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England furnished not only those equipments, but also the means of making the exchange. During the rebellion nearly eight hundred blockade runners were captured, loaded with arms and munitions of war. Many of those ships were, to the positive knowledge of the British government, and against the protest of our representative, built in English ports. They were freighted with cargoes manufactured in English armories and foundries; they were manned in many cases by native born British seamen.
With all these facts staring us in the face; with hundreds of others equally undeniable, it is certainly no exaggeration to say that of the multitudes of men and millions of treasure sacrificed in the civil war, a large part is attributable to the greed, the hypocrisy and the perfidy of England.
It is time that the panegyrists of England should pause in their eulogy of that nation. In the greatest of modern conflicts between right and wrong, truth and falsehood, liberty and slavery, she has been "weighed in the balance and found wanting."
VISION.
FROM THE GERMAN OF LENAU.
Under the cold gray sky,
Over the cold white snow.
I wandered away in the twilight.
Whither my feet would go.
Afar on a dreary moorland
I found'a wondrous shade;
Silent it stood and moved not,
But the play of its features made
A thousand thousand pictures, And when its name I sought. It answered clear, but voiceless, "I am thyself, thy thought."
TO F. J.
Bright black eyes with curling lashes,
Of what thinking now so still?
Looking far into the distance.
Off upon yon dim blue hill
Steady gazing; is thy will
That I go with my insistance?
Of what thinking, now so still,
Bright black eyes with curling lashes?
J. U. NIOR.