"This Wide-Spread Nationality
Of The United States, With Its Enormous Territorial Possessions And
Increasing Population, Has Fallen Asunder, Torn To Pieces By The
Weight Of Its Own Discordant Parts - As A Congregation When Its Size
Has Become Unwieldy Will Separate, And Reform Itself Into Two
Wholesome Wholes.
It is well that this should be so, for the
people are not homogeneous, as a people should be who are called to
live together as one nation.
They have attempted to combine free-
soil sentiments with the practice of slavery, and to make these two
antagonists live together in peace and unity under the same roof;
but, as we have long expected, they have failed. Now has come the
period for separation; and if the people would only see this, and
act in accordance with the circumstances which Providence and the
inevitable hand of the world's Ruler has prepared for them, all
would be well. But they will not do this. They will go to war
with each other. The South will make her demands for secession
with an arrogance and instant pressure which exasperates the North;
and the North, forgetting that an equable temper in such matters is
the most powerful of all weapons, will not recognize the strength
of its own position. It allows itself to be exasperated, and goes
to war for that which if regained would only be injurious to it.
Thus millions on millions sterling will be spent. A heavy debt
will be incurred; and the North, which divided from the South might
take its place among the greatest of nations, will throw itself
back for half a century, and perhaps injure the splendor of its
ultimate prospects.
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