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Thread ID: 14963 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2004-09-11
2004-09-11 17:05 | User Profile
Found this on Harry Seabrook's [url=http://littlegeneva.com/]Little Geneva[/url] blog:
**"We may extend our dominion over the whole continent, our navies may ride triumphant on every sea, our name may be the terror of Kings, our decrees the destinies of nations, but be assured it will be at the price of our free institutions. I know not how it may be with others, but for my own part, I would not pay this price for all the power and all the glory that ever clustered around all the banners and all the eagles emblazoned in the pantheon of history… Let us turn from the line of vulgar conquerors to the fathers of the Republic; let us learn from them, that the truest patriotism is the preservation of our institutions, the truest wisdom is moderation. In short, let our history be not the history of our imagination, but the history of our common sense. By this course we may not vaunt so many statues, so many triumphal arches, so many trophies of victory, and boundless dominion, but we shall have what is more glorious than these, we shall have our institutions preserved; we shall have the conquests of peace; the mighty march of civilization; Christianity working out, unimpeded, her Divine mission; these will be our statues; these our triumphal arches; these the trophies of our victories; and they will be such as no nation before us has ever had."
~ South Carolina Congressman (and later Confederate) William Waters Boyce, on the proposed annexation of Cuba, 1855**
2004-10-06 03:20 | User Profile
I have read the quote of your post many times.
The meaning may be multifarious. What is your view of this?
Your understanding?
Mentzer.