Excerpt from Peace or War?: An Unbiassed View of the American Crisis

I know it is objected that the war was not undertaken on the part of the North for the abolition of slavery, but for the maintenance of the Union, that big idol of the nation. Supposing this to be all the truth, I would say, most noble object! If they cared not for its integrity they would cease to be worthy of it.

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