"'Tis Sixty Years Since" - Address of Charles Francis Adams; Founders' Day, January 16, 1913

Charles Francis Adams

Capitolo 11


And here I enter on a difficult and dangerous field of discussion;
and, for reasons too much obvious to ask for affirmation that al around which I am,
says you/he/she will be listened to without the inconsiderable apprehension as that that
following can be available. Nevertheless, this is a necessary part of mine
theme;  and I propose to say what I have in mind to say, while exposing
with every possible frankness the most mature conclusions arrived with the
passage of years. You leave him/it both received in the spirit in that it
you/he/she is offered.

Then, then, as the institution of slavery pertains to, in his
you report to ownership and ownership in those of the human creature species,--me
you/he/she has not seen reason anything to revise or in some way of altering the
theories and principles that I have entertained in 1853, and in the maintenance of
what I annoyed accordingly arm among 1861 and 1865. Economically,
socially, and from the point of view of the political and abstract justice, me
taken that slavery's institution, as it existed in this country
before the year 1865, or it was in any desirable respect or
justifiable. What it had his/her good person and you protect his/her side that raises, till now to
the less as it pertains to the African, I am not here to deny. On the
contrary, I see and I recognize far those characteristics of the institution more
clearly now that would have had to say me you/he/she would have been possible in 1853.
What a the institution in himself, under conditions that exist then, he/she minded
to the elevation of the advanced run, I frankly admit, I didn't do
then you think. On the other hand that it practiced a more pernicious
you influence on those some most advanced run, and especially on
that great majority of the most advanced run that he was not
owners of slaves,--of that self I/you/they are ever become more and more with time
satisfied. However, the well visible characteristic till now as me I am individually
party, has been the whole change of sight how you respect certain of the
fundamental proposals at the base of our political whole American and
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