Speech Of Hon Cl Vallandigham At Dayton Aug 2 1862

Author : John Brough
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ISBN 13 : 9781331039198
Total Pages : 38 pages
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Download or read book Dayton Speech of Hon. John Brough written by John Brough and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Dayton Speech of Hon. John Brough: President Lincoln's Response to the Arrest of Vallandigham Go back to the incipient history of it, or to the time it first became manifest, for its incipiency was of long ago; go back to the period when civil war first threatened you in this land, and not only yourselves, but generations to come after you, will marvel at the extraordinary forbearance of the people of the north, when this vast calamity was first thrust upon them. A section of the country, which may be denominated, in general terms, the Southern States, plunged you by one single act into this terrible war that is now devastating the whole country and putting the great institutions of your fathers in peril. When men undertake a revolution to establish a government, they should be prepared to give weighty reasons for the act which they undertake. There Should Be No Revolution Without Just Cause. That instrument which was read in your hearing to-day shows the long list of grievances our fathers bore before they separated themselves from the mother government; but your brethern of the Southern States had no such cause to aver, no such reasons to give, in justification of themselves for the satisfaction of mankind. For years they have been grumblers against imaginary violations of rights, and at last they came forward, and in a single moment struck with paricidal hand the government which had so long protected them. What had you been doing in the meantime? Can any man point to a single act of justice which you had not extended to them, or of humiliation you had not taken upon yourselves? Can any man point to a single grievance of theirs which you had not attempted to redress, or to a single obligation laid upon you, however injurious in its character, which you had not patiently borne. They possessed among themselves an institution peculiar in its character which is foreign to you; they claimed to have received it from their fathers, and that they were unable to get rid of it; they claimed that it continued to exist under compromises enacted by the Congress of the United States, and the government was responsible for it, and that you should aid them in bearing this cross, and in protecting this peculiar institution. How was that? How did you respond to them? They asked no guarantee that you did not grant; they asked for no fugitive slave law that you did not enact; they asked no enforcement of law that was not extended them. 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.