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The United States Unmasked; A Search Into the Causes of the Rise and Progress of These States, and an Exposure of Their Present Material and Moral Con - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. THE CAUSE OF THE SECESSION OF THE SOUTHERN STATES. Government is a conservative institution. The purpose for which it exists is to preserve, not to revolutionize, or destroy. We dwell upon this truism--because many people seem to have lost sight of the truth in it. The Southern States in seceding from the Union were resisting, not making a revolution. The Northern States, and the Federal government under their control, under the pretence of preserving the Union, were making a revolution; destroying one government legally established, and putting in its place a disguised representation of it, but which was really a usurping tyranny. When the thirteen colonies declared themselves free and independent States, breaking off their connection with Great Britain, they did so on the claim that, on the principles of English constitutional liberty, each colony had the exclusive right to tax itself, and the British parliament, in which they were not represented, had no right to tax them. They made great use of this argument; yet it was, as they used it, of little value as a principle in government, for it expressed but half the truth in it, suppressing the more valuable half, and making it substantially a falsehood. Unless the tax-payers, who furnished the means necessary to the support of government, can say how much is necessary for its support; unless they have the power to limit taxation, they have no security for their rights. And the best security they can have is to hold the power of taxation exclusively in their hands. If the power to tax is to be put into other hands than theirs, it is better that this imposer of taxes should be one autocrat than the multitude. The demands of the one may be satisfied, those of the hungry, greedy...
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- PublisherTheClassics.us
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1230430997
- ISBN 13 9781230430997
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages52
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