No country possesses lovelier, kinder hearted, and more distinguished women.

To commence with the immortal Washington, the list of statesmen who have taken part in the government of the United States shows that all those who have shed a lustre on the country, and won the admiration of Europe, owed their being to that much abused South.
'Is it true that so much distinction, talent, and grandeur of soul could have sprung from all the vices, from the cruelty and corruption which one would fain attribute now to the Southern people?
The laws of inflexible logic refute these false imputations.
And--strange coincidence--while Southern men presided over the destinies of the Union, its gigantic prosperity was the astonishment of the world.

In the hands of Northern men, that edifice, raised with so much care and labor by their predecessors, comes crashing down, threatening to carry with it in its fall the industrial future of every other nation.

For long years the constant efforts of the North, and a certain foreign country, to spread among the blacks incendiary pamphlets and tracts have powerfully contributed to suspend every Southern movement towards emancipation.

Its people have been compelled to close their ears to ideas which threatened their very existence.'" "But," said Mr.North, "here we have been, for thirty years or more, living on an anti-slavery excitement.