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Excerpt from The Issue of the November Election: An Address to Young Men
I need not attempt to discuss collateral questions. Mv purpose does not require me to unfold the history of the origin and extension of slavery in America. I am not called upon to discuss questions pertaining to revenues, nor to present statistics for internal improvements.
Relying upon a dispassionate and trustworthy statement of facts and doctrines which current history substantiates, I speak from the present for the future. I hope, not from mere party bias - I know, not from partisan prejudice. I rely on principles and their practical application.
Adherence to justly grounded and well defined princi ples, is the Vital safeguard of permanent prosperity, alike, for the individual, for the community, and for the state; and such adherence is none the less essential for a political than it is for any other organization.
The lessons of history are clear on this proposition. Those lessons are found not always in events significant when they transpired, but often in what were regarded as minor affairs.
Antiquarians have traced, in fragments of the most fra gile of the productions of man's handicraft, long buried in shifting sands, not only important facts illustrating the do westie characteristics of non-existing nations, but facts which threw light upon the causes of their decline and fall.
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