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invasion. The truth is, even the free negro, low as he is in the scale of humanity, is not as degraded nor abominable, in the sight of Heaven or mankind, as the degenerate and debauched descendants of the old New England Puritans, who are carrying on this war. They themselves admit that they are no better, by mingling with them on terms of perfect equality. We perfectly understand the base passions which prompt them to thrust negro soldiers into our presence, and imitate their Yankee masters in prating about. "d — d rebels." They would like to humiliate us as the Canaille of Paris sought to humiliate the French noblesse, in the first Revolution, but the attempt will be equally unsuccessful. In the one case as in the other, whatever indignity or wrong may be done externally, pride and self respect will remain intact, and we shall look down upon them with a scorn and contempt which will be only intensified by each new demonstration of their conscious littleness and inferiority.