FROM 1857-1865. MEMOIR AND SPEECHES. BY SAMUEL S. COX. MOA MIN "It is advisable to exceed in lenity rather than in severity; to banish but few rather than many; NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 448 & 445 BROADWAY, 1865. Check 1 241820 ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by D. APPLETON & COMPANY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. IN penning this inscription, from a distant city, aloof from old associations, and devoted to new pursuits, memories of you throng, cheer, and sweeten my thoughts. Not only do I recall the kindly courtesies and personal attachments at your firesides and meetings, but the unwavering trust you reposed, from the first effort which I made against sectionalism to the present time, when the consequences of that sectionalism, so sanguinary and terrible, yet remain. I represented you truly, when I warned and worked from 1856 to 1860 against the passionate zealotry of north and south; when I denounced, in and out of Congress, the bad fallacy and worse conduct of the secessionists; when I voted to avert the impending war by every measure of adjustment; and when after war came, by my votes for money and men, I aided the Administration in maintaining the Federal authority over the insurgent States. FROM 1857-1865. MEMOIR AND SPEECHES. BY SAMUEL S. COX. "It is advisable to exceed in lenity rather than in severity; to banish but few rather than many; and to leave them their estates, instead of making a vast number of confiscations. Under pretenco of avenging the republic's cause, the avengers would establish tyranny. The business is not to destroy the rebel, but the rebellion. They ought to return is quickly as possible into the usual track of government, in which every one is protected by the laws, and no one injured.”—Montesquieu, NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 448 & 445 BROADWAY, 1865. Check |