George Campbell on Progressive Government; Reduced to Questions and Answers (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ... the personal and real property of the United States, and that it was too big a proposition for the government to handle, and it could not purchase the slaves, for it could not raise the necessary money to do so, even if the government should determine upon such a policy; and besides the slave owner would not sell, and there was no law that could compel him to part with his property rights; that these rights were sacred and guaranteed by the constitution and laws of the nation, and would be upheld by the courts against all political movements. But a political storm was gathering, the force of which no one foresaw, and the slave owner rested his cause on his property rights in the slave and refused to make concessions, and thereby invited the political upheaval, and it came; and with it was scattered the rights of property, so far as the slave was concerned, and the constitutional guarantees and decrees of the court were lost sight of, and the slave was freed, and the $6,000,000,000 invested in chattel slavery was confiscated, and was a total loss to the slave owners. Now the question suggests itself will the vested interests take warning and learn a lesson from the history of the past and bear in mind, that all property rights, individual or corporate, rests upon the law, constitutional and otherwise, and by repealing the law, property rights, so far as individuals or corporations are concerned, are at an end. It will be remembered that in 1880, there were many millions of dollars invested in distilleries and breweries in Kansas, and the liquor interests were largely dominating the affairs of the state, and were accused of even corrupting elections. The people arose in their power, and asserted the right of revolution, and voted for prohibition, and the des...