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f the colonies, down to a period of fifteen years ago, if they could all reappear upon earth, could be elected now to the Senate or House of Representatives of the United States, for not one of them held the opinions in regard to slavery which are now essential in all the free States to official elevation. --As for Southern statesmen, who will hear them? The South is the weaker part, has never been able to commit aggressions upon the North, even if she had the disposition, and has had no interest which could inspire her with such a disposition. The South has made compromise after compromise, and is now continually proffering the olive branch; but instead of a cordial and whole-souled acceptance, it is met by the temporizing policy of the Republicans. The South has statesmen--Crittenden, Hunter, Rives, Benjamin, and others; but, as Professor Bledsoe says in one of his lectures, "You might as well read the riot act to a thunder storm as address reason and argument to Abolitionism."