Excerpt from Some Thoughts on the Pacification of the Country: For the Consideration of the North and the SouthTo the South let me say, your prospect of a lasting peace depends much upon your territorial position. It is a law of the universe, that the progress of population shall be from the north to the south, or from the colder to the warmer regions. If you open your country to northern emigration, a new people will pour into it, and assimilate it to themselves. If you erect a wall against them, they will eventually surpass it, and destroy you. Any attempt to set up a government Opposed to this progressive movement, to the south of the Potomac, is impracticable. There is a pressure against it which you cannot withstand. You hold the seaboard of the Northwestern States, and the command.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.

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