Author: William Stokes
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2015-07-16
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9781440099687
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Excerpt from The Olive-Branch: Or, Poems on Peace, Liberty, Friendship, &C Slavery is an evil that stands side by side with war, - the twin children of wickedness, whose destiny it is to live, and labour, and perish together. The one attacks the liberty, as the other attacks the life, of God's vicege rent upon earth. In the slave, man is sold by another; but in the soldier, he sells himself and just as man is transformed into a beast by the one system, he is equally degraded into a brute by the other. The free action of a noble, independent human being, is forfeited equally in both cases, but with this difference as to the mode - that in the one it is done by com pulsion, and in the other with few exceptions, by voluntary barter. They are both alike the degraded offspring of a blind brute force; and the day that witnesses the death of the parent, will also witness the extinction of the soldier and the slave. 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.
