, 1861-01-17
The Lie about Hannibal HanalIn Be-
Ing a Negro.

Hannibal Hamlin, Vice President elect, is
believed, by the less intelligent people Of the
South, to have tingc of African blood in his
veins. 4 Washington correspondent Of the
Richmond Dispatch writes:
high character in New Hampshire, giving the
pedigree Of l1amjin. His grandfather Was q
mulatto, and commanded q mixed company of
negroes mud Indians during the Revolution.
He pocketed tho pay Of his company, sold the
wine and other 1uxuries provided for the sick,
and left the army IN disgrace. One Of HAM
lin'6 uncles, or great uncles, was named Africa
There is legend in the family, to the effect
that when Hannibal WIS an infant, In tho cradle,
his nurse overheard one Of the relatives, who
,gas then gazing on the boy, exclaimed, For
Gods sake! will this id black blood never
ct out Of the veins Of our tafnlly?' Members
of Congress who served with ua1Dlin while he
Was In the House, say they always knew he
had strcak Of negro in him THIS is pleas
ant"
In answer to tho above, the editors Of the
New York Express very promptly and credit
ably make the following statement:
"TLc editors ofthe Express were born in the
same State that Mr.. H.nalin Was. One Of them
.s.8 ut an academy ln Bucktlcd, near Paris
{0xtord county, Han'il's native town, there
at school with u brottser Of Ham1iu. Alr. Ham,
lin himself has been known to both Of us for
twenty years, aud the family is quite we'll
known to one Of US. One Of us served III
Congress with him TOR four years, and such a
thing was never heard of, OF even breathed
there The whole story is . monstrous lie"
As this is the first time the editors of the
Express have been known to be guilty Of telling
the truth in such case, they should receive
full credit.
Secession as Viewed Abroad.
Tho hope Of speedy recognition Of The pro-
posed eoufhern Confederacy, Us an indepcn-
dent nationa ity, by any Of the foreign powers,
grows more and more hopeless IS We receive
later files Of European journals. The Aj1on.
bod, tho leading newspaper Of Sweden, mud
the organ Of the liberal party Of that kingdom,
Dagl;J. Allchandd, the mouthpiece Of the Swe-
dish conservatives, both contain leading arti-
clcs on American atEairs in the tone of those
already rcpub1ished from the English and
French press. The former journal considers
the attitude assumed By the rebcllious Seces.
''sionists Of the South as 'thc final desperate
s''strugg1e of rctrograde organization, as op-
"poscd to the progress Of political reform, and
"as antagonlstic to the spirit Of the age rs any
.'similar party in the monarchics Of Europe
ut seems pretty: evident that swe-
den, whose monarch, Gu=tavus III, was the
drst sovereign, after Louis XVI, who formally
recognized our independence, will not be tho
first 10 welcome Slayeholding Confectionery TO
place among the natious. TIE FSdrclaud of
Copenhagen, which bitterly attacked our Gov
ernmcnt during the discussion relative to the
Sound Dues, speaks III terms equally strong Of
the Southern movements. Still more forcible
arc the expressions Of opinion In the lAo,yeu-
1Iad aud other papers Of Ch,istiania, whoEe
editors, through the Norwegian emigration to
this country and the journals in that language
which arc published in the West, arc much
better informed concerning political affairs on
this side Of the ocean. They declare that Eu-
rope, which has already seen hundreds of thou
sands Of its most industrious classes leave its
shores, has an interest In the unity Of the
American Government beyond any CONNER
cial or financial considerations. For North
crn Republic, with the boundlcss unoccupicd
lands beyond the Mississippi under its control,
and freed from any connection with the esystcm
Of Slavery SO rcpugnant to Europeans, would
soon induce an emigration compared to which
all previous emigratIon would seem inslguif-
cant.-lT. !. Tribune.