Letter to the Governor of Massachusetts On Occasion of His Late Proclamation O
Letter to the Governor of Massachusetts On Occasion of His Late Proclamation O
James Elliot Cabot
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The number of possible combinations, the sidewinds of new influences, of after events, at once outrun the wariest and most practiced judgment. Do your duty, whatever come of it ; — one hesi- tates to reiterate so trite a maxim, — yet it is the sum of political wisdom as of all other wisdom, and not 8 alone a rule of morals, but the degree that it re- ceives application in a state, as shown in the per- tinacity with which rulers and people stand up for their organic, distinctive principle, — is ...the measure of its political efficiency. It may be rude, unreasoning, barbarous; — if may be accompanied by all manner of surface abuses, of chicanery and injustice, but it shows the warrant of a deep necessity in a steady drift in one direction, that amid all superficial contra- dictions gives simplicity and character to its policy. With us it seems sometimes as if the virtues of our politicians were as alarming as their vices. When justice comes to mean — not all the plunder for our side, but a fair share for the other side 5 — wdien right is held to be a tender and chivalrous consideration of opposing wrong ; — one would rather see somewhat less of this civility, and try what savage instinct might effect.
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