Identifier: independen89v90newy (find matches)
Title: The Independent
Year: 1849 (1840s)
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Publisher: New York : S.W. Benedict
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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onlyof the rights of Americans to go and comeabout their proper business by way of thesea, but also of something much deeper,much more fundamental than that. I amthinking of those rights of humanity with-out which there is no civilization. My theme is of those great principles ofcompassion and of protection which man-kind has sought to throw about humanlives, the lives of non-combatants, the livesof men who are peacefully at work keep-ing the industrial processes of the worldquick and vital, the lives of women andchildren and of those who supply the laborwhich ministers to their sustenance. We are speaking of no selfish materialrights, but of rights which our hearts sup-port and whose foundation is that righteouspassion for justice upon which all law, allstructures alike of family, of state, and ofmankind, must rest, as upon the ultimatebase of our existence and our liberty. Icannot imagine any man with Americanprinciples at his heart hesitating to de-ft nd these things. ..--■■ .
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