...cause one William H. Seward said, last fall, at Lansing: We are maintaining a standing army at the heavy cost of one thousand dollars per man, and a standing navy,--for what? to protect Michigan or Massachusetts , New York or Ohio? No; there is not a nation on the face of the earth which would dare to attack these Free States, or any of them, if they were even disunited. We are doing it in order that slaves...