Secession and permanent division will not cure the trouble, but will increase it.
Moreover, the contrariety of feeling between people in the non-slaveholding States, made intense by the departure of the Southern section, may inaugurate hostilities among ourselves more fearful than those which drive away the Southern people.
"Perhaps we are to be two nations.

I cannot but regard this as the greatest calamity which will have happened to the cause of human improvement.

Nor do I see how it will help Northern philanthropy, nor the negro; but it may be greatly for his injury.

The truth is, we must live together for self-defence against each other, if from no other consideration.

Israel began its downfall in secession, which was compelled by Rehoboam.
"But," said I, "let us contemplate a different issue.