According to this humanitarian journal, whose sole policy consists in the expression of a double hatred, part of which it bestows on the priests, and part on the slave-dealers, the American contest has assumed its last phase, the Confederates are running in breathless haste to demand pardon, and true patriotism is at last to meet with its reward.

This great and noble result will be due to the Northern generals, _who have carried military glory to so high a pitch without at the same time compromising American Democracy!_ "Your readers will doubtless consider that the writer of the above lines undertakes to speak on a subject of which he knows nothing; but what will they say of a writer who, in the same journal, thus expresses himself relative to the issues of the coming election?
'Lincoln being elected, the following will be the results: The South will lose courage and abandon the contest; the lands reduced to barrenness by servile labour will be again rendered productive by the labour of the freeman; the Confederates, _who know only how to fight, and who are supported by the sweat of others_, will purify and regenerate themselves by the exercise of their own brains and of their own hands....' "These strange remarks conclude with words of encouragement to the robust-shouldered, iron-fronted, firm-lipped Lincoln, and prayers for the welfare of the American brethren.
"You will not easily credit it, but this article--a very masterpiece of delirium and absurdity--bears the signature of one of the most eminent writers of the day, M.Henri Martin, the celebrated historian of France.
(_Index_, Oct.

20, 1864, p.

667.) A week later _The Index_ was vicious in comment upon the "men and money" pouring out of _Germany_ in aid of the North.

German financiers, under the guise of aiding emigration, were engaged in the prosperous business of "selling white-skinned Germans to cut Southern throats for the benefit, as they say, of the poor blacks." (Oct.