This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 Excerpt: ...put the Union in jeopardy. It was a voice often expressive of deep emotion, sometimes of anger, frequently of amazement, never of despair, in which, however, the yearning of fraternal hearts, and the predominating attachment to the Union were always discernible. It spoke the language which Franklin held to Burke, at ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 Excerpt: ...put the Union in jeopardy. It was a voice often expressive of deep emotion, sometimes of anger, frequently of amazement, never of despair, in which, however, the yearning of fraternal hearts, and the predominating attachment to the Union were always discernible. It spoke the language which Franklin held to Burke, at the time to which the latter refers when he avers his conviction of the sincere desire cherished by the former for the reconciliation of America with the parent country;--a language of expostulation and regret, but to the full as kind, as tender, and affectionate as that which proceeded from other warning and threatening voices, in all the States south of Delaware pending the Missouri question. Common it has certainly been--much too common in all quarters of our nation, in different periods of excitement, to hint at "shuffling off" the "coil" of the Union. But this is the language of the passions. " Vox et prceterea nihil." All allusions to it should be dropped on all sides by common consent, as serving only to perpetuate the recollections of family broils, in which all have something to answer for. Such being the state of the public mind in New England, it must have been known to the Convention. Their advice, therefore, to dissolve the Union, would have been a torch applied to a mountain of ice, the flame of which would have been driven back upon their own faces. The Convention needed no supernatural information to be aware of this. How monstrous then the idea that the members of that body or any of them, could harbor a thought, not only without authorization, but in the very teeth of their principals, the Legislatures, to recommend measures conflicting with the National Government, and to encounter the surprize, d...
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