Opis: Coercion Completed, or Treason Triumphant - Hamilton John C.

Excerpt from Coercion Completed, or Treason Triumphant: Remarks

On the fifth of December, 1860, President Buchanan, acknowledging a correspondence which I sent to him between Madison and Hamilton - the subject, the right of a State to withdraw from the Union - wrote to me: "I have read the Hamilton and Madison Correspondence to several friends both in the Senate and the House, with, I think, a good effect upon some of them."

In the letter thus acknowledged, I proposed to communicate to him the opinions of Washington and Hamilton - Jefferson and Madison - asserting the right of the Coercion of refractory States. This overture was declined. On the 7th of December I informed the President of a communication from Charleston, which had come to my knowledge, seeking minute information as to the military defences in that harbor; and on the following day, not apprized of the President's false views, and therefore ignorant of his motives for declining my overture, I sent to him the opinions previously referred to. Subsequently, at the request of General Scott, I transmitted to him a copy of my last letter to the President. This noble patriot - anxious, as he observed, "for some practical scheme of compromise" which would meet the crisis, yet fully prepared, in the grievous emergency, to put forth the military arm of the nation - wrote to me on the 22d of December: "In a long interview, a week ago, with the President, I endeavored to bring him out on General Washington's and Mr. Jefferson's doctrines on the Coercion of States, but could not make him touch the subject or allude to your letter. Of course, I did not. He declined even to say that he would enforce (after secession) the revenue laws."

The effort had been made and had failed, and the nation was permitted to drift into a civil convulsion. Subsequently I was informed that my father was quoted for opinions hostile to Coercion. I gave so preposterous a statement little heed until recently, when I met the pamphlet hereafter referred to. I felt it was a duty to the public not to be silent, and therefore these remarks.

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Szczegóły: Coercion Completed, or Treason Triumphant - Hamilton John C.

Nazwa: Coercion Completed, or Treason Triumphant Remarks (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Hamilton John C.
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781331343172
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 28
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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