Our Civil War

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Excerpt from Our Civil War: A Lecture Delivered in Portland, Maine It may seem presumption in one who has no popularity, and who is entirely unknown to fame, to offer any observations on a subject which is now well understood by the whole American community. I refer, of course, to the present unfortunate Civil War in our country. This, however, is a subject of such deep and absorbing interest that any new fact or incident, or any varied phase of the whole question, is everywhere deemed worthy of being listened to with attention. I claim not to give you any new facts as to the general question, my only claim to appear before you is in my personal knowledge of many of the characters who occupy prominent positions in as great a drama as ever passed before the eyes of the world, at least in modern times. Every child who has attended our common schools is acquainted with the causes which led to the formation of our government as it now exists, and every man who has read a newspaper has read, and in some measure studied and comprehended, the general operations of that government. It was first instituted as the result of an indomitable spirit of liberty - of freedom from unjust and unfair control. Oppression, with all its odious features, fell before that spirit, and the government of the United States, though born an infant, rose as it were miraculously into gigantic manhood, and has honorably sustained that manhood to the present hour. And although that hour is to us an hour of darkness and of deep foreboding, let me say to you that the whole civilized world still looks upon the United States as a present, a powerful, and a free government, and we all know, of our own hearts, that there are amongst us true men and good enough to keep it so. The possibility of a permanent government, based on the principle of universal suffrage, is a question on which thousands of Speeches have been made, and hundreds of volumes have been written. That possibility is one which appeals to the heart of every American citizen, for it involves the whole theory of our government, and no true American can be found who is willing to entertain, much less to express, a doubt of it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.