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

yet reduced to the form of a Roman province.”
Then, says Arnold, and his words are pregnant
with deepest instruction for the people of the
United States at the present time:--
“It is curious to observe, how, after every
successive conquest, the Romans altered their
behavior to those allies who had aided them to gain
it, and whose friendship or enmity was now
become indifferent to them. Thus, after their first
war with Philip, they slighted the Ætolians; after
they had vanquished Antiochus, they readily
listened to complaints against Philip; and now the
destruction of Macedon enabled them to use the
language of sovereigns rather than of allies to their
oldest and most faithful friends, Eumenes, the
Rhodians, and the Achaians. The senate first
tampered with Attalus, the brother of Eumenes,
hoping that he might be persuaded to accuse his
brother, and to petition for a share of his
dominions; but when they found him deaf to their
temptations, they retracted some promises which
they had made him, in the hope that he would listen
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