The war in which the several potentates of Europe were engaged against France, although in almost every instance declared by that power, was pronounced to be a war for the extirpation of human liberty, and for the banishment of free government from the face of the earth.
This statement critiques the European powers' war efforts as a threat to liberty and self-governance.
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Indeed, he thought them only "an experiment on the American mind to see how far it will bear an avowed violation of the constitution.
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She was able to maintain her independence & must deserve to lose it if she permitted it to be wrested from her.
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