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The Peril of the Republic of the United States of America - Percy T. Magan

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trade, lavish expenditure, clashing jurisdiction,<br />

corruption in governments and indigence among<br />

<strong>the</strong> people. What have Mexico and Peru done for<br />

Spain, <strong>the</strong> Brazils for Portugal, Batavia for<br />

Holland? Or, if <strong>the</strong> experience <strong>of</strong> o<strong>the</strong>rs is lost<br />

upon us, shall we not pr<strong>of</strong>it by our own? What<br />

have we not sacrificed to our infatuated passion for<br />

transatlantic dominion? This it is that has so <strong>of</strong>ten<br />

led us to risk our own smiling gardens and dear<br />

firesides for some snowy desert or infectious<br />

morass on <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r side <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> globe; this induced<br />

us to resign all <strong>the</strong> advantages <strong>of</strong> our insular<br />

situation, to embroil ourselves in <strong>the</strong> intrigues and<br />

fight <strong>the</strong> battles <strong>of</strong> half <strong>the</strong> continent, to form<br />

coalitions which were instantly broken, to give<br />

subsidies which were never earned; this gave birth<br />

to <strong>the</strong> fratricidal war against <strong>America</strong>n liberty, with<br />

all its disgraceful defeats, and all its barren<br />

victories, and all <strong>the</strong> massacres <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Indian<br />

hatchet, and all <strong>the</strong> bloody contracts <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Hessian<br />

slaughter-house; this it was which, in <strong>the</strong> war<br />

against <strong>the</strong> French republic, induced us to send<br />

thousands and tens <strong>of</strong> thousands <strong>of</strong> our bravest<br />

troops to die in West Indian hospitals, while <strong>the</strong><br />

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