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The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5,
by Various
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Title: The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
Author: Various
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THE
CONTINENTAL MONTHLY:
DEVOTED TO
LITERATURE AND NATIONAL POLICY.
VOL. VI.--NOVEMBER, 1864--No. V.
THE PROGRESS OF LIBERTY IN THE UNITED STATES.
There are three classes of persons in the loyal States of this Union who proclaim the present civil war unnecessary, and clamor for peace at any price: first, a multitude of people, so ignorant of the history of the country that they do not know what the conflict is about; secondly, a smaller class of better-informed citizens, who have no moral comprehension of the inevitable opposition of democracy and aristocracy, free society and slave society, and who believe sincerely that a permanent compromise or t