Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVI. Speculative Views as to the self-defensive Powers of all Governments, and of the Government of the United States in particular.--View of the Circumstances existing, so far as the State of Tennessee is concerned, in the Outset of the War, and Vindication of the Conduct of that State.--View of the Condition of Things existing in Washington in particular, and of the non-action Policy of Mr. Buchanan.--Notice of this Gentleman's late Defense of himself.--View of Mr. Lincoln's moderate and patriotic Conduct after his Election, and Notice of Speeches made by him at Indianapolis, Pittsburg, and Philadelphia.-- Mr. Lincoln's Inaugural Speech, and commendatory Remarks thereupon.--Admirably patriotic Speech of Mr. Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, demonstrating the gross Impolicy of Secession.--Some Allusions to the early Movements of the War, and a short Discussion of the Monroe Doctrine.--Enforcement of that Doctrine the true Means of restoring the national Unity and Concord. It would seem almost impossible to state a proposition more axiomatic in its character than the following one: Every government, being framed with a view to perpetuity, must needs possess the power of defending its own existence and all its essential rights, as well against dangers from without as from perils which disclose themselves in the bosom of the body politic. And this selfevident proposition would seem to include, by necessary implication, another, viz.: That self-preservation, being the general law of Nature, and applicable alike to all conventional associations as to all living creatures in their original character, whenever it shall happen, amid the complex and critical emergencies which it is in the pow A LEAGUE AND A GOVERNMENT. 319 er of a...
