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Mexico (Mexico, Mexico) (search for this): chapter 187
udence. Neither men nor nations are exempt. These laws never change; and, thank God, we strike solid bottom when we are dealing with Him! Whatever may have been the pretexts of this Rebellion, every man who is not wilfully blind saw its immediate object in the beginning. But, separation once effected, was not the ultimate design equally clear?— the establishment and consolidation of a colossal meridional empire, stretching from the free States of this Union towards the south, absorbing Mexico and Central America, Cuba, and all the islands of the surrounding archipelago, and appropriating all the South American States east of the Andes? This empire was to rest on African Slavery as its basis, and its wealth and power were to spring from a complete monopoly of cotton, and the principal tropical products of the world. Nor would the ultimate achievement have been beyond the regions of probability, had the leaders been allowed to break away from their allegiance and go in peace.
Nineveh (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 187
dem, his eternally begotten and well-beloved Son? Read the fate of that chosen people wherever the winds of heaven sweep, and, innumerable although they be, they are among the nations only chaff on the summer threshing-floor. What became of the Egyptian tyrant after he rejected the counsels of the great Hebrew statesman and set himself up against Moses' proclamation of emancipation? Drowning again. What became of Sodom and Gomorrah? Brimstone and fire. What became of Babylon and Nineveh, Tyre and Sidon, and all the great empires and states of antiquity? Any Sunday—school scholar can answer these questions. They did wrong; they persisted in wrong; they insulted God and ground his helpless ones into the dust. They were foretold their fate; they met it, and wound up their history, falling charred corpses into their sepulchres; and future Layards and Champollions have busied themselves in digging away with Birmingham picks and spades, to heave up from the ashes of ages some
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 187
uld, by the forced labor of the enslaved and dependent classes, have reared a structure against which not only the puny shafts of refined nations would have struck in vain, but which would have overshadowed other states and ruled for a while sovereign of the ascendant. No meaner vision than this rested on the eyes of the projectors of the Southern rebellion. The only difficult step in the accomplishment of this stupendous scheme was the first one,—secession from the Government of the United States. This was to prove an impossibility. All the rest would have followed at half the cost in blood and treasure which the South has already expended during the first two years of the war. The total enslavement of the depressed classes, and the creation of a powerful oligarchy of coadjutors, would have rapidly crystallized all the incoherent elements of society throughout all those semi-barbarous and revolution-devastated countries. Order would have sprung from chaos; but it would have be
Paris, Ky. (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 187
earth to-day, as he was before the Caesars. No new dispensation has been granted to nations. It is graven among the pandects of eternity that the nation that will not serve me shall perish. Heaven's code never changes. The decisions of that Court of final Appeals are never reversed. Charles I. of England did not understand this philosophy. His ignorance cost him his head from the window of Palace Hall. Louis XVI. did not understand it; and his head rolled from the guillotine in Paris. So have a whole regal mob of the oppressors of mankind, sooner or later, from Tarquin to Louis, been sent to their doom by the swift judgment of Heaven. Modern nations have followed the same road as ancient empires wherever they have violated the great laws of civic prosperity and endurance. They have gone to ruin over the same beaten track where the dead dynasties of the past had left their bones. No statesman will pretend, be he saint or sinner, that a man or a nation can conten
Sodom (Israel) (search for this): chapter 187
is kingdom, and to whom he at last gave the most precious gem in his diadem, his eternally begotten and well-beloved Son? Read the fate of that chosen people wherever the winds of heaven sweep, and, innumerable although they be, they are among the nations only chaff on the summer threshing-floor. What became of the Egyptian tyrant after he rejected the counsels of the great Hebrew statesman and set himself up against Moses' proclamation of emancipation? Drowning again. What became of Sodom and Gomorrah? Brimstone and fire. What became of Babylon and Nineveh, Tyre and Sidon, and all the great empires and states of antiquity? Any Sunday—school scholar can answer these questions. They did wrong; they persisted in wrong; they insulted God and ground his helpless ones into the dust. They were foretold their fate; they met it, and wound up their history, falling charred corpses into their sepulchres; and future Layards and Champollions have busied themselves in digging away w
Cuba (Cuba) (search for this): chapter 187
But, separation once effected, was not the ultimate design equally clear?— the establishment and consolidation of a colossal meridional empire, stretching from the free States of this Union towards the south, absorbing Mexico and Central America, Cuba, and all the islands of the surrounding archipelago, and appropriating all the South American States east of the Andes? This empire was to rest on African Slavery as its basis, and its wealth and power were to spring from a complete monopoly of a while at least. Slavery is congenial to the tastes of the Spanish and Portuguese nations, and in full harmony with the lower civilization which exists among their mixed American descendants. Besides, they would have readily found an ally in Cuba, which, on fair terms, would gladly have joined this gigantic Power, and, asserting her independence, as all the other Spanish-American states had done, sprung to the alliance to assert her freedom, and save her half a million of slaves. Steppi
Central America (search for this): chapter 187
men nor nations are exempt. These laws never change; and, thank God, we strike solid bottom when we are dealing with Him! Whatever may have been the pretexts of this Rebellion, every man who is not wilfully blind saw its immediate object in the beginning. But, separation once effected, was not the ultimate design equally clear?— the establishment and consolidation of a colossal meridional empire, stretching from the free States of this Union towards the south, absorbing Mexico and Central America, Cuba, and all the islands of the surrounding archipelago, and appropriating all the South American States east of the Andes? This empire was to rest on African Slavery as its basis, and its wealth and power were to spring from a complete monopoly of cotton, and the principal tropical products of the world. Nor would the ultimate achievement have been beyond the regions of probability, had the leaders been allowed to break away from their allegiance and go in peace. They contem
Brazil, Clay County, Indiana (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 187
exists among their mixed American descendants. Besides, they would have readily found an ally in Cuba, which, on fair terms, would gladly have joined this gigantic Power, and, asserting her independence, as all the other Spanish-American states had done, sprung to the alliance to assert her freedom, and save her half a million of slaves. Stepping on the South American continent, this new Power would have trodden triumphantly over a score of torn and shattered Republics on its march to Brazil, where it would have hoped to find a cordial ally and partner in that vast but youthful empire. Thus the only slave-holders and the only slave-empires of the earth would have met, and reared a structure which might have arrested for an age the progress of meridional American regions. Something far less strange than this would be, had long been history. The civilization of ages was overthrown, and to all appearances the world's march was arrested for a thousand years. The combination o
Charles Sumner (search for this): chapter 187
Xxxvi. On the 12th of May, and again on the 28th of June, Mr. Sumner attempted in vain to get a Resolution passed providing that In all judicial proceedings to confiscate the property and free the slaves of Rebels, there shall be no exclusion of any witnesses on account of color. He had already made two efforts against then reply to the question, What will be the end of all this? from a Senator whose heart was only half with us at this time, I addressed the following reply—which Mr. Sumner so warmly approved of. I will reproduce it here. How is it to end? As all the other great wrongs of the world have ended,—not in blood merely; for men spiaven. This virgin continent was not destined to so horrible a prostitution. The clock of Time was not to go back again a thousand years. But by this time, Mr. Sumner had grown strong enough to set up milestones for himself, without any help from the Senate; and hereafter we may call these rejected resolutions the Sumner mile
Birmingham (search for this): chapter 187
omorrah? Brimstone and fire. What became of Babylon and Nineveh, Tyre and Sidon, and all the great empires and states of antiquity? Any Sunday—school scholar can answer these questions. They did wrong; they persisted in wrong; they insulted God and ground his helpless ones into the dust. They were foretold their fate; they met it, and wound up their history, falling charred corpses into their sepulchres; and future Layards and Champollions have busied themselves in digging away with Birmingham picks and spades, to heave up from the ashes of ages some few remains of these triflers with the divine humanity. Modern history tells the same story; for God is just as much the Governor of all the earth to-day, as he was before the Caesars. No new dispensation has been granted to nations. It is graven among the pandects of eternity that the nation that will not serve me shall perish. Heaven's code never changes. The decisions of that Court of final Appeals are never reversed.
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