Secession is now leading the world to look more narrowly into the subject of negro slavery.

Let me read to you these extracts from a recent number of 'Le Pays,' Paris.

The writer is arguing that Europe must recognize the Southern confederacy: 'But in awaiting these results which would flow from the cordial welcome given by Europe to the new confederation, let true philanthropists be assured that they are wonderfully mistaken in regard to the real condition of the blacks of the South.

We willingly admit that their error is pardonable, for they have learned the relations of master and slave only from "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Shall we look for that condition in the lucubrations of that romance, raised to the importance of a philosophic dissertation, but leading public opinion astray, provoking revolution, and necessitating incendiarism and revolution?
A romance is a work of fancy, which one cannot refute, and which cannot serve as a basis to any argument.

In our discussion, we must seek elsewhere for authorities and material.