h; and, most of all,
with the interests and feelings of the population of the few
slaveholding States remaining faithful to the Union. The object of the
present article is simply to lay open the true state of the case; to
reveal to the Northern mind in a clearer light, if possible, the causes
emanating from the South, which have gone and which go still to the
formation of Northern opinion adversely to the spirit of our own
institutions, and begetting, unconsciously in ourselves, a secret
treasonable sympathy at the bottom of our own hearts; a sympathy which
is the parent of that otherwise unaccountable tenderness on our part in
respect to the patent weakness of the enemy's defences. It is not that
we counsel, for the present, a change in the tenor of the war, but that
we wish, as the logic of circumstances shall force this question upon
us, that we may come to the consideration of it, in the future,
disabused of any preconceived prejudices in favor of that which is the
vital source of all the trouble which exists, and fully armed by a
complete understanding of the subject.'

So ended the original paper, the same, with a few changes of the
tense-forms to adapt it to the present time, as the Part One, published
in the last number of THE CONTINENTAL, and Part Two of this
series up to this point. The document was written for publication at
that time, more than two years ago, but no periodical was found then
ready to indulge in such bold speculations on the future. What has now
in great part become history, was deemed too audacious for the public
ear then. Perhaps no better gauge of the progress of events and opinion
could have happened. A magazine article, rejected so recently, as too
radical or wild in its prognostications, now stands in danger of being
thought tame, in the light of the changes already effected. Thrown into
a drawer as refuse matter, it has been like the log of a ship thrown
overboard, and remaining quiescent, while the winds, the waves, and the
current have combined to surge the vessel onward in her course; and,
_hauled in by the line_ at this hour, it may serve to chronicle the rate
of our speed.

Events hurry forward in this age with tremendous velocity. Great as has
been the progress of our arms, numerous as our warlike achievements and
advantages, the real victories we have won are, in the truest method of
judging, the victories of opinion which have occurred and are now
occurring. Our greatest conq