Albert Beveridge: “Yet they seem to cherish the evil and to view with immovable prejudice & dislike every thing which may tend to diminish…”

Such attempts ought to be repelled with a decision which shall convince France and the world that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of…

Thus were the ideas of Nationality and localism in America brought into sharper conflict by the mob and guillotine in France.

History, reason, evidence, march through these pages like infantry, cavalry, and artillery going to battle.

Is not liberty secure with us, where the people hold all powers in their own hands, and delegate them cautiously, for short periods, to their servants, who are accountable for the smallest mal-administration?...