The object of this article is to prove that the Government possesses ample power, according to the law of nations, to suppress the Rebellion, and secure the country against the danger of another, by Emancipation, through the military power; that, though Emancipation is a policy, and not a law, the war may be prosecuted until this end is accomplished, and Slavery in future forever prohibited; that, by secession and rebellion, the revolted States have forfeited all right to the allegiance of their citizens, who are thereby remitted to the condition and rights of citizens solely of the United States; and that the Federal Government, as well under the Constitution as by right of conquest, may impose such terms upon the reorganization and restoration of those States as may be necessary to secure present safety, and avert danger in time to come.  These views are presented in as brief and simple terms as possible, with the hope that they may be adopted by the people and by the Government.  It is confidently believed, that, if the President and Congress will act in accordance with them, their acts will be fully sustained by the Supreme Court,—­and that, the element and source of discord being at last entirely removed from the country, a career of peace and prosperity will then begin which shall be the admiration of the world.

At this time we present a humiliating spectacle to other nations:  nearly half of our national temple in ruins,—­the work of blind folly and mad ambition.  The people of the North claimed no right to tear it down, or even to repair it.  But since the people of the South have risen in rebellion, let us believe that there is now an opportunity, nay, an imperative necessity, to remove from its foundations the rock of Oppression, that was sure to crumble in the refining fires of a Christian civilization, and establish in its place the stone of LIBERTY,—­unchanging and eternal as its Author.  Let us rejoice in the hope, already brightening into fruition, that out of these ruins our temple shall rise again, in a fresher beauty, a firmer strength, a brighter glory,—­and above it again shall float the old flag, every star restored, henceforth to all, of every color and every race, the flag of the free.

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REVIEWS AND LITERARY NOTICES.

Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-39. By FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE.  New York:  Harper & Brothers.

Those who remember the “Journal of a Residence in America,” of Frances Anne Kemble, or, as she was universally and kindly called, Fanny Kemble,—­a book long since out of print, and entirely out of the knowledge of our younger readers,—­will not cease to wonder, as they close these thoughtful, tranquil, and tragical pages.  The earlier journal was the dashing, fragmentary diary of a brilliant girl, half impatient of her own success in an art for which she