, that when a nation
makes up its mind that a certain event _must_ take place, and acts
calmly in the spirit of perfect persuasion, very little is really needed
to hasten the wished-for consummation. Events suddenly spring up to aid,
and in due time all is accomplished. Those who strive to hurry it retard
it, those who work to drag it back hasten it. Never yet on earth was a
real conviction crushed or prematurely realized. So it is, so it will be
with this 'Northing' of the South. Let the country simply familiarize
itself with the idea, and the idea will advance as rapidly as need be.
In it lies the only solution of the great problem of reconciling the
South and the North; the sooner we make up our minds to the fact, the
better; and, on the other hand, the more deliberately and calmly we
proceed to the work, the more certain will its accomplishment be. Events
are now working to aid us with tremendous power and rapidity--faith, a
judicious guiding of the current as it runs, is all that is at present
required to insure a happy fulfillment.

* * * * *

The degree to which a vindictive and malignant opposition to every thing
for the sake of 'the party' can be carried, has been well illustrated in
the amount and variety of slander which has been heaped by the
Southern-rights, sympathizing Democratic press on the efforts of those
noble-hearted women who have endeavored to do something to alleviate the
condition of the thousands of contrabands, who are many without clothes,
employment, or the slightest idea of what they are to do. It would be
hard to imagine any thing more harmless or more perfectly free from any
thing like sinister or selfish motives than have been the conduct and
motives of the noble women who have assumed this mission. Florence
Nightingale undertook nothing nobler; and the world will some day
recognize the deserts of those who strove against every obstacle to
relieve the sufferings and enlighten the ignorance of the blacks--among
whom were thousands of women and little children. Such being the literal
truth, what does the reader think of such a paragraph as the following,
which we find going the rounds of the Boston Courier and other journals
of the same political faith?

'_On dit_, that some of the schoolmarms who went to South-Carolina