Excerpt from The Republic of the United States of America: Its Duties to Itself, and Its Responsible Relations to Other Countries; Embracing Also a Review of the Late War Between the United States and Mexico; Its Causes and Results; And of Those Measures of Government Which Have Characterized the Democracy of The
In preparing this volume for the press, the author has been encouraged by others in the belief that his humble labors might prove useful to his fellow-citizens, in leading them to contemplate the institutions of their country as sacred trusts, to be honored by duty, and protected by patriotism. It has been his aim to invest citizenship with those traits of character which give dignity to man, and to illustrate those great and eternal truths which give growth, power, and glory to nations. He has endeavored to define man, in his relations to external objects and to Deity, as a being of accountability and improvement; and nations, as the mighty aggregates of the conventional powers of humanity, which are combined, shaped, and directed by the hand of that Providence which marks its way only in harmony with the universal principles of truth and of progress. How far he has succeeded in his design he leaves for others to judge. He claims no favor but the admission of his sincerity, and no merit but in the purity of his motives.
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