pread of
her institutions, who mock at her sense of right and her hereditary
love of freedom, and are willing to accept place as an equivalent
for the loss of her confidence. The question, Who is in office? may
be of primary importance to Mr. Cushing, but is of little
consequence to the Free States. What concerns them is, How and in
what interest are the offices administered? If to the detriment of
free institutions, then all the worse that sons of theirs can be
found to do that part of the work which involves (as affairs are now
tending) something very like personal dishonor. It is no matter of
pride to us that the South has never been able to produce a sailor
skilful enough and bold enough to take command of a slaver.

Mr. Cushing affects to see in the history of the Slavery Agitation
nothing but a series of injuries inflicted by the North on the South.
He charges "some of the Northern States" with acts of aggression
upon the South "which would have been just cause of war as between
foreign governments." He prudently forbears to name any. Does he mean,
that persons have been found in some of those States unnational
enough, un-Original-Democratic enough, to give a cup of water to a
hunted Christian woman, or to harbor an outcast Christian man,
without first submitting their hair to a microscopic examination?
Does he mean, that we have said hard things of our Southern brethren?
Grose's "Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue" is open to them
as well as to us, and the Richmond "South" is surely not in the
habit of sprinkling the Northern subjects of its animadversion with
rose-water. No,--what Mr. Cushing means is this,--that there are men
at the North who will not surrender the principles they have
inherited from three revolutions because they are threatened with a
fourth that will never come,--who do not consider it an adequate
success in our experiment of self-government that we can produce
such types of nationality as reckon the value of their country by
the amount of salary she pays,--who will not believe that there is
no higher kind of patriotism than complicity in every violent
measure of an administration which redeems only its pledges to a
faction of Southern disunionists,--who will not admit that
slave-holding is the only important branch of national industry,
because the profession of that dogma enables unscrupulous men to
enter the public service poor and to leave it rich. Has any citizen
of a Southern S