“It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the author…” — Gerrit Smith

It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary.

True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.