Attention may also be directed to one further element of strength, & that is - all other appearances to the contrary - the indissoluble character of the Federal Union, by which the States are linked to one another, & this without the remotest prospect of open collision. The people in the North regard slavery in the Southern states as a fact with which they have no right to interfere ...
Slavery ... is becoming unprofitable. It will flicker & pass away in the South, as it did in the North ... that is when it ceases to pay & becomes an insupportable evil to those who have to endure it ... The entire abolition of slavery in the US will probably be brought about as a question of profit & loss long before the terms on which one race should be subjected to another are fairly settled by casuists
D Morier Evans: A History of the Commercial Crisis 1857-8 1859
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