Union Not to be Maintained by Force. By Hon. Frederick P. Stanton, 73


Was He Successful? By Richard B. Kimball, 80, 221, 341, 445




THE

CONTINENTAL MONTHLY:

DEVOTED TO

LITERATURE AND NATIONAL POLICY.

VOL. V.--JANUARY, 1864.--No. I.




RETROSPECTIVE.


Time makes many dark things clear, and often in a wonderfully short and
decisive way. So we said hopefully two years and more ago in regard to
one of the unsolved problems which then pressed on the minds of
thoughtful men--how, namely, it was to fare with slavery in the progress
and sequel of the war. The history of our national struggle has