Our greatest president:

we have Judge Douglas giving his exposition of what the Declaration of Independence means, and we have him saying that the people of America are equal to the people of England. According to his construction, you Germans are not connected with it.

Now I ask you in all soberness, if all these things, if indulged in, if ratified, if confirmed and endorsed, if taught to our children, and repeated to them, do not tend to rub out the sentiment of liberty in the country, and to transform this Government into a government of some other form. Those arguments that are made, that the inferior race are to be treated with as much allowance as they are capable of enjoying; that as much is to be done for them as their condition will allow.

What are these arguments? They are the arguments that kings have made for enslaving the people in all ages of the world. You will find that all the arguments in favor of king-craft were of this class; they always bestrode the necks of the people, not that they wanted to do it, but because the people were better off for being ridden.

HT: Powerline

We also recommend Lincoln’s House Divided speech. It has overtones that ring true today regarding the current war. With Iran continuing to escalate matters in Iraq, it seems hard to bet much money on a gradual and easy-exit scenario from that country. Rather, in the matter of pro-war versus anti-war, we may be pushed to a situation where we “will become all one thing or all the other,” without much middle ground. Which will it be?

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