he day is not very distant when they will be able to buy millions at eighty-five?
It is not a pleasant subject, but when it is discussed so freely and openly there, we may be excused a word or two here.
Is there a certain misgiving, and an almost unconscious presentiment, of something in that quarter, which will at once change the whole aspect of our commerce and our finance?
Something like it was confessed last year as a reason for not rushing into a gratuitous crusade for the rescue of Denmark.
Since that, there has been a little more plain speaking, and the veil has been so far lifted up from the future that we know the only terms on which the United States will ever agree.
One of their orators said the other day that a man who was afraid was already half whipped, and if we bear in silence the continual menace of the uplifted lash our courage must gradually ooze out.--The Stock Exchange, possibly, feels the threat so far as to anticipate the probability of our having to resist
