The Secessionists Of Baltimore Do
Not Think So, Nor The Gentlemen And Ladies Of Washington, Whose
Whole Hearts Are In The Southern Cause.
No man thinks that Maryland
will go, and few, I believe, imagine that either Missouri or
Kentucky will be divided from the North.
I will not pretend what
may be the exact line, but I myself feel confident that it will run
south both of Virginia and of Kentucky.
If the North do conquer the South, and so arrange their matters that
the Southern States shall again become members of the Union, it will
be admitted that they have done all that they ought to do. If they
do not do this - if instead of doing this, which would be all that
they desire, they were in truth to do nothing; to win finally not
one foot of ground from the South - a supposition which I regard as
impossible - I think that we should still admit after awhile that
they had done their duty in endeavoring to maintain the integrity of
the empire. But if, as a third and more probable alternative, they
succeed in rescuing from the South and from slavery four or five of
the finest States of the old Union - and a vast portion of the
continent to be beaten by none other in salubrity, fertility,
beauty, and political importance - will it not then be admitted that
the war has done some good, and that the life and treasure have not
been spent in vain?
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