 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - United States - 1861 - 668 pages
...could have no effect other than the mischievous one of dividing our friends. As yet, whatever it may become, that question is bad as the basis of a controversy,...abstraction. We all agree that the seceded States, so called, are out of their proper practical relation with the Union, and that the sole object of the... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - Presidents - 1924 - 350 pages
...Union or out of it, he would not consider it. It was "bad as the basis of a controversy" he declared and "good for nothing at all — a merely pernicious abstraction." "We all agree," he continued, "that the seceded states, so called, are out of their proper practical relation with... | |
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As appears to me, that question has not been nor yet is a practically material one, and that any discussion of it, while it thus remains practically immaterial, could have no effect other than the mischievous one of dividing our friends. As yet, whatever... 
