Mr. Clay of the Confederate Congress has introduced a resolution proposing that the coat of arms of the Slave Confederacy shall be _the figure of a cavalier_! Would not a beggar on horseback, riding in a certain familiar direction, be more appropriate? Footnote 14: It afterwards appeared that the Vicksburg “gentlemen,” impatient at their want of success, selected a man who came nearest to the description of Gashface, shot him, and then marked his body in a way to satisfy the expectations of those who had formed an imaginative idea of the personal peculiarities that would identify the celebrated liberator, so long the terror of masters on the Mississippi. Footnote 15: Afterwards the notorious proslavery guerilla leader in Virginia. Footnote 16: The dishonesty of Mr. John Slidell’s attempt to expunge from Davis’s history the reproach of repudiation is thoroughly and irrefutably exposed by Mr. Robert J. Walker in the Continental Monthly, 1863. Footnote 17: This prediction was merely one among many hundred such which every reader of newspapers will remember. Footnote 18: We subjoin one of the various translations:— “Yes, it comes at last! And from a troubled dream awaking, Death will soon be past, And brighter day around me breaking! Hark! methinks I hear celestial voices say, Soon thou shalt be free, child of misery,— Rest and perfect joy in heaven are waiting thee; Spirit, plume thy wings and flee! “Yes! the strife is o’er, With all its pangs, with all its sorrow; Hope shall droop no more, For heavenly day will dawn to-morrow! Proud Oppression, vain thy utmost tyranny! Come and thou shalt see, I can smile at thee! Mine shall be the triumph, mine the victory,— Death but sets the captive free!” Footnote 19: The line is from the following prayer, attributed to Mary, Queen of Scots:— “O domine Deus, speravi in Te; Carissime Jesu, nunc libera me! In dura catena, in misera pœna, Desidero Te! Languendo, gemendo, et genuflectendo, Adoro, imploro, ut liberes me.” Footnote 20: Some of these note-books have been brought to light by the civil war, and a quotation from one of them will be found on another page of this work. Footnote 21: