Jackson Birthplace Of The Republican Party

Author : John Hay
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334956638
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book Fifty Years of the Republican Party written by John Hay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fifty Years of the Republican Party: An Address Delivered at Jackson, Mich., July 6, 1904 Once embarked upon this fatal enterprise they left nothing undone which could contribute to the catastrophe upon which they were rushing. The Whig party had gone to ruin in 1852 on account of the impossibility of combining the scattered ele ments of opposition to the party of pro-slavery ag gression; but they themselves furnished the weapon which was' to defeat them. In May, 1854, after several months of passionate debate, to which the country listened with feverish interest, Congress passed the bill organizing the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska, omitting the restrictions of the Mis souri Compromise which excluded slavery from them. -this action at once precipitated the oat ing anti-slavery sentiment of the country. A mighty cry of resolute indignation arose from one end of the land to the other. The hollow truce, founded upon the legitimate compromises which had been observed in good faith by one side and ruthlessly violated by the other, was at an end. Men began to search their consciences instead of the arguments of political expediency. A discus sion of the right and wrong of slavery became gen eral; the light was let in, fatal to darkness. A system which degraded men, dishonored women, deprived little children of the sacred solace of home, was doomed from the hour it passed into the arena of free debate. And even if we shut our eyes tothe moral aspects of that heartless system, and con fined ourselves to the examlnatlon of its economic merits, it was found to be wasteful and inefficient. The Americans are at once the most sentimental and the most practical of 'peoples - and when they see that an institution is morally revolting, and, be sides, does not pay, its fate IS sealed. 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."