. Patriotic addresses in America and England, from 1850 to 1885, on slavery, the Civil War, and the development of civil liberty in the United States . —agricultural, manufacturing, commercial,social, civil, and religious—demand domestic peace. Thesentiment of peace pervades all classes of men, and inbreadth and power it approaches the dignity of a nat-ural law. It holds down all repulsive influences with agrasp as silent but as omnipotent as the law of gravita-tion. This longing for quiet is not to be blamed. It iswise and legitimate. It springs from the very nature of acivilization which has
. Patriotic addresses in America and England, from 1850 to 1885, on slavery, the Civil War, and the development of civil liberty in the United States . —agricultural, manufacturing, commercial,social, civil, and religious—demand domestic peace. Thesentiment of peace pervades all classes of men, and inbreadth and power it approaches the dignity of a nat-ural law. It holds down all repulsive influences with agrasp as silent but as omnipotent as the law of gravita-tion. This longing for quiet is not to be blamed. It iswise and legitimate. It springs from the very nature of acivilization which has much treasure to guard, and muchto develop. But, by as much as it is desirable, by somuch should wise men see to it that they follow thosemeasures which really lead to it, and avoid those which, * Editorial article in The Independent, June 26, 1856, written during thefirst campaign of the Republican Party, when John C. Fremont was theirpresidential candidate (James Buchanan representing the DemocraticParty); and the question at issue was chiefly the policy of permitting theextension of slavery into the free Territories of the United Jz.
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