30' whooping-cough is prohibited, measles are forbidden, cholera-morbus is forever interdicted.' They regard slave-holders as living in a moral pestilence, and seeking to carry it with them into new districts.
"But, practically," I said, "the thing will now regulate itself, and both sides are contending very much for an abstract right.

It is a war of feeling, and no one knows where it will end.

If the North would say, 'Free labor, which cannot thrive where slavery exists, requires an amicable division and allotment of the territorial regions; let us agree where our respective systems shall prevail,'-- there would be no difficulty.

But the effort has been to shut out slavery, as men use sanitary legislation and quarantine to keep out a pestilence.

This is treating fifteen States of the Union as polluted and polluting.