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HERALD.—The Americans of the North are boast-
ing that they have set free the negro. We are
waiting for some evidence, however, to show that
the African black has regarded those human rights
which are denied to the captive statesmen and sol-
diers of the South. But the patience of the world,
it seems, must be tested for a. long time before the
dark race is actually admitted, at Washington or
New York, to an ostensible equality with the
patriots of the Broadway. Now, indeed, the ques-
tion is, whether Uncle Tom shall have a vote. A
thousand journals, it is asserted by disputants on
both sides, are urging that point as though it
involved the whole future of the commonwealth.
But it is a remarkable fact that the very men who
have been blustering about emancipation as their
policy, and equality as its natural results, are in-
dignant with the negroes of Tennessee for daring
to memorialise the State Legislature and insist upon
the suffrage for themselves. Tennessee, perhaps,
may accord them the privilege. Its governor does
a little trade in popularity, on his own account, by
advocating their claims, though he does so upon the
ground that they would neutralise the influence of
the disloyal whites ? But what of Andrew Johnson,
the illustrious predecessor of Parson Brownlow ?
He waits for the advice of Congress—he dreads the
" nigger" doctrine—he leaves Judge Chase to xalt
black audiences with the belief thatethey are the salt
of the earth ; he allows the ebony people to be free,
but doubts their capacity to exercise a constitu-
tional franchise? Well, what will Cuffee do? Will
he appreciate his new masters ? He is " a man and
a brother ;" but is he to be a " fellow-citizen ?"
Clearly, he may be designated " a man," and hailed
from a distance as " a brother ;" yet where is the
public conveyance which will carry hinruninsulted?
Where is the steamboat on the deck of which he is
the equal of uncoloured passengers ? Where are
the Yankee labourers who will work where he is
employed ? It is hardly time as yet to discuss his
.political Magna Charta in " the home of the set-
ting sun." That may be done after his liberators
have determined whether he shall remain an outcast,
outlaw, and leper, or be transported to the moral de-
solation of Liberia, where a little amateur African
languishes, ill calculated to fulfil the sublime hopes
of Bolingbroke for the professors of "Talkee-talkee,
or the negro language." "We desire to vote at
elections," ejaculate the Nigritian patriots of Ten-
nessee. " Keep your sonorous nonsense to your-
selves," rejoin their emancipators, " and do not
bring your Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese,
Hottentot, and Mumbo-Jumbo dialects to the poll-
ing booths of a civilised republic, the greatest on
the earth." It is interesting from many points of
view to watch the progress of this controversy • but
one fact is palpable that the hatred of the North
American for the negro is more intense and more
pitiless than ever. He spurns him ; his organs
regret that he and his species cannot be " put up
to auction wholesale to stock the plantations of
Dutch Guiana ;" and one of the very jpurnals
which eulogised Abraham Lincoln as " the father
of African liberty in the New World," lately pro-
tested against " the ludicrous impossibility' of a
woolly-headed population existing in any relation-
ship with a nation of whites. We shall see this dif-
ficulty enhanced as time goes on, and the Ameri-
cans take leisure to bethink themselves what they
have done for their commonwealth by their ravage
and oppression of the South. Just now their moral
energies are otherwise absorbed. They are thirsting
for revenge and the punishment of unarmed oppo-
nents captured in a spirit of treason after solemn
guarantee of safety. When the blood for which
they pant has been shed they will have the negro to
deal with, .and what will they do with him ? The
doctrine of miscegenation, by which so many of our
contemporaries were befooled, was, as we have ex-
plained, no more than an impudent, although inge-
nious jest. Already we witness the abhorrence with
which American society in the Federal States looks
forward to the necessity of carrying out in practice
the principles proclaimed, though never sincerely,
during the epoch of the civil war. " What is to be-
come of Mungo ?" inquire the chilled philanthropists,
lately so fervent, of New York. But Mungo answers
for himself, and demands his vote as a free citizen
of the United States, which are thus invited to draw
from the deep sources of human genius at Surinam,
Congo, and Old Calabar, for the future elements of
their constitution. The dilemma is awkward, but
it must be said that they have brought it upon
themselves, and must not be astonished when the
name of George Washington is held up to ridicule
in the chapels of Paramaribo. They are punished
by being designated, in the noble pages which
glorified the " Liberation" policy of Abraham Lin-
coln, as " inherently, ridiculously, offensively, and
incurably base ;" but, for all that, they are
thundering at the doors of the State Legislatures,
wanting votes, and urging that the successor of
Andrew Johnson shall be elected in part by the
dwellers in wattle and sweet-wood cabins, loung-
ing African pedlars, black stall-keepers, who
thrive by cheating, illiterate negro tailors,
carpenters, and coopers, and vagrants, whose only
use of freedom is the enjoyment of refusing to work.
We congratulate these folk upon their liberty ; but
we can imagine without surprise, even the state
electors who made Andrew Johnson their governor,
hesitating to register a horde of abject blacks on
the roll of their constituency. " Had none but
Africans been permitted to settle in America," said
a great writer once, " how little would mankind
have profited by the discovery of Columbia." The
negro has great physical strength ; he is good-
humoured, cheerful, and often affectionate ; but he
is incapable of art and science ; he cannot be fitly
incorporated with any race of European descent,
and the Americans understand this as well as we do.
But they made a cry of their benevolence, and now
it returns to them in a very embarrassing echo.
How can they settle the question between them-
selves and " the primitive type." Chief Justice
Chase, a judge of the true American quality—that
is, an unblushing partisan—bids the Africans con-
sider themselves his equals, and promises them a
charter. But the bulk of American opinion shrinks
from the suggestion. The majority deny that the
negroes fought their battle, or decided the fate of
Secession. But Quashee is importunate, and some-
thing must be done with him. They cannot send
him home ; he disdains Liberia ; work he will not,
and beg he must not ; so that there seems no alter-
native beyond making him a citizen of the United
States, an elector, and an independent politician.
There is a grisly ook about the matter, we confess,
and yet what help is there for those who would
rather not, upon the whole, be elbowed by Sambo
at the hustings ? They voluntarily lifted their Old
Man of the Mountain upon their shoulders, and
since the energy displayed by Sinbad cannot be well
exercised when the Old Man has three millions of
heads, the American horse must submit to his
African rider. He abhors him, nevertheless ; he
will not eat, ride, walk, or worship with him ' • he
loathes his kindred and his colour ; he murders him
when he can ; he drives him into the forest and
swamp ; when he cannot be his tyrant he is his
enemy ; he teaches the newly-arrived emigrant to
detest him ; he would now, if possible, starve and
exterminate him from the land. And this after
four years of a war for liberty—afier a crusade for
for the assertion of negro right !

PRICE 4d.
STAMPED sd.

amounted to £6,446,913, leaving a surplus of Indian in-
come for the year, after defraying interest and charges, of
£78,347.
Mr. 11. SEYMOUR entered into a minute criticism of
the several items in the budget, and observed that proper
economy had clearly not been used, particularly with re-
spect to the military expenditure, which required the most
careful attention. He contended that no increase of taxa-
tion should be resorted to, and recommended that the
military finance committee should be reviyed and a rigid
examination instituted into the number of European troops
that were really required without too great a strain upon
recruiting in the United Kingdom. Only two things were
requisite to insure the continuous and permanent prospe-
rity of India. These were to respect the systems found
existing there, without endeavouring to carry out theories
of our own; and next to leave the religion of the natives
entirely uninterfered with.

Mr: VANSITTART regretted that the Indian Minister
had taken upon himself to reverse Sir Charles Trevelyan's
arrangements, especially as they had received the approval
of Sir John Lawrence and his council. The Government
had no alternative but to give up the income tax, as when
it was imposed by the late Mr. Wilson he gave a solemn
assurance that it should not be continued for more than
five years.

Mr. BUXTON considered that the European force main-
tained in India was excessive, regard being had to the
fact that the artillery and the chief strong places of defence
had been taken altogether out of the hands of the native
troops.

Mr. BAZLEY commented generally upon the unneces-
sary expense incurred in the government of India, espe-
cially the cost of collebting the revenue; which ho said
amounted to 25 per cent. of the entire receipts.
Colonel SYKES also urged the duty of the Government
to keep faith with the people of. India by abolishing the
income tax.

Mr. KINNAIRD replied to the criticisms of Mr. SEY-
MOUR and other members, and lauded the policy and ad-
ministration of the Government in India to the highest.

After a few words from Mr. W. EIVART, the debate,
which had been carried on throughout the greater portion
of it in a house of half-a-dozen members, was brought to
a close with some brief observations from Sir C. WooD,
and the resolutions were agreed to.
The Admiralty Acts repeal Bill, the Dockyard Ports
Regulation Bill, and the Admiralty Powers Bill passed
through committee.
The house adjourned at nine o'clock, until the usual
hour this day.

GLORIOUS REBELS.--There is a very unnecessary
irritability in some minds with respect to the word
rebel. How any Virginian can share this sensitiveness we
cannot imagine. The annals of the Old Dominion are the
biographies of rebels. She cherishes few memories save
those of rebels. She has never raised a monument except
to a rebel. She names her counties and her colleges after
rebels. rfer seal is a victorious rebel. Her flag reproduces
on a larger scale the triumphant rebel. A rebel lies within
the hallowed bounds of Mount Vernon. A rebel looks down
on her noblest public work from Monticello. A rebel in
enduring bronze keeps watch and ward over her capital,
and none but rebels are thought worthy to line the pedes-
tal of the rebel's statue. Does it become her to blush at
the name of rebel ?—Petersburg News.

is A PRINTED PLACARD AN OBSTRUCTION
A somewhat novel question came before Mr. George
and Mr. Croft at the Leeds Town-hall on Wednesday.
Edward Sheldon, the well-known bill poster, was sum-
moned on an information charging;him with " unlawfully
obstructing the free passage of the highway"—the alleged
offence consisting in his having on Sunday, the 4th inst.,
posted upon the thoroughfare in Briggate an enormous
placard 25 yards in length, announcing the performance of
" Adah Isaacs Menken as Mazeppa." The facts were ad-
mitted, but on the part of the defendant, Mr. Ferns con-
tended that to paste a piece of paper upon a highway was
no obstruction to the free passage of the public, either in
law or fact. They might as well say that a fly would ob-
struct a railway engine. (Langhter.) The Chief Con-
stable said the bill in question was posted down nearly tha
entire length of Briggate, and horses in carriages, convey-
ing people to church, shied at it. Mr. Ferns said his at-
tention was directed to the placard, but the soberminded
animal that did him the honour of drawing him and his
family to church was not in the slightest degree affected.
(Laughter.) In reply to the magistrates, Mr. Barr ex-
pressed the opinion that posting placards on the thorough-
fare was an offence of some kind, but he doubted very much
whether it was an obstruction. Mr. George—The Highway
surveyors have a right to prevent it. Mr. Ferns—le
won't occur again so far as Sheldon is concerned. The hi--
ion:nation was then dismissed.—Leeclo Mercury.