The Brothers' War - The Original Classic Edition. John Calvin

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Название The Brothers' War - The Original Classic Edition
Автор произведения John Calvin
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it gross disrespect to treat it as

       mere oratory, even if one concede to it the highest eloquence. It voices the ripest wisdom of the ablest practical statesman dealing with a most momentous public affair, in a crisis delicate and perilous in the extreme. The vindication of the true course of action is majestic. But to my mind the great achievement of the speech is his sublime philanthropic deprecation of war between England and America. When the papers told us at the outbreak of our war with Spain that all the British subjects on the warships of the latter

       had thrown up their places, it seemed to me that nothing else could so fairly omen co-operation of England and America in the near future to democratize and make happy the world. And I believe that that inexpressibly sweet token of Anglo-American brotherhood would have been postponed at least a half-century, if not much longer, had it not been for that speech.

       This speech likewise discomfited pro-slavery and[Pg 105] anti-slavery fanatics alike, and won the hearty approval of the wisest and

       best of every part of the country.

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