es not, the people and history will assign to
him the same position. He cannot lend his name to aid the election of
Mr. Pendleton on the same ticket with himself, and profess devotion to
the Union.

There is yet another point on which I would say a word. It is this: From
the proceedings of the Canada Confederates, and their Northern allies,
and the outgivings of the Richmond press, I conclude that their last
suggestion is this: two or more confederacies, Northern, Southern,
Middle, New England, Northwest, Mississippi, and Pacific. They are to be
united by free trade between them all, and by an alliance offensive and
defensive. That is, whenever any one of these confederacies go to war,
we are to join them in the conflict. Namely, if the Southern Confederacy
wishes to conquer and annex Cuba or Porto Rico, or to conquer and extend
slavery to Central America, and war follows, we are to join them in the
war, and sustain them with our blood and treasure. If so, the temple of
Janus will never be closed on our continent, and war will be our normal
condition--a war not declared by us, or in our own interest, but by the
South, as a foreign government. Such an alliance is visionary, ruinous,
and impracticable. It is simply a scheme to secure Southern
independence.

Then, as to the free trade to be secured by treaty between the several
confederacies. Recollect that each of these nations is to be foreign and
independent, and to have its separate treaties with foreign Powers. How
long would such treaties and such an alliance last? Why, the flag of the
South would scarcely float over the mouth of the Chesapeake and
Mississippi, before the conflict with us of views and measures would
begin, nursed and promoted by foreign Powers, where each of the new
confederacies would have its separate ministers, representing distinct
and discordant interests. When have such alliances or treaties lasted
even for half a century? Where are all the leagues of antiquity or of
modern Europe? Where are all such leagues and treaties even of the last
century? Where is our own alliance with France of 1778? Where all such
alliances and treaties even of the first half of the present century?
They are all extinguished. Experience proves--the voice of history
proclaims--that treaties or alliances between independent Powers are
always of short duration, being soon swept before the gust of contending
passions, or melted in the crucible of conflicting interests. W