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Excerpt from The Throne of Iniquity: The Moral Contrasts Developed by the Existing War, in Its Origin, Objects and Prosecution; A Discourse Delivered on the Day of National Thanksgiving, Nov. 26, 1893, at the Central Presbyterian Church
What are the moral contrasts exhibited in the origin Of the present civil war? In all wars there is somewhere a great crime. There is a responsibility resting with fearful weight upon its instigators and originators; if not before human tri bunals, they must at last answer before the tribunal of the Eternal Judge, for all the suffering, and all the shame Of the contest they have provoked, for all the treasure wasted, for all the lives sacrificed, for all the moral ruin that follows war. Every wife widowed, every child made fatherless, every mother bereaved, shall cry out against them in that last grand assize, where every man must give an account of himself unto God. In civil wars, the worst and bloodiest Of all, this responsibility assumes a gigantic magnitude. If without cause, the sin of rebellion has no peer in the catalogue of crime; perjury, robbery, arson, and murder, are simply items in the black roll Of guilt. If Oppression on the part of rulers, such as makes wise men mad, arouses a people) to cast off an in. 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.
