The League for the Union: Speeches of the Hon. George Bancroft, and James Milliken, Esq. (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The League for the Union: Speeches of the Hon. George Bancroft, and James Milliken, Esq.But yet, under all these circumstances, so in fatuated was slavery, that it still passionately pur sued its purpose, and for the sake of founding a Confederacy on a basis on which no enduring government can rest, aimed a blow that was in tended to be fatal to the country and to the liberty of man. The war was, under every aspect, forced upon the northern States; it was a war from which they could not escape. Had they proved cravens, they would have stood before the Powers of the earth of their own day, and before all succeeding generations, as men who betrayed their country, and were recreant to freedom itself. (applause)About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.