Author: James Preston Fugitt

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-11-30

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13: 9781334467493

Excerpt from A Plea for Peace: A Sermon, Preached in the Church of the Holy Innocents, Baltimore, September 26, 1861, the Day of National Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer In appealing to the patriotism of my countrymen in be half of peace, I am aware of a serious and almost insur mountable obstacle in the way of success, namely, dema yogism, which is ever current com with the multitude. The patriot is devoted to country, the demagogue loves self, and, like the Scythian Abaris, rides upon a poisoned arrow. To the latter (he is seen everywhere) I attribute our present unhappy state; and he must answer for the blood this war sheds, as truly as the assassin for the death of his victim. He is in the same degree morally accountable to his country, to his conscience, and to his God. I affirm this, because, an unnecessary war is murder; the present war is unnecessary; demagogues are responsible for it, they having forced it on us. And, undoubtedly, many of the chief actors in the drama, shall stand before the tribunal of eternal justice condemned as murderers. Yes, though they, personally, take not a life during the contest now pending - qui facit per alium, facit per se. Well might they exclaim. 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.