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. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...efforts, greater strength, greater resource, proportionably greater security from extemal danger, a less frequent interruption of their peace by foreign nations; and, what is of inestimable value, they must derive from union an exemption from those broils and wars between themselves, which so ...
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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. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...efforts, greater strength, greater resource, proportionably greater security from extemal danger, a less frequent interruption of their peace by foreign nations; and, what is of inestimable value, they must derive from union an exemption from those broils and wars between themselves, which so frequently afilict neighboring countries not tied together by the same government; which their own rivalships alone would be sufficient to produce, but which opposite foreign alliances, attachments, and intrigues would stimulate and imbitter. Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which under any form of government are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. In this sense it is, that your union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty, and that the love of the one ought to endear to you the preservation of the other. These considerations speak a persuasive language to every reflecting and virtuous mind, and exhibit the continuance of the Union as a primary object of patriotic desire. Is there a doubt whether a common government can embrace so large a sphere? Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal. We are authorized to hope that a proper organization of the whole, with the auxiliary agency of governments for the respective subdivisions, will afford a happy issue to the experiment. It is well worth a fair and full experiment. With such powerful and obvious motives to union, affecting all parts of our country, while experience shall not have demonstrated its impracticability, there will always be reason to distrust the patriotism of those who in any quarter may endeavor to weaken its...
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Add this copy of Eloquent Sons of the South: a Handbook of Southern to cart. $50.00, very good condition, Sold by AARDVARK RARE BOOKS, ABAA rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Eugene, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1909 by Chapple.
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VERY GOOD. Previous owner's ex-libris to front pastedown endpapers with acid transfer of ex-libris to free endpaper. Volume I shows a faint water line to rear endpapers and occasional page. Front hinges starting to Volume II. Soft faded, celery green, cloth-covered boards have frayed spinecaps and bumped corners. Sunning to spines, boards a bit soiled or spotted. Top edges gilt, deckled bottom and fore-edges. Occasional uncut page. Age-tanned. Books are 6.75 x 4.5". Pleasant old book scent. Volumes have a 2.5 x 1" label affixed to upper spines indicating title, contents, and publisher. Portraits of various authors. Clean, solid. 296 / 291 pp. Contributors to Volume I: Patrick Henry, Henry Clay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, George Washington, Henry Lee, John C. Calhoun. Contributors to Volume II: Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Sam Houston, Alexander H. Stephens, Robert Young Hayne, Robert Toombs, Thomas Hart Benton, Henry Woodfin Grady, Atticus G. Haygood. Among speeches and addresses are Patrick Henry's speech on adopting the Federal Constitution, George Washington's farewell address to the Continental Army, Calhoun's speech on the Subject of Slavery, Robert E. Lee at Appomattox, Sam Houston's speech on Treatment of Indians, and more.
