be constantly awake; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of a Republican Government."

And, in the language of his and our country's friend, Lafayette :

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'May this great monument raised to Liberty serve as a lesson to the oppressor, and an example to the oppressed! May it call to mind the sentiments which nature has engraved on the heart of every citizen, and which take new force when they are solemnly recognized by all for a Nation to love liberty, it is sufficient that she knows it; and to be free, it is sufficient that she wills it."

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CHAPTER XXI.

A CLOSING APPEAL TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC.

"O, sons of America! list to the cry!

The loud fearful warning that rings to the sky!
Shall foul blackened falschood unanswered be borne,
And Americans branded with insult and scorn?
Strike! strike for the country, the freedom ye crave,
Religion, and home, and the Puritan's grave;
O! fight as they fought on the land and the sea,
And die as they died, but in leaving it free!"

ARE you not ready for an offering at this great crisis? When your nation is panting under trial and peril! Your nation, the star from God! The diamond from on high, to give the world brightness! Have the best days of America ended? It is for you, Americans, to make it happy, great, and good, if you will continue to be free!

For you, Americans, love of country is not a word, but a living, active thing! Warm with heroic zeal, devotion and sacrifice, an indestructible spark, which will burn and glow in every true American heart, though the world itself were a pile of ruins. Sacrifice, too, was the law of our country's being; but God was its great support! And its maternity and humanity must again save us! What do we claim, then, for our country? The same active initiation, the same self-forgetfulness.

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