They do not demand its instant abolition.

But if you put it in course of abatement and final abolishment through a term of years--I do not care how many--we can intervene to some purpose.

As matters stand we dare not go before a European congress with such a proposition." Mr.Slidell passed it up to Richmond.

Mr.Davis passed it on to the generals in the field.

The response he received on every hand was the statement that it would disorganize and disband the Confederate Armies.
Yet we are told, and it is doubtless true, that scarcely one Confederate soldier in ten actually owned a slave.
Thus do imaginings become theories, and theories resolve themselves into claims; and interests, however mistaken, rise to the dignity of prerogatives.
II The fathers had rather a hazy view of the future.