North and South controlled by predominant traits of race.
To understand the causes of conflict we must consider the unities of our race, and note the interventions of local causes which differentiated its northern and southern segments.
When this is done, it will be realized that each section has been guided by the predominant traits which it possessed in common, and which inhered in the very blood of its people, and that differences of physical surrounding, not the differences of moral and intellectual character led to their crystallization in masses separated by diversities of interest and opinion and their resulting passions.
These diverse interests and opinions sprung out of the very soil on which they made their homes even as the pine rises to towering heights in the granite hills of the
North, and the palmetto spreads its luxuriant foliage on the Southland.
The bear of the polar region takes his whiteness from the cold sky, and the bear of the tropics turns dark under the blazing heavens.
The same breeze upon the high seas impels one ship north, another south, one east, and another west, according to the angle in which it strikes the sail.
Natural causes operating under fixed laws changed the civilization of the North and South; but though their people were moved in opposite directions, he who searches for impelling forces will find them nearly, if not quite, identical.
