South Carolina
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Lathers, Richard) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from South Carolina: Her Wrongs and the Remedy Mr. President: At the meeting of the first Congress of the United States, under our present Constitution, held in New York, 1789, a series of twelve amendments were proposed to the States, ten of which were subsequently adopted. Under the first of these amendments, therefore, which insures "the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances," authorizes us, as American citizens, to convene for this purpose; and surely the most thoughtful of the statesmen of that time could not have anticipated a case more urgent than our own, or one so fully justifying an earnest application of the privilege. No people have ever been called upon to solve a political problem such as the people of this State have presented to them. A State Government, constituted of the highest degree of fraud, sustained by the greatest amount of ignorance, and these two factors of corruption and misrule kept in power by the whole force of a resistless partisan ascendency, in which the National Government itself, under a technichal construction of its functions, is constrained to tolerate. People have been punished for their sins, political and moral, their liberties have been forfeited for fancied or real rebellion; but no free people have ever, for any crime, been subjected to the absolute rule of dishonest strangers and the domination of their own slaves. No Commonwealth has ever been so prostrated as to elevate ignorant, unlettered slaves, without the least preparation, to perform the delicate duties and functions of lawmakers, and the free and unrestricted use of the public purse, as the reward of dishonest adventurers. The future historian of this period will have to deal with a philosophy of history more original than that of Gibbon, and will search in vain over the annals of the world for a parallel. 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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