Edwards Pierrepont
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Excerpt from Speech of the Hon. Edwards Pierrepont: Delivered Before the Republican Mass Meeting, at the Hall of Cooper Institute, New York, October 15th, 1879 I propose, to night, to take a brief survey of the situation, - to see what are the perils of the hour, - by what stealthy steps they have approached, and how they may be averted. The causes which lead to coavulsions in Nations, however slow in development, are more uniform than is generally supposed. The Presidential contest opens with this canvass; and when the vote of New York is counted on the 4th of November, we can pretty surely know whether a Republican or a Confederate will be the next President of the United States. Momentous issues hang on this result, - perhaps the issues of peace of war! To judge wisely of the future we must know the past; and with our intense and busy people the past is soon forgotten. Read the future in the record of the past. Remember, that the love of power, of riches, of dominion; - human passions, and human nature are enduring forces, upon which we can depend. What has been, - may be again. Thomas Hart Benton was born in a Slave State. He was for thirty years a Senator of the United States from another Slave State; - he, like all the able men of the Democratic party in the days of its purity, was earnest in favor of hard money. He was called "Old Bullion." In the Winter of 1857-8, I met in the City of the Washington, the Hon. Benjamin F. Butler, an eminent citizen of New York, once a member of President Van Buren's Cabinet, a true patriot and a charming man. 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.