Force or Consent as the Basis of American Government (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Force or Consent as the Basis of American Government Again let me state that I hold no brief for any candidate in the election of 1860 and that I have no personal criticism to make of any candidate in that election. However, I believe that the time has ar rived when the nations of the world should profit from the experience of the past. But that experience must not be taken solely from a brief for either side in the controversy of other days, but from an unbiased examination and consideration of the outstanding facts of the time. In full view of the facts in the case in 1861, candid, impartial pos terity will doubtless decide that Henry Clay, not Abraham Lincoln, de serves a Greek memorial on the Potomac, for it was Clay, not Lin coln, who fully carried out the Greek ideal of undertaking no policy without a full and fair discussion, and it was Clay, not Lincoln, who three times laid his occupancy of the White House on the altar of a peaceful preservation of the Union based on the common consent of the North and the South, the East and the West alike. However, Clay really needs no such monument. For, the great American Union based on consent and not on force is, we trust, a much more lasting memorial than any built of marble, because it is a living memorial to his wis dom and understanding. Doth not wisdom cry and understanding put forth her voice, by me princes rule and nobles even all the judges of the earth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.