If They Belong To The North, They Will
Become Rich As The North Is, And Will Share In The Education Of The
North.
If they belong to the South, they will become poor as the
South is, and will share in the ignorance of the South.
If we
presume that secession will be accomplished - and I for one am of
that opinion - has it not been well that a war should be waged with
such an object as this? If those five or six States can be gained,
stretching east and west from the Atlantic to the center of the
continent, hundreds of miles beyond the Mississippi, and north and
south over four degrees of latitude - if that extent of continent can
be added to the free soil of the Northern territory, will not the
contest that has done this have been worth any money that can have
been spent on it?
So much as to the object to be gained by the money spent on the war!
And I think that in estimating the nature of the financial position
which the war has produced it was necessary that we should consider
the value of the object which has been in dispute. The object, I
maintain, has been good. Then comes the question whether or no the
bill will be fairly paid - whether they who have spent the money will
set about that disagreeable task of settling the account with a true
purpose and an honest energy. And this question splits itself into
two parts.
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