The Victory of the North in the United States. Tr. for Littell's Living Age.cCharles Forbes R Montalembert
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Author: Charles Forbes R Montalembert
Number of Pages: 24 pages
Published Date: 22 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: Englishhttps://d39ttiideeq0ys.cloudfront.net/assets/images/book/large/9781/1792/9781179249339.jpg
ISBN: 9781236451521
File size: 32 Mb
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ...that they come to deliver and restore to their rights. Do they wish to avenge the wrongs of their race and their own? Do they wish, at the expense of the whites and the blacks, to avenge the crimes and the infamies inseparable from slavery, what their fathers and their brothers, their mother! and their sisters, have so long endured? No, no! for the completion of their happiness and honor, these slaves of yesterday enter the capital of the slaveholders, they take it, they become--they remain masters of it, and not a shadow of a reprisal tarnishes their victory! Call history to witness: the sun has never shone upon a grander, a more consoling spectacle. III. It is necessary, afte"r all which precedes, to refute at length the pretension set up by the apologists of the South of seeing in their clients the representatives of federal rights; of the cause of small states, and even of that decentralization which begins to find favor in the bosom of European democracy. I declare, as for myself, that if this pretension was well founded, if as was said one day by Lord Russell, English minister of foreign affairs, with his proverbial imprudence, if it was true that the South combated for independence, and the North for power, the South would have no partisan more decided, more sympathizing than myself. I am convinced that the friends and the defenders of liberty should favor, throughout the world, the cause of the small states, so recently and so nobly defended by M. Thiers in the legislative assembly. The true greatness of a people is measured, not by the extent of territory, and the number of its population, but by its liberty and its morality. Now, history demonstrates, unfortunately, that, with the exception alone of England, the liberty of a people decreases ...
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