30 OPINION OF A SOLDIER AND GENTLEMAN. 



murder, and even petty civil wars that have been, and are 

 still, notorious. According to their opinion the men of the 

 slave and anti-slavery States, when the hour of disunion 

 arrives, know well that in disunion lies an individual 

 ruin, and they will do anything rather than cut the withe 

 that binds them unitedly together. In this opinion, may 

 Heaven grant that my friends in America may be cor 

 rect; but, as my sporting narrative proceeds, I shall 

 have it in my power to show many a little circumstance, 

 slight perhaps in itself, that tends, when considered in 

 the aggregate, to show grounds for apprehension that 

 things within America are far from peaceful in their at 

 titude, and that there is nothing so dangerous as liberty 

 insufficiently restrained, or a suffrage so universal that 

 property and life lie at the mercy of an irresponsible 

 multitude. 



