It is a common intruder, and of course has the name of being ungentlemanly.

Brethren who had long sung, in the most affectionate fervor, and with the greatest sense of security, _Together let us sweetly live--together let us die,_ have been suddenly and violently separated by it, and ranged in hostile attitude toward each other.

The Methodist, one of the most powerful religious organizations of this country, has been rent asunder, and its strongest bolts of denominational brotherhood started at a single surge.
It has changed the tone of the northern pulpit, and modified that of the press.

A celebrated divine, who, four years ago, was for flinging his own mother, or brother, into the remorseless jaws of the monster slavery, lest he should swallow up the Union, now recognizes anti-slavery as a characteristic of future civilization.

Signs and wonders follow this movement; and the fact just stated is one of them.
Party ties are loosened by it; and men are compelled to take sides for or against it, whether they will or not.