Daniel Webster on the DRAFT, c. 1814: slaves to govt. folly, "wickedness"

[Dems Will Win]

Military conscription is morally reprehensible

Their arguments reflect others that have been debated for centuries, and was perhaps most eloquently stated by Daniel Webster in a speech delivered to the House of Representatives in 1814.

"Is this, sir, consistent with the character of a free government? Is this civil liberty? Is this the real character of our Constitution? No, sir, indeed it is not.

"The Constitution is libeled, foully libeled. The people of this country have not established for themselves such a fabric of despotism. They have not purchased at a vast expense of their own treasure and their own blood a Magna Carta to be slaves.

"Where is it written in the Constitution, in what article or section is it contained, that you may take children from their parents, and parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battles of any war, in which the folly or the wickedness of government may engage it?"



http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/opinion/other/040609a.shtml

BUSH '04 =DRAFT '05

[coloradodem2005]

1. Great post.

We need to end Bush's reign for this alone.

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2. kick