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Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), The necessity of Servility. (search)
opinions of Jefferson, of Franklin, and of other leading spirits of the Revolution, and the weight of tradition, all prove this to a certainty. They did not pretend to establish institutions which should merely equal those of the past. Their honorable and humane ambition was to present to the world an ameliorating discovery in political science — that of the equality of all men. If they had been absolutely faithful, in spite of temptation, to the great idea which animated their career; if they had valiantly stood by the truth in practice, as they did by the truth in theory, from what sorrows and crimes and bitter experiences would they not have saved their children? It is for us to finish the work of the Fathers! It is for us to accept their teachings and to transmute them into the fine gold of a truly Christian polity! As we are wiser than the men of the Middle Ages, let us prove that ten centuries of hard experience have not been thrown away upon the race! February 4, 1863