When the British Government emancipated the Blacks in her colonies she acted with the strictest commercial equity, but the Republican party denied any compensation for the Negroes that they sold to the " curs and whelps II of the South, and threatened to secede from the Union because they were not allowed to continue in the slave trade.

Before we close this article, let us give to some extent a re- view, First, In forming the Government the thirteen States conferred upon the Federal Government the power to tax slave property, to protect it from foreigners on land and sea, and also from domestic escape, and conferred no other powers.

Second. The Abolitionists of the North clung to the profits of the slave trade as long as they were permitted, and then attacked the slave system when they were deprived of its profits.

Third, At the beginning of our government, all of our territory was slave territory, a large portion of it became free territory by the Ordinance of 1787, prohibiting slaves north of the Ohio river, and by right of the Northern States abolishing slavery.

Fourth, By the Missouri Compromise of 1820, prohibiting slavery north of 36.30.

Fifth, By the act admitting Texas, re-enacting the Missouri Compromise line of 1820; the above acts show that the North had driven slavery out of half of the territory of the United States.

Sixth, The Constitution of the United States made it the duty of the Federal Government to protect slavery wherever found, until the people could by vote decide whether or not they wanted it in that particular territory .

Seventh, The agitation of the slave question grew out of the chagrin of New England being deprived of the slave trade and its profits; and the Louisiana purchase.

Eighth, The emancipation idea made steady progress in the Southern States until the abolitionists forced the slave holders. on the defensive.

Ninth, The cry of the free soiler was raised by Martin Van , Buren in 1848 to revenge his failure of re-nomination by the South at Baltimore.

Tenth. The compromise of 1850 was carried by the influence of Henry Clay.

Eleventh. The violation of the different compromises by the. I'~ Northern States, and by the passage of the Personal Liberty Bill Acts, which was a direct blow at the Fugitive Slave Act.

Twelfth. The repeal of the Missouri Compromise act in 1854 by the influence of Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois.

Thirteenth. An attempt by the abolitionists to make Kansas a free state without any regard to the teachings of the constitution.

Fourteenth. The violent agitation of the slavery question at the North was soon followed by John Brown's raid into. Virginia.

Fifteenth. The people in the North to justify their over-riding the Constitution and the laws of Congress in violation of the compact of 1787, called it a higher law.

Sixteenth. In 1787 , the South entered into a civil compact with the North on certain conditions and. guarantees, which the North violated time and again, and when the South was forced to secede she only returned to her original sovereignty.

Seventeenth. The South asserted her independence in 1861, as the thirteen colonies did in 1776, and it is an undeniable practice of the European nations to repudiate a government who assails their rights, and sacrifices their best interests.

Eighteenth. The above were the causes of our great civil war , and the writer, as a Confederate soldier, from start to finish, believes it was far better to have fought and lost, than never to have fought at all.

The first of the great parties to step into the arena and shy its castor, by holding its National Convention at Charleston, S. C.; on the 23rd day of April, I860, was the Democratic party.

After much dissension and bitterness it split into two wings, one of said wings met in convention in Baltimore on the 23rd day of June and nominated Stephen A. Douglass of Illinois, for President, and Herschel V. Johnson of Georgia, for Vice-President, This convention also declared in favor of leaving the slavery question to the voters of each territory, or to Congress. This convention was composed mostly of Northern Democrats.