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

the further spread of it, and place it where the
public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the
course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will
push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in
all the States, old as well as new, North as well as
South.”[33]
And it is even now equally true that this nation
can not endure permanently half citizen and half
subject, half representative and half colonial, half
free and half vassal. Either the principles of
despotism and tyranny now being advocated for
and exercised in the Philippines will be utterly
renounced and stamped out, or else they will grow
and increase in power and strength until they shall
be dominant in every State of the Union from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Canadian line
to the Gulf of Mexico. Despotism is a dread
disease. It is insidious in its beginnings. Indulge it
in a few remote islands, and it will begin to work,
and never cease until it has sapped the vitality of
free life out of the whole body politic.
Prophetic was a recent speech:--
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