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London, England, 1863-08-24 00:00:00

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the same fair, honourable means as the Litter
Behold ! Virginia, Carolina, Maryland herself, hive
taken the field with all their chivalry ; soldiers and
officers in their lines ere gentlemen ; the law of
nations, the calls of common courtesy sod humanity
are obeyed by the armies under the orders of }ICC'
on the battle-field as at a tournament. Before the
battle and after the victory the Southerner behaves
like a man who fears God, end whose sword has no
edge where it meets with no resistance.
" The North," these Marylanders say, contrast-
ing the conduct of the two belligerents, " the North
never took the field ; it fought its battles by proxy ;
it led the scum of its own cities, the refuse of emi-
grant Europe, to the invasion of the South. Its
soldiers are mere ruffians ; its officers, you see them,
greedy attorneys, low peddlers, crack-brained
schoolmasters—a ruthlss, grasping, fanatical set, of
which the Schenks and the Butlers are the proto-
types. All the horrors of war, the hardships and
sufferings, either altogether inseparable from war-
fare on an extensive scale, or attributable to imper-
fect means and want of experience—the strict,
harsh, arbitrary measures attendant upon military
occupation and the infliction of martial law—all is
by these Southerners laid to the charge et the innate
base malice of Yankee nature. They have endless
tales of the refined, petty cruelty, of the coarseness of
language, of the outrageous manners by which the
mean victors wilfully, as they say, aggravate the sor-
rowful condition of the vanquished. A few of their
most striking cases of Yankee harshness and vul-
garity I gave you in a former letter. I have one to
add to-day which, perhaps, better characterises the
mutual feelings of the contending parties than any
of the foregoing.

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A certain number of ladies of the Union party,
chiefly from the North, have taken upon themselves
the management of the Baltimore hospitals, which
are at this time full of the sick and wounded from
the fields of Gettysburg. The wife of a Yankee
schoolmaster, now at the top of poli'ical influence,
under Schenk's patronage, is at the head of this cha-
ritable association. On one of her late visits this
zealous woman walked into the ward of the Con-
federate wounded with a Federal flag in her band,
and held the obnoxious stars and stripes over the
bed of a dying sufferer, saying, as she waved the
rustling silk in his very free, " There my friend,
you were loth to live under this glorious banner; it
must be refreshing to yon at least to die under it 1"

It is by these shocking, incredible outrages
against good taste, no less than good feelings, that
the Yankees have laid for themselves so large a trea-
sure of hatred among these Southerners, who be-
lieve themselves, and who are, in my opinion, so
much more humane and gentle. Unfortunately, the
North is aware of this implacability of the Southern
people, and, as I have before hinted, contemplates
no less than the restoration of its power over the
land by the utter, reckless ruin and extermination
of its inhabitants. It was only after Lee's retreat
at Gettysburg and the fall of Vicksburg and Port
Hudson that the real intentions of the Republican
party in power at 'Washington began to reveal
themselves. It was then that the armament of
negroes on a very large scale and the all-sweeping
confiscation of rebel property were openly resolved
upon. But the thought that no quarter should be
given to the South, that none should be spared, and
the innocent perish with the guilty, was lurking
in many a Northern bosom at a very early time.
Witness the following paragraph, printed on the
21st April, 1862, in the TVasbington Globe—a paper
then, as now, under the immediate influence of the
Government :

" If such is really the will and purpose of the body of
the Southern people, and not merely the vain bravado
or desperation of, their ruined leaders, who would pull
down everything with them, in their own certain ruin
before Heaven let the final trial of power and truth and
justice in this question be made at once and for ever.
If with no complaint against the Government—for they
have never yet made any—they choose traitorously to resist
to the death the efforts of that Union, like a chastening
father, to bring them back, repentant, to its fostering arms,
let them die the death, let their very memory fade for ever,
and let their desolated fields be given to some better race who
will know how to cultivate them for the good of all man-
kind."

Here the doom—not of the Southern combatants
alone, but of all the race—was with sufficient clear-
ness foreshadowed. That doom is now being fill-
filled, and without inconceivable prodigies of valour,
or without foreign interference, it will not be
averted. It is true, there are noble hearts in the
North, and there are not ungenerous parties who
revolt against this unheard-of abuse of victory.
There are wary men and jealous parties who look
upon the subjugation of the South on these un-
sparing terms as an evil fraught with serious con-
sequences to themselves, a danger for the future
liberties of the Union, and for the independent ex-
ercise of single States. Opposition is already to
be heard thundering loudly in many an influential
Northern organ, and Mr. Lincoln and his Cabinet
are made the subject of the most virulent attacks.
The blackest republicanism is rampant, however,
and the moderate, conservative, or "Democratic"
party, seem to have neither head nor heart. The
" Copperheads" are likely enough to stand by and
see the South immolated, though they ought to be
aware their own turn will come next.

The intense heat under which we are all suffering
seems to have prostrated, and to some extent dis-
organised, both the armies in Virginia. That of
General Meade, who has repeatedly tendered his
resignation, and is likely to be superseded by Grant,
is said to be about to be drawn back "in front of
Washington." Lee is reported to have sent several
brigades to Charleston. His army is reduced in
numbers, and the sufferings, both in the camp and
in Richmond, are described as severe. The ther-
mometer is often up at 100 deg. there (we had it at
94 deg., and even 98 deg. here yesterday in the
shade). Illness is rife among the troops. All au-
thorities agree that "such a heat was never expe-
rienced i❑ these parts of the American Continent."

There is in one of the Northern papers an article
which I hope will not escape your attention, as it is
the best picture the Americans can draw of them-
selves, of their social and political state, and of the
men now guiding their destinies. The article is
entitled " Saratoga : Past and Present," and it con-
trasts the brilliant reunions of that favourite water-
ing-place in the days of President Van Buren, a
quarter of a century ago, with the riffraff which
congregate on the same cool spot now-a•days.
" That," says the paper, " was the classic age. This
is the age of shoddy. Then the destinies of the nation
were controlled by statesmen. Now a pack of poor,
crazy fanatics rule to ruin. The then Goddess of
Liberty was represented as a young and lovely
woman, fresh, vigorous, immortal. Now the repre-
sentative of Liberty is supposed to be a halt-witted
fellow, who wears his trousers tucked into his boots,
and his old white hat on the back of his head, as if
the disorder of his dress were typical of the dis-
order of his mind Our politicians
used to be gentlemen, but now the majority of them
are arrant scoundrels. Society, politics, and,indeed,
the whole Republic, have lost their tone," &e. The
writer goes on to build his hopes on the future, and
in the " reconstruction of the Union, followed by a
general regeneration ;" but it remains to be seen
whether a restoration of the Union brought about
by "poor crazy fanatics," under the guidance of a
half-witted fellow," and at the suggestion of
arrant scoundrels, calling themselves politicians,"
—a restoration grounded on the extermination of
the white and the ruin and confusion of the negro
race in the South, will be conducive to that " rapid,
triumpha❑t, and glorious progress" which this out-
spoken laudator teniporis acti anticipates.

THE PRIMMEST, MINCING SYMPATllY—perhaps
ever put into words, is that expressed by the Queen
of Prussia in a note accompanying her Majesty's contribu-
tion of 50 Fredericks d'or to the Cobourg committee for the
erection of a monument to the late Prince Consort, a note
expressed in the manner following I have followed the
project of erecting a monument to the departed Prince
Albert in his native town with great sympathy, and desire
so much the more to participate in its execution, as the
ever-memorable Prince constantly stood on terms of close
acquaintance with me both as relation and friend ; aisd his
memory is esteemed and dear to me. With these feelings
I accompany your noble enterprise, for which the enclosed
contribution is intended, with my best wishes.—ALursTi,
Queen of Prussia—Coblentz, July 25, 1563."

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