Excerpt from Speeches of Hon. S. S. Cox: At the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, July 23, 1868 Their plan for permanent peace fails, because it is not in harmony with the fundamental laws of the republic. To perceive why the Radical policy has failed, and why it will fail when completed, involves an inquiry into the nature and character of our Union. As by the violation of these laws war came, so, by their observance, and by that alone, will peace come. As the immediate cause of the war was the assertion of a right to throw off the paramount Federal authority and withdraw States, so the cause Of the present discontent is the prac tical assertion of the right of Congress, para mount to the organic law, to keep States out, to regulate the conditions of their pretended admis sion, to intermeddle in their suffrage, and to carry on what legislation they require, by citizens of other States not familiar with their needs. Here Mr. Cox discussed at length the relations of the States to the Federal Government, and il lustrated the Radical revolutionary policy by the Reconstruction acts. These acts give all con trol over the Southern States to Congress, and create military power as its instrument. 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.