Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873 / 2008-07-02 00:00:00
EBOOK, THE CONTEST IN AMERICA ***
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THE CONTEST IN AMERICA
BY JOHN STUART MILL
REPRINTED FROM FRASER'S MAGAZINE
The Contest in America
The cloud which for the space of a month hung gloomily over the
civilized world, black with far worse evils than those of simple war,
has passed from over our heads without bursting. The fear has not been
realized, that the only two first-rate Powers who are also free
nations would take to tearing each other in pieces, both the one and
the other in a bad and odious cause. For while, on the American side,
the war would have been one of reckless persistency in wrong, on ours
it would have been a war in alliance with, and, to practical purposes,
in defence and propagation of, slavery.
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