_The Negro and the Nation_ The war of the Rebellion settled only one question: It forever settled the question of chattel slavery[3] in this country.

It forever choked the life out of the infamy of the Constitutional right of one man to rob another, by purchase of his person, or of his honest share of the produce of his own labor.

But this was the only question permanently and irrevocably settled.

Nor was this _the_ all-absorbing question involved.

The right of a State to secede from the so-called _Union_ remains where it was when the treasonable shot upon Fort Sumter aroused the people to all the horrors of internecine war.