Excerpt from Disunion: Two Discourses at Music Hall, on January 20th, and February 17th, 1861 The mistake of South Carolina is, she fancies there is more chance of saving slavery outside of the Union than inside. Three States have followed her example. Probably the rest of the Slave States, or many of them, will find them selves unable to resist the infection, and then the whole merciless conspiracy of 1787 is ended, and timid men will dare to hate slavery without trembling for bread or life. Let us look at the country - the North, the South, and the Government. The South divided into three sections: lst, Those who hold slaves exactly as they do bank-stock or land - and of course love the Union, which enables them to treat man as property -timid wealth shrinking from change, but so timid as to stand dumb. 2d, Those who have ruled the nation sixty years, monopolizing Presidents' chairs and embassies defeated now, these plan, in earnest sincerity, for another nation with presidencies and embassies all to them selves. 3d, A class made up from these two, who cling to the Union in their hearts, but threaten loudly, well knowing the loudest threats get the best bargain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.