In course of time there arose on one side an industrial system in which the plantation principle, race-rule and race-slavery, were organic centers; and, on the other, a social system in which the principle of popular power and government, the town meeting, and the common school were the ganglia of social expansion.

Contrary ideas beget naturally enough contrary interests and institutions.

So it is no matter for surprise that the local interests and institutions of the thirteen revolted colonies lacked homogeneity and identity.

What was calculated to promote the general welfare of the Northern one, it was quite possible might work a totally opposite result in the Southern.

For, indeed, while there were slaves in them all, the slave system had taken root in Southern soil only; and while on the other hand the spirit of freedom was existent in each, free labor had rooted itself in Northern ground solely.
As the war of the Revolution was an uprising against arbitrary power, and for the establishment of political liberty, it pushed easily into the foreground the larger subject of human rights.