only. By the Census Report from 1850, the last yet obtainable, the number of live stock was larger in the slave than in the free States, and the value of grain, farm, and garden produce of the two sections equal, whilst the latter was produced, in the case of the South, by 9 millions of people against 13 in the North. Hence will be apparent the absurdity of representing the Southern States as requiring food from the Northern, when, in the former, each two persons produce as much as three in the North. The poverty attributed to the South contrasts also strangely with the above fact, that the exports of their products in 1860 were double those of the North in value. We append to this edition the Constitution of the Southern Confederation, which differs from that of the Union mainly in the following points. The Southern Constitution absolutely prohibits the over-sea slave-trade; that of the Union does not. It permits cabinet ministers to take part in the discussions of Congress. It prohibits bounties or duties to foster any branch of industry. After a specified time the post office must cover its own expenses. No extra compensation to be paid to any contractor. Log rolling is prohibited. The President is to hold office for six years and is not to be re-eligible. The subordinate government officers not to be removed by the President without a report to the Senate giving his reasons. It will be observed that these alterations remove several of the grossest evils described as resulting from the institutions of the Union. The special clauses referring to the post office and to contractors are intended to remove notorious sources of corruption, heretofore in active operation. It may be observed that the right of property in slaves, and that of taking them into any territory, are expressly stated, but that no new principle is adopted or laid down which does not already exist, on this head, in the Constitution of the Union. APPENDIX. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. In Congress, July 4, 1776. WHEN, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while |