Ralph Waldo Emerson, on “American Nationality”

“Ralph Waldo Emerson addressed a large audience at the Tremont Temple Last Tuesday evening, on ” American Nationality”.  His discourse was excellent, and received hearty applause.  It recognized the fact of an actual separation of the nation into two nations, and pointed out the real and positive advantages that would accrue to each side from the separation … The foolish compromise which our fathers made had been dissolved by the spontaneous action of the other party; and the North would never again put her head into that yoke.”   (Liberator, November 15, 1861, pg 2)