Letters on Our Country's Crisis (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Letters on Our Country's Crisis Dear Sir: Herewith, I send you for insertion in "The Constitutional Union" a communication signed Andrew Jackson, a name now more than ever dear to every friend of liberty and union. I adhere to tho sentiment of the old hero's celebrated toast - "The Federal Union, it must be preserved" - and I subscribe with all my heart to the kindred sentiment uttered by General McClellan in the following words, viz: "Our cause must never be abandoned - it is the cause of free institutions and self-government. The Constitution and Union must be preserved whatever may be the cost in time, treasure and blood. If secession is successful, other dissolutions are clearly to be seen in the future. Let neither military disaster, political faction, nor foreign war shake your settled purpose to enforce the equal operation of the laws of the United States upon the people of every State." I deplore the fact, that the Administration, by its policy and its acts, has immeasurably lessened its own power to suppress the rebellion, and by its threatened attacks on the fundamental principles of our institutions, has made it the duty of every conservative man to raise his voice against it. Let this opposition, however, be based on exalted principle, free from faction and demagoguism, conceding to those in power all the legitimate means they demand for carrying on the war. This I intend shall be the character of my own opposition, and difficult as it is under extreme provocation, I would fain hope that the same spirit may pervade all those who strive for union and peace through a change of rulers, not a peace procured by concession to rebels, but a peace flowing from their unqualified submission to the Constitution and laws. 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.