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

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Military virtues are in many instances the opposite of civic virtues; and in more cases than one the attributes and qualities necessary to constitute a good military man are the very ones which constitute a bad civilian. Military modes of thinking and methods of action unfit men for the duties incumbent upon the citizens of a free republic. The rise of a large, permanent armed force in a republic always portends the downfall and ruin of free government. In Europe the armies of the great powers are a necessity, or at least they are a necessity under the present conditions. Europe is simply a conglomeration of armed camps, in which the hostile nations sit watching each other, and preparing for the conflict which their mutually rival interests are bound sooner or later to bring. But with us an army for defense is wholly unnecessary. Locked in the embraces of two broad oceans we have naught to fear from a foreign invader. Lincoln once said that “all the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasures of the earth 264
(our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years.” These words are undoubtedly true. It therefore follows that with us a large standing army can only be of use for preying upon helpless peoples near us; that is, for the purpose of buccaneering. It is now being seriously urged that the standing army of the United States be increased to 100,000 fighting men; that is, about four times its size at the beginning of 1898. To train and keep standing such a force is simply to train men to become good subjects of a monarchy, and inefficient citizens of the republic. The two things can not possibly survive together. It is now for this nation to choose whether it will stick to the old paths, and discard large standing armies in times of peace, or whether it will unnecessarily adopt what the Old World monarchies would fain throw off, but which they find to be an evil necessary to their very existence. Should she choose in this matter as in others to return, like the prodigal son, to the ways of the Old World, her manifest destiny will be fixed. She will 265
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THE PERIL OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE UN
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cherished theme. With me the study
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assistance I have received in makin
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another class to be governed. State
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serving as a commentary in the ligh
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“The words that governments deriv
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In liberty, therefore, was the nati
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To some it [the state] may allot hi
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quote once more from the great Sumn
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ight paramount to the power of inde
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the rotunda of this capitol in comp
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we are but the shadows, while Hanco
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the sovereign State. If the Republi
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this. With the individual man the g
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closed. Divine patience ceases. The
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esting-place for those who here gav
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every kind and description of cring
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leave her alone. In some respects s
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value in effecting our separation f
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that instrument. The English, Irish
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the suggestion of the individual ri
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other, and more firmly bound to the
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indorsed, if taught to our children
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grasped for more. But having by nec
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did not force him back into slavery
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manners. Every master of slaves is
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public mind shall rest in the belie
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Confederate States were humbled in
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if old ocean were bearing on his cr
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some in a dying condition, others s
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to express the general aspect of th
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“According to the information whi
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in name only. On this point one Uni
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Yes, find it upon the records that
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waters. “Third. That the presiden
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“The grounds for such interventio
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In these words a noble and thorough
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colonial system stands signed; yea,
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For a long time the Visigoths remai
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tide of battle turned. Malaga was t
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decorated. Those sovereigns might w
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marble; in niches, where the curren
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cotton or linen, which still passes
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surgery behind their medicine. Albu
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Moors were teaching geography from
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means failed, she had resource to o
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Whatever ills befell the arms or di
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crew, in many of the ships, rose up
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soldiers were to wreath themselves
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is stated, in an account of Spain l
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purposes has been long in vogue wit
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descended like a frock down to the
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in political eminence until they we
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“This accursed race were either u
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exterminate them, was the business
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justice accepted by all true jurist
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y the secretary of the holy office,
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proved by the following saying to b
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the fleshy parts of the arm above t
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5. Ibid., par. 21. 6. Llorente, “
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assembly of the people, and this sa
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thunder, lightning, and rain, along
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walked into the flames, or with whi
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said the decree:-- “We forbid all
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Treachery to friends, brothers, and
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And now the Inquisition was set in
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lasted as long as his life.” At R
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the crown of Spain. General police
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of mankind was almost entirely susp
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suppose that commerce and manufactu
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Provence, with the fiery blood of s
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laborers, all had received the infe
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ground the night before. The magist
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lowliest and the most abandoned, if
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was lodged against one man or again
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house; the death-bell tolled hourly
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that was ever framed. Three million
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“And day after day they did go up
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It is needless for me to write here
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Chapter 7 American Imperialism Nati
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As the stereopticon pictures dissol
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of the fabric governmental are bein
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every point, to build a tower of na
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at all recognize it.” The forcibl
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“This nation has become a giant,
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“Resist the crazy extension of th
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made a mere wreck, a mangled ruin,
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y John Fiske, the most philosophica
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spirit of freedom is as the red cor
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“Fourth. Any renunciation of the
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Upon the fourth proposition regardi
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Colonial empires are wrong in princ
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armies of our enemies were pouring
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having anything to do with the legi
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y Congress to acquire territory and
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annexed to the Union by conquest or
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the establishment of States and per
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James Madison was secretary of stat
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the Congress of the United States)
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“Did we ask their consent to libe
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question whether we are going to gi
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eautiful garments of righteous prin
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government, but if it brings peace
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part, the weak. Such an abandonment
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Then we must stop at the beginning,
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the further spread of it, and place
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his intrigues were carried to a gre
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Into the details of this it is not
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crossing seas, and exhausting their
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harbored ardent, though chimerical
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differences, and in suppressing all
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whether their republic was not as f
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their conquest was no justification
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Rome never withdrew her foot from t
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evident than that God keeps an acco
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angels but beings entirely destitut
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had sinned away their day of grace,
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have never in my life cast a vote i
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pieces, and stamped the residue wit
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monarchies, that they might themsel
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depicted the rise of the United Sta
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On this point George Bancroft, the
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possibly speak as a dragon, and sti
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papal principles as opposed to Prot
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This national apostasy is proceedin
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Chapter 10 Amity or Armageddon? The
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policy; it is in its name that grea
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produced by modern warfare. Within
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was to re-establish the despotism o
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changed the course of the other pow
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foreign nations is, in extending ou
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nation, perhaps, friendly to the id
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her. This was recently set forth wi
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United States in the case. It there
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pulpits, we may read arguments upon
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which was brought to bear against u
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eneath the heavy load of taxes. In
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of her principles and convictions.
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that “more sure word,” “where
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it break in pieces and bruise. And
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Western Europe. It is in the days o
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go. The facts are well known to all
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“But, supposing the sultan will n
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nation even to that same time: and
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come up from “the north parts”
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from the “north quarters” with
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into spears: let the weak say, I am
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een the recipient of great light fr
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voice before his army; for his camp
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was taken, and with him the false p
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in power from the pillars, kindling
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London illustrated paper. On the op
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of Worms. He was all-powerful in th
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And it is the power of being, the p
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After the night there will come the
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Appendix The United States and Slav
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Sulu a cash bonus of ten thousand M
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It follows from this that when the
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