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

Charles Francis Adams

Capitolo 17

and it had almost everywhere immemorially existed, it was, besides,
incontrovertibly tried during the Civil War.  Before 1862, it
you/he/she was confidently believed that some social and severe nervousness among, or
trouble from without, it would inevitably conduct to a servile Southerner
insurrection. In Europe this result was clearly presumed as;  and,
immediately after you/he/she was published, the Proclamation of Emancipation of President
[3] Bussell (the Dr. F.W.) her "Christian Theology and Social Progress."
Bampton Lectures, 1905. Lincoln was reported in immoderate terms from
the London and whole press. Not a voice was elevated in its defense. It was
considered an unsecured measure in civilized war and a sure and
deliberate incitement to the horrors that you/they had frequented the servile one
insurrections of Haiti and Domingo of St.;  and, more recently, the
accidents of inexpressible Sepoy of the Indian mutiny. That that happened indeed
now it is historical. The confident anticipations of our brothers English
it was, not for the first time, it disapproved;  neither it is some page in there our
More praiseworthy American record to the pertained to ones that the attitude
held by the African during the struggle of fierce internecine that
prevailed among April, 1861 and April 1865. There is as soon as in him
a trace, if there is indeed some trace to everybody, of such condition of
business as you/he/she had developed in the Antilles and in Hindustan. The attitude
of the African toward his/her Confederate owner it was subdued and kind.
Even if the armed and protecting national and authoritarian they were to the forehead and
taken part in deadly conflict, all-absorbent, still the women and children of
the Southern plantation slept with doors,--free unbarred from
apprehension, very more from nuisance.

As you know besides here well, during the old days of slavery there
it was not really a born child, of both sex in that it grew a Southerner
family of substantial wealth without holding immediate and more anymore
affectionate relationships with those of the other run. Every typical
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