The Missouri Compromise: An Address Delivered Before the Citizens of Pittsfield (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Heman Humphrey

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ISBN 10 : 1331239117 ISBN 13 : 9781331239116

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Missouri Compromise: An Address Delivered Before the Citizens of Pittsfield

This is a crisis, in which we who love our country and bear the sacred office, must speak and will Speak. If we should hold our peace, the stones would immediately cry out. If you could poll, the whole ministry of the free States to-day, you would not find one in a hundred, but that would remon strate at the top of their voices against the repeal of the Missouri compromise, which declares that from all the territory purchased of France, lying north of 36 deg. 30 min, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, shall be, and is hereby forever prohibited.

In Speaking to you tonight, I do not. Claim, with Elihu, to be quite full of the matter, but I am so near full, that I cannot hold my peace. Though I have now been in the ministry almost fifty years, I have never seen the time, but once, (i allude to the violent expulsion of the Indians,) when the faith, and honor, and justice of the nation were so much in. Danger of being tarnished, as since the Opening of this Congress.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Friends of Public Faith and National Honor :T here are times of peril, in the history of every nation, which demand the united counsels and efforts of all the people, to ward off the danger. Sometimes, it is to resist, at every hazard, the invasion of a foreign power ;sometimes to quell a formidable insurrection at home ;and sometimes, to thwart the stealthy encroachments of wily and aspiring men, who to gain their own selfish purposes, would not hesitate to sacrifice the best interests of the present and of all future generations. Such times of public clanger there have been, in the histoiy of this country. The first, was, in what has since been called the old French war, in 1745, and which was brought to a successful close, by the capture of Quebec, on the heights of A braham. The next, and a far more perilous struggle, was in the A var of the Revolution, between these then colonies, and the mother country, in which England put forth all her naval and military strength, to coerce submission to her arbitrary laws, and to resist which, recjuired the united efforts and sacrifices of the whole people, during seven long and bloody years.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331239117
• ISBN 13: 9781331239116
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 36
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