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that a monarchy would be the result. Not probably at first. The
individual States would like to amuse themselves awhile with the game of
secession, and the joys of independent sovereignty, State rights, etc.,
as Georgia has already begun to do, in nullifying the conscription law
on their bogus congress. But eventually their mutual jealousies, their
'quick sense of honor,' their contentious and intestine wars (and
nothing else can reasonably be looked for) will bring them under an
absolute monarchy, more or less arbitrary, or under the yoke of some
foreign power.

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The antagonism between free and slave institutions, which we have
inferred, from a glance at the peculiar workings of each, finds its
complete confirmation in certain statements made by Mr. Calhoun, some
twenty years ago, which were to this effect, viz.:

'Democracy in the North is engendering social anarchy; it is
tending to the loosening of the bonds of society. Society is not
governed by the will of a mob, but by education and talent.
Therefore the South, resting on slavery as a stable foundation, is
a principle of authority: it must restrain the North; must resist
the anarchical influence of the North; must counterbalance the
dissolving influence of the North. He upheld slavery because it was
a bulwark to counterbalance the dissolving democracy of the North;
that the dissolving doctrines of democracy took their rise in
England, passed into France, and caused the French Revolution; that
they have been carried out in the democracy of the North, and will
there ultimate in revolution, anarchy, and dissolution.' (Taken
from Horace Greeley, in _Independent_ of December 25th, 1862.)

These are Mr. Calhoun's own words, and he will probably be allowed to be
a fair exponent of Southern sentiment: we may gather from these
utterances how the free republicanism of the North is regarded by the
slave oligarchy.

We cannot forbear adding another statement of Mr. Calhoun, made to
Commodore Stuart, as far back as 1812, in a private conversation at
Washington, which was in substance as follows, viz.: That the South, on
account of slavery, found it necessary to ally herself with one of the
political parties; but that if ever events should so turn out as to
break this alliance, or cause that the South could not control the
Government, that then it would break it up