Radicalism Vindicated
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Excerpt from Radicalism Vindicated: Letter of Senator Drake, of Missouri, to Senator Johnson, of Maryland Hon. Reverdy Johnson: Dear Sir: There has come to me, under your frank, a pamphlet by "A Marylander," the comprehensive title of which is given above. Its having so come, and its sentiments and style, led me to ascribe its authorship to you; and in this I am confirmed by information to that effect from a citizen of Baltimore. It is this in part, if not mainly, which impels me to this notice of the document. Common men may write and print what they please, and do little harm; but not so with one of your high position and distinguished reputation. Though cheerfully admitting my inferiority to you in the latter respect, I propose, for the sake of truth and right, an examination and discussion of some positions assumed in this pamphlet, which I consider to involve grave and serious errors of fact and of doctrine. I agree with you in your opening proposition, that "no reflecting citizen can be insensible to the dangerous condition of the country." But when we attempt to assign causes for that condition we diverge, not again, I fear, to come together. And as you and I diverge, so do the people. The loyal men of the nation trace with exact precision and with immovable conviction all our dangers to that rebellion, to sustain which Maryland, though nominally not engaged in it, sent so many men and so much money, and in behalf of which her disloyal people shed, in the streets of your own city, the first blood of that terrible four years´ war. On the other hand, disloyalists of every shade and degree concur with you in your "obvious answer," that "the course which the legislative department has pursued has brought the country into this predicament, has been the cause of the present trouble." The loyal men reach their conclusions through examination, study, and reflection, such as they never before gave to public affairs; the other class reach theirs by that obliquity of understanding with which a devotee of State rights and Slavery sees nothing in the rebellion but what was right and laudable; nothing in its overthrow but an outrage; nothing in the Union but a confederacy, which any part may, of right, shatter at will; nothing in the nation but a loose aggregate of disjointed parts; nothing in the Constitution but an imbecility; nothing in anything but his State, which yet, in comparison with the country, is "but as a patch on the earth´s surface." Between two such antagonistic bodies it is vain ever to hope for concord, while each is aiming to wield the destiny of the country. Their differences can, in the nature of things, be settled only by force. The force of war has been tried, with what result history has recorded; we have now to appeal to the force of numbers at the ballot-box, and history, I do not for an instant doubt, will in due time, and before long, record a similar result on behalf of America´s loyal men. 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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