The Social Significance of Our Institutions: An Oration
The Social Significance of Our Institutions: An Oration
James Henry
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But the letter is nothing, the spirit everything. The letter kills, the spirit alone gives life ; and it is exclusively to this un- deniable spiritual diflference between Europe and 19 America, as organized and expressed in our own constitutional polity, that all our formal differences are owing. Our very Constitution binds us, that is to say, the very breath of our political nostrils binds us, to disown all distinctions among men, to disregard persons, to disallow privilege the most establishe...d and sacred, to legislate only for the common good, no longer for those accidents of birth or wealth or culture which spiritually indi- vidualize man from his kind, but only for those great common features of social want and depend- ence which naturally unite him with his kind, and inexorably demand the organization of such unity. It is this immense constitutional life and inspira- tion we are under which not only separate us from Europe, but also perfectly explain by antag- onism that rabid hostility which the South has al- ways shown towards the admission of the North to a fair share of government patronage, and which now provokes her to the dirty and diabolic struggle .
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