The Battle of Principles

The Battle of Principles

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Title: The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict
Author: Newell Dwight Hillis
Release Date: June 11, 2006 [EBook #18557]
Language: English
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The Battle of Principles

WORKS OF
NEWELL DWIGHT HILLIS
THE BATTLE OF PRINCIPLES A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict 12mo, cloth, gilt top, net, $1.20.
THE CONTAGION OF CHARACTER Studies in Culture and Success 12mo, cloth, gilt top, net, $1.20.
THE FORTUNE OF THE REPUBLIC Studies, National and Patriotic on America of To-day and To-morrow 12mo, cloth, gilt top, net, $1.20.
GREAT BOOKS AS LIFE-TEACHERS Studies of Character, Real and Ideal 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.50.
THE INVESTMENT OF INFLUENCE A Study of Social Sympathy and Service 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.25.
A MAN'S VALUE TO SOCIETY Studies in Self-Culture and Character 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.25.
FAITH AND CHARACTER 12mo, cloth, gilt top, net, 75 cents
FORETOKENS OF IMMORTALITY Studies for "The Hour When the Immortal Hope Burns Low in the Heart" 12mo, cloth, net, 50 cents.
DAVID THE POET AND KING 8vo, two colors, deckle edges, net, 75 cents.
HOW THE INNER LIGHT FAILED A Study of the Atrophy of the Spiritual Sense 18mo, cloth, net, 25 cents.
RIGHT LIVING AS A FINE ART A Study of Channing's Symphony 12mo, boards, net, 35 cents.
THE MASTER OF THE SCIENCE OF RIGHT LIVING 12mo, boards, net, 35 cents.
ACROSS THE CONTINENT OF THE YEARS 16mo, old English boards, net, 25 cents.
THE SCHOOL IN THE HOME Net, 50 cents.

The Battle of Principles
A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict
By NEWELL DWIGHT HILLIS, D. D.

NEW YORK CHICAGO TORONTO Fleming H. Revell Company LONDON AND EDINBURGH
Copyright, 1912, by FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY
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Foreword
These are days of destiny for the people of the Republic. Democracy, like a beautiful civilization, is sweeping over all the earth. From Portugal comes the news of a monarchy that is taking on democratic forms. Turkey has announced the liberty of the printing press, Russia is planning a new system of popular education, China is in process of adopting a constitutional government, with a cabinet responsible to the people. Unless one reads the newspapers in many languages, the observer will miss daily some new victory for democracy. Great changes are on also for the Republic. Now that the Civil War is fifty years away, the new North and the new South represent a solid nation. Indeed, if every Northern soldier were to die to-day, not one interest or liberty of this Republic would be permitted to suffer by the sons of the Confederate soldiers, who would defend the nation unto blood as bravely as men born north of Mason and Dixon's line--indeed, who fought gallantly for it in the Cuban war. The North has entered upon a new industrial epoch, but the South also is in the midst of its greatest industrial movement, and in sight of its enlargement, by reason of the Panama Canal.
The Western Continent is not large, but it holds more than half the farm land of the planet, and it is already evident that the United States and Canada, with their free institutions, will indirectly and directly control the thousand millions of people that will soon live between the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, and Cape Horn. The one question of the hour is how to make all the coming millions patriots towards their country, scholars towards the intellect, obedient citizens towards the laws of nature and God. Our national peril is Mammonism, and the sordid pursuit of gold. Our fathers came hither in pursuit of God and liberty,--not gold and territory. Sixty of our present ninety millions of people have entered the earthly scene since the Civil War. Our young men and women, and the children of foreign born peoples need to open the pages of history, setting forth the great men and events of the Anti-Slavery epoch in this land.
The time has come for the teachers in the schoolroom and the preachers in their pulpits to assemble the youth of the nation, and drill them in the history of industrial democracy, and of political liberty. If our youth are to make the twentieth century glorious, they must realize the continuity of our institutions, and often return to the nineteenth century and the