It is the habit of the hour in England to
regard the Northerners as the only party to the American contest who are trying to make money by the war. The Southern correspondent of the Times confesses, however, that the " hunger and thirst " for money per- vades the South as well ; that the " very air is corrupted by the presence of the hosts of Hebrews and blockade-runners," and that "horse thieves, burglars, and occasionally garotters, swarm in the streets of Richmond." The patriotic resistance to the North has not, it would seem, extinguished the thirst for money, or social disorder, or any ordinary form of crime. Why should it? The suffering is encountered for slavery, and slavery has no other basis whatever than intense avarice. It pays, or it would be denounced, like every other offence to human instincts.
