Select Orations Illustrating American Political History
Select Orations Illustrating American Political History
Harding, Samuel Bannister, 1866-1927, Ed
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I will touch this subject as tenderly as possible. It is with reluctance that I touch it at all; but in cases of great emergency the state physician must not be deterred, by a sickly hysterical humanity, from probing the wound of his patient: he must not be withheld by a fastidious and mistaken delicacy from rep- resenting his true situation to his friends, or even to the sick man himself, when the occasion calls for it. What is the situation of the slave-holding States? During the War of the R...evolution, so fixed were their habits of sub- ordination that while the whole country was ovemin by 184 John Randolph the enemj^ who invited them to desert^ no fear was ever entertained of an insurrection of the slaves. During a 'war of seven years, with our country in possession of the enexny^ no such danger was ever apprehended. But should 'we^ therefore, be unobservant spectators of the progress of society within the last twenty years; of the silent, but pow- erful change wrought, by time and chance, upon its com- position and temper?
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