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Episcopal Minister Delivers Address on “Patriotism and the Slaveholders’ Rebellion” at Dartmouth
Episcopal Minister Delivers Address on “Patriotism and the Slaveholders’ Rebellion” at Dartmouth
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Civil War
Hanover, NH; New York, NY, ca. 1861
Episcopal Minister Delivers Address on "Patriotism and the Slaveholders' Rebellion" at Dartmouth
Pamphlet/Booklet

[CIVIL WAR.] Caleb S. Henry, Patriotism and the Slaveholders' Rebellion. An Oration. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1861. 34 pp., 5.75" x 9.25". Minor tears to edges of paper cover; small loss on rear cover; light toning to interior; very good.

On July 24, Rev. Caleb S. Henry delivered the annual address to the alumni of Dartmouth College at the commencement ceremonies.

Excerpts
"But who would have thought, at our last meeting, three years ago, that before the next our country would be plunged in a Civil War—a war waged by parricidal hands for the overthrow of the Constitution, the destruction of our national existence, and the extinction of the dearest hopes of the human race. But such is the fact...." (p5)

"I shall attempt in plain prose to speak of some things which the times suggest to us as scholars, as thinkers, as representatives of the liberal culture of the nation, who as such have duties in regard to the education of the national mind; and among these things first of this: the importance for our country of what I may call a patriotic education; by which I mean the direction of all the influences which go to mould the character of the young-school instruction and all other forming influences-to the cultivation of the spirit of nationality, loyalty, love of country, unselfish devotion to the public good-in a word, patriotism." (p6)

"But patriotism, like every other generous sentiment of our nature, needs cultivation. And to whom does it eminently belong to feed the sacred fire, and to keep it alive and glowing, pure and bright in the great heart of the nation? To whom, but to the educated class, whose superior culture makes them, of right and of duty, the ‘shepherds of the people.'" (p10)

"Slavery, I say, then, more than any thing else, has debauched the moral sense of the people of the Southern States and corrupted the springs of loyal patriotic national feeling there-not without mischievous effect too, to a considerable extent, upon the Northern mind." (p14)

"This is a war, then, for the overthrow of the old Declaration of Independence. That is its inmost meaning. It is a war that sooner or later was sure to come." (p21)

"It is not in the nature of the slaveholding power to be contented in the Union without controlling it. Its spirit is essentially aggressive." (p23)

"A Civil War is a great calamity; but great as it is, it is not the greatest calamity that can befall a nation. Moral degeneracy, corruption, and rottenness are worse; and a civil war, notwithstanding its inevitable miseries, and the moral evils inevitably incident to it, may, under God's Providence, be sometimes the only effectual means to preserve a nation from the dissolution and downfall which come ever in the sequel of a certain stage of moral corruption and decay." (p27)

"We have appealed to the God of Battles. The appeal has been forced upon us. After a forbearance unparalleled in history, we have accepted the issue so wickedly forced upon us. In the face of the world, in the sight of the universe, we have made our appeal to the God of Battles; and we must never withdraw that appeal as long as He gives us a pulse to feel, or an arm to strike for the sacred cause of truth and right. We fight not for ourselves alone, not for this generation alone, but for our posterity, for unborn ages, for every thing dear and sacred in the great future of our country and of the human race." (p34)

Caleb S. Henry (1804-1884) was born in Massachusetts, graduated from Dartmouth College in 1825, and studied theology at Andover Theological Seminary and in New Haven. He became a Congregational minister in 1828 in Greenfield, Massachusetts. In 1833, he moved to Hartford, Connecticut, where he started the American Advocate of Peace, the journal of the American Peace Society, in 1834. In 1835, he joined the clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church and began teaching moral and intellectual philosophy at Bristol College in Pennsylvania. He was a cofounder of The New York Review in 1837. From 1839 to 1852, he was professor of history and philosophy at New York University. He later served as rector of several churches in New York and Connecticut and pursued literary activities, including translating several works from French. He died in Newburgh, New York.

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