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THE DAILY BUN Friday Momma September 8. tm Office in Ike Sun Building, West side of Broad street, Second Door South of Alabama. J9"* Neva Advertisements always found on First Page ; Local and Business Notices on Fourth Page. mischief Mid ruin from which oil humm to carry the DeniocreHc party triumph To Lawyers. We publiah in foil, the decisiooa of the Sapient* Court; also the Jailjr “Pro- oeejin*" of the (tourt, and keep til* ‘■aider «< BuBiimk" standing in out oolBronc^^^ lt The New York World and Atlan ta Bun Again. We publhR to-tUy, Adi ^ r - ®* an ' ton Marble's reply to onr article of the 29th ultimo. From this it see mi he declinee further r on hit own chosen ground of J Having pretionaly I "irfummiumodcauum,” he d9fr, F in like manner, abandons the "argumentum ad hominem," to which he, himaelf, and not we, bad descended. “He muat excuse ua,” aaya he, (allnd- iug to the Politioal Editor of Thi Scn,) “from meeting him in the arena of black guardism and persons! abase, to which he has descended.” • If we descended from the high pon ton of it~n«»«tag public questions upon their media, to the arena of inquiring into “personal antecedents,” who led the way in that descent which has become so disagreeable to him ? How did we get there except in pvnutt, end in the dis charge of a high dnty to the Public ? If there is anything in the nature of “blackguardism” in our article, which was only meeting Aim on hie own chosen ground, why has he not reproduced it, and exhibited to his readers proof of onr personal depravity, at least, even if he conld not venture to permit them to jmlge for themselves of the foroe of our logic or the merits of our argument ? Our article, it appears, was moat grie vously long, in the estimation of Mr. Marble—but what "indecent” word, or expression, or anything Bargaing of "blackguardism," ia to be found in it frflta beginning to end ? Wliat was the “fUth” in if, which he says wo “mkod from that aewer of scurrility, the old Aloe of Brick Pomeroy's defunct Daily Demo crat' “to fling at" him ? Bid we use anything taken from Brick Pomeroy's paper? What we quoted was taken from and credited to the New York Day Hook, published at his door on the day of his llrat personal attack upon us, in his vaunting arraignment of onr' Democratic “antecedents.” And what was the “filth” so “raked" and "flung” at him? Was it anything but the simplo foots, substantially stated, that Mr. Menton Marble, in his "antecedents," had formerly conducted the World newspa per as a Radical sheet, and continued so to conduct it os long sh his finauoes en abled him to do so, and that lie himself had acknowledged, when ho was com pelled to sell out to the Democrats, it was tbo most "mortifying event" of liis life? This may be a vory "illtliy" matter in the opinion of Mr. Murblc, us well as others; but if the statement be true, where is,the "filth," or "blackguardism," or “imlccency" in tlio publie announcement of Ute/aoti? The “filth” is in the trans action, and in tho confession, not in the publication. We stated that we liad waited to see if he had anything to Bay against tho truth of the allegations of tho Day Hook, be fore we should rely upon and treat it aa anch. The only reply he baa now to , make to this allegation, touohing hit “an teoedeuta,” ia that tbo/nct* stated are too “filthy” lor dcoent ears! This is our urn derstanding of his present position We do not wish to do Mr. Marble or any other man any injustice, but we say to him if thero is anything of an unctran or toiling nature in this matter, it neither originated with nor sticks to us in any way whatever. We did not so much as put onr “naked hand” upon it; W o only touched it with the tip of our pen. It, moreover, oertainly comes with ill graoe from one in Mr. Marble's situation, in this ease, to repeat his charge of “egc tism” against ns, fur the pridewith which we propoeed to enter the discussion of personal "antecedents" with him, and the oonfideooe with which we challenged the production of proof that wo bare ever given a vote inconsistent with the principles of the Democratic Party os or ganised in 1800; and the spirit with which wo called upon him to adduce proof that he bed ever ia his life given a tingle vote in supi>ort of these principles, or ever bore any other relation to the Democratic Party of tho United States than that which was bought with a price ~ the very mention of the origin of whioli now seems to be considered by him so iut- m<mnerty,though by hiasilenoohe admits all to be true.’ With equal bad graoe does it come from him, in his retreating stops, to give out that we were in e " rage" in putting very plain bat important questions to liim, or in exposing to the Public tha real Radical character of one who is endeavor, ing to pass himself off as a true exponent of *' Democratic Public Sentiment However profound onr indignation may have been at the gnile directing suoh conduct, then certainly wee no indies- tionof “nge" manifested in the quiet and easy mode adopted for nnmaahing the impostor* This was nothing but the propounding to |Mr. Marble of the very plain questions ho regarded aa a "trifle” too “impertinent” for him to answer. This simple aa well as most dispassion ate teat oonld not be borne; but at Its touch, " Up h, ,toru. Discovered tod surprised,'* Hence his own present irate bearing— »woUen and fmaing—like that of his Stoat uehotype, when made to show his real character, while engaged in e like oeoufation ol deception, “ plotting” that woes have sprang 1 Hence, also, his last Psrthean dart hurl ed at us sa he sullenly retires from liis selected field of controversy, (about per sonal “antecedents” and “fidelity” to Democratic principles,) in which lie has lost so much. He may, have thought that this weapon, so burled, would provo as fa tal ns a "poisoned dagger thrust into the bowels” of his adversary, and thus stop all further pursuit or encounter. But V' need not lay any suoh “flattering unc tion to his souL" His garbled oxtniet from the “corner stone speech” is but the broken fragment of a shaft which has often been harled with equal violence and malevolence before; and it now falls at onr feet as harmloss as oh any previous oeoaaion. The unblushing fsco with which he now uses it us he doe* has no fitting object of comparison, except the same unblushing face with whioh lie holds him self forth esa true exponent of tho princi ples and sentiments of the Democratic party. The object is to make tho impres sion upon the minds of Southern Demo crats that be, Manton Marble, editor us he was of the New York World, when it was avowedly a Radical sheet, is a wiser and safer counsellor for their inter ests than we ore, who committed so fatal a blunder as to announce to tho world that the truo cause of the withdrawal of the Southern States from the Federal Union in 1861, was not tho "apothegm” that “Colton is King,” or anything else of that sort, but that it was the open and pal pul lie breach of faith on the part of certain of their Northern confederates on that clause of the Constitution of the United States which had l>een declared from the bench, by Judge Baldwin of the Supreme Court, to be the "corner stone” of the whole structure. The leading idea of tho si>eech on thia point was, that however prevalent the public sentiment might havo been against negro slavery or suliordinn tion as it existed in the South at the time the compact of 1787 was entered in to, yet the Constitution then adopted formed upon this basis; and that there was no change in this particular in our new Constitution from the old. Soino matters, on which doubtful constructions had arisen, hud liocn definitely settled— that was all. The Constitution of the Confederate States and the Constitution of the United States, upon tho subject of negro Bluveiy, wore shown in the speech to be essentially the same. Garbled portions of this speech, it is trnc, were sent to England by many of Mr. Marble's political associates at the time—perhaps somo of them through the columns of tho II orld, then no open and avowed Radical sheet—for the purpose of misrepresentation and deception, ns gar bled portions are now given by him for a liks purpose, though from a seemingly different standpoint on his part. The whole spoooli, however, imperfeotly repor ted as it was, (and uh the reporter himself said in a note to his report, which Mr. Marble well knows) we uro strongly in clined to HUs]M3Ct, he never gave, mid liover will give, either to his English or Amer ican readers. But tho assertion that this si>cccli “se cured” to Alexander H. Stephens "his trinmpliant and unanimous election to tho second office iu the Confederate Gov ernment” is as reckless in regard to (act and truth as tho assertion, further on in the Bamo article, that it was chiefly owing to it that Franoe and England did not rcoognizo the Independence of the Con federato States; and that it was tho "rnul- sdroitness" of this speech “which stran gled the Confederacy iu its cradle I" Now, the speech was not mule until some time after tho election, and, there fore, could not havo secured it; and nothing is clearer from tho •peeob, taken all together, than that our line Government was founded upon the same “corner atoue” as tho old. Then, as Franco and England had both recognized tho United States, witli this “corner stone" in the compact of their Union, how preposterously absurd is it to affirm that they would have recognized tho independence of the Confederate States hut for the “malmlroituesa" of this speech, whieh showed them that the peo ple of the Southern States were not a band of "conspirators," ni Mr. Marble and his associates were representing them to be, and that even upon the sub ject of negro slavery the Constitutions of both Governments rested upon the same "comer stone ?" Equally subtle, crafty and flimsy is tho "spider web" argument “ spun” by Mr. Msrble, in all that be has said about our isolation from tbo antly through the naxt Presidential con test under their old banner—without any change of principle or any lowering of the flag, by simply yielding to this drift ami increasing current of public opinion, and popular condemnation of tho meas ures of those who are aiming at tho over throw of our free institutions, and tho ca- tublisliuicnt iu their stead of a central ized empire. It is, moreover, otir most thorough Mirf that the whole of this “New Departure” movement, started by Mr. Marble, as editor of the New York World, in 1868, is nothing but a crulty device of the enemies of the Democratic party in disguise to check and obstruct this "drift” and portentously swelling currant of publie indignation against usurpation, fraud, and perfidy.” We know much more of Public Opinion in tliis country, on this subject, than ho is willing for his readers to know. We know much more also of the private averments of some of Mr. Marble's asso ciates, witli tlieir irreverent oaths ns to their determined purpose in this mutter, than perhaps he is aware. One other remark as to the teachings of Mr. Mnrble upon tho duo observance of “the drift of public opinion,” and we will have done with him for the pres ent While it is true that tho “drift of pub lic opinion" iu this country, ua the part of tho masses, is all ia the right direction at this time, so far ns concerns the usur pations of the Federal Government with its corruptions, yet we utterly protest against the doctrine that the "greatest conceivable mistake” in politics, or any thing else, is in not always finding out and following the “drift of public opinion.” The greatest conceivable mistake in patriotiem and statesmanship, iu our judg ment, is in not understanding, or in “Departing" from, the caaeutiul princi ples of Public Liberty, and giving coun tenance—much less sanction—to any acts of usurpation I Mr. Marble's teachings on this subject are of the same character with those of the arch-tempter of mankind, when he subtly instilled into the ear of Eve the fa tal idea that she might in safety “Depart" from the injunction given her liy the Moat High, when ho said to her, if she should cat of the forbidden fruit, "Y r e shall not surely die.” The first step in “Departing” from principle, integrity and truth is often the fatal one, whatever may be tho "drift of pnblic opinion” on the subject. A. H. S. WASHINGTON. great centres “of intelligence like Lon don or New York," and our want of due appreciation of the “drift of publie opin ion" in other localities than our own. It is true we do not livo in a city, and cannot, therefore, belong to tliat olass of men referred to by Dr. Johnson, whose minds "dwell in on alley." But “egotis- tioal" as Mr, Marble may prouonneo it to be, we do claim to know something of “the drift of ptiblio opinion” in this country, on tho subject of Congressional usurpations, and the “drift” of it, in all the State* and sections of the Union. Our knowledge is not founded entirely upon newsps]>er utterances, or other like sources of information, but upon public reoordi and indisputable foots. From them wo know that a majority of the voters of tho United States in 1868, (if all had been permitted to vote who were justly entitled, and who now permitted,) were against these iniquitous measures by which the 14th and 15th amendments are dmmnl to havo been inoeqiorated iu- twtho Constitution of the United States. We do know that the “drift of publio opinion" against these monstrous out rages lias grown stronger sinco then in every State in the Union where it has not been checked by the “New Depart ure” counsels of Mr. Marble and hia as sociates. Wo do know, from the best of evidence, founded upon popular elec tion* that there was nothing Bpoclsl Correspondence of ths Atlanta Duly Sun A Ill« Hanker Fnmtng ow«?r other Peo ple's Mullers—A Vender of Fraudulen llonds—Why Bullock wonts to Sell ■tote Bonds—Why they ore Hnrd to ■ell—Bullock's I'm don of Anglcr--Teli (-graphic Puffing—'The Htate Bond In vestigations Viewed ot Washington' Dining nnd Wining with Ntnte llokd ■ (ratings—Blodgett In a White House Irene-Kulns Ills Prospecte by His Blunders—One of Bullock's Old Letters -A few Plain tturstlon* put to lllsC O. D. RxccUenry—Ills Late $N,(MH) Let ter at the People's Expense—Direct and Damaging Charges Against Him— Btnrlllng Radical Plot Against Urnnt Washington, D. C., Sept. 3, 1871. Mr. Henry Clews, of New York, the famous bunking agent of Messrs. Bul lock tV Kimball, was iu this city Thurs day lost, very much excited over tho va riouH rumors of Kimball's failure and Bullock's side of fraudulent Georgia State bonds. Clews’ visit to Washington was evideutly for the purpose of preventing tho further circulation of reports concern ing Kimball's failure and Bullock's ut terance of forged bonds. It seems rather singular that a man of Henry Clows, reported financial foresight should consent to net ns a vender of fraudulent lK>nds. It is stated that Bullock's anxi ety to have his bonds speedlily negotiated is for the purpose of raising funds to buy up tho Georgia Legislature and prevent impeachment 1 Can the Lcgisliitui'o l»e ItouglitV Will the people submit to the barter and sale of tlieir public servants? If so, they de serve to oc controlled and plundered by such men as Bullock, Blodgett and the big speculators and peculators of Atlanta and elsewhere, who are lielieved to be in terested in all tlieir frauds, not to men tion the financial suckers of Wall street, w ho get a large proportion of their (the people’s) hal’d earnings. Clews remarked to a Mend in this city that ho has recently had considerable trouble in effecting the sale of Georgia bonds, for the reason that Treasurer An- ? ier is not friendly to Governor Bullock, le also says that Bullock showed him a pardon where ho (Bullock) hail pardoned Angier for mulfeasanco iu office ! This is a specimen of Bullock's tricks to throw discredit upon tbo honest men of vour State. Tho fulsomo puff of Henry Clows A Consent from here by telegraph, on the night of Sept. 1st, is an evidence of how Clews succeeded iu soft-soaping some /**>- pfr. Of course all tho Georgia papers published the puff, (that is, all those who who are members of the Press Associa tion) to the great delight of Gov. Bullock. It was a feather in his cup, an indirect approval of hit judgment in selecting the great Banking liqfA* of Henry Clews & Co. to become thbUnoncial agents of the State of Georgia. It’s tho old story of Joseph und life brothers reversed. The investigation now going on at At lanta relative to robberies committed against the State Hood ores tee considera ble interest here. There are not a few |>eople here who ltave at one time or an other, no doubt, been di nod and wined out of the stealings from the State Hoad. As far bock as the winter of 1868, Bul lock used to como here, during the ses sion of Congress, and spend thousands of dollars, which must have bceu State Hood funds, (at that tiwo the State Hoad was about his only source of plunder) in entertaining Hadical Senators and ltop- rosentativos, in efforts to havo tho infa mous Militia bill passed and tho State of Georgia consigned to a condition worse than military despotism. If thero was no other sin to lay at Bullock’s door, thin single one should bo sufficient to damn him in the estimation of every Georgian who love* hia State and would see her freed from tho miserable crew whose only aim is plunder! Blodgett, too, was here, hand in hand with Bullock in the furtherance of these mischievous schemes against themen, wo men and children of Georgia. But Fos ter seems in a fair way of being punished for his acts, whilo the areh fiend will per haps escape. I wonder of Blodgett remembers a visit be paid to the White Hoaso on the evening of March 11th, 1863, accompa nied bv Cliff, Hopkins and PrentiM? How Gen. Dent regarded the quartette with suspicion, believing them to be Ku* Klux, etc. I was present and remember very well the object of the visit. The speech of Blodgett to the President, in which the peoolcof Georgia were grossly slandered, and painted in such dark col ors tliat even Grant became disgusted nml abruptly terminated the internew. I have since concluded that the dislike which Grant conceived forBlodgett tit that interview intluenced his (Grant’s) action towards tho ambitions would be Senator last winter while he was trying to gain admission to Congress as a Sena tor elect from Georgia. Tho Washington Chronicle of March 8th, 1863, contained a long letter from Bullock in reply to u communication addressed by the Hon. Nelson Tift to the lteconstruction Committee, Bollock de nied that he ever used his influence with the Reconstruction Committee for the purpose of having the State Government destroyed and a Military or' Provisional Government established in its stead. No one ever charged Bullock with giving any direct testimony or openly advocating the destruction of the State government. On the contrary, every one who has ever read his (Bullock’s) testimony before the Reconstruction Committee, will easily remember that the crafty financier, when asked by the chairman sf the committee if he (Bullock) had any thing to suggest as to what should be done with reference to Georgia by the United States Govern ment, recommended that the laws should be executed literally, and to admit to the Legislature only those who could take the oath requred by law. But will his 0. O. D. Excellenoy dony that he employed Blodgett, Baylor and several retired col ored legislators of Georgia to come here and work up the very case which ho then so poalively denied any knowledge of and which he so strong ly repudiated in hia recent eight thou sand dollar letter written in reply to Senator Scott's macular ami pub lished at the expense of the tax payers of Georgia ? Will ho deny that he procured letters to be written in this city purport - ing to come from Georgia, setting forth the deep distress of the ** truly loil” of all colors in Georgia, and tolling how they were persecuted and murdered by the desperate “Ku-Klux V” Will he deny that it was through his influence that false representations of the “ Ogeecbee Troubles” were daily placed before the Reconstruction Committee ? I have no doubt but what he will deny it, bnt never theless it is true and can I# proved. Bullock not only spent the earnings of the State Road, and other State funds, in procuring testimony for the purpose of destroying the State Government, but he paid the expenses of a clique at Washing ton whose sole duty was to “eat, drink and be merry." Besides all this he em ployed the assistance of several females to assist him in manipulating votes of certain Senators. This fact can also be proved by competent witnesses. The secret meeting of prominent lie- publicans at Auburn, New Nork, several days ainoe has oaused quite a flutter in political circles, especially among the im mediate friends of General Grant. It is understood that the purpose of this secret meeting was to select a suitable candidate to oppose Grant in 1872, and that Ex- Secretary Seward is to l>e the nominee of this new faction of the Republican party, provided they cannot carry tlieir point at the regular convention. Grntz Brown, of Mtssouri, will probably be selected as their candidate for Vieo-Presideut. Angus. ►w-* From the New York World of tbo 2d Sept. A. II. S. as a Political Counsellor and Prophet. sion, or have so much disposed them to forget or condone his previous vehement opposition. It secured his triumphant and unanimous election to tlie second office in the Confederate government, though he sunk into insignificance soon after liis inauguration. But that cele brated speech, though it brought a tem porary advantage to him, did more than any other ope tiling to blight and ruin the Confederacy. It was industriously circulated iu England by the agents of the Federal government, and operated os a fatal bar to any European recogni tion of the new nation. That speech was the most egregious political blunder ever perpetrated by a man of talents. The chief hope of the Confederacy rested upon the Southern apothegm, “Cotton is King.” Mr. Stephens dethroned that king and destroyed the hopes of the Confederacy by his astounding inability to understand auy other public opinion than that of his own locality. The English government and the Eng lish aristocracy looked with greut favor and partiality on the sect-union cause, and they would have been supported by the distressed laboring eiafeues who suffered so severely from the flaUon famine if Mr. Stephens had not pul into the hands of the Federal government a weapon of re sistless force. The English laboring class es had been educated for two gen*-rations iuto a profound horror and detestation of negro slavery; and when the second offi cer of tho uew Confederacy proclaimed that negro slavery was it* chief corner stone, those starving laborers would have rebelled en masse against the British gov ernment ii it had ventured to reorganize the new nation. The French Emperor wus perpetually instigating the English government to join with him in recogniz ing touihern independence; but they durst not bravo the fury of the English middle and laboring classes whoso intense detestation of human slavery wus strong er thun the gnawings of hunger and pity 4qt their ragged, pining children. A re cognition by France uud England would have secured the independence of the South, and it is chiefly owiug to Alexan der R. Stephens that this recognition was not given. IJis amazing blindness and want of judgment were fortunate for the Union; but they show how little this statesman can be trusted to pilot a cause be meaus to surire. With his hand at the helm, tho ship is sure to be wrecked upon the worst rock in the channel. To illus trate hia unapproachable maladroitness, we insert the following passage from his corner stone speech, which strangled the Confederacy in its cradle: But, not to be tedious in enumerating the numer ous changes for the better, allow me to allude to one other—though butt, not leflet: the uew Constitution lias put at rent further all the agitating questions re lating to onr peculiar iustitution—Africau slavery It exists among ua—tho proper status of the negro ‘ a. This kxii Insurance Company. Seven Per Cent. Interest Paying Plan.” The Missouri Mutual Life Insurance Company OF HT. LOUW, MO. Jt'otMng Concealed—Yolhlny Exaggerated-—.Yo false Erpreta- llons liaised. IHlS COMl'ASY OFFKtlB TIIF. 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If at auy time a Policy Holder I* unable to i ay hi* Premium, the email surrender \aluo of the Policy i* placed to the credit of the Policy and keeps it in force till the mtrreudor value 1* exhausted. If Um full annual Premium i*paid every year iu ca*h, and ul! Dividends or Interest Accumulation* left . tho baud* of the Company FOR NINE YEARS, the Policy-will become gBLF-SUSTAXKTXlffO aud keep itself In forco for it* full amount WITHOUT ANY FURTHER r form of civilization. i ediate . h*d anticipated thi* ••rock on which the old Union would split.' wan right. What was conjecture with him is realized feet. But whether ho comprehended tin great truth upou which that rock itood aud tUindi may be doubted. The prevailing ideal euterl tinnl by him and moil nf the leading statesmen at the time o/ the formation of the old Constitution were, that the KLAVEME.it or THE AFRICAN VVAH IN VIOLATION wtu wrong in prineijde, socially, morally, and politically, it was an evil they knew not well how to deal with; but tbo general opinion of the men of that day was, that somehow or other, in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. Thi* idea. snmjdion of the equality of races. This was It was a sandy inundation; aud the idea of erumeut built upon it—when the storm came aud Uie wind blew, it fell. Our new government u founded upon eqactly the op- jostle ideas; its foundations art laid, iu oornku- monk rests ujhdi the great truth that the negro is i equal to the white man. (Aa( hlavkry* subardinah to the superior jyioc, i# pw natural asp (MWplTiog. (Applauae) This, our new government, The Atlanta Sun of Augunt 29 devotes five and a half columns of its editorial page to the World, and perhaps A. H. S. might not think as quite civil if we failed to rceognizo his profuse attentions. Wo have looked in vain through bis long ar ticle in the hope of finding something which might deserve a reply; but ho must excuse us from moeting fiim in tho arena of blackguardism and personal abuse to which he has descended. He lias raked that sewer of scurrility the old tiles of Brick Pomeroy’s defunct daily Democrat for filth to fling bt us, and says he has wait ed moro thau two weeks to see whether we would contradict some o! this ribaldry which was reproduced in tho Day Bock beforo replying to onr last artichis com. men ting on bis services to the Dei locratic party. We respect ourselves and respect Mr. Stephens too much to wallow with him in this slough, and are ainccrelv sorry that our light banter borrowed from Don Quixote should have thrown a statesman of his years and pretensions into this un seemly rage. He has given a signal veri fication of Swift’s remark that anger, though it strengthens the sinew’s of the bodv, weakens those of the mind. We doubt whether, even iu bis coolest and most self-possessed moods, tho east of Mr. Stepheus’ talents fit him for rivaling Brick Pomeroy in tliat considerate ana dignified gentleman’s peculiar line; but certaiu it is that au enragpd o|d mag, whoso mind has long been trained to a dexterous handling of tho weapons of of argument, mokes a pitiable figure when he is impelled “against nature nnd his stars" to begin a late apprenticeship in Hinging mud with his naked hands. Without taking any further notice of Mr. Stephens’ unbecoming loss of tem per and decency under a little good-na tured ridicule, we wifi avail qureelvps of this occasion to state somo reasons why the Southern people ought not to regard tho ex-Vice President os a safe and dis creet politician. As he challenges atten tion to bis anieoedtmts, ho cannot reason ably complain that we refer to them. He acted a conspicuous part in a memorable crisis, and the most perverse ingenuity could not have turned his rare acuteness and eloquence (then in undecayed ripe ness) to a more mischievous uso to the cause he meant to support. His mistake thou, in the fullness of his faculties, like his mistake now, in their wane, consisted in his inability to appreciate any other publio opiuion thau that of his imme diate neighborhood. Ho is by nature too much of an egotist to enter easily in to tho viowa of others; but if it had been his fortune to spend his earlier and more impressible years in a great center of intel- genco, like London or New V°rk, instead of a small rural town, pis native alertness might have enabled him to read with more or less facility what has always been to him a sealed book, namely, tho drift of publio opiuion outside of his own oou- fiued circle. His stupendous blunders as a politician have resaltod from this in ability. When, soon after his powerful s|>cecli X inst secession before the Georgia Leg- ture, Mr. Stepheus espoused the cause of the secessionists, he furnished wliot is E rlmps the most glaring example in all itory of the irreparable kamago which may be done to a cause by on able but maladroit advocate. We refer, of course, to his famous corner-stone speech. From his point of view, aud within his own narrow horizon, no *)*ech could have been more apt and dexterous. Nothing else could have so recommended the new convort to tire older advocates of seoes- . JTJOk- (ApplfiUW) This, < .1 the ,first in the history of the world based upon great physical, philosophical, and moral truth, ThiH iruUi bceu slow iu tUe process of iu develop- uiunt, Hko all other truths iu tho various depart- uiouts of Hoioucc. It is so. evuu amongst us. Many who hear me, perhaps can recollect well that tliia truth was not generally admitted even within tlieir day. Tho errors of tho past generation still clung to many so lato as twenty years ago. Those at the North who still cling to theso errors with a zeal above knowledge, we justly deuouiiuato fanatics. Iu n subsequent passage of that aston ishing spetHsb Mr. Stephens said, still speaking of slavery: "This stone, which wus rejected hy the first builders, is be come the chi'/sloneof the corner iu our new edifice. (Applause. ]" Nothing could havo heeu more opportune thun this in sane speech for counteracting tho machi nations of the secession ugents in Europe. It was a poisoned dagger thrust into the bowels of the Confederacy. Mr. Stephens is committing the same kind of a blunder as a Democratic editor that lie perpetrated as a secession orator. It will prove less mischievous to the cause 1)0 profosses to servo only because ho has no such standing and authority in tho Domocratio party as he possessed in the Confederate government. This blunder, like the other, is a consequence of liis utter inability to estimate the moral and social forces that control public opinion outside of* liis own narrow circle. The capacity to detect the tendencies and take the truo muosuro of publio seutiment in all quarters which cau affect the success of his policy, is the first aud most in- dispensahlo qualification of a statesman ; and among all the public meu of our time none has shown himself so signally defi cient in this qualification as the late Vice-President of the South ern Confederacy. If his past blun der.) had Dot destroyed his ]iolitical standing and undermined all confidence in the soundness of his judgment, the Republicans might circulate ins editorials in tho North with as much effect as at tended tho circulation of his corner stone speech in Europe. His editorials, if ho were a recognized political leader, would bo as fatal to tho success of the Democratic party as the corner-stone speech was to the recognition of South ern indopendeuco. Dr. Johnson ouoe said of somebody, “Sir, hit mind dwells in analley.” Mr. Stephens's mind dwells in tbo rural baobelor residence which ho calls Liberty Hall, and breathes a stifled atmosphoro which the free winds of heaven do not disturb and purify. It is a groat pity that sol acute mul ingouious a miud kos.not had the advantage of a larger intercourse with the world. Hut perhaps it is not in nature that the spi der who spins his web out of his own bowels, Bhould emulate the exouraivo bee that gathers wax and sweetness from uverj flower that blooms in the memlows. Airintense, self-absorbed egotism is not fnvorablo to a wido acquaintance with the ways and thoughts of men. Hut to mis conceive tho drift of opiniou is tho most fatal of all mistakes in politics, Mr. Stephogs's prophesies of the success of hi* hide-hound policy are on a par with his former glowing predictions of the disintegration of the old Union and the assimilation of the States to the new Confederacy of which slavery was to he the oorner-atone. Judged hy the way his •anguine predictions have liccn fulfilled, the prophet deserves os little confidence as the politician. A Southern correspondent Las lately taken ua to task for Iwstowing so much space and notice ou Mr. Stephens, Stink ing that we give to his opinions an im portance which nobody concedes to them in the South. Very likely our Southern correspondent may tie right; but as the editorials signed A. 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