odism will tend to drive Southern Methodism and Southern Protestant Christianity into alliance with the worst and most dangerous classes of the North and of the nation. The Southern slaveocracy, we know, long maintained itself by a combination with the Northern mobocracy. It was the union of the Southern oligarch with the Northern subterranean. It was the partnership of John C. Calhoun with Mike Walsh & Co. It was that alliance which finally culminated in the rebellion. The Southern aristocracy strangely boasted of being the conservative element, the fly-wheel, the regulator against Northern jacobinism. But it was ever the precise reverse. Besides its own turbulent policy of nullification, state sovereignty, fillibustering, infringement of compromises, repudiations, annexations, Mexican war, Cuba purchase, etc., etc., it was always compacted with the spirit of Northern destructivism. O that all such policies were forever past! At any rate the emancipated Protestantism of the South ought not to be forced by us into any further fellowship with the Irishry, the popery, the rummery, the subterraneanism, and the copperheadism of the North. Surely all the affinities of its high, refined, and noble nature revolt at that base fellowship. All its natural high-born sympathies are with Northern religion, education, Protestantism, and true republicanism. Let us beware how we bring about any further false positions. Let us patiently and firmly offer to them a free, equal, brotherly alliance, and so take a first step to a renovated Union, a regenerated Nation.

ARTICLES DECLINED.-We noted in our last Quarterly that our narrow limits obliged us to reject some articles worthy of insertion. Authors, however, write to us complaints that articles are actually inserted which are inferior to their own, sometimes imputing to us special motives. It must be obvious that we cannot enter into a discussion of so delicate and personal a nature. In the attempt to convince writers of the inferiority of their own productions we should most certainly be floored. And as for the fairness of our motives, we will simply suggest that no person in the world has more interest in inserting the very best articles obtainable than the Editor.