De Bow's Review, Volume 7James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, Robert Gibbes Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell J.D.B. De Bow, 1869 - Southern States |
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Page 696 - ... laws whereby we have been taxed for their aggrandizement. It is from the East that will come the tax-gatherer to collect from you the mighty debt which is being amassed mountain high for the purpose of ruining your best customers and natural friends. When this war ends, the same antagonisms of interest, policy, and feeling which have been pressed upon us by the East, and forced us from a political union where we had ceased to find safety for our interests or respect for our rights, will bear...
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Page 696 - ... ready to conclude on the most just and liberal basis. The responsibility, then rests with you, the people of the Northwest, of continuing an unjust and aggressive warfare upon the people of the Confederate States. And in the name of reason and humanity, I call upon you to pause and reflect what cause of quarrel so bloody have you against these states, and what are you to gain by it ? Nature has set her seal upon these states, and marked them out to be your friends and allies.