gins, his sugar is crushed and preserved by Northern machinery; his rivers are navigated .
by Northern steamboats . . . his son is educated at a Northern college, his daughter .
receives the finishing polish at a Northern seminary; his doctor graduates at a Northern .
medical college, his schools are furnished with Northern teachers, and he is furnished .
with Northern inventions." This provides evidence that even as the North denounced .
slavery; they still relied heavily on slave labor. In addition, it suggests that the North .
financially would suffer if the union dissolved. Though the Southern economy boomed .
because of cotton, it did not modernize, largely because the South became too dependent .
on cotton. Many Southerners felt that if slavery were to be abolished in the United .
States, the Southern culture would disappear with it, because Southern culture by 1860 .
was completely immersed in a slave society. "The South's ideal image of itself portrayed .
country gentlemen as practicing the arts of gracious living, hospitality, leisure, the ride .
and the hunt, chivalry toward women, honor toward equals, and kindness toward .
inferiors." As the North modernized, the South was interested in maintaining it's current .
way of life. This way of life separated the North from the South in more ways than any .
Americans wanted to believe by the Mid 1800's. In the now famous A House Divided .
speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln in 1858 states: "A house divided against itself .
cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half .
free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I .
do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other." .
Similarly, William Seward echoed Lincoln's beliefs four months later when he stated that .
"Our country . . . exhibits . . . two radically different political systems; the one resting on .
