s
own throat afterwards. However, a man of Mr. Cushing's warmth of
nature might well find himself carried beyond the regions of
ordinary rhetoric in contemplating so beautiful and affecting a
vision, and it is enough that we have the consolation of knowing
that he either spoke with a disregard of the census, which we cannot
believe possible in one so remarkable for accuracy of statement, or
that he acquits every man, woman, and child in the country of any
hostility to the Union. It is cheering to have this matter set
finally at rest by so eminent an authority, and we are particularly
glad that the necessity for so painful an experiment in swallowing
is a great way off; for, though a "handful" would not go far among so
many, yet, if its components be as unpleasant as Mr. Cushing
represents them, it would certainly give a colic to every patriot
who got a bite. After so generous an exculpation of the American
people from any desire to pull their own house about their ears, we
are left to conclude that the only real danger to be apprehended, in
case of a Republican success, is a _de facto_ and _de jure_
dissolution of that union between certain placemen and their places
which has lasted so long that they have come to look on it as
something Constitutional. When that day is likely to arrive, we
shall see such samples of consistency, and such instances of stable
conviction, in finding out on which side of their bread the butter
lies, as cannot fail to gratify even Mr. Cushing himself.

But we must not congratulate ourselves too soon. In the interval
between the fifth of July, when his oration was delivered, and the
seventh of August, which is the date of the Craytonville letter,
Mr. Cushing seems to have reviewed his opinion on the state of the
Union. There is more cause for alarm than appeared on the surface;
but this time it is not because we have fallen out of love with the
South, but that we have become desperately enamored of negroes.
Nurses will have to scare their refractory charges with another
bugaboo; for the majority of Massachusetts infants would jump at the
chance of being carried off by the once terrible Ugly Black Man. Our
great danger is from _Negrophilism_; though Mr. Cushing seems
consoled by the fact, that it is a danger to Massachusetts, and not
to South Carolina. We think Mr. Cushing may calm his disinterested
apprehensions. We believe the disease is not so deep-seated as he
imagines; and as we see no r