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Excerpt from Secession and Constitutional Liberty, Vol. 1: In Which Is Shown the Right of a Nation to Secede From a Compact of Federation and That Such Right, Is Necessary to Constitutional Liberty, and a Surety of Union "Mr. Bryce... intimated... a decided doubt whether the conflict in question would, as an historical episode and incident in the great evolutionary record, hereafter loom up in the same large proportions it always must bear in the minds of those of the American generations directly concerned in it... The issues, he more than hinted, were in his judgment of no great fundamental importance... I... failed... to concur in Mr. Bryce's judgment; for the more I reflected... the more I felt convinced that, as the years rolled by... the conflict he had referred to as now forgotten in Europe would assume ever larger world-proportions and become matter of more careful general study. In a word, our American Civil War would, when the final verdict is rendered, ... become an accepted episode of . . worldwide moment." "Hardly any problem affecting the future of humanity is more important than the type and character which the great Republic of the West is hereafter destined to assume."! If one accepts Mr. Adams's estimate of the moment of "our Civil War" (and to reject it consistently one must also widely differ from Mr. Lecky), how can the discussion of a political doctrine, the cause of so momentous an episode, be, as the former designates it, "academic"? 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.