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Excerpt from A Reply: Speech of Hon. S. Shellabarger, of Ohio, Delivered in the House of Representatives, January 27, 1863 Why, sir, whose history has the gentleman read? Not Rome's, for Rome killed Catiline at Pistoia. -not England's, for England has a hundred Sedge moors. Not the United States, for that put down Burr's conspiracy and the whisky rebellion. Not Jeff Davis's, for that quells the rising in Georgia against the conscription. Not the Utopia of Sir Thomas Moore, for that had laws. He has not studied the parts of that one hour of dreams he gave us upon this oor, because during that brief hour'he preserves not the decent method there is in madness. He, in one breath, denounces as tyranny and monstrous delu sion this war of the Government, waged to keep its capital, its forts, its mints, its harbors, and its territory, and to secure to all its citizens the right to follow to the Gulf the waters of the Mississippi with travel and trade. And then he tells us in the next breath that we mean to compel this river, from source to mouth, to remain free to our entire people, and that we must and will follow it with travel and trade, not by treaty, but by right, freely, peaceably, and without restriction or tribute, under the same Government and ag, to its home in the bosom of that Gulf. 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."