. Punch . done some day towards Embanking the Thames. CONFEDERATES AND UNITED STATESMEN. HE Convention of thesix seceding SouthernStates, South Carolina,Georgia, Florida, Ala-bama, Mississippi, andLouisiana, assembledat Montgomery, Ala-bama, on the 9 th ult.,adopted a constitutionof their own, whichthey have named TheConstitution for theProvisional Govern-ment of the Confede-rate States of Southern Seces-sionists must be ad-mitted to be blest withat least the philosophi-cal virtue of self-know-ledge. They term theirnew league the Con-federate States of Ame-rica. Thus they callthems
. Punch . done some day towards Embanking the Thames. CONFEDERATES AND UNITED STATESMEN. HE Convention of thesix seceding SouthernStates, South Carolina,Georgia, Florida, Ala-bama, Mississippi, andLouisiana, assembledat Montgomery, Ala-bama, on the 9 th ult.,adopted a constitutionof their own, whichthey have named TheConstitution for theProvisional Govern-ment of the Confede-rate States of Southern Seces-sionists must be ad-mitted to be blest withat least the philosophi-cal virtue of self-know-ledge. They term theirnew league the Con-federate States of Ame-rica. Thus they callthemselves by what they doubtless feel to be their right name. Theyare confederates in the crime of upholding Slavery. A correct esti-mate of their moral position is manifest in that distinctive denomi-nation of theirs, Confederate States. This title is a beautifulantithesis to that of the United States of America. The moredoggedly confederate slavemongers combine, the more firmly goodrepublicans should A Good Licking. CORRUPT PRACTICES. The wife of an wishes devoutly that, amongst the Parlia-mentary Corrupt Practices that are to be reformed this Session,the practice of keeping such very late hours may be slightly is abominable, she contends, to see a Legislator, who should set aproper example to others, coming home with the milk, just as thechildren are getting up. As they meet him on the staircase, goingup to bed, what can the little dears possibly think of their Papa?The first government of a man, who professes to be a good patriot,should be his own home; but how can he govern his home when he isabsent from it both night and day F At the time that all other housesare closed, the House of Commons is the only one that keeps open;and she maintains that it isnt respectable. It ought never to cioselater than ten minutes after the Opera, and then a Members wifecould call for her husband and take him home. The height, or depth, of profane adulation was surely ar
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