Georgia And Her Sisters
May For Awhile Belong To The Union, As One Conquered Country Belongs
To Another.
But I do not think that they will ever act with the
Union; and, as I imagine, the Union before long will agree to a
separation.
I do not mean to prophesy that the result will be thus
accomplished. It may be that the South will effect their own
independence before they lay down their arms. I think, however,
that we may look forward to such independence, whether it be
achieved in that way, or in this, or in some other.
But not on that account will the war have been of no avail to the
North. I think it must be already evident to all those who have
looked into the matter, that had the North yielded to the first call
made by the South for secession all the slave States must have gone.
Maryland would have gone, carrying Delaware in its arms; and if
Maryland, all south of Maryland. If Maryland had gone, the capital
would have gone. If the government had resolved to yield, Virginia
to the east would assuredly have gone, and I think there can be no
doubt that Missouri, to the west, would have gone also. The feeling
for the Union in Kentucky was very strong, but I do not think that
even Kentucky could have saved itself. To have yielded to the
Southern demands would have been to have yielded everything. But no
man now presumes, let the contest go as it will, that Maryland and
Delaware will go with the South.
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