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e present time, to keep our eye steadily fixed on the moral and legal aspect of the present great insurrection against the Union, as that aspect was discerned and described in advance by one who, perhaps as much as any other, contributed to "precipitate" the "Cotton States" into revolution against the National Government, avowedly because of the election of an unacceptable man to the Presidency. When in the "Southern Commercial Convention," sitting at Montgomery, Ala., in the month of May, 1858, a debate was had upon the propriety of agitating for the repeal of all the Federal statutes prohibiting the slave trade, it will be remembered that the Hon. Wm. L. Yancey advocated the affirmative of that proposition, and a vowed a willingness to make a casus fœderls of the refusal of Congress to comply with such a demand. In opposition to this view the Hon. Henry W. Hilliard, of Alabama, who deprecated any agitation looking to a renewal of the slave trade, proposed that the election of a