Our Civil War the Principles Involved Its Causes And Cure Being a Discourse D
Our Civil War the Principles Involved Its Causes And Cure Being a Discourse D
Nathan Sidney Smith Beman
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His genius and tact gave us Texas ; and his doctrines finally broke up the "Missouri Com- promise, " and inaugurated the bloody scenes of Kansas. AYithout slavery we should never have had a Calhoun, as position and circumstances final- ly developed him ; and without both — Calhoun and slavery — we should never have been visited by this afflictive civil war. Originally a radical democrat of the Jeff"ersonian school, he taxed all his talents and all his logic to reconcile his former sentiments wi...th his new political and social theo- ries. "The Declaration of Independence" which stared him in the face, he disposed of by a short process. Once — when I first knew him, it was the inspiration of his loftiest eloquence ; now it was a work of the imagination, and utterly false in its positions and principles, or at least only poetically true. As to tJie unalienahle rights of man — " life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, " they must be interpreted with proper restrictions — first settling the question, that the black man is a mere outsider of the human race.
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