A Plea for the Stomach. 631 
world is safe for this year,and probably forthe next. But 
suppose, by the gradual diminution of labour, which is said 
to be taking place in the Southern States, the yield of those 
states should shrink year after year, there would then be a 
cotton pinch such as was not experienced during any portion 
of the so-called cotton famine. The question is one of grave 
importance, though at present it produces little concern. 
In our opinion, it is worthy of the deepest consideration, 
and the most searching inquiry. It is not, as the case 
stands, a question of climate or of soil, but it is a question 
of labour. May we not suggest, then, that instead of 
relying upon assertions and guesses, the Freedmen’s 
Bureau, under, the control of the Federal Government, 
should take the matter in hand, and ascertain the exact 
condition of the cotton labour of the Southern States on 
the 1st of June next, and compare it, by the official records, 
with the condition of the same labour on the Ist of June, 
1860, when the last census was taken? With that infor- 
mation, which could be obtained promptly and with little 
expense, the question might, to a certein degree, be de- 
termined. 
iy ick EPO R/S COMACH. 
BY GEORGE YEATES HUNTER. 
HE mismanagement of states has frequently in the 
history of the world stirred up revolt men have 
long submitted to and quietly borne, gross injustice and 
wrong-doing of all shades, from oppressive taxation, to the 
tyrannous trampling under foot of their rights as citizens, 
until the limits of patience have been overstepped, and 
human nature has broken out into open rebellion. 
May not an analogy be traced between what is some- 
times observed in consequence of the misgovernment of 
kingdoms and what is so often noticed as the result of con- 
tinued mismanagement of the stomach? ‘The signs of 
disaffection preceding the storm which may wreck the 
vessel of a state may perhaps occur once only in the history 
of a nation, but the evidences of stomachic revolution may 
be daily witnessed. Although a parallel exists and a com- 
parison may be fairly drawn between the causes which lead 
to, and the precursory symptoms of, an outbreak in the 
