The Duties of Defeat
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Excerpt from The Duties of Defeat: An Address Delivered Before the Two Literary Societies of the University of North Carolina, June 7th, 1866 Gentlemen of the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies: As the traveller, who, during his absence, has learned that a great fire has swept over his native city, welcomes with the keenest rapture the first glance of his own home, which he trembles at the thought of finding in the ashes of the general ruin, so should we rejoice, to behold our honored University surviving the wreck of so much that we loved and revered. - Though staggering under the blows of adversity, I am most happy to sec for myself, this day, so goodly a display of her ancient life and energy. May she soon attain to that full measure of prosperity and usefulness, which has heretofore rendered her the pride and chiefest ornament of North Carolina! Since the first keel of an European vessel grated upon the sands of the new world, and the first axe was lifted against the vast forest which covered it as with a crown of glory, the lines could not have fallen to the educated young men of our State in a more interesting or important era. We stand to-day amidst the stranded fragments and floating timbers of the greatest civil war in history. Astounded at the mighty results we are as yet unable to comprehend them. Indeed, the profound significance of their full philosophical import, can scarcely be gathered by this generation. For we are not yet at tho end of the Revolution as is popularly supposed, hut arc only, as we trust, at the end of armed violence. The changes, which constituted the real objects of the Revolution, began with us, only when the last Confederate soldier, by laying down his arms, removed that last obstacle to their approach. Revolutions are not now what they were. They partake in the manner of their accomplishment of the spirit of the age; - and arc hurried forward by the same impulses of science and discovery which have so accelerated the material affairs of the world. How suddenly all of our well settled theories in regard to the relative powers and duties of the States and the Federal Government, have been overthrown, and the whole system changed, it is astonishing to contemplate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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