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1 Lewis Tappan, The War: Its Cause and Remedy 1 (1861)

handle is hein.slavery/warcrem0001 and id is 1 raw text is: kThTE WAR: ITS CAJIUSE AND REMEDY. VIEWED in the light of Scripture and God's previdences, war is the result of sin ; and its remedy is repentance q-d reformation. God, in the present calamitous rebel war, has a controversy with the people - with the whole people - North and South. It is not the South alone that is guilty. The North has participated in the guilt. Judged by the divine rule, For unto whomsoever much is given, of him P Zl be much required, we may be more guilty than the people of the Southern States. The North has had the ma- jority of votes in Congress, and the preponderance in intel- ectual, moral, religious, and physical power. It has fur- nished the politicians and the means to aid the South in their schemes of domination. For fifty years, said an eminent statesman, the Slave States have ruled this coun- try, and it has been done with the consent and aid of the Free States. We are a nation laden with trespasses and sins. We have provoked the Almighty to anger, our rulers, statesmen, our ecclesiastical bodies, our churches, the people of the whole land; and He has come out in judgment against us. All history, sacred and profane, bears witness to the fact that he never fails to punish nations that have thus offended, and persisted in their transgressions. His retributive justice seems to require it. Nations, as such, must be punished, if at all, in this world, and they are punished, often with terri- ble destruction. What nation, considering the light and

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