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James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 5: (search)
er of Paley's Moral and Political Philosophy, which, however, contains no allusion to the subject. The General paints the horrors of civil war in the most gloomy colors, and then proposes his alternative for avoiding them. He exclaims: But break this glorious Union by whatever line or lines that political madness may contrive, and there would be no hope of reuniting the fragments except by the laceration and despotism of the sword. To effect such result the intestine wars of our Mexican neighbors would, in comparison with ours, sink into mere child's play. A smaller evil (in the General's opinion) would be to allow the fragments of the great Republic to form themselves into new Confederacies, probably four. Not satisfied with this general proposition, he proceeds not only to discuss and to delineate the proper boundaries for these new Confederacies, but even to designate capitals for the three on this side of the Rocky-Mountains. We quote his own language as follow
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 13: (search)
ngs, will avail. I assure you that the universal belief here is, that there is nothing to be apprehended from the Government of the United States, and that local Mexican officials can commit these outrages upon American citizens with absolute impunity. In the year 1857 a favorable change occurred in the affairs of the Republic,out making any distinction between them. Little less shocking was the recent fate of Ormond Chase, who was shot in Tepic on the 7th August by order of the same Mexican general, not only without a trial, but without any conjecture by his friends of the cause of his arrest. He was represented to have been a young man of good chard in discussing the slavery question, and in giving their attention to the approaching Presidential election, to devote any portion of their time to the important Mexican question. The President again brought the subject before Congress in his next annual message of December, 1860; but with no better effect. In recurring to his
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Appendix (search)
ntly balanced by the correlative right, on the part of the Federal Government, against an interior State or States, to reestablish by force, if necessary, its former continuity of territory—Paley's Moral and Political Philosophy, last chapter. But break this glorious Union by whatever line or lines that political madness may contrive, and there would be no hope of reuniting the fragments except by the laceration and despotism of the sword. To effect such result the intestine wars of our Mexican neighbors would, in comparison with ours, sink into mere child's play. A smaller evil would be to allow the fragments of the great Republic to form themselves into new Confederacies, probably four. All the lines of demarcation between the new Unions cannot be accurately drawn in advance, but many of them approximately may. Thus, looking to natural boundaries and commercial affinities, some of the following frontiers, after many waverings and conflicts, might perhaps become acknowledge