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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: by the passions and the vices of Europeans; and it will not
disappear from the New World as long as it continues to exist.
The inhabitants of the United States may retard the calamities
which they apprehend, but they cannot now destroy their efficient
cause.
[Footnote v: Nor would these be the only difficulties attendant
upon the undertaking; if the Union undertook to buy up the
negroes now in America, in order to transport them to Africa, the
price of slaves, increasing with their scarcity, would soon
become enormous; and the States of the North would never consent
to expend such great sums for a purpose which would procure such
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