Causes for National Humiliation a Discourse Delivered On the Day of Fasting Hu
Causes for National Humiliation a Discourse Delivered On the Day of Fasting Hu
Robert Livingston Stanton
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It has laid hold upo!i all parties as instruments of its will; and now at length, subor- dinating the Republicans as its pliant tool, it has throned itself upon the chair of State, and speaks with the authority of law. We need not go through all the details of a long and too familiar story, and recite the utterances and disclose the platforms of the dominant party now represented in the occu- pancy of the White House. What was the South to do? Submission at this stage would have been submission... forever; and since this was impossible without the surrender of all that a people can hold dear — liberty, lienor, and safety — she simplj', and, as we think, with great dignity, withdrew from the disgraceful and destructive association. Yet, while struggling thus for life itself, she is stigmatized by such a man as Dr. Breckinridge, with a base lust of power, or peevishly resenting the loss of a political control which she can not hope to recover. " 40 APPENDIX. Note D. — Page 21. The followinp is the paper of the General Assemblj' referred to: § 42.
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