In Finishing These Volumes After The Fashion In Which They Have Been Written Throughout, I Feel That I Am Bound To Express A Fixed Opinion On Two Or Three Points, And That If I Have Not Enabled Myself To Do So, I Have Traveled Through The Country In Vain.

I am bound by the very nature of my undertaking to say whether, according to such view as I

Have enabled myself to take of them, the Americans have succeeded as a nation politically and socially; and in doing this I ought to be able to explain how far slavery has interfered with such success. I am bound also, writing at the present moment, to express some opinion as to the result of this war, and to declare whether the North or the South may be expected to be victorious - explaining in some rough way what may be the results of such victory, and how such results will affect the question of slavery; and I shall leave my task unfinished if I do not say what may be the possible chances of future quarrel between England and the States. That there has been and is much hot blood and angry feeling, no man doubts; but such angry feeling has existed among many nations without any probability of war. In this case, with reference to this ill will that has certainly established itself between us and that other people, is there any need that it should be satisfied by war and allayed by blood?

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