George Haven Putnam
George Haven Putnam
George Haven Putnam A.M., Litt.D.was an American soldier, publisher, and author. He married classical scholar Emily James Smith Putnam. He was the father of medieval historian Bertha Haven Putnamand wind power pioneer Palmer Cosslett Putnam...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSoldier
Date of Birth2 April 1844
CountryUnited States of America
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Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us.
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Could Washington himself speak, would he cast the blame of that sectionalism upon us, who sustain his policy, or upon you who repudiate it?
But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?
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We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success.
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Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
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John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.
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Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.
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An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.
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The eagerness to cast blame on old England in the one case, and on New England in the other, does not disprove the sameness of the two things.