Author : Woodrow Wilson
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230196121
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (961 download)
Book Synopsis A History of the American People Volume 6 by : Woodrow Wilson
Download or read book A History of the American People Volume 6 written by Woodrow Wilson and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II CRITICAL CHANGES A CRITICAL presidential election had marked the very outset of the war. Mr. Madison had, no doubt, been Mr. Jefferson's lieutenant and chosen successor, and had meant to walk in his footsteps, preserving peace at the price of embargoes and domestic agitation, and keeping the federal government in the background, even though it should cost it its strength and prestige. But there had been men of his own party from the first who earnestly objected to the succession, wishing a leader of a different temperament and fibre. "We ask for energjV they said, "and we are told of his moderation; we ask for talent, and the reply is, his unassuming merit." The very war itself had come because Mr. Madison and his cabinet, like Mr. Jefferson and those who counselled him, had nothing to suggest, whatever wrong was wrought upon them, --except to withdraw from the seas, close the ports, build gunboats to defend the harbors, and wait until the inevitable should be at hand. While they waited every condition of national politics shifted and was altered, and watchful men who wished for action had grown deeply uneasy. Sixteen years of Jeffersonian supremacy had culminated in a war which was against all Jeffersonian principles, and there had come about, while no one planned, an unlooked for disorder of parties, a bewildering reversal of parts in every matter of policy. In June, 1813, Mr. Josiah Quincy, no Jeffersonian, but a Federal ist, professing to be of the school of Washington and Hamilton, had moved, in the legislature of Massachusetts, that "in a war like the present, waged without justifiable cause and prosecuted in a manner which indicates that conquest and ambition are its real motives, it is not becoming a moral and religious...
