In a letter to last Saturday's Times, Mr. Henry Allen,
the secretary to the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, confirms, and more than confirms, what we said last week as to one of the causes of the revulsion of feeling against the Democrats in the Northern States of America. The stories brought to Kansas by the unfortunate freedmen who take refuge there from the violent misrule of the South, are beginning to excite the most serious fears in the minds of the Northerners that a new rebellion is on the cards. Even freed- men who have saved money in Kansas, and go South to bring back a wife or relations, sometimes return with their arms cut off,—cut off expressly to retaliate on them, for escaping from the brutalities of Southern justice,—and these outrages are now so frequent and so cruel, that a general opinion is springing up in the North that the pro-slavery spirit of the South is gaining head once more. There could not be a better reason for union and strength amongst the Republicans than the returning vitality of this deadly enemy of all civilisation.
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