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mmerce and manufactures, and extended nationality. Seeing so much depends upon it, I would have the nation like that course which will make its preservation certain. The Union, simply by coercion, would be a worthless bond, threating to the South, and unprofitable to ourselves. The plan of subjugating the South by force would result in a bald, barren conquest, hearing no fruit, because changing no convictions. If Gen. McClellan could, tomorrow, plant the Star and Stripes on Richmond and Montgomery, and all the principal points in the South, and have a force large enough to hold them there, what then? The elephant would be ours, but what should be done with it? The people of the South would be left angry and ready to rebel at any time. He is merely a barbarian who would conquer with bayonets alone. He is a statesman who would conquer a people by changing their conviction and thus removing the cause of hostility. "How should we do this? The answer is simple. Issue a proclama