| The Contest in America Contributor(s): John Stuart Mill (Author) |
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ISBN: 1517309603 ISBN-13: 9781517309602 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $6.06 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science |
| Physical Information: 0.08" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.14 lbs) 34 pages |
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| Publisher Description: The cloud which for the space of a month hung gloomily over the civilized world, black with far worse evils than those of simple war, has passed from over our heads without bursting. The fear has not been realized, that the only two first-rate Powers who are also free nations would take to tearing each other in pieces, both the one and the other in a bad and odious cause. For while, on the American side, the war would have been one of reckless persistency in wrong, on ours it would have been a war in alliance with, and, to practical purposes, in defence and propagation of, slavery. We had, indeed, been wronged. We had suffered an indignity, and something more than an indignity, which, not to have resented, would have been to invite a constant succession of insults and injuries from the same and from every other quarter. We could have acted no otherwise than we have done: yet it is impossible to think, without something like a shudder, from what we have escaped. |
