The American Revolution: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Dublin Young Men's Christian Association in Connection with the United Church of England and Ireland, October 30th, 1862T.J. Crowen, 1862 - 15 pages |
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699 BROADWAY aggressive AMERICAN REVOLUTION anti-slavery applause career carried Lincoln character chivalrous South chivalry and gentility choice stock Confederate leaders contest corner-stone course defeat denounced distrust the source DUBLIN England established exactly opposite ideas exigencies of slavery fearful feel forms of society founded on exactly GALWAY Government important interfere with slavery introduction of slavery lecture Lincoln to power material prosperity ment Missouri Compromise moderate calculation nation hear non-extension North philosophical and moral plause POLITICAL ECONOMY present convulsion pretension principle that equality proclaiming emancipation proclamation Professor Cairnes prophecy after prophecy QUEEN'S COLLEGE question at issue regard Republican party result retrograde Saturday Review Secession sion slave power Slave Republic slavery party social aristocracy Solicitor-General souri South Carolina Spratt square miles Squatter sovereignty struggle Sumner sympathies T. J. CROWEN taken tion told the negroes Trinity College triumph Union was founded United whole word Territories
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Page 5 - The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.
Page 4 - ... from the bony structure which surrounds it ; and within this government two societies had become developed as variant in structure and distinct in form as any two beings in animated nature. The one is a society composed of one race, the other of two races. The one is bound together...
Page 4 - The contest is not between the North and South as geographical sections, for between such sections merely there can be no contest ; nor between the people of the North and the people of the South, for our relations have been pleasant, and on neutral groundsthere is still nothing to estrange us.
Page 4 - The South is now in the formation of a Slave Republic. This, perhaps, is not admitted generally. There are many contented to believe that the South as a geographical section is in mere assertion of its independence ; that it is instinct with no especial truth — pregnant of no distinct social nature...
Page 5 - That government, from the very necessities of their nature, they are forced to use against us. Slavery was within its grasp, and, forced to the option of extinction in the Union, or of independence out, it dares to strike, and it asserts its claim to nationality and its right to recognition among the leading social systems of the world. Such, then, being the nature of the contest, this Union has been disrupted in the effort of slave society to emancipate itself...
Page 4 - South, for our relations have been pleasant, and on neutral grounds there is still nothing to estrange us. We eat together, trade together, and practise yet, in intercourse, with great respect, the courtesies of common life. But the real contest is between the two forms of society which have become established, the one at the North, and the other at the South. Society is essentially different from government — as different as is the nut from the bur, or the nervous body of the shell-fish from the...
Page 4 - ... in fact, are ready to deny it; and if it shall not perish on the cross of human judgment, it must be for the reason that the Great Eternal has not purposed that still another agent of his will shall come to such excess of human ignominy. "Such are the two forms of society which had come to contest within the structure of the recent Union. And tho contest for existence was inevitable. Neither could concur in the requisitions of the other: neither could expand within the forms of a single government,...
Page 4 - ... that direct them; and that from no overruling necessity, no impossibility of coexistence, but as mere matter of policy, it has been considered best for the South to strike out for herself and establish an independence of her own. This, I fear, is an inadequate conception of the controversy.
Page 5 - It may be said that without such a general restriction the value of their slaves will be diminished in the markets of the West. They have no right to ask that their slaves, or any other products, shall be protected to unnatural value in the markets of the West. If they persist in regarding the negro but as a thing of trade — a thing which they are too good to use, but only can produce for others...
Page 4 - The one is a society composed of one race, the other of two races. The one is bound together but by the two great social relations of husband and wife, and parent and child; the other by the three relations of husband and wife, and parent and child, and master and slave. The one embodies in its political structure the principle that equality is the right of man; the other that it is the right of equals only. The one embodying the principle that equality is the right of man, expands upon the horizontal...