. Slavery and four years of war : a political history of slavery in the United States, together with a narrative of the campaigns and battles of the Civil War in which the author took part, 1861-1865 . in Southern prisons; thedirect cost of the Rebellion, paid from the United StatesTreasury, approximated seven billions of dollars, and the in-direct cost to the loyal people, in property destroyed, etc.,was at least equal to seven billions more. Fairly estimated,slaves not considered, the people of the seceding States ex-pended and lost in the prosecution and devastations of the war Prophecy as
. Slavery and four years of war : a political history of slavery in the United States, together with a narrative of the campaigns and battles of the Civil War in which the author took part, 1861-1865 . in Southern prisons; thedirect cost of the Rebellion, paid from the United StatesTreasury, approximated seven billions of dollars, and the in-direct cost to the loyal people, in property destroyed, etc.,was at least equal to seven billions more. Fairly estimated,slaves not considered, the people of the seceding States ex-pended and lost in the prosecution and devastations of the war Prophecy as to Slaverys Fate 157 more than double the expenditures and losses of the North;imagination cannot compass or language portray the sufferingand sorrow, agony and despair, which pervaded the wholeland. All this to settle the momentous question, whether ornot human slavery should be fundamental as a domestic, social,and political institution. Thus far slavery has been our theme, and the war for thesuppression of the Rebellion only incidentally referred to, butin succeeding chapters slavery will only be incidentally re-ferred to, and the war have such attention as the scope of thenarrative
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