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Excerpt from Radical Reconstruction on the Basis of One Sovereign Republic
To the thoughtful, not only has it long been a matter of deep regret, but it rapidly is becoming a subject of profound concern, that so few of our public men and newspapers, whose positions and functions seem to call for awise leadership of the people, fail to treat the subject of reconstruction with that breadth and radi. Cal comprehensiveness of view which its magnitude, consequences, and the times demand. Scarcely less alarming is it, that the spirit which breathes through most of the discussions of this subject at the North is one which seeks nothing nobler than national self defense, or claims nothing more exalted in point of pride than the recognition of the right of any loyal national citizen safely to go wherever he may please throughout the national domain; whereas, in addition to a necessary spirit of self-defense, there should bear brooding sway at such an historical hour a spirit of such broad benevolence, of such enlarged wisdom, of such exalted magnanimity, that it could be heightened or improved scarcely by Heaven itself. Such a spirit, while as a matter of course it would secure' alike the safety of the nation and the security, with liberty, of its citizens, would seek to go far beyond, in order to heal those sectional animosities which now endanger the national life, that the way may be prepared for begetting that common uniformity of intelligence, interest, political faith and social sentiment, no less than that unity of purpose among all the people of the land, and that common pride in the national might and dignity, without which, the perpetuity, in peace and power, of any people, as a single nation, is an utter impossibility.
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