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

depicted the rise of the United States, coming up
peacefully out of the earth, instead of forming
amidst long years of tumults and fightings, as was
the case with all the other powers. It is represented
as having two horns like a lamb. A horn in
prophecy signifies power, and the two great
principles which have given power to the United
States and made her what she is to-day are
Protestantism and Republicanism. But
Protestantism and Republicanism are both in their
spirit pacific; that is, they are lamblike, hence the
words, “had two horns like a lamb.” It is obvious
from this that should these two horns of power be
plucked up, as it were, should they be abandoned,
and Roman Catholic principles in things religious,
and monarchical ideas in things civil, take
possession of this government; then, at once,
everything that is lenient and lamblike in the
government would at that very moment disappear,
and nothing but despotism be in their place. In
other words, it is the prevalence of these two
principles, Protestantism and Republicanism,
which alone makes the government lamblike in its
nature.
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