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LONDON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20.

• Tin only mode I think available foe meeting
the ism is jut to tear the constitution of the United
States, and ken a Southern Confederacy." This is
the voice of the Slave Cates, sa uttered by FILM=
810011., and echoed by a listening multitude.
• Let as hold the Oligarchy to its Fifteen Hundred
Million Bond ; and the moment a Slave State rebels
against the constitution, send a nißeient fore* to
dissolve its slave property into sir, and do it." This
is the voice of the Free States, attend through the
press. It would take some tiros to prove how far it
world be echoed by the population at large.
Meantime, our own homebred illostrator of the age,
Pima, sets the matter before us in a way more in.
stantaneous, more impremive, more striking, than the
voles of Southern orators or the type of Northern
presser. The illestratioe in Pu•ch of the Bth
instant appears to as, and will appear to Anted-
eons, a wonderful work. TIN enraptured negro,
• tearing the constitution" to the heart's con-
tent of Bioows, with the North and South
awaiting the deed, may move some to laughter
by the external humour of the picture: bat we are
. . .

Saab mistaken if its inner truth sad pathos do not
move many to tsars. It mast he not a little startling
to both roots sad all parties as that further shore to
see the negro made a sort of umpire, after all: to see
the despised block, the degraded slave, reeding the
Union which it hes been considered the highest beset
of the white race to have formed. This is retribu-
tion, every American will say i—retributioa for
the timid sad politic spirit is the founders
of the republic which cased them to is.
'slop in compromise e difficulty which mast, moan
or later, explode all somprossises: retribatioe for the
perverse pride of the South, by which their one bad
institatisa was made to amebic all good tees: retri-
bution for the low vanity and greed of the North,
which have humbled them under the yoke of agref
aloe, stimulated them to insult and plumb their
worthiest citizens, and plangid them at lest late the,
anguish of such an alternative us the siswiier et
their liberties and good repute on the see YEA ee of
the shied of their vanity and greed as the other►
There, before the exulting negro whole Main Ur*
country asunder, stand the two under whose lost be
bas hitherto been troddes, the sleek, complateat,
thoughtful man of the North, with his band at his
chin ; and the haggard, fierce, reckless man of the
South, to whom it Rest be the very gall of bitternme
to see the negro the agent of kis country's destiny.
To us at home the represestation may be less
startling, bet hardly lase pathetic. So this I. what
the great republican sxperimeat has arrived at. liiis
is the picture presented to the eyes of the world, so
busy in this age in dieeustng liberal institutions.
We see thankful now that we have been so keg
aware of the vitiating almost is the speculatioe.
We ere thankful to have known turd declared all
along that there osuld be no loin trial of Republica
Government in the presume of chattel slavery. Still
the.. wars intervals when we hoped that there might
be wisdom and moral force onoegh to extirpate the
mischief before it was too late; and we fund ourselves
reluctant to admit—even to iaregine—svem now that
it is too late.

Too late for what P Foe the United States of
America to matinee their federal commies withdee
Annum of their separate sovereignty. Foe this
we fear it W too late, except through a molars pressers
of circumstance* stronger than the Fusions sad into.
rats of the hour. We can staily itsegise that
though to the negro has bets given the elks of
reediog the Uoios, be may have nothing to do with
its restoration or its rem►ining sundered. The gela-
tion may cease to be that of slaveryt and we ma
imagine that if slavery were abolished, oe allowed
to speed over the whole essatry to-morrow,
the diseoletion of the Links night still
be inevitable. And spiv, it is highly pro-

bible that if the sever/See were to Mk; place
immediately, the superior power of the North might
compel a mowed Unioo messily, on its owe
eaidi-
tione, as to slavery and everything else. Is brief, the
chasm whisk has timed between the two divisions
of the country bee been mod by the loscoososabd
werkisp of warring thoughts and feelings which
have, at last, burst oat with volcanic form, splitting
the very maid soder the nation's feet.
The egpesition can hardly be better estimated tbala
by looking at what the dissolution of the Ualha
would be to the one and the other. The &ethane/
did care for as Uolon is the same way as the North'
ser to anything 13ke the now axteet. It is be
said for the South dist its material 'stomata ism
sever mastered its instincts so as to sake it value the
North fur its sue. Withest Northers capital and
seseateree, without Northern art and iadoetry, the

South could not have sostaised its political existence
to this day; sad yet the South bas never clang to
the eonsezioa, nor mode an idol of the Vales by
which it has lived, and moved, and had its being. In
truth, the South has always, or foe a Wag comes
of years, believed that it had another resostes—a
career of conquest end maszation which would be a
fine thing in its wily. A revival of the African
slave trade, in oligarchical Government, a military
policy, have been the floating vision of the Southern
men ever sines their soil became hopelessly bete.
flatted in the older States, and their virgin soils
were found useless without Northern capital. Envy,
jealousy, and contempt of the populous and pro►
perous North, the temptation of semi-barbarous
neighbours beyond the frontier, and the retrograde
state of mind which grows out of slave institutions,
have all tended to strip the Union of whatever sane-
tity it had, and to induce the men of the South to
turn their backs es the scene of their mortiflostioss,
and look to now regime for the indulgences of their
restlessness and the satisfaction of their pride. We
at a distanos know how much of delusion
and mournful false reckoning there is in all this.
We know that the best citizens of three States
would migrate to the North ; and that the soldiery
which the South could send forth could be only that
clam of whites whom it is dangerous to keep at home;
that the best pest of the whites mast stay at home to
keep down the blacks, sod that there is really nothing

for the citizens of the Booth to do or to lire on but
by permission of the North, which (as the South de-
clares with wrath and indignation) is the virtual
proprietor of nearly the whole land and chattels of
the South—elaves sad all. We know that a purely
military career is impossible under such an incubus
of olive property; while commercial and sgricultoral
life Gan be sustained only at the pleasure of the true
masters of the situation. The South has little to pia
by the continuance of the Union, now that the
balance of forms has virtually turned against her;
and, if she has never loved the Union overmuch, she
will not regard it with increased sffection now
that a long coarse or restraint and concession
lies Dann her. To our view, wens will betide her
in ease of separation—an irreparable retrained= in
fortune., ropstation, and political condition ; bet the
world will hardly wonder if she risks the experiment.
And it hardly wonders now that her Representative
Man stands quietly to see the meted map rest in two
—eves by the hands of a grinning negro.
Far more mournful is the prospect of disunion to
the North. Her ass and daughters are married sad
settled in the South by thousands; a civil war would
involve those miseries of which tradition tells so
piteously in regard to the ware of the Great Rebellion.
The prospoties loss in regard to production and *ow

mac; is.miderstood to b. much less thaa used to be
appnbanded. or that it would hare bees a few years
ego: bat the actual loss by the disruption of Madam
between capitalists and mortgagors would be enor-
mous. This is the smallest masideratlea of all,

however—far surpassed not only by the domestic
Waited's we have referred to, bat by the disappoint-
ment of these lofty and ardent aspirations which
have bound together the people of the North far the
last eighty years. Their federal republic was their
joy and pride—their complacency at home and their
glory abroad—their political idol and their world-
wide distisetion. For it they have sacrificed so much
sad so lass that they can hardly co aive what they
shall do wittiest it. They have sacrificed for it not
only egoism sad pride, bet honor and a good coo-
edema. We at a distance know that all is
in their owabeads, if they will ; that self-retrieval is
way, and life all before them, to be used under better
conditions ; and that no essential change of aims and
penult le their alternative to the continuance of the
Union. We know that a sirtsous firmness now will
soave to them a new strength of will sad cossonoe,
and nerve and spirit, so that they may find thiamine
happier than in the days when so one openly Tree-
toned the skims of their idol. We know that the
threatened severance, however frightful at the
moment, will leave them in a joyous freedom, the
charm of which will be in proportion to the growing
pain of their long subservience. We know all this:
but they, is the aim of the struggle, cannot be ex-
pected to discern it clearly. Thus then way yet be
compromise for a thee. It moot be for loaf ; for, as
Emmen mays, barbarism and civilisation enact live
together. So many are the ties which most be rest,
however-♦o deep and heartfelt the moralised=
of failure of the Usk* to those who have borne
everything before they world give it up, that it is so
wonder if the Representative Man of the North
stands grave and sad is attitude and cosateaance
while the lamed dominant which ha has ever feared
r to torch is torn in two by the 'epithet negro.

THE BRITISH

We Winded yesterday, at the rooms of the British
Ins Wades, to {upset the works of the students who
have been allowed to make copies from pictures left
by those patrons of art who desire that the muter.
pieces they seed to the Institution should not only
serve as a means of deleotation to the public, bet a
mode of elevating art itself, as npeeesated in Rep
hied. We ere boned to say that the good intentions
of these art patrons have this year led to so cone-
sponding results. They have left a few pictures,
rams of them of the highest merit, but, with a few
exceptions, the students have (we say it deliberately)
eoan&buely misused their opportunities. The an-
ginas are of varies' degrees of artistic merit, but
the copies, with the exemption of a few, are below
contempt. There is a marvellous Posseiti, of which
we sew no copies at all. There is an exquisite
„fruit piece" by De Rem. which is gather fortunate,
two of the copies being rather creditable. There is •
grand Raysdeel. of which there is no attempt to give
arepresentation. Bat worse than ell there is a
"Lady Hamilton • by Romney. which Me does
nothieg but afford to the incipient painters an *ppm,
reeky et maids' the grossest caricatures it has ever
been oar fortune to witness. We should have some

difficulty is piano, out in the whole nage of
artistic representation amytkieg equal to the mar-
vellous hasty of this fees. It is one of the loveliest
countimeesse ever piloted. But is spite of the tem pta-
tics afforded by the loveliness of the features, nothing
has bees doss by the copyists. A greed picture by
Mum, sailed A Data Family," seems to have de-
veloped a little more stingy. There are three
good copies of this picture, on even of a high
order of merit. In going so far, we really do
lot know whether the mere sight of sousetking
respectable unapt a multitude of works far below
mediocrity may not have indented our judgment.
We do sot know how far the present exhibition is to
be taken as as isdicatioe of the lova of art existing
is the hearts of British students. We en only say
twist if as art student from anther nation bad been
present whim we were inspecting theme pictures, we
should have experinced the degradatioa of info-
nonty.