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Download or read book The American Question in Its National Aspect written by Elias Piessner and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the PREFACE. SLAVERY, irrespective of its being right or wrong, is a historical fact, and depends as such, in its rise, growth, and decay, on the various circumstances of time and. place which surround it, and have surrounded it, in difl'erent nations and periods. The soil, the climate, the geological and geographical congeniality with the most thickly settled countries of Europe, the large immigration consequent thereupon, the character of the settlers, --in short, land and people, production and population, made emancipation easier in our Northern States than in most of the Southern. Therefore, we must censure those who wantonly throw all blame and all curses on the slaveholder as such; but we must also condemn the Slave-Politician who, on the natural circumstances unfavorable to speedy emancipation in the South, raised a play-ground for his political ambition and cast new obstacles in the way of freedom. The imprudent abolitionist and the selfish politician exert a like influence upon the nation, though it be of different intensity. They rouse enmity and hatred between two sections of the same country; they, intentionally or unawares, render the Union less desirable and less honorable; they create fears, and threats, and experiments of dissolution. For this their influence on Union and Nationality have we undertaken to review the course of the deadly antagonists. Within the Union, then, alone the question of Slavery can be solved in such a manner as to bring permanently the greatest benefit to all parties concerned. This is, indeed, the American question, and it will haunt us whether there be a temporary dissolution of the Union or not. Slavery, far from being a sufficient reason for breaking the Union, adds new cause, new interest, new ties to draw us still more closely together. To prove this is the object of the present treatise. Consequently, we have ventured to present in their proper light the two most famous arguments of the present day-the one taken from Political Economy, the other weeded out from history-and have endeavored to prove that they nowhere teach unrelenting hatred and disunion. Mr. H. R. HELPER'S collection of figures and testimonies having become more popular than any other, we have taken his production as a basis for our First Two Books. The seriousness of the subject seemed at first to exclude all humor; but Mr. Herman's passion and folly would, in some instances, have made any other treatment unfair and altogether unpalatable to the general reader....

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