A Letter to Grover Cleveland - Softcover

Spooner, Mr Lysander

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1508913293 ISBN 13: 9781508913290

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 1886

Synopsis

To Grover Cleveland: Sir,—Your inaugural address is probably as honest, sensible, and consistent a one as that of any president within the last fifty years, or, perhaps, as any since the foundation of the government. If, therefore, it is false, absurd, self-contradictory, and ridiculous, it is not (as I think) because you are personally less honest, sensible, or consistent than your predecessors, but because the government itself—according to your own description of it, and according to the practical administration of it for nearly a hundred years—is an utterly and palpably false, absurd, and criminal one. Such praises as you bestow upon it are, therefore, necessarily false, absurd, and ridiculous. Thus you describe it as "a government pledged to do equal and exact justice to all men." Did you stop to think what that means? Evidently you did not; for nearly, or quite, all the rest of your address is in direct contradiction to it. Let me then remind you that justice is an immutable, natural principle; and not anything that can be made, unmade, or altered by any human power.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 1886
• ISBN 10: 1508913293
• ISBN 13: 9781508913290
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 108