...ILL A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION The Contest in America by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...nces of such a war would soon have buried its causes in oblivion. When the new Confederate States, made an in dependent Power by English help, had be... ...slavery: some, probably, from the influences, more or less direct, of West Indian opinions and interests: others from inbred T oryism, which, even whe... ...ted that the atonement, if atonement there were, would have been made with reservations, perhaps under protest. We expected that the correspondence wo... ...implying disapprobation of it. They are ready, on the contrary, to give it new guarantees; to renounce all that they have been contending for; to win ... ...ersected in the middle, from their northern frontier almost to the Gulf of Mexico, by a country of free labor—the mountain region of the Alleghanies a... ...y let loose to propagate their national faith at the rifle’s mouth through Mexico and Central America? Shall we submit to see fire and sword carried o...

...eads without bursting. The fear has not been realized, that the only two first-rate Powers who are also free nations would take to tearing each other in pieces, both the one and the other in a bad and odious cause. For while, on the American side, the war would have been one of reckless persistency in wrong, on ours it would have been a war in alliance with, and, to practi...