So we’re all right, an’ I, fer one,
    Don’t think our cause’ll lose in vally
  By rammin’ Scriptur’ in our gun,
    An’ gittin’ Natur’ fer an ally: 
  Thank God, say I, fer even a plan
    To lift one human bein’s level,
  Give one more chance to make a man,
    Or, anyhow, to spile a devil!

  Not thet I’m one thet much expec’
    Millennium by express to-morrer;
  They will miscarry,—­I rec’lec’
    Tu many on ’em, to my sorrer: 
  Men ain’t made angels in a day,
    No matter how you mould an’ labor ’em,—­
  Nor ’riginal ones, I guess, don’t stay
    With Abe so of’n ez with Abraham,

  The’ry thinks Fact a pooty thing,
    An’ wants the banns read right ensuin’;
  But Fact wun’t noways wear the ring
    ‘Thout years o’ settin’ up an’ wooin’: 
  But, arter all, Time’s dial-plate
    Marks cent’ries with the minute-finger,
  An’ Good can’t never come tu late,
    Though it doos seem to try an’ linger.

  An’ come wut will, I think it’s grand
    Abe’s gut his will et last bloom-furnaced
  In trial-flames till it’11 stand
    The strain o’ bein’ in deadly earnest: 
  Thet’s wut we want,—­we want to know
    The folks on our side hez the bravery
  To b’lieve ez hard, come weal, come woe,
    In Freedom ez Jeff doos in Slavery.

  Set the two forces foot to foot,
    An’ every man knows who’ll be winner,
  Whose faith in God hez ary root
    Thet goes down deeper than his dinner: 
  Then ’twill be felt from pole to pole,
    Without no need o’ proclamation,
  Earth’s Biggest Country’s gut her soul
    An’ risen up Earth’s Greatest Nation!

REVIEWS AND LITERARY NOTICES.

Slavery and Secession in America, Historical and Economical; together with a Practical Scheme of Emancipation.  By THOMAS ELLISON, F.S.S., etc.  Second Edition:  Enlarged.  With a Reply to the Fundamental Arguments of Mr. James Spence, contained in his Work on the American Union, and Remarks on the Productions of Other Writers.  With Map and Appendices.  London:  Sampson Low, Son, & Co.

We have too long delayed to speak of Mr. Ellison’s book.  More than a year ago, before Mr. Stuart Mill or Professor Cairnes had written in our behalf, before we had received a word of sympathy from any representative Englishman, save Mr. John Bright, the first edition of this work was placed before the British public.  And we could not have asked for a better informed or more judicious defender than Mr. Ellison.  “Slavery and Secession in America” is a temperate and concise statement of the essential features of our national struggle.  The supposed interest of half a million of slaveholders in the extension of the Southern institution is truly represented as the cause of their guilty insurrection against the