. The rebel's daughter; a story of love, politics, and war . hts that ma\-not l)e disregarded. • One dissonant element, lie then continued, ? has temptedinternal demagogues and foreign enemies of free government toassail that sacivd instrument: its implied sanction of if slaviry had beiMi created by that instrument I As if ithad not been forced upon the colonies by tiie mercenary policyof the mother country, and was uot a deeply rooted institutionwith which the framers of the constitution were confronted IAs if the glorious boon of freedom could ever have beensecured to this blessed
. The rebel's daughter; a story of love, politics, and war . hts that ma\-not l)e disregarded. • One dissonant element, lie then continued, ? has temptedinternal demagogues and foreign enemies of free government toassail that sacivd instrument: its implied sanction of if slaviry had beiMi created by that instrument I As if ithad not been forced upon the colonies by tiie mercenary policyof the mother country, and was uot a deeply rooted institutionwith which the framers of the constitution were confronted IAs if the glorious boon of freedom could ever have beensecured to this blessed land upDU any other condition than theperfect autonomy of the States I This part of tlie Colonels oration impressed \Mctor seemed to him, sometimes. — and the hot blood rushed tohis face at the tiiought —that the speakers argument wasaimed at him pi-rsonally even as the speakers eye most oftensought out his. Elaborating the impossibility of the formation of the Inionwitiiout a recognition of the existeuci of slaverv, and dwelliuii f , ti. BAHBECUE AND SPREAD EAGLE. 137 upon the (lisaslmus coiisiijiuiicis to tlic cDuftdiiiitioii timt musthave attended its jihandonnieut, he once more indulged in ao-lowino- eulooy upon tiu pros[)erity and lil)erty that had beensecured thereliy, and then asked: Wiiat would have beenyour choice, iny friends, if you had had the constitution toframe. — a Inion, such as we have it, leaving- tlu; questi(jn ofslavery to l)e decided by the States themselves, with the rightto abolisli it. if they deemed it right, or wise, to do so? Orwould you have sacriliced the Inion to the barren assertion ofan abstract principle, which would, in all human probability,have resulted in the sulijugation of the States l)y some foreignpower, remembering that Inited we Stand, Divided we Fall? The jubilant applause, in which even Victor joined, left wodoubt as to the views of the audience on this point. Thenfollowed the argument, which Victor had already he
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