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so by any process which philosophers or statesmen have yet discovered. Society must have leaders, men who guide it in intelligence, refinement, humanity, and civilization, or it will relapse into barbarism. It is not necessary that these leaders should be hereditary, but leaders there must be. The South has always recognized the fact; it is itself a nation of gentlemen, and so long as the Northern masses were guided politically by Southern statesmen, and socially by their Van Rensselaer, Clinton, and Livingston of their better days, the country prospered, and they were themselves a happy and orderly race. But the coachman is off the box, and the horses have taken the reins in their own keeping. Hatred and vengeance against their betters more intense than that of the French Revolution has seized upon the Yankee mob. With an ex-ball splitter and boatman at their head, they are threatening not only to overrun the fair territories of the South, but to convert the masters and the mist