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Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), No Question before the House. (search)
statement could have saved the make-shift management of a few shop-keeping men from the contempt which it deserved, and from the indignation of the British people. It would have been shown how many sacrifices — some of them, indeed, inconsistent with political probity — have been made by the Northern people, that, if possible, this conflict might be averted. Tersely, but triumphantly, Congressional history might have been adduced — Gag-Resolutions, Compromise Tariffs, Fugitive Slave Laws, Kansas-Nebraska bills and all! It might have been shown, for the truth is of record, that the Republican Party, though exasperated as never political party was before, by gratuitous calumnies and unprecedented wrongs, protested with its whole force against the apprehension of slaveholders, as the excess of injustice and of idle fear. An untried Administration could do but little, except protest; yet, by all fair laws of political warfare, it was entitled to the benefit of its protest, and to an o<