His ruder followers, and even the women and children, he would arm with pikes to defend the fortifications.

He would construct defenses of palisades and earth-works.

He would use natural strongholds; find secret mountain-passes to connect one with another; retreat from and evade attacks he could not overcome.

He would maintain and indefinitely prolong a guerrilla war, of which the Seminole Indians in Florida and the negroes in Hayti afforded examples.

With success, he would enlarge the area of his occupation so as to include arable valleys and low-lands bordering the Alleghany range in the slave-States; and here he would colonize, govern, and educate the blacks he had freed, and maintain their liberty.