Speech of Hon. John U. Pettit, of Indiana: On the Restoration of the Missouri Compromise; Delivered in the House of Representative, August 2, 1856 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Speech of Hon. John U. Pettit, of Indiana: On the Restoration of the Missouri Compromise; Delivered in the House of Representative, August 2, 1856

It will be regarded the more because it has seemed to be in hazard. Its restoration will be hailed as the augury of permanent peace. It will kindle illuminations, and fill the land with gladness, and the whole nation will go forth to greet it, as old Athens at the crisis of her fate, when the barbaric host cast its shadow over all her seas and plains, poured out from all her gates to bring home the banished Aristides.

This is needful for two reasons - in justice to the injured North, to rebuke her betrayers, who, false to representative duty, and for purposes of personal aggrandizement, made commerce of the national honor and happiness; but, for the greater reason of reassuring good faith and generous compromise, as the only means of lasting har mony.

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