President Lincoln is a savage" and a fiend! The very ignorance which drives him to his own destruction stimulates him to the darkest excesses. What comes next will be like the Nat Turner massacre in 1831. It is one of the means which the most callous highwayman should shudder to employ. "The hellish new programme will, necessarily, destroy all terms between us. The next campaign will be a tremendous one, both for the character and magnitude of the hostility. Let our authorities prepare the whole strength of our people for a tremendous shock.