Opis: Are We a Nation? - Sumner Charles

Excerpt from Are We a Nation: Address of Hon. Charles Sumner, Before the New York Young Men's Republican Union, at the Cooper Institute, Tuesday Evening, Nov; 19, 1867

Mr. President: - At the close of a bloody Rebellion, instigated by hostility to the sacred principles of the Declaration of Independence, and inaugurated in the name of State Rights, it becomes us now to do what we can to provide that these sacred principles shall not again be called in question, and that the fatal pretension of State Rights shall not again disturb the national repose. One terrible war is more than enough; and since, after struggle, peril and sacrifice, where every household has been a sufferer, we are at last victorious, it is not too much to insist on all possible safeguards for the future. The whole case must be settled now. The constant Duel between the Nation and the States must cease. The National Unity must be assured, - in the only way which is practical and honest, - through the principles declared by our Fathers and inwoven into the national life.

In one word, the Declaration of Independence must be recognized as a fundamental law, and State Rights, in all their denationalizing pretensions, must be trampled out forever, to the end that we may be in reality as in name, a Nation.

Are We a Nation

Are we a Nation Such is the question which I now propose, believing as I do that the whole case is involved in the answer. Are we a Nation Then must we have that essential, indestructible Unity which belongs to a Nation, with all those central pervasive powers which minister to the national life; then must we have that central, necessary authority, inherent in just government, to protect the citizen in all the rights of citizenship; and then must we have that other central inalienable prerogative of providing for the performance of all the promises solemnly made when we first claimed our place as a Nation.

"National" instead of "Federal"

Words are sometimes things, and I cannot doubt that our country would gain in strength and our people in comprehensive patriotism, if we discarded language which in itself implies certain weakness and possible disunion.

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Szczegóły: Are We a Nation? - Sumner Charles

Nazwa: Are We a Nation? Address of Hon. Charles Sumner, Before the New York Young Men's Republican Union, at the Cooper Institute, Tuesday Evening, Nov; 19, 1867 (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Sumner Charles
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781332526642
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 42
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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