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exhibited to the gaping population of New York at twenty-five cents a head. Multitudes flock to behold the rarity, and for only twenty-five cents they are permitted to see that which they had never expected to be able to see at any price. We admire the proper appreciation of self and of country manifested by those Republican Congressmen who declare that the African pirate is the greatest hero their ranks have produced. In view of the exploits of some of their number at Manassas, where Weed, Wilson and other ferocious leaders of their party proved themselves as pusillanimous as they are base, and of the declaration of General Scott, that he, the chief of their soldiery, is the "greatest coward in the world," we admit the justice of their declaration that a negro assassin is the greatest hero abolitionism has produced. Equally natural and characteristic is the conduct of Barnum in appropriating the first exhibition of heroism among Black Republicans to practical and solid uses.