Address To The People Of Massa

Author : Massachusetts General Court
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ISBN 13 : 9781332843220
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Address to the People of Massachusetts (Classic Reprint) written by Massachusetts General Court and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Address to the People of Massachusetts A system of measures especially respecting nego ciations with foreign nations, must not be assailed by the rash and petulant Opposition of a particular State, before its object and bearings are discovered. If a Legislature, yielding its dignity to the suggestions of impatience and discontent, proceeding from par, tial and interested sources, will undertake to decide upon questions exclusively of national cognizance, disturbance and confusion must ensue, both in the General and State Governments and such con icts, when they become frequent, can terminate only in a dissolution of the Union. It is with a solemn apprehension and dread of this deplorable event, and with a most anxious solicitude to avoid any precedent which may however re motely tend to produce it, that the Legislature of Massachusetts have been in uenced in all their de. Liberations. The caution and forbearance which are naturally imposed by these considerations, would have restrained them under circumstances not abso lutely imperious, from expressing their Opinion upon the measures of our National Rulers. They would have endured great sacrifices of interest they would have acquiesced in great violence to their own vie s of national policy; they would have concealed their fears and suppressed their indignation, if the calair ity in which the country is wantonly involved didnot threaten absolute ruin in its consequences, and forbid delay in the expression of their feelings. But they have been compelled to inquire for themselves, what can be done, when the whole community which they represent deems itself oppressed, and its local and permanent interests forever endangered; when the Administration, through pride of system, from a misapprehension of the interests of the coun try, or under the in uence of a hostile disposition towards one nation, or undue partiality to another, adopts and deliberately adheres to an infatuated pol icy, which arrests all the occupations and disturbs all the relations of society, and, by sapping the foun dations of individual prosperity, drives a whole Pee: ple to despair? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."