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few other Southern fire enters. We have not adverted to another and the most prominent cause of the rupture attributed by the Yankees to a few Southern extremists; we mean Abolition. Did Jeff Davis and the other fire- eaters manufacture that firebrand? It seems to us that every can did and philosophical mind must discover in the union of slaveholding and non slaveholding States, in any age so tainted with fanaticism as the present, the germ of its own dissolution. From the time of Wilberforce, England, the greatest power of the earth, and which exercises more influence than any other upon public opinion in America, has engaged in an anti-slavery crusade as fierce and persistent as that under Peter the Hermit. The abolition of slavery in her own colonies was intended to operate directly upon slavery in the Southern States of America. Her object was the division of the Union; whether to make herself independent of a country strong enough to be her rival for cotton, or to make