So far as this author can go, just to the extent of his authority, the Pretender is recognized as President, and the Rebel States are described by the very title which, in defiance of the National Government, they assume.
He argues that the author’s actions effectively recognize the Confederate leader as legitimate, undermining the National Government.
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The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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