Albert Beveridge: “Bloated and monstrous individualism grew out of the dank soil of these conditions.”

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

Through nearly all the important legislation and diplomacy of those stirring and interpretative years ran, with ever increasing clearness, the dividing line of Nationalism as against localism.

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.

The existing American system was a very masterpiece of weakness.