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amine the case as well as we are able. Nine millions of people demand, for some cause or other, the right, so clearly announced, and once fought for, of governing themselves. It is denied; but the diversity and weakness of the reasons for the denial afford clear proofs of the perplexity of a people conscious of doing a dishonest thing.--One great statesman, for instance, wishing to drink at the same moment "at the fountain and mouth of the Nile," asks how the North can give up the Gulf of Mexico to a foreign Power? He would have the great lakes of the North and the great Gulf of the South; and why not the St. Lawrence and Amazon as well? This is that selfish view of the case, which supposes that all other nations are forever to be penned up in their present limits, while the States are to spread over and own illimitable territory. Another urges as a reason for war, the "stolen" forts, &c; forgetting that the North retains, in forts, custom-houses, mints, and other public buil