Not in Our Name: American Antiwar Speeches, 1846 to the Present

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THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA NOT IN OUR NAME AMERICAN ANTIWAR SPEECHES, 1846 TO THE PRESENT EDITED BY JESSE STELLATO PAGE iii ................. 18232$ $$FM 06-07-12 15:21:51 PS Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Not in our name : American antiwar speeches, 1846 to the present / edited by Jesse Stellato. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary: ‘‘A collection of American antiwar speeches from every major conflict starting with the Mexican-American War. Includes critical analyses, biographical and bibliographical information, and an appendix describing common rhetorical devices used by antiwar speakers’’—Provided by publisher. isbn 978-0-271-04868-0 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Peace movements—United States— History—Sources. 2. Pacifism—United States—History—Sources. 3. Pacifists—United States—History—Sources. 4. Speeches, addresses, etc., American. I. Stellato, Jesse, 1981– . JZ5584.U6N67 2012 303.6’60973—dc23 2012007181 Copyright 䉷 2012 The Pennsylvania State University All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Published by The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, PA 16802-1003 The Pennsylvania State University Press is a member of the Association of American University Presses. It is the policy of The Pennsylvania State University Press to use acid-free paper. Publications on uncoated stock satisfy the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Material, ansi Z39.48-1992. This book is printed on Nature’s Natural, which contains 50% post-consumer waste. PAGE iv ................. 18232$ $$FM 05-30-12 14:55:59 PS for Peter, Roberta, and Rebecca PAGE v ................. 18232$ $$FM 05-30-12 14:55:59 PS Experience proves that the man who obstructs a war in which his nation is engaged, no matter whether right or wrong, occupies no enviable place in life or history. Better for him, individually, to advocate ‘‘war, pestilence, and famine’’ than to act as obstructionist to a war already begun. The history of the defeated rebel will be honorable hereafter, compared with that of the Northern man who aided him by conspiring against his government while protected by it. The most favorable posthumous history the stay-at-home traitor can hope for is—oblivion. —Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, vol. 1 (New York: Charles L. Webster), 68 [T]he voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent, and spite of obloquy, misrepresentation and abuse, to insist on being heard. —Charles Eliot Norton, ‘‘Professor Norton’s View,’’ Boston Evening Transcript, June 8, 1898, 12 PAGE vi ................. 18232$ $$FM 05-30-12 14:55:59 PS ...