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A Defense of the Reconstruction Acts of Congress: And Critical Review of the Inaugural of H. H. Haight, Governor of California (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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In commencing the defense of the Congressional. Reconstruction, and the critical review of=governor Haight's Inaugural Address, we deem it necessary to acquaint the reader with the motives which have impelled us to this undertaking, lest it may appear on our part an act of temerity. _they are two - right and duty.
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Excerpt from A Defense of the Reconstruction Acts of Congress: And Critical Review of the Inaugural of H. H. Haight, Governor of California
1. In commencing the defense of the Congressional Reconstruction, and the critical review of Governor Haight's Inaugural Address, we deem it necessary to acquaint the reader with the motives which have impelled us to this undertaking, lest it may appear on our part an act of temerity. They are two-right and duty.
2. When the policy of one party is fiercely attacked by another, it is the undisputed right of every member of the former to defend it from the assaults of the latter; but, when that policy is approved by the majority of a nation, it is then the bounden duty of every loyal citizen and friend of the government to rally to its support.
3. The attack made upon a policy sanctioned by the majority of a commonwealth is a covert assault upon the fundamental principle of a Republican Government, that "the majority must rule." If this principle be surrendered, the magnificent edifice of the Republic must necessarily fall. The beautiful statue of liberty will soon crumble to fragments, social order will cease, anarchy will prevail, popular government will be at an end.
4. Can a loyal citizen, a friend of popular institutions, be instrumental to such lamentable catastrophe by culpable inactivity? Can the friends of freedom and progress remain indifferent to the evils which will thence ensue, not in this country alone, but all over the world? Now this is precisely our case.
5. The acts of Congress for the reconstruction of the late insurgent States, supported by the Union-Republican Party, approved by the majority of the nation, are vehemently denounced as tyrannical and unconstitutional by the Democracy. The Author of the Inangural Address(1) styles them "a violation of the fundamental principles of the Constitution; a violation of liberty; every sentiment of humanity and Christianity; a disgrace to our country and to the aye in which we lice.
6. We claim, therefore, that it is both our right and duty to defend the Reconstruction lets with all the force of argument we can control; and, though we are not a match for giant, we may nevertheless u-y our sling. Indeed, if seeing very clearly by the light of reason which God has given us, the right, justice, and necessity of those acts, either from human fear, or other base motive, we should shrink from the duty of expressing publicly our sentiments we would be criminal deserters of a sacred cause; would be guilty of omission in a strict duty to the Government; and, as far as it lies in our power, would frustrate the noble design of a wise Providence in endowing men with reason, that they may thereby subserve their own as well as the interests of the society in which they live. Earnestly we trust and pray, that the enormous weight of such infamous crime may never rest on our conscience! Hence, openly and fearlessly we affirm, that the reconstruction measures of Congress respecting the insurgent States are founded on right, justice, and necessity; and as such are entitled to the support of every loyal American citizen and friend of just government.
7. For the sake of order, we shall divide the Review and Defense into three parts, and shall endeavor to prove, three points: First - We shall demonstrate that the insurgent States had no right to secede by their own authority; Second - That by rebellion and secession they lost their character and condition of States of the Union, and at the close of the war they had no civil governments; Finally - We shall consider the logical results of the crime and punishment of armed rebellion, and shall reply to various objections and false charges started by our adversary and his party-friends.
8. The long list of wrongs recited by the 'Author of the Inaugural and repeated by the Democratic Convention as arising from the Congressional policy of reconstructi
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