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I AMERICA. 87
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I On The The Morality Revolution Of In T...
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I I I poli fai faul th t t ician with does s _^ startling who not have lie candour repea with tedl the „ y set Secessionist forth the articles newspapers of their or
. I I mus accus To t tomed turn account to ch the for annel acts the and of diversion ineradicable arguments of Eng of hostility the lish North sympath to . slavery Federalists y from , - we its
reasoning might , wi : th the advantage political , have showing adop t ted he eith illegal er of t three of Secession lines of
, y ; hominem the moral which , showing consists * its in culpabili representing ty , and the the horrors argumentum of slavery ad
in their _, most sensational colors , apparently with a view to The demons efficiency trate tha of t all slaveholders these classes , like of slaves appeal , s has have been impaired rights .
no by more their confusion than that ; of for its the weakest strength link of : and a chain thus of the reasoning passion of is
_jjropor shrinking the U tionatel nionis from ts y ' declam with thing a ations nation that has savors ch damaged aracterized of exaggeration them by more a morbid than An _,
unfavorable impression every was also made by the apparen . t contradiction involved when a constitutionbased mutual
agreement and maintained only by communi , ty of upon interest and sentiment , had to assert its divine right to an eternal
immu trying tabl to re e existence tain dominions ; and , a a maj democratic ority of governmen whose popula t was tion seen was hostile to it
. wh It is t he y S outh beg feared inning m to be t admitted han war that was the the real danger tical
ascendancy of a party pledged to exclude , slavery from p the o terr ffered itories to ac ; and uiesce as President Secession on Lincoln condi ' t ion go o v f ernm the en ermanen t never t
limitation of q slavery , it was not unnaturally concluded p in this country than the that repression aggression of their against vile slaveholders traffic . Times was its are aim changed , more
since Lowell wrote with applause : " If We I'd ray should way , I to had work rather an' part
They go one way go , we take t ' other , ; Guess it wouldn't break my heart . Man Them hed as oug God ht to has put asunder jined ,
noways ; An If ' I there shouldn ' s thousands 't gretly wunder of my mind . "
V for The the question use which of the slavery South was erners allowed intended to drop to make out of of si their ght ;
ri independence ght to the could independence not be discussed itself until had their been legal determined and moral .
I America. 87
I AMERICA . 87
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1864, page 87, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041864/page/15/
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