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Excerpt from Two Discourses on the Subject of the War Between the U. States and Mexico: Preached in the Second Presbyterian Church, in Springfield, on Sabbath, 11th July, 1847
N or should it ever be forgotten that the causes of war lie in one, or at most, in a very few minds. The nation itself - the great taass of the people - seldom plunges itself into a war of its own choice. His the work of their rulers, and the demagogues, and the speculators, who expect to grow rich by its chances and its spoils. Nor is it always the easiest part of the work, when the war is actually begun, to stimulate the people to the deeds of cruelty and death which are the inevitable result, and the common work, of war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
