The Crisis
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Excerpt from The Crisis: Its Rationale The time has come for the exposure of a great, and, it may be, a disastrous fallacy in the political reasoning of our people. Regarding interest as the controlling power in worldly affairs, the States as sovereign, and that sovereignty referable to the masses of the people in each State, under our republican system, they have assumed that slavery must abide the sure action of the principles of political economy, and live or die, according as enlightened self-interest, acting upon the whole people of each State, influenced by climate and productions, shall determine. Prominent political men, seeking excuses for inaction or acquiescence, have repeatedly advanced this sedative doctrine; and people of all parties have too readily accepted it as true. The error consists in overlooking the fact that the interest of the slaveholder is great and permanent, and is not the interest of the State; and that the interest of the State does not control political action. In the case of slavery, republicanism is not permitted to act; the people of the Slave States are not permitted to be enlightened in regard to their interest on the subject, and if they were enlightened, they are not permitted, as against slavery, to control the action of their States. This is not in accordance with the theory and philosophy of our system, but it is our actual condition, and whoever would help our country, in its present crisis, should know it and give it thoughtful heed. The necessities of slavery create for it a political system that is really irreconcilable with our constitutional political system. The system of government devised by our fathers, is one of most perfect and practical republicanism. 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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