“‘The risk of the privateer,’ says the same organ of the rebel confederacy, ’will still be trifling; but he will continue to reap the harvest.’  His risk will only be his neck, and his ‘harvest’ will be a halter.  But the risk, nay, the certainty of the punishment to be visited upon the slave confederacy, will be far greater—­of infinitely greater magnitude than they can well conceive; because it will be no more or less than the loss of all their slave property, accompanied with the necessity of contending, hand to hand, for their lives, with the servile race so long accustomed to the lash, and the torture, and the branding and maiming of their inhuman masters; a nation of robbers, who now, in the face of the civilized world, repudiate their just debts, rob banks and mints, sell freemen captured in an unarmed vessel into perpetual slavery, trample upon law and order, insult our flag, capture our forts and arsenals, and, finally, invite pirates to prey upon our commerce!

“Such a nest of pirates may do some mischief, and greatly alarm the timid.  But the men of the North know how to deal with them; and we tell them, once for all, that, if they dare grant a solitary letter of marque, and the person or persons acting under it venture to assail the poorest of our vessels in the peaceful navigation of the ocean, or the coasts and rivers of our country—­from that moment their doom is sealed, and slavery ceases to exist.  We speak the unanimous sentiment of our people; and to that sentiment all in authority will be compelled to bow submissively.  So let us hear no more of the idle gasconade of ‘the Chivalry’ of a nest of robbers, who seek to enlarge the area of their public and private virtues, &c.”

This is very plain talk, and cannot easily be misapprehended by those whom it concerns.

O. A. BROWNSON ON THE WAR.

There is neither reason nor justice in Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and the great States northwest of the Ohio pouring out their blood and treasure for the gratification of the slaveholding pretensions of Maryland, Kentucky or Missouri.  The citizens of these States who own slaves are as much bound, if the preservation of the Union requires it, to give up their property in slaves, as we at the farther North are to pour out our blood and treasure to put down a rebellion which threatens alike them and us.  If they love their few slaves more than they do the Union, let them go out of the Union.  We are stronger to fight the battles of the Union without them than we are with them.