Slavery, bad as it is, is the representative of a great social
principle, which, separated from the special mode of its manifestation,
has in it that which is good and right. Mr. Cobden justly characterizes
the great American war as an insurrection of aristocracy against the
principle of democracy. But aristocracy is not wholly wrong, nor is
democracy wholly right, in the nature and constitution of things. These
are two great antagonistic principles, when sifted to the bottom; one
the principle of Order, through Subordination, the soul of Conservatism;
and the other the principle of Freedom, through Individuality, the soul
of Progression. Neither will ever expunge or expel the other from the
constitution of man, individually or collectively; and it pertains to
Science, the Science of Politics, based on the Unity of the Sciences
below that level, to be arrived at by humanity in the future, to
discover and lead in the complete harmony and reconciliation between the
two. The writer of these papers has in manuscript a labored document
upon the Slavery question from this more radical and philosophical point
of view, which was prepared just previous to the outbreak of the
existing war, in the hope of attracting the leading minds, North and
South, to the peaceable and scientific solution of the whole Slavery
question.
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