heroes of the Revolutionary War. Those apostles of progress who eliminated before the whole civilized world, the fact that the children of Japheth were, and ever will be, capable of self-government, for God has willed it so, and made the very father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, prophesy this extraordinary inequality between his three sons, forever.

Mr. Lauderdale, though witnessing every day the utter absurdity of these abolitionists' scandals against the South, still was determined to believe them, like a certain Northern personage who undertook a journey to Cuba and some of the Southern States. Speaking of Mobile, he says, "The society I meet here is frank and agreeable. Indeed, it seems to me that there must be two classes of Southerners, as different from each other as light from darkness. I often wonder if our brethren at the South are bewildered by the same apparent diversity of character in our Northern men." ... "The Southerners whom I meet at the South in social intercourse, to whom I am introduced at hotels, in steamboats, and at the fireside, are genial, friendly, courteous gentlemen in tone, kind and polished in manners, ever recognizing the courtesies of refined society."... "But there is another class whom I never meet, whom I seek for in vain, but who are revealed to me in newspaper editorials, in conventionspeeches, and in Congressional debates."... "It is difficult to account for the fact that one never meets any of those fierce creatures in his travels."... “I have not met a single one." "I have seen, of course, some uncultivated men, some poor and debased, some profane men, but I have met with not a single

specimen of this kind of character; and I can truly say that almost every Southerner whom I have thus far seen, has seemed to be a courteous, unassuming, kind-hearted gentleman." . . . "I expected to have caught a glimpse of some of those creatures, tearing over the hills like a locomotive under an attack of delirium-tremens." . . . "But thus far I have been disappointed. I have met with many who were truly genial companions, and whom any gentleman would love as intimate associates and neighbors, and friends." "Do those fierce men who utter such terrible menaces, like lions, sleep in their lair by day, and never come out but by night?"

Would you believe it, dear reader, that this authorminister of the Gospel, who made the observations detailed above, in his diary while travelling in the South, where he received all the deference and kindness universally extended there to the clerical profession, went home and published the most abusive fanatical book that has ever been written against the Southern people, just to pander to the suicidal, unpatriotic, mawkish dementia of the anti-slavery party in the North. Can we be blamed for the strictest surveillance when these disorganizers of our Constitutional government hanker around our domestic hearths as pre-judging spies? dangerous indeed to our poor childish negroes, who know nothing of the miseries of those blacks in the North who have "gone masterless." *

"LUNACY AMONG NEGROES.-Statistics lately published, showing the prevalence of lunacy among the negroes of the various States of the Union, prove that mental disease is much more prevalent among the free blacks of the North than among the

Mr. Lauderdale was a fac-simile of this one idea bigoted abolitionist, and therefore Musidora did not hold him up as a paragon of inductive sense, chivalry, or manliness, much less of Bible religion; so she pityingly forgave his savage conduct and his Mohawk manners, the moment she obtained the proof of his littleness of mind in listening to tale-bearers, and her own triumphant vindication. But wishing to test an English abolitionist's interpretation of a minister's duty in the government of his church, she sent for Mr. Lauderdale, and remarked, "Now, my friend, you were so faithful in rebuking my sin as to order me from the communiontable, because you thought I had been guilty of falsehood; the Bible requires, as my innocence is proved, and Mrs. Fullsome's (the tale-bearer's) guilt is proved, that you prohibit her next Sunday, as you did myself from partaking of that sacrament of love." This Pharisee flew into a perfect rage, and said he would not rebuke Mrs. Fullsome at all, at all. Little did he know the power of Musidora's righteous indignation, when it was fairly roused against hypocrisy and villany.

Musidora put on her hat, and taking up Mr. Knox's letter, went immediately to see Mrs. Fullsome's brother-in-law, who was the most prominent vestryman in the church, and she explained to him her errand. He

slaves of the South. In Louisiana there is found only one lunatic in 2477 negroes; in South Carolina, one in 2999; while in Massachusetts there is one in 43, and in Maine one in 14. Such statistics go further than any argument or declamation to prove that the negro is better off in a state of slavery than in freedom. Unsuited by nature to endure the cares and anxieties incident to a condition in which he has to provide for himself, his weak brain gives way, and lunacy is the consequence."

nobly offered to go to his sister at once, and ask the meaning of such ambiguities; and she replied, “that never in her life had she breathed a word of the kind to Mr. Lauderdale, about Musidora." Here, then, this transcendental, nineteenth-century saint was caught in an unmitigated falsehood. "Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord." "God hateth a lying tongue." "All liars shall have their part in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone." "The devil is the father (the generator) of lies." So that when Musidora asked this true son of old Timothy Brimstone for an explanation, he contrived another falsehood,* and said,

* NO SIN STANDS ALONE.-It is one of the appalling ten-dencies of sin to multiply itself, as the seed brings forth harvests a hundred-fold. One falsehood often leads inevitably to many others to hide the first; one fraud leads to successive peculations to recover lost ground, and every sin opens the way for numerous transgressions. This truth is well enforced in the following paragraphs:

Joseph's brethren envied him; that was a great sin; then they stripped him of his beautiful coat, and cast him into a pit; another sin; then they sold him to the Ishmaelites; still another; then, to hide these sins, they must add an act of falsehood and cruel deception; they dipped Joseph's coat in the blood of a kid, and carried it to their father, pretending that they had found it in the field. At the sight of it, Jacob's heart died within him. "An evil beast," said he, "hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces." Now they must try to comfort him, and in so doing they were obliged to play the hypocrite. Then they must persist in their falsehood and deception during all the long years, at least twenty-two, that passed until Joseph made himself known to them in Egypt. What a chain of dreadful sins! Yes, what a chain! for all the wicked deeds were linked together. The first drew after it all the rest.

So Herod first did an unlawful deed in marrying Herodias,

perhaps he had made a mistake, and heard the story from Mrs. Fullsome's little daughter.

"Sir," said Musidora, "dare you to use your ghostly power to drive me from the church to which for ten or sixteen years I have consecrated every affection of my heart, and every enterprise of my mind, and then bring up an irresponsible child as your authority for an act so grave, that it involves a soul for time and eternity?"

Mr. Lauderdale actually shivered with alarm; not that he feared God, but the terrible vindication of man, that must follow such an exposé of his being a wolf in sheep's clothing. So the devil came to his rescue, and told him to go and read to Mrs. Fullsome

his brother Philip's wife; then, when John reproved him for this sin, he "added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison." The first sin led to the second. But that was not the end. This same Herodias, whom he had unlawfully married, what did she do? When her daughter Salome danced before Herod and his lords, he was greatly delighted, and promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask. This was both foolish and wicked. And now see how these two sins, that of marrying Herodias, and that of making this oath to Salome her daughter, united in producing another dreadful deed. At the mother's suggestion, who hated John for his faithfulness in reproving Herod, the daughter asked for the head of John the Baptist, and, for "the oath's sake," Herod sent and beheaded John in the prison.

Thus has it ever been, and thus will it always be. One sin leads to another, and so on without end. He who cheats is driven into lying; and he who tells one lie, must tell another to hide the first. Sabbath-breaking, disobedience to parents, and keeping company with the wicked, are all sins, and they lead to a great many more sins. When you take one wrong step, you know not whither it will carry you.