A Citizens Appeal in Regard to the War With Mexico a Lecture Delivered At Lyc
A Citizens Appeal in Regard to the War With Mexico a Lecture Delivered At Lyc
Charles Chauncy Shackford
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" And yet all is quiet as under the most perfect despotism. There is no united appeal, which should make the rulers tremble; no thronging voices of petition, no indignant rebuke, no prayer, " Lord, how long. " All is still, as though a polluted crust of sel fishness, hard and icy, had bound down all the gener- ous, noble instincts of the human heart. All is still, as if Napoleon were our Emperor, and files of ' Impe rial Guards, ' with bayonets fixed, were ranged before our doors. Oh, for some ...Peter the Hermit, to kindle the fires of enthusiasm ! to traverse this land, to suffer even the pains of martyrdom, to rouse us from this heavy sleep ! There would seem to be no hope of our awakening, if the developments now taking place, fail to stir us. The evidence is clear, in the face of all denial, that this, from the first, has been a war of conquest. No conditions of peace have been offered, except coupled with the demand of surrender of Territory. This is shown to be the meaning of the favorite phrase, " conquering a peace/' Fight until the enemy gives up the Territory we demand ; beat him until he accepts our conditions, is the unmanly stand that has from the first been taken.
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