Speech Of Hon James F Wilson Of Iowa

Author : James Falconer Wilson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780428974862
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book A Free Constitution: Speech of Hon. James F. Wilson, of Iowa; Delivered in the House of Representatives, March 19, 1864 (Classic Reprint) written by James Falconer Wilson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-13 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Free Constitution: Speech of Hon. James F. Wilson, of Iowa; Delivered in the House of Representatives, March 19, 1864 When slavery became apolitical'power, and held in its hands the re wards which'ambition covets, the nation became its most cringing, fawn ing, stupidly debased slave and a most cruel task-master it proved. Its political career was an incessant, unrelenting, aggressive warfare upon the principles of the' Government, the objects for which the Constitution was ordained, the rights of the people, the development of national resources, the advancement ofeducation, the establishment of public morals, and the purity of religion. It touched everything, defiled everything. And we submitted quietly, t'amely, cowardly, while the work of destruction and death was carried o11, by this insatiable enemy of all that is lovely, desir able, just, and sacre No political power, whether found in republics or despotisms, ever wielded so baneful an influence on the affairs of nations or men as the one to which we so passively submitted, and under whose shadow we so fearfully dwarfed. Lts progress was a constant, crushing dead march over everything which stood in the way of its own aggran dizement; and everything desirable to a free people stood in its way. The nation grew stupid under the manipulations of slavery, and seemed to know but-little, and to care less, of thegdanger which threatened the free institutions of the country with destruction. 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.