The Great American Question, Democracy Vs, Doulocracy (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Wilson, William) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from The Great American Question, Democracy Vs, Doulocracy The right of free discussion, as it is inalienable to man, is happily secured by Constitutional Law to every citizen of the United States. Of course, the use which is made of it ought to be at once decorous, and for the promotion of the private and the public welfare. With this object in view, and under a sense of this obligation, it is exercised upon the present occasion. The Author of the brief and hasty hints contained in the following pages, upon a subject which might well command and occupy several volumes, conceives that he owes it to himself to state, that he does not view the Great Question which is now pending before the independent freemen of our country, nor write in relation to it, as a partizan. He has ever believed, and acted in correspondence therewith, that party ought to be held in abeyance to principle: and this conviction does not diminish, but increase, by the progress of time, and by the acquisition of experience. His intimate and cherished friends have always been found, indifferently, in both of the two great parties of Democrats and Whigs, which have formerly divided our citizens; and even now, when these parties are rapidly undergoing the process of decomposition and dissolution, he numbers among their remains, nothwithstanding they are still changing to, and battling for, Doulocracy, individuals, not a few, who are objects of his esteem and regard, as well as in the swelling ranks of the redeemed, and renovated, and living Democracy of our age. "Principles, and not men;" and "men as the representatives, and in order to the success, of principles," have been, and still are, his governing maxims. So, he thinks, it ought to be with all. This the present crisis emphatically demands. He also feels himself uninfluenced by any geographical prejudices, as far as he can know himself and his motives. He loves the Union of these States, both as a great whole, and In Each of its particular constituent parts; of it he has been accustomed to form no disparaging estimate, and to augur great and glorious things for it in the future; and for its welfare and prosperity, he would deem it his honor and privilege to labor and pray. He, as a matter of course, is altogether uninfluenced by "the loaves and fishes" of political office. Selfish ends he does not seek to promote. He knows nothing of North, South, East, or West, which would influence him to take part with the wrong, or shrink from the maintenance of the right. Love, and not hate or indifference, requires that "we do not suffer sin upon our brother," but, by all means, reprove and counteract him in his pernicious ways. If any section of our land continues to prosper, or the integrity of the Union be preserved, and its existence and operations be blessed, it must be by the prevention of the extension of slavery to Territories now free of the evil; and by the marked rebuke, through the medium of the polls, of the spirit which would, at this day, set up the unhallowed and unconstitutional claim: for, by a different course of action, we should incur the wrath of God Almighty, from whom all national, as well as individual prosperity and happiness emanate. This Question being now, in the providence of God, distinctly before the American People, so simplified, and so separated from every other issue as that he who runs may read, and he who reads may understand, viz.: "Shall Liberty Or Slavery, Democracy Or Doulocracy, Triumph In Republican America?" is about to be answered by every Freeman at the approaching election, according to the vote which he deposits in the ballot-box. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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