the maximum war expenditure for one
single day, and say that it is the average. It is easy, too, to say that
'You can never whip the South,' and point to Richmond 'bounce' in
confirmation. It will all avail nothing. Slavery is going--of _that_
rest assured--and the South is to be thoroughly Northed with new blood.
_Delenda est Dixie._

Our 'private' readers in the army--of whom we have enough, we are proud
to say, to constitute a pretty large-sized public--may rest assured that
accounts will not be settled with the South without very serious
consideration of what is due to the soldier for his services 'in
snatching the common-weal from the jaws of hell,' as the Latin memorial
to Pitt, on the Dedham stone hath it. It has been said that republics
are ungrateful; but in this instance the adage must fall to the ground.
The soldier will be as much needed after the war, to settle the South,
'North it,' and preserve the Union by his intellect and his industry, as
he now is to reestablish it by his bravery.

We find the following in the Boston _Courier_ of March 29th:

'Our attention has been called to a statement in the
_CONTINENTAL MONTHLY MAGAZINE_, to the effect, that certain
interesting 'Notes on the Gulf States,' which have recently
appeared in this paper were reproductions, with certain
alterations, of letters which were printed in the _Knickerbocker
Magazine_ several years ago. The statement made is not positive,
but made with such qualifications as might lead to the inference
that the comparison was not very carefully made. We can only
say, that we have had no opportunity to confer with our distant
correspondent, who handed us the whole series of 'Notes'
together, in manuscript, for publication; nor had we any reason
to believe that they were ever printed before, either in whole
or in part. We can say nothing further, until we know more about
the grounds for the intimation of the CONTINENTAL MONTHLY.'

We were guarded in our statement, not having at hand, when we wrote the
paragraph referred to, more than three or four numbers of the Courier
containing the Gulf States articles, and not desiring to give the
accusation a needlessly harsh expression, knowing well that the best
informed editor may have at times old literary notes passed upon him for
new ones. What we _do_ say, is simply that several columns of the
articles which appeared as original