Excerpt from Union Peace Popular Rights: Speech of Edward Joy Morris, of Pennsylvania, in the U. S, House of Representatives, January 30, 1861 Such was not the kind of Government our ancestors aimed to establish, or they would have remained satisfied with the feeble systems it supplanted. Experience had taught them that they could neither attain a respectable position among the nations of the world, nor secure prosperity and security at home, but through the instrument ality of a strong Government. For this reason, the Executive was invested with an authority, a'most equal to that of some of the sovereigns of constitutional monarchies. 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.