The
CONTINENTAL MONTHLY:
DEVOTED TO
Literature and National Policy
VOL. VI.—September, 1864—No. III.
CONTENTS
OUR DOMESTIC AFFAIRS.
Not of those affairs which are domestic in a broad, national sense; notof any of our home institutions, 'peculiar' or otherwise; not ofpolitics in any shape, nor of railroads and canals, nor of interstaterelations, reconstructions, amnesty; not even of the omnivorousquestion, The War, do I propose to treat under the head of 'Our DomesticAffairs;' but of a subject which, though scarcely ever discussed exceptflippantly, and with unworthy levity, in that broad arena of publicjournalism in which almost every other conceivable topic is discussed,is yet second to none, if not