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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Author: Various Release Date: December 11, 2008 [EBook #27496] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CONTINENTAL MONTHLY *** Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, Carla Foust and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by Cornell University Digital Collections) Transcriber's Note Printer errors have been changed and are listed at the end. All other inconsistencies are as in the original. THE CONTINENTAL MONTHLY: DEVOTED TO LITERATURE AND NATIONAL POLICY. * * * * * VOL. IV.--SEPTEMBER, 1863.--NO. III. * * * * * SOUTHERN HATE OF NEW ENGLAND. In these days of strange and startling events, of rapid and fundamental changes, of curious and unexpected developments; these days, tremulous with the vibrations of the political atmosphere, and quaking with the fierce earthquake of national war; these days, that are filling up a web of history with more fearful rapidity, more complete, important, and decisive results than any previous epoch in the world's annals,--a history which, if ever truly and worthily penned, will demand a deeper search into moral causes and effects, a closer scrutiny of the philosophy of mind, and a more careful balancing of political judgments, than any drama ever before played on the great world's stage,--in such days as these, I say, it is curious and profitable to subject each new moral phase that presents itself to a rigid analysis, and trace every effect, moral, political, governmental, or popular, to the cause or causes that may, after a fair showing, appear to have produced it. A fair and dispassionate application of true and just principles is as essential to a right political judgment as to a correct moral decision, and he who allows himself to be led by passion, sel
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