which may be brought to co-operate with them, cannot avert. This unnatural conflict of folly and madness may be continued, until the heart strings of the nation are rent assunder, and our grand confederacy dissolved. But whether, in this event, the South would be the loser, is a question which, at least, admits of discussion. She has within herself the elements of a great nation — a mighty empire, which such a result would, doubtless, tend rapidly to develope. And we doubt not, that, in a few years, she would exhibit to the world a model government, combining as many of the elements of true greatness as any that ever existed; while her chivalrous citizens would possess the patriotism, the independence, and the invincible courage to defend her against the combined powers of the earth. Many other considerations might be enumerated, but these, we trust, are sufficiently conclusive, to prove, to the satisfaction of every candid, honest, unprejudiced mind, that the differences which apparently exist between the general increase, prosperity, and improvement of the slave States and the free, are attributable not alone to the existence of slavery.[1]
But we are told that slavery is an evil.[2] So is war an evil. And, viewing it in the same light, government may also be considered an evil, since it is an abridge-
