Letters on Our National Struggle (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Letters on Our National Struggle Many a pleasant hour it brought me, in the midst of the cares, worryings, hardships, and hard knocks of a campaign. It gratifies me truly to find that you had taken your stand against the Disunionists of America, and were true and staunch to the Stars and Stripes, and to all of the past, and all of the future, they so grandly symbolize. But you, who were here for so long a time, and had studied and familiarized yourself so thoroughly with the political questions and parties of the Republic, know well how to discriminate between the unjustified and treacherous revolt of the South and the revolutions which, in Europe, aim to shake off, not sworn alliances and sacred compacts, but mastership and domination, the grasp of the strong, the assumption of the arrogant, all the violence, wrongs and burthens heaped upon the weaker by the more powerful. You had seen and learned enough during your stay in this county, to know that it was against the spirit and institutions of Democracy - against the freedom and nobility of labor, and all that was most humane, promising, and progressive in the Republic, that the territorial oligarchy of the South rebelled. Not independence, but domination, was the inspiration and purpose of the rebellion of the Slave Lords, the kings and princes of the cotton-fields and rice-swamps. To achieve this ascendancy, the disruption of the American Union was essential. Hence the seizure of the Federal custom-houses, forts, barracks, munitions and ships of war, the expulsion of Federal officers, the rejection of the Federal authority, wherever force or fraud could effect the same in those uneasy States, where the slavery of the black man constituted the basis of wealth, of social consequence, and political power. You remember how galling it was to us, whilst writing and speaking in favor of Democracy, and the liberty and new order of manhood the Republic guaranteed, silently to submit to the requirements of the National compact which compelled even the most ardent friends of human freedom to be in a great measure the accomplices of that thralldom which was the cancerous disease, as it was the glaring disgrace, of this great nation, and a violent contradiction of the principles on which it was established. 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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