Semi Weekly Standard

Our Sable Dependents.

We were gratified recently by hearing from a highly intelligent and influential citizen of Charleston, the expression of some views which had often occurred to our own minds on a very interesting and important subject. The subject of the remarks which gratified us was the negro. The precise point which gave us pleasure was the earnest and eloquent expression of the idea that one result of this dreadful war will be, by God's blessing, a kindlier feeling than ever on the part of the master for his slaves. They have proved themselves for the most part so faithful, so docile, so true to their only friends on earth, the masters God has given to them, that there is not a Southern heart that will not beat more tenderly towards these affectionate dependents than ever before. We look confidently to see slavery shorn of all its abuses, so far as may be in any way practicable, within a very short time after the close of this war. So mote it be.—Southern Presbyterian.