It was an interlude, even as matters stood in the Sixties and Seventies, and now he who would thwart the unification of the country on the lines of oblivion, of mutual and reciprocal forgiveness, throws himself across the highway of his country's future, and is a traitor equally to the essential principles of free government and the spirit of the age.
If sectionalism be not dead it should have no place in popular consideration.

The country seems happily at last one with itself.

The South, like the East and the West, has come to be the merest geographic expression.

Each of its states is in the Union, precisely like the states of the East and the West, all in one and one in all.

Interchanges of every sort exist.
These exchanges underlie and interlace our social, domestic and business fabric.