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of peace, the free States of the North with such contumelious scorn had rejected for themselves-this, the South, when worn by attrition to the bone, like Prussia after the battle of Jena, a bleeding and lacerated mass, was blithely called on to perform. How are we to explain votes for this enfranchisement on the part of States which, so long as their own interests only were involved so unreservedly had voted otherwise? It was a change sudden as that which, on the road to Damascus changed Saul into Paul. The fabalist Aesop——whose sententious wisdom outweighs whole volumes vast called history just because the so-called fable condenses into single instances the experience of all. so as to be co-operant with all—tells of two men, let us call them and B, to whom Jupiter agreed to grant whatever wish they might prefer, on the following terms: A was to have first wish, and whatever A received was to be doubled to B. A promptly wished for the loss of one eye. Are our slaves, wrote Jeffe<