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Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 A.D. to 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing (1907) (14779747862)
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Title: Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 A.D. to 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing ..
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
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Publisher: New York, London, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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tion of brave men to the great words basis of every rightful government. Theof the greatest of English statesmen, as prodigious service rendered to us in thisspoken in the House of Commons precise- awful moral emergency by the Declara-ly ten years before: tion of Independence was, that its public This kingdom has no right to lay a repetition, at least once every year, in thetax on the colonies. Sir, I rejoice that hearing of vnst throngs of the AmericanAmerica has resisted. Three millions of people in every portion of the republic,people, so dead to all the feelings of lib- kept constantly before our minds, in aerty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, form of almost religious sanctity, thosewould have been fit instruments to make few great ideas as to the dignity ofslaves of the rest. human nature, and the sacredness of per- Thus, ever since its first announcement sonality, and the indestructible rights ofto the world, and down almost to the man as mere man, with which we had so 48
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INDEPENDENCE HALL, PHILADELPHTA, IN THE CENTENNIAI YEAR DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, DUTCH gloriously identified the beginnings of ournational existence. It did at last becomevery hard for us to listen each year to thepreamble of the Declaration and still toremain the owners and users andcatchers of slaves; still harder, to acceptthe doctrine that the righteousness andprosperity of slavery was to be acceptedas the dominant policy of the nation. Thelogic of Calhoun was as flawless as usual,when he concluded that the chief ob-struction in the way of his system wasthe preamble of the Declaration of In-dependence. Had it not been for the in-violable sacredness given by it to thosesweeping aphorisms about the naturalrights of man, it may be doubted whetherCalhoun might not have won over an im-mense majority of the American peopleto the support of his compact and plaus-ible scheme for making slavery the basisof the republic. It was the preamble ofthe Declaration of Independence whichelected
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