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she offered them to Davis in the
capacity of clandestinc correspond.
ent and eaves-dropper. She boasts of
her arrest, and seems desirous of the
notoriety she has acquired. Mrs.
Greenhow is another of these lady
friends of trcason--in person of far
more ability than the masculine Miss
Fribble above referred to. She has
been one of the queens Of our +. +.
VS., and delighted in being ono Of
the leaders Of fashion and society
hcrcaways. a long time engaged in
this business, she has been Of great
service to the public enemy. Like
Miss Windle, she glories in her mar
tyrdom, and will doubtless look for
ward to being duly commissioned as
one of tho saints in the rebel calendar.
| hear that others Of these sweet
daughters of Eve arc to follow this
twain. The lady Of an Ex. United
States Senator is freely mentioned as
the next on the list, and l hear the
wife Of one of our leading merchants
discussed as candidate for the attcn-
tions of the provost marshal. Is it
offending the sanctities to write Of
these things2 Is our regard for
woman to prevent us from exposing
and checking them when they be-
come the emissaries of great and
unparalleled tyranny When their
husbands, and fathers, and brothers
run OF To enlist in the traitors army
they leave behind these tender part
ners of their former homes /; and if
these latter become agents of discord
and mediums Of treachery the law
must take it's course.
If we would triumph, VIC must be
bold and relentless against all shapes
Of treason. And we will triumph.
As the greatest modern poetcss Of
England, Mrs. Browning, said before
she died, in Florence, last June, when
referring to the United States cit
is your transition time--your crisis
but you will come out of the fire puri-
fled, stainless, having had the angel
Of great cause walking with you in
the furnace"
Mr. Russell, the correspondent Of
the London Times, still hovcrs. ghost
hike, about our camps. There has,
also, been something too much Of this.
When we reflect that this Govern
ment is fighting the greatest battle
for Freedom since the birth of Christ,
is it not monstrous that the agent of
a newspaper protesting to be the
organ of a Christian people should be
here to help our foes and to deprcci-
ate MS? lie tells us in his letters that
we arc scnsitivc--wc Americans
and SO we arc--and so are every great
people fighting for their existence
against "a wild and many weaponed
throng." We arc sensitive when wc
are illuminated by those who should
befriend us. We are sensitive when
our robber and assassin foes are help
cd forward by civilized and profess
singly friendly Government. We are
sensitive when our great cause is
sought to be snccred away by worth
less penny-a-liners, who enjoy our
hospitality to abuse our confidence,
and revcl in the consciousness that
because we tolerate differences of
opinion they may print the most
shameless pervcrsions Of matters vi
tally concerning our fame as people.
Plainly, We owe nothing to the London
Times, or to the English Government,
in this battle. Both arc hostile to US.
Both are .jobbcrs. Neither has a soul
for Christian civilization. They are
for slavery when it enriches them,
against it when it impovcrishes them.
Mr.. Russell is here as the echo, not of
the people of England, but of those
who think they can dwarf our Govern
ment so as to make it wear the
straight-jacket they have made for it.
They predicted, because they hoped,
that we could get no money for our
war upon thieves, traitors, pirates,
and murdcrcrs. We got it, and no
thanks to them or theirs. He who
told them to make this prophecy was
undoubtedly Mr. RUSSELL. Now, when
he tells them that our soldiers fed
from field he was the first to desert,
he is undoubtedly trying to get them
to make new mistake by treating
our people as towards, and by look
ing upon Mr. Lincoln's Administration
as only worthy Of contempt.
Mr.. Russell may have turned many
sharp corners in his day and time, and
may have commended himself to his
employers by the agility Of his pen,
and the melody Of his sentences, but
he shall not attack q great people.