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THE
DEVOTED TO
LITERATURE AND NATIONAL POLICY.
Vol. IV.—SEPTEMBER, 1863.—No. III.
SOUTHERN HATE OF NEW ENGLAND
WAITING FOR NEWS!
EARLY HISTORY OF THE PRINTING AND NEWSPAPER PRESS IN BOSTON AND NEW
RECONNOISSANCE NEAR FORT MORGAN
THE CRUEL CARPENTER
DIARY OF FRANCES KRASINSKA
THE ISLE OF SPRINGS
THE GRAVE
REASON, RHYME, AND RHYTHM
REMEMBRANCE
THE GREAT RIOT
THE DESERTED HOUSE
SPRING MOUNTAIN
ENDURANCE
JAPANESE FOREIGN RELATIONS
WAS HE SUCCESSFUL?
JEFFERSON DAVIS AND REPUDIATION
EDITOR'S TABLE
AMOR PATRIÆ VINCIT
THE GOOD GODDESS OF POVERTY
CONTENTS.—No. XXII
In these days of strange and startling events, of rapid and fundamentalchanges, of curious and unexpected developments; these days, tremulouswith the vibrations of the political atmosphere, and quaking with thefierce earthquake of national war; these days, that are filling up a webof history with more fearful rapidity, more complete, important, anddecisive results than any previous epoch in the world's annals,—ahistory which, if ever truly and worthily penned, will demand a deepersearch into moral causes and effects, a closer scrutiny of thephilosophy of mind, and a more careful balancing of political judgments,than any drama ever before played on the great world's stage,—in suchdays as these, I say, it is curious and profitable to subject each newmoral phase that presents itself to a rigid analysis, and trace everyeffect, moral, political, governmental, or popular, to the cause orcauses that may, after a fair showing, appear to have produced it. Afair and dispassionate appl