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does God deal with the negro? Has He prepared a special 
religion, a special means of grace, for the sons of Africa ? 
No; He offers the same salvation, on the same terms, to the 
black as to the white. Does His plan succeed? The 
negroes in America are peculiarly religious, and no churches 
are more prosperous than the negro churches. God 
treats the negro as a man, and that is the treatment that he 
should receive from his fellow-man. The negro is neither 
more nor less than aman. If persecuted by enemies he 
perishes. If treated with exceptional tenderness by friends 
he dwindles and decays. ‘The only solution of the negro 
problem is to follow the example of God, and to treat the 
negro as a man. 
But all that we have here written about the negro was 
known five years ago, and was especially well known in the 
Southern States. Therefore it is inexplicable that the 
Confederate administration did not venture upon a policy 
of emancipation until it was too late to save the Con- 
federacy. Inexplicable that is if we will not confess that 
there is a God who orders the affairs of man. 
The Confederate administration would not make peace 
and return to the Union, therefore the negroes were eman- 
cipated. The Confederate administration would not 
emancipate the negroes, and therefore the chance of esta- 
blishing the Confederacy was lost. If the Confederate 
administration had given up the struggle for independence 
the emancipation of the negroes would not have been yet 
effected; and if the Confederate administration had emanci- 
pated the negroes the Union might not have been saved. 
CHAPTER VI.—THE VERDICT. 
THE immediate causes of the death of the Confederacy 
were :— 3 
1. An Untimely Revolution. 
2. A Precipitate War. 
3. The Non-Emancipation of the Negro. 
We may well be amazed that the Confederacy existed 
as long as it did. Without preparation of any kind, either 
material or moral, and on the morrow of the participation 
in a solemn act of Union, without the instigation of any 
wrong, political, social, or legal, there was secession and re- 
volution. That the North persisted in deeming the revolu- 
tion a conspiracy, and had an unwavering faith in southern 
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