The Causes of Secession (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (McSwain, John Jackson) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from The Causes of Secession The 500 copies of "The Causes of Secession" published in 1917 were soon all called for by the wide demand. It was but a boyhood (perhaps also boyish) essay, but it states some of the striking facts of history and some of the unanswerable arguments. Many school teachers have told me they find it useful in teaching American History. The demand continues, and I am having the same printed again, in the hope that it may help to preserve the correct view of our Federal Government, which is in fact a dual system. Each government - State and Federal - is separate and sovereign within its sphere. Only thus can we hope to preserve the precious rights of local self-government to which largely the peculiar and powerful Anglo-Saxon civilization owes its life. That very self-reliance, individual initiative and inventive genius that have distinguished us in peace and war, take root and flourish in local self-government. To show the wide spread interest still felt and manifested in this subject, even in other sections of the country, I am publishing some of the letters received as a sort of appendix. The subject "Americanism" is on every tongue, but its definition is various and variable. To many it is a chauvinistic boast of military power. But in the hearts of the masses the ideals of freedom, justice and Democracy still survive as the most precious possessions of America. These ideals should be more generally expressed and defined in order that they may be more correctly applied in our political life. When the American people realized that in some vague but real way the life of these ideals were at stake in the World War, they freely and quickly offered all - wealth, comforts, blood, and even life - to save human freedom. The phrase "to make the world safe for democracy" was caught up and passed from heart to heart as the war-cry of this mighty modern crusade. 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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