A National Constitution: The Only Road to National Peace; A Letter to the President of the United States (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: William Giles Dix
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483659933
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 22

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Excerpt from A National Constitution: The Only Road to National Peace; A Letter to the President of the United States Mr. President, I have quoted the words of George Washing ton, to point my rebuke of your failure to comprehend the real needs of the country over which you preside more like anything else than like an inspiring leader. You have especially failed to take a single step towards what the past, the present, and the future unite in demanding, national consolidation. You were a directing general; you have been a drifting President. In your civil administration you have had the Opportunities of a giant, and you have used them like a dwarf. At the head of our army, you often triumphantly flanked the enemy. At the head of our nation, your political foes and your political friends have taken turns in flanking you. As the commander in the field, you were deter mined to keep on the same line, if it should take all summer you did so, and won for your country victory, and for yourself as a soldier imperishable fame. As our executive guide, so far from keeping on the same line, if it should take all summer, you have crooked and doubled like the Mississippi River, all the year round. Mr. President, your countrymen have not known where to find you. You have had no fixed principles of civil rule. Your compass has been subjected to the influence of so many magnets, that the people could not tell your course, or whether you were true to it or not. They may well doubt whether you could tell yourself. You have, indeed, at times, maintained the national honor with something like the vigor of your military career; but there has been a preceding doubt, whether or not you would, so that your right action has been the source of grateful surprise. There should have been no occasion for the doubt, none for the surprise, however grateful. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.