We have had both Confederate and Federal orators speaking during
the week,—Mr. Bensford Hope, who is Engliah, we believe, but speaks like a Mississippian cotton planter, and Colonel Lamar, of the Confederate army, on the one side,—and the Rev. H. Ward Beecher on the other. On Mr. Hope's and Colonel Lamar's addresses we have commented elsewhere. The latter gentleman eulogized the admirable results of the slave trade in rescuing the negro from the " foulness and barbarity " of Africa, and domes- ticating him among the civilizing influences of the plantation overseers and their beneficent whips. The Surrey farmers will see with delight that this slave trade, so fruitful of ultimate civi- lization, is still going on among the islands of the South Pacific, where Spanish pirates and slavers appear to be hard at work in attempting to introduce races, as Colonel Lamar expresses it, " without a God, without rational ideas, without even the civiliza- tion of the fig-leaf," to the ennobling and civilizing influence of the overseer's lash.
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