Excerpt from Thoughts on Peace and War
The person appointed to deliver the address at this anniversary of the American Peace Society was prevented doing it, and, at a very late hour, I was, somewhat informally, desired to write one. I could not say, yes, and I would not say, no, but took time to think about the matter. "To doubt," in such a case, I might have known, "was to be resolved," but 1 did not know at the moment what the resolution might be. I went home, thinking of the matter as I went along, and though the distance was not great, by the time I reached my house, I resolved to write, had a scheme of an address made, and went to work. The official appointment came about the middle of the present month, May, and by that time the address was written.
This history is given, not by way of apology for the hasty and imperfect manner, in which what is writ lias been set down, but because of the omission of topics of so pressing interest that surprise and disappointment may be felt that they are not treated. There is the Texas question, and there is the Oregon question, and there are others, "vexed" ones, too, which arc so grave, in their peace bearings, that you may wonder, reader, that they arc omitted. I regret that it is so. There arc, however, considerations which diminish this regret. Those questions will not produce war, unless a very great change takes place in public sentiment.
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