They have got over their old coldness with which they were apt to receive their American cousins, although they were always the most delightfully hospitable race on earth when you had once got within the shield of their reserve.
Hoar comments on the changing attitudes of the English towards Americans, highlighting their hospitality.
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But their names were wanting from the honorable roll of the men who accomplished them.
When the treaty was signed, the struggle began between freedom and slavery for the control of this imperial domain.
What was said helped to arouse public attention, and the masses of the people--always pure and incorruptible--set themselves earnestly and successfully to reform the abuses.
This Treaty would make us a vulgar, common place empire, controlling subject races and vassal states, in which one class must forever rule and other classes forever obey.
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