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

of Europe, and especially of Great Britain, which
heretofore we have made it the basis of our faith to
deny and repudiate.
“With this startling proposition in mind,
consider again the several propositions advanced;
the first, as regards the so-called inferior races. Our
policy toward them, instinctive and formulated, has
been either to exclude or destroy, or to leave them
in the fulness of time to work out their own destiny
undisturbed by us; fully believing that, in this way,
we in the long run best subserved the interests of
mankind. Europe, and Great Britain especially,
adopted the opposite policy. They held that it was
incumbent on the superior to go forth and establish
dominion over the inferior race, and to hold and
develop vast imperial possessions, and colonial
dependencies. They saw their interest and duty in
developing systems of docile tutelage; we sought
our inspirations in the rough school of selfgovernment.
Under this head the result, then, is
distinct, clean-cut, indisputable. To this conclusion
have we come at last. The Old World--Europe and
Great Britain--were after all, right, and we of the
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