In the light of subsequent events we see that in saving her institution the South lost it, and with it her wealth, while in losing her slaves the North gained her wealth.

Under free labor the North doubled its population, its manufactories, its riches and waxed mighty.

Under slave-labor the South dwindled in wealth and became only the empty shell of a state.
The spark fired at Fort Sumter kindled a conflagration that swept through the sunny South like a devastating fire and revealed its inner poverty.

When four years had passed by the farmhouses and factories were ruins, the village was a heap, the town a desolation.

Graveyards were as populous as cities, each village had its company of cripples, the cry of the orphan and the widow filled all the land.
When Charles Darwin returned from his voyage around the world, he sent a generous contribution to the London Missionary Society.