Addresses Delivered On Several Occasions With a Memoir By George F Hoar
Addresses Delivered On Several Occasions With a Memoir By George F Hoar
Alexander H Alexander Hamilton Bullock
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We might as well suppose that after months of torrid heat and vapor, rolling vege- table life to a scroll, the God of nature would clear the atmosphere without the agency of electric sublimity and destruction, as believe that the current of national vice of a century could be changed, and the institutions grounded 216 ADDRESSES OF ALEXANDER II. BULLOCK. in the mercenary passions of many generations could be overturned, without the vicissitudes and agonies of pro- tracted war. Out of the war has... come another reform in the interpreta- tion of the powers of the Government which never would have been won in peace. We have learned at last that the sovereignty of the nation is greater than the sovereignty of the States. We tried that question under the civil experience of eighty years without reaching a settlement. The Revolu- tion found us united, but only for a special purpose, and the Declaration of Independence, though grand as a war-cry, was by no means a bond of government. The Confederation which followed proved only a joint-stock association, liable to dis- solution at any moment, because it established no central power to raise revenue, or enforce a treaty, or compel a State.
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