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The Aspect of affairs. While Seward and Bates are coolly proposing to grant us peace on condition of unlimited submission, and the loss of our slave property, valued at the commencement of the war at only four thousand millions of dollars, and while Lincoln and Chase are proposing to make the forfeiture yet more severe, the courage of this Confederacy was never higher, its means of resistance more ample, or its determination never to affiliate with the rotten despotism on the other side of the Potomac more fixed and irrevocable. The people of the Confederacy did not enter into this war without having first maturely considered all the consequences, and thoroughly weighed all the chances of success. When they drew the sword, it was with a perfect knowledge that they were about to engage in a long, bloody, and tedious war. They knew perfectly well the strength of their enemy, and the extent of his resources. They never calculated upon uninterrupted success. They knew that in al