Abstract

Editorial Articles

This article presents information on various political developments in the U.S. There is no denying that the U.S. Republican party contains the greater part of the intelligence and morality of the nation. At all events, the Democratic party contains the greater part of its ignorance and depravity. From this state of things a great many people have deduced the conclusion that the Republican party is an engine which may be used at pleasure for the promotion of all forms of righteousness, that, in short, the organization is to all intents and purposes a church, and that the aim of its members is simply right living. The indolent excuse for the failure to understand the condition of the South is that nobody can very accurately comprehend it who has not been there to see for himself. The property of the eleven States in 1860, exclusive of slaves, was valued at $2,728,825,000. At the end of the war their increased liabilities and loss, exclusive of slaves, was $1,272,900,390, nearly one-half the assessed value of their property at the beginning of the war. This, however, was only the State loss.