come with no sudden and destructive shock, but will take place imperceptibly.  The fall of the dynasty will be gradual; and with the dynasty must fall its policy.  Its fruits must be eradicated by time.  Under the healing influence of time, the South, still young and energetic, ceasing to think of one thing alone, will quickly turn its attention to many.  Education will be more sought for, as the policy which resisted it, and made its diffusion impossible, ceases to exist.  With the growth of other branches of industry, labor will become respectable and profitable, and laborers will flock to the country; and a new, a purer, and more prosperous future will open upon the entire Republic.  Perhaps, also, it may in time be discovered that even slave-labor is most profitable when most intelligent and best rewarded,—­that the present mode of growing cotton is the most wasteful and extravagant, and one not bearing competition.  Thus even the African may reap benefit from the result, and in his increased self-respect and intelligence may be found the real prosperity of the master.  And thus the peaceful laws of trade may do the work which agitation has attempted in vain.  Sweet concord may come from this dark chaos, and the world receive another proof, that material interest, well understood, is not in conflict, but in beautiful unison with general morality, all-pervading intelligence, and the precepts of Christianity.  Under these influences, too, the very supply of cotton will probably be immensely increased.  Its cultivation, like the cultivation of their staple products by the English counties mentioned by Smith, will not languish, but flourish, under the influence of healthy competition.—­These views, though simply the apparently legitimate result of principle and experience, are by no means unsupported by authority.  They are the same results arrived at from the reflections of the most unprejudiced of observers.  A shrewd Northern gentleman, who has more recently and thoroughly than any other writer travelled through the Southern States, in the final summary of his observations thus covers all the positions here taken.  “My conclusion,” says Mr. Olmsted, “is this,—­that there is no physical obstacle in the way of our country’s supplying ten bales of cotton where it now does one.  All that is necessary for this purpose is to direct to the cotton-producing region an adequate number of laborers, either black or white, or both.  No amalgamation, no association on equality, no violent disruption of present relations is necessary.  It is necessary that there should be more objects of industry, more varied enterprises, more general intelligence among the people,—­and, especially, that they should become, or should desire to become, richer, more comfortable, than they are.”