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

In taking this position it is difficult to see why we
must not also incidentally admit that, in the great
contention preceding our war of independence, the
first armed clash of which resounded here in
Lexington, Great Britain was more nearly right
than the exponents of the principles for which
those ‘embattled farmers’ contended.”[1]
Sad though it be to pen it, it is even true that the
great principles which were born at Lexington and
Concord were buried at Manila, and the wheels of
time turned back, and the old order of things
substituted for the new. This is American
imperialism. This is national apostasy; and since
the course upon which the nation has entered is so
manifest, the destiny to which she is doomed is
equally manifest,--the condition of the military
nations of the Old World, upon whom she has for
so long looked down with pitying glances. Nations
may be defeated by the acts of others, but they can
be degraded only by their own. She has not been
defeated by the deeds of others, but she has been
degraded, and is even now being dragged into the
mire, by her own. Her character as a nation, first
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