There is nothing strange in this. There was always plenty of railing against New England and her ideas in the Middle and Western States, which has ended in their conversion. Every great Preacher, Statesman, Thinker, in twelve States beyond the Hudson, has his heel on Plymouth Rock. New England and her children believe wholly in the natural rights of man; therefore she conquers twelve States that do not exactly know whether man has or has not natural rights. South Carolina and her children disbelieve wholly in the natural rights of man. Therefore they subdue seven great States of wavering faith. The man, the State that believes with its whole heart, always in the end subdues the man or State that only half believes. In every great national collision between the two civilizations, freedom has been nominally beaten, but actually victorious. The Revolution made nine States free. If the North was compelled to hide away slavery in the Constitution; she saved the Declaration of Independence; kept the word “slave” out of the charter of our liberties; abolished the slave trade; and secured the Northwest territory, five States, for liberty. The South cut up her remaining territories into four additional slave states; obtained Florida, from Spain; Louisiana and Arkansas from France, and then gave battle for Missouri. She gained the nominal victory of forcing 80,000 slaves into this State, and lost the remaining territory north of 36 deg. and 30 min., sufficient for half a dozen free commonwealths, which secured two States in the future beyond the Rocky Mountains. Thus, out of the Louisiana Purchase, slavery has gained but two States, and kept back Missouri fifty years from her natural condition of freedom; while the North has gained already three free States; and has, beside Kansas, half a dozen territories in reserve, ready to come in.