a fervor
and energy of patriotism which enshrined his name in the history
and in the hearts of the American people. His death created the
profoundest impression in the country, and the Administration felt
that one of the mighty props of the Union had been torn away.

The rank of Mr. Douglas as a statesman is not equal to his rank as
a parliamentary leader. As a statesman, he was full of resources,
fertile in expedients. But he lacked the truest form of conservatism,
and more than once in his career carried partisan contests beyond
the point of safety. His participation in the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise is an illustration, all the more pertinent and impressive
because his own judgment was against the measure, and he allowed
himself to be controlled by the fear that another might usurp the
place in Southern regard so long held by himself. In parliamentary
discussion it is not easy to overstate the power of Mr. Douglas.
Indeed, it would be difficult to name his superior. He did not
attain the dignity of Webster's stately style. He was not gifted
with the fire that burned through Clay's impulsive speech. But as
a ready, comprehensive speaker, armed at all points and using his
weapons with deadliest effect, he was the equal of either. In the
rapidity with which he marshaled the facts favorable to his position,
in the consummate skill with which he presented his argument, in
the dashing and daring manner by which he overcame an opponent more
strongly intrenched than himself, Mr. Douglas is entitled to rank
with the most eminent of parliamentary debaters.

ADDITIONS TO THE CONFEDERACY.

The effect of Major Anderson's surrender of Sumter and of the
President's call for troops proved prejudicial to the Union sentiment
in the slave States which had not yet seceded. It would be more
correct, perhaps, to say that Mr. Lincoln's Proclamation was a test
of loyalty which revealed the actual character of public sentiment
in those States, till then not known in the North. Mr. Lincoln
had done every thing in his power to conciliate them, and to hold
them fast in their loyalty to the Union. But the sympathy with
the South, engendered by the common danger to the institution of
Slavery, was too powerful to be resisted. North Carolina, which
had always been moderate, conservative, and Union-loving, threw
her fortunes with the Confederacy. Tennessee, distracted by the
un