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Thus were the ideas of Nationality and localism in America brought into sharper conflict by the mob and guillotine in France.
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Beveridge notes how the conflict between nationalism and localism in America was intensified by the events of the French Revolution.
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That time, however, is unquestionably arrived, and every oppression now exercised on a helpless people depending on our magnanimity and justice for the preservation of their existence impresses a deep stain on the American character.
No! but snatched from time, To bloom afresh in yonder sphere sublime.
In the excitement produced by ardent controversy, gentlemen view the same object through such different media that minds, not infrequently receive therefrom precisely opposite impressions.
The Experiment, with its foundations laid on universal Suffrage and an unfettered and licentious Press is of too violent a nature for our excitable People.
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