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Excerpt from Addenda to the Municipalist
If, in the Convention, real patriotism had prevailed, it most certainly would have prevented that most disastrous Of all wars - civil war - and shown to the world, better than all our constitutions, laws, and professions, and demagogues can do, the excellency of our political system. And even if it should have failed to reconcile the Abolitionists with the Constitution, for the perhapses above indicate it, time would have been gained, passions subsided, and things easily taken such a turn, that by this separation, neither commerce nor industry in general would have been disturbed. I beg to add (in the Appendix B.) a little memorial, sent in July, 1861, to the Congresses of both Confederations, which points out the ways to make such an arrangement. And, if this Convention would have failed en tirely, like the Peace Conference, it would undoubtedly, have made patent the fact to the people that when the Southern States formally seceded, the federal bands of the Union were already broken by the Northern States, by enacting laws against the plain words of the Constitution, and electing the chief magistrate upon a platform annulling the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in regard to the equal territorial rights of the people and then States. This explains why all petitions and propositions to maintain the'federation by negotiation and compromise and convention were portina ciously rejected and refused by the Northern States and their representatives in Congress. They would have no union with the slave/widen.
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