Northern Interests And Southern Independence a Plea for United Action
Northern Interests And Southern Independence a Plea for United Action
Stillé, Charles J. (Charles Janeway), 1819-1899
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Were they able, they would invade and destroy us without mercy. Absolutely assured of these things, I am amazed that any one could think of 'peace on any terms. ' He who entertains the sentiment is iit only to be a slave; he who utters it at this time, is, moreover, a traitor to his country, who deserves the scorn and contempt of all honourable men. " The whole theory of the binding force of treaties, which it is proposed to substitute for the control of the Constitution over the varying intere...sts of the country, and the notion which prevails with some, that peace and security are the better maintained by treaty provisions than in any other way, seem to us very singular, very great delusions. Tliey cer- tainly find no support in history. We have only to study the map of Europe for the last century and a half, to discover that general treaties of peace, so far from being any expression of the real interests of the inhabitants of contending nations, represent only the concessions on one side, rendered necessary by the irresistible argument of victory on the other; and that, even in cases where mutual exhaustion would have seemed to counsel mutual concessions, the slightest military advantage, like the sword of Brennus, has been sure to incline the scale.
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