d pride and obstinacy in the nursery? I have seen the boy of
a mild-tempered father fairly admire the parent when he broke the truce
of affection and vigorously thrashed him. The large majority of the
Southern people have been educated to believe the men of the North
cowardly, mean, and avaricious. Cowardly, because they persistently
refused the duel. Mean, because all classes worked, and there seemed
among them no arrogance of birth. Avaricious, because they crouched to
the planters with calico and manufactures, or admired their bullying for
the sake of their cotton.

And the great masses of the South have been and are learning how the
present leaders have duped them upon all these points. They have
discovered we are not cowards. Every prisoner, from the chivalric
Corcoran to the urchin drummer-boy at Richmond who spat on the sentinel,
has afforded proof of courage and fortitude, whilst thousands and
thousands of people have secretly admired it. The very death vacancies
at family boards throughout the plantations perpetually remind the
Southrons that _we are not_ cowards in fight. They have learned, too,
that we are neither mean nor avaricious, when the millionaire merchant,
whom they knew two years ago, cheerfully accepts the poor man's lot of
to-day; or when they behold all classes without one murmur hear of a
million dollars per day being spent on the war, and then _clamor to be
taxed_! If they perceive the negroes leaving them, they at once also
perceive that in loyal Maryland, loyal Virginia, loyal Kentucky and
loyal Missouri,--in Baltimore, St. Louis, and Louisville,--the slaves
under local laws are protected to their owners. Thus the most stupid
will reason, It is our own act which has placed in jeopardy this our
property. With a restored Union, Georgia and Louisiana must be as
Maryland and Kentucky continued even in the midst of camps. Who, during
the acme of the French revolution, could have believed that the people
of Paris would so soon and so readily accept even despotism as the
panacea of turmoil? Show a real grievance, and I grant you that
rebellion achieves the dignity of revolution. Provide an imaginary or a
colored evil as the basis of insurrection, and even pride and obstinacy
will eventually comprehend the sophistry of the leaders.

_Mr. Lincoln._ Seward's secret correspondence with Southern loyalists
proves these things. Mr. Stanton must read that last letter from....

_Mr. Stanton._ Indeed! You s