A military republic, a government rounded on mock elections and supported only by the sword, was nearly a quarter of a century since pronounced by Daniel Webster, when speaking of the South American States, as 'a movement, indeed, but a retrograde and disastrous movement, from the regular and old-fashioned monarchical systems;'
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