On the record
What difference does it make now about our beliefs and our arguments in favor of secession?
Said by
Whitelaw Reid
Source
gutenberg.orgWhitelaw Reid: “What difference does it make now about our beliefs and our arguments in favor of secession?”
Editor's note · Context
Reid questions the relevance of past beliefs about secession in light of the current situation, indicating a shift in perspective.
Share
More from Whitelaw Reid
In this way they will surely overcome unjust hostility, and convince even the most prejudiced that the denial to them of any right which citizens may properly exercise is equally unwise and wrong.
It has proved, also, that universal suffrage is the surest guarantee and most powerful stimulus of individual, social and political progress.
Ordinarily the simple performance of duty is so blessed of God, that men who live in the doing of it, are the best off, in all respects, even in this world.
They should persist in this claim respectfully, but firmly, taking care to bring no discredit upon it by their own action.