"at The Gates"

The editor of the Natchez Free TraSer says : "The elave holding interest is now nsu latcd and comparatively small. JNationa are in league against it. As imich at peace as we may fancy ourselvee, the institutinn which is so closely interwovenwith our social sysiem, and is the foundation stone of our prosperity, is the object of assault from foreign and domestic foes. The besiegers are at our very gales, ond like thft fortre8s of St. Jean d'Acre, impregnablo from without, it may perish by a blow from within. At this 'moment slavcry fe wrestling with its adversarles and remember, ïf it full it will not be, liko Anteus, to ri?e refre&hcd, but its overiferdfl will bc fino!." toM