A Sermon On the Present National Troubles Delivered in the Winter Street Church
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Our fall as a government would be a disaster to the human race. The enemies of free institutions would rejoice at the failure of this grandest attempt ever made by a great people to govern themselves, and the chains of despotism would be fastened more closely than ever on the necks of millions of mankind. "WTio would ever dare to proolaun the wisdom of a republican government again, if here in this land of the pilgrims, this land of Bibles and gen- eral education, it should now disastrously fai...l ? And let me say, if we begin to break up, nobody can tell where the process of division and of the impairing of our institutions will end. We shall then have introduced and adopted the principle for the first time in our history into our govern- ment that if any party at any time cannot obtain the gratification of all its desires, we must separate. Compromises must be renounced; and to what end might not subdivisions then go ? Where could any one of the remaining confederacies obtain any national credit if such principles are avowed, and the power of government to uphold its laws be denied ?
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