f their servile neighbors, but
a man-owning aristocracy that has fought and been vanquished, can no
longer command the respect or the obedience of its chattels.

The issue of our present struggle must be Disunion or Emancipation. And,
assuming it to be Emancipation, the hate wherewith the North is regarded
at the South would soon die out. New social and industrial relations and
interests, new activities, new ambitions, would speedily efface all
painful recollections of our desperate struggle. The late slaveholders,
having ceased to be such, would no longer be controlled by the impulses
nor plastic to the influences which impelled them to rush upon the thick
bosses of the Union. They would find in the rapid peopling of their
section by immigration from the North and from Europe, and the
consequent increase in current value of the lands, timber, mines,
water-power, etc., of their Section, new avenues to wealth, new
incitements to activity and energy. Shays' rebellion engulfed the
greater part of Western Massachusetts; but ten years passed, and it had
sunk into a mere tradition. La Vendee was more unanimous and more
intense in its hostility to the French Republic than any Southern State
now is to a restoration of the Union; yet La Vendee soon after responded
meekly to the conscriptions of Napoleon. War alienates and inflames; but
Peace speedily re-links the golden chain of mutual interests, and all is
kindly again.

Let Slavery disappear, and all incitement to alienation or bitterness
between the North and the South will have vanished. God has made them
for parts of the same country; their diverse topographies, climates,
productions, render them the natural complement of each other. The
Cotton, Sugar, Tobacco, etc., of the South will be freely exchanged, as
of yore, for the Manufactures, Machinery, and Implements of the North:
the former gradually learning to supply her own essential wants to an
extent hitherto unknown; but the rapid increase of her population,
industry, and wealth, will render her a wider and steadier market for
the products of the latter and of Europe than she has ever yet been. The
South will soon realize that the death of Slavery has awakened her to a
new and nobler life--that what she at first regarded as a great calamity
and a downfall, was in truth her beneficent renovation and her chief
blessing. So shall North and South, at length comprehending and
appreciating each other, walk hand in hand along