of protective duties, its corn laws, and navigation act; that Germany would revive the old guilds, soccage service, and religious persecutions; that Russia would restore the just abolished serfdom. In fact, we might as well assume that civilization would retrograde, and that the great civilized nations of Europe would go back to the feudal system of the middle ages I The great natural rights of man, that have their being in the Union, are more powerful by far than all the armies or intrigues of the enemies of the Union. The fortune of war has not much favored the North during the past year, and yet do we see that the idea of the Union has resumed entire sway again in the Slave Border States of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, and a large portion of Virginia, and that even the question of the total abolition of slavery is assuming in those States the most forcible prominence. Our country has always developed most actively after every commercial crisis, and it will surely emerge from the present political crisis with regenerated and greater power.
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