Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-04-12
PRENTICEANA.

ist, delivered a violent anti-slavery lecture in
Philadelphia last week. Like the rest Of the
abolitiOnists, she argued that slavery is not
constitutional, inasmuch as the word slavery
isn't contained in the Constitution. Oh, we'll,
the word lady isn't contained in the Constitu-
tutional to be lady?
An Englishman who has travelled all
through our country says that the negroes Of
the Border States are finer specimens of hu-
manity than those of the Cotton States or than
the free cOlOred men of the North. Perhaps
in the Cotton States the race has degenerated
by amalgamatiO with fire-eaters, and in the
North by amalgamation with abohtiOnists.
The Richmond Whig says that the Confed-
crate Government is ''an expensive Govern
ment after all Yes, those who have to en-
dure the curse of living under it have good
cause to know that ii is 'an expensive Govern
ment after all'-after all they have got, and
more tCO.
We learn from those who have seen the reb-
Ell troops that they seem very vain Of their
shirt-tsils. Almost every man Of them makes
large display of that beautiful decoration
displays it flying straight out behind him.
A Montgomery paper says that there has
not been fourth psrt as much rain in the
are all mud, theirs are hard and solid. In
more senses than one the ways Of the trans
gress0rs are hard.
The Richmond Inquirer says that the Fede-
raj Government is "Worth nothing" The reb-
ell Government is worthless.
Congress seems likely to lay q heavy tax on
dogs. We have no objection if they can make
the dogs pay it.
When you see a drunken rebel black with
mud, you may conclude that he has dyed in
the last ditch.
The Mobile Register calls US an sbolitonist.
That's black lie-though old enough to be
gray.
1t is our glory to have taken one Nashville,
and our shame not to have taken another.
The fare and fate of the rebels are hard, but
their money, sO-ealled. is far otherwise.
Number los don't seem to fit our FoOte
exactly.
They say that the secession ladies are shock
ingly bitter. We suspect they are; at any rate
We wouldn't have one Of them touch our lips
for the world. We shouldn't expect to get the
bitter out Of cur mouth for a month.
If Gen. Mcclellan shall win as we trust he
soon will, great victory, we wonder which
will scatter in the greater cOnsternation-his
enemies before him or his enemies behind him.
If rebel ladies, by insulting Unioa officers
and soldiers, show that they don't understand
the proprieties of their station, they had bet
The Editor of the n. o. Delta swesrs that he
will never support the Stars and Stripes He
may have to support the stripes if he doesn't
behave himself
We shouldn't wonder if, wherever rebels
against the Constitution, such as Wendell
Phillips, make appointments to lecture, the
patriotic hens were to commence laying rotten
eggs week beforehand.
The Charleston Mercury thinks that the
Southern Confederacy will soon be delivered
We wonder what sort of little monster the
brat will be.
The Democrat thinks that Henry A. Wise is
not coward. Perhaps he isn't; but, if he
were one, he would undoubtedly act very much
as he does.
The fact that man may have gone TO
military muster when he was a boy is hardly
sufficient reason for making him Brigadier
General
A typographical error is sometimes an i'm
proyement. A paper before us says that G. en-
Sidney Johnston and his stuff are at Corinth.
How can men pretend to love their country
and yet be indifferent to the maintenance OF
the Constitution which constitutes it country,
The Germans tell US much about 1.-The grape
cure. We guess that the grapevine cure
will have to be tried upon this rebellion
Our military authorities will net hang fire.
however large business they may do in hang
ing fre-esters.
A New Orleans paper mOckingly pr0Hers US
the freedom of that city. That city has no
freedom.
Let JEFF Davis just wait till he gets to the
end OF the rope, and then he can have full
swing.