The Daily Dispatch: June 28, 1861., [Electronic resource]

Consequences of the war.

‘ Whichever way we regard it, the consequences are the same — partially injurious to the South; but disastrous to the North. The South loses little; it spends comparatively little, and is piling its wealth up. The North loses everything, spends enormously, and stores scarcely anything. Every day adds, in fact, to the strength of the South, and diminishes that of the North. The war tells alike on the Western farmer, the Eastern manufacturer, and the New York banker. The effect upon the former, however, is only temporary; upon the two latter it must be more permanent. The eventual result of the war will surely be to unite the slave States in one grand Republic, and the North will then find that its suicidal policy has only served to establish a nation, which possesses not only vast resources, in the growth of staples peculiar to itself, but which has, in addition, every element of wealth possessed by the free States. The North will, at the same time, discover that it has separated itself from a country, upon the productions of which it was actually dependent for the prosperity of its largest interests, and for the means of affording employment to its operatives and occupation to its mariners

So long as Maryland remains with the North, she must share the fate of the North.

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