History of the Union League of Philadelphia
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Excerpt from History of the Union League of Philadelphia: From Its Origin and Foundation to the Year 1882 That great association of popular and corporate powers extended its activity to the functions of government, dictating treaties and declaring wars; but by these means it came into conflict with existing authorities. In a republic like the United States, ideas of new freedom and advancement, social or political, may be labored for by the people without this opposition to authority. Having first delegated their legislative and administrative rights to certain persons, they bring to the aid of those persons a reserved power, which manifests itself in print and speech, in conferences, associations, and in helpful deeds; so that, on an emergency, the entire nation may resolve itself into a sort of sub-government, or vast committee, auxiliary to the appointed heads of affairs. This was exemplified during the War for the Union by the Union League organized in Philadelphia, and by other societies, modelled after it, in other cities and States of the North. It was one of those growths embodying a sublime conception, which among a free population spring spontaneously into life. Its full scope and stature may not have been foreseen by all those who took part in its beginnings; but as they worked for it in a common spirit, from that spirit it took life, form, and motion, and stood at last like a Titan in the community, a realization of large and harmonious ideas. 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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