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
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The Battle of Principles

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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.

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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