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The Daily Dispatch: October 6, 1862., [Electronic resource], Recognition. (search)
dness, "are a set of extremely wise creatures" The refusal of the American colonies to submit to Imperial taxation was a signal given by nature, though not understood by man, that the time had arrived when it was good for both parties that the colonies should become a nation. The present secession of the South from the North is a similar signal given by nature, and equally misunderstood by man that the time has arrived when there ought to be more than one nation on the Continent of North America. The Unionists imagine that the greatness of their country depends upon the retention under one Government, and under one set of institutions, of the whole of a territory equal to that of all the great nations of Europe put together. But they mistake the nature of greatness. Greatness is not independent, in the case of nations, of material size and power; but it is essentially a not a material quality. And in order that she may be morally great, a nation must have other nations at h