I Will Put It To Any Reader Of History Whether, Since Government
Commenced, It Has Not Been Regarded As The
First duty of government
to prevent a separation of the territories governed; and whether,
also, it has not been regarded
As a point of honor with all
nationalities to preserve uninjured each its own greatness and its
own power? I trust that I may not be thought to argue that all
governments, or even all nationalities, should succeed in such
endeavors. Few kings have fallen, in my day, in whose fate I have
not rejoiced - none, I take it, except that poor citizen King of the
French. And I can rejoice that England lost her American colonies,
and shall rejoice when Spain has been deprived of Cuba. But I hold
that citizen King of the French in small esteem, seeing that he
made no fight; and I know that England was bound to struggle when
the Boston people threw her tea into the water. Spain keeps a
tighter hand on Cuba than we thought she would some ten years
since, and therefore she stands higher in the world's respect.
It may be well that the South should be divided from the North. I
am inclined to think that it would be well - at any rate for the
North; but the South must have been aware that such division could
only be effected in two ways: either by agreement, in which case
the proposition must have been brought forward by the South and
discussed by the North, or by violence.
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