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Ernest Crosby, Garrison the non-resistant, Chapter 10: Garrison and the Civil war (search)
dren brought up in an atmosphere of hate and bloodshed should have had the spirit of hate and bloodshed infused into their hearts? The seed sown then duly bore its crop, and the battle-cry, Remember the Maine! (a vessel which all the world but America believes to have been destroyed by accident) was the direct offspring of The Union forever! The Cuban War, waged for the independence of Cuba (which could have been obtained, according to our Secretary of State and our Minister to Spain, withou to fight shy of those who advertise their science too conspicuously. In the history of slavery the element of human will and initiative is particularly prominent. A sentimental bishop was the first to suggest the importation of Africans to America in order to relieve the Indians from the labor which their spirit could not brook. It was a philanthropic business at the start. Indians would not work, Negroes would. Here again the human factor asserted itself. The cavalier immigrants of t