An Address on the Aspect of National Affairs and the Right of Secession
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Excerpt from An Address on the Aspect of National Affairs and the Right of Secession: Delivered Before the Literary Club of Cincinnati, Saturday Evening, March 16, 1861 We have come, at last, to the great question of man´s capacity for self-government. We have proved to the world our capacity for everything else. Nothing, depending on human genius or human daring, is above our reach or beyond our power. The only remaining question is, Can any system of self-government be contrived by the wisdom of man or the bounty of God, with which the people will be satisfied? Or must they be remanded, like other, ungrateful people, to civil war and fraternal bloodshed? To fire, sword, famine, desolation, and poverty, till, worn out with calamity, they subside into peace, and seek safety for life and property in proffered despotism? Such has been the fortune of other countries who had more freedom than they knew what to do with, more wealth than the rational wants of man required, and greater prosperity than could be borne by the vanity and weakness of human nature. Can it be possible that, in seventy years, we have culminated in glory? Not in glory only, but in badness and fully, like the builders of ancient Babel, till God has come down to confound our language, and scatter us abroad? 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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