Our young men, generally speaking, grow up in the firm belief that liberty depends on construing our Constitution into a league instead of a government; that it has nothing to fear from breaking these United States into numerous petty republics.
Beveridge critiques the belief among Southern youth that liberty is tied to a misinterpretation of the Constitution.
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I do not think the greatest things have been done for the world by its bookmen.
Any nation, however, may by statute declare an act to be piratical which is not so by the law of nations; and such an act is punishable only by that particular state and not by other governments.
Thus were the ideas of Nationality and localism in America brought into sharper conflict by the mob and guillotine in France.
My God! what a situation has our country reached.
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