Secession: A Folly and a Crime (Classic Reprint)

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The present moment is full of omen and exciting interest. None so critical has occurred in the event ful history of the country. It invites the earnest reflection of every citizen. Experience furnishes no guide for action, and the soundest judgment, left to its own unassisted strength, can scarcely be relied on. Impulses of an enlarged patriotism must be earnestly invoked, and they may with the best assur ance be trusted for a rule of conduct. With a view to present movements and future consequences, let these supply the want of experience, and aid the honest efforts of judgment. No theme can be so important for discussion, or so well adapted to meet the current of universal thought and duty, as that which treats of the divided, disturbed and distracted condition of the country. If a ray of light can be shed upon the surrounding darkness if sentiment in itself perfectly pure, yet unfixed in precise conclu sions, can be led to united and definite purposes; if4 sncnssronz A folly and A crime.

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