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William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 8: during the civil war (search)
te from the State and establish a Free city, which would have cheap goods nearly free from duty. A week later he declared that, if any six or more of the cotton States wanted to secede, we will do our best to help them out, not that we want them to go, but that we loathe the idea of compelling them to stay. The abstract right of a State to secede, under the Constitution, is upheld by some Republicans of prominence to-day. Without following their argument, it may be pointed out that what Washington had in view was an inviolable Union, that indissoluble Union which he recommended to the Governors of the States; and that John Quincy Adams, in 1828, declared that, while the people of a State, by the primitive right of insurrection against oppression might declare their State out of the Union, they have delegated no such power to their legislators or their judges; and if there be such a right, it is the right of an individual to commit suicide — the right of an inhabitant of a populous
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 9: Greeley's presidential campaign-his death (search)
ared for universal amnesty and equal suffrage, tariff reform by the removal of such duties as, in addition to the yielded revenue, increase the price of domestic products for the benefit of favored interests, and civil service reform, and denounced the packing of the Supreme Court to relieve rich corporations, and the attempt to cure the Kuklux disorders, irreligion, or intemperance by means of unconstitutional laws. This movement for a national convention received some directions from Washington. Schurz was occupying his seat as Senator at the time, and he held intimate relations with Charles Sumner, whose quarrel with President Grant was a matter of national interest. The unfriendliness of the Massachusetts Senator and the President, beginning, perhaps, when Sumner was obliged, on constitutional grounds, to oppose the confirmation of A. T. Stewart, Grant's first nominee for Secretary of the Treasury, grew into charges and counter-charges of great bitterness while the Santo Domi