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

harbored ardent, though chimerical desire of
attaining universal empire; and which had a kind of
natural alliance with the kings of Egypt and Syria,
sprung from the same origin, and united by the
common interest of monarchy,--Macedonia, I say,
gave just alarms to Rome, which, from the time of
the ruin of Carthage, had no obstacle left with
regard to their ambitious designs, but those
powerful kingdoms that shared the rest of the
world between them, and especially Macedonia, as
it lay nearer to Italy than the rest.
“To balance, therefore, the power of Macedon,
and to dispossess Philip of the aid which he
flattered himself he should receive from the
Greeks, which, indeed, had they united all their
forces with his, in order to oppose this common
enemy, would perhaps have made him invincible
with regard to the Romans; in this view, I say, this
latter people declared loudly in favor of those
republics, made it their glory to take them under
their protection, and that with no other design in
outward appearance than to defend them against
their oppressors; and further to attach them by a
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