of the South, and constantly
increasing, just in proportion as our population progresses more rapidly
than that of the slave States. It is no exaggeration,--strange as it may
seem,--but this extraordinary ignorance has been manifested time and
again by high authority in England since the war began. But supposing
the balance struck, and cotton found to be worth more to England than
the market of the North. Does not our very independence of English
manufactures imply such a stimulus to our own, as to threaten that we
shall thereby be in a much shorter time in a condition to compete with
her in every market of the world? Drive us to manufacturing for
ourselves, and we shall manufacture for every one. Already every year
witnesses American inventiveness achieving new triumphs over British
rivalry. Has England forgotten the report of Messrs. Whitworth and
Wallis on American manufactures, in which they were told that of late
years they have been more indebted to American skill for useful
inventions than to their own? War and non-intercourse will doubtless
compel us to economy, and render labor cheaper in America, but they can
not quench our innate Yankee-Saxon inventiveness and industry. But if
labor is made cheaper in America, then our final triumph will only be
hastened. If England seeks her own ruin, she could not advance it more
rapidly than she would do by a war or a difference with us. And this
many think that she will do for the sake of one season's supply of
American cotton! The fable of him who killed the goose for the sake of
the golden egg becomes terrible when acted out by a great nation. And if
this be true, then the uplifted sword of Albion is, verily, nothing but
a goose-killing knife.

'God is not dead yet.' If we are in the right, He will guide and guard
us, and they who contend for right and justice and the liberty of the
poor, first fully taught on earth by the Saviour Jesus Christ, will not
suffer in the end. When we first entered on this struggle with the
South, it was soon realized that we had undertaken the greatest struggle
of history, the reformation of the modern age, the grandest battle for
progress and against the old serpent of oppression ever known. Let them
laugh who will, but such a trial of republicanism against the last of
feudalism is this, and nothing less. God aid us! But it may be that, as
the contest widens, grander accomplishments lie before us. Whether it be
done by the sword, or by pea