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

the Roman times; but such arguments availed
nothing to prevent loss of liberty to the people of
Rome themselves, and ruin to her constitution.
Rome violated a natural law of her being, and all
violations of natural law, governmental as well as
physical, bring, by nature, punishment upon the
transgressor In the Declaration of Independence
this nation declared that she “assumed among the
powers of the earth the separate and equal station
to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God
entitled her.” The very foundation stones of this
nation then are laid in natural law. That natural law
is “that all men are created equal; that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights,
governments are instituted among men, deriving
their just powers from the consent of the
governed.” The United States is now engaged in a
war, the avowed purpose of which is to deprive a
poor people of “liberty,” their “unalienable right.”
But the natural law by means of which this nation
came into existence and being declares that “to
secure this right,”--liberty,--“governments are
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