But in all the Northern States, and more especially in its cities,--and here chiefly among the men of exclusive intellectual culture and the votaries of commerce and its riches,--there are exceptional men who embrace the Idea of Slavery and belong to its Party. They know no law higher than the transient interest of their politics or their commerce, their ease or ambition. They may not theoretically hate the People, but they so love their own money, their own ease or pleasure, that practically they oppose what promotes the welfare of mankind, and seek their own personal advancement to the injury of the human race. These are Northern men with Southern "Principles." They have their Journals too well known in Boston to need mention here. 2. In the individual States of the South, the Idea and Party of Slavery has also gained great victories and been uniformly successful; it has extended and strengthened personal slavery, which has now a firmer hold in the minds of the controlling classes of Southern men,--the rich and "educated,"--than in 1776, or ever before. The Southern States are progressively despotic. Still, in all the Southern States there are exceptional men, hostile to slavery,--the intelligent and religious from conviction, others from mere personal interest. These are Southern men with Northern Principles. They are much oppressed at home--kept from political advancement or social respectability, as much as democrats would be at Rome or Naples,--have no journals and little influence. 3. In the Federal Government, the warfare goes on, each party seeking for mastery over the whole United States--the contest is carried on in Congress, in all the local legislatures; newspapers, speeches, even sermons, resound with the din of battle. See what forces contend and with what results. The nation lives by its productive industry, whereof there are these five chief departments:--Hunting and Fishing, the appropriation of the spontaneous live products of the land and sea; Agriculture, the use of the productive forces of the earth's surface; Mining, the appropriation of the metallic products of her bosom; Manufactures, the application of toil and thought to the products of Hunting and Fishing, Mining and Agriculture; Commerce, the exchange of value, distribution of the products of these four departments of industry, directly productive. Hunting and Fishing, Mining, Manufactures, Commerce, are mainly in the hands of Northern men--the South is almost wholly Agricultural. Her wealth consists of land and slaves. In 1850 the fifteen slave States had not fourteen hundred millions of other property. In the South property, with its consequent influence, is in few hands--in the North it is wide spread.