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...empire in Mexico, while our Southern states were in rebellion, we were justified in resisting so obvious an attack on the very existence of our government. We must not use our sharpest tools on every petty piece of work, or they will be dulled when we have real need of them...
...consider every step of a policy which is officially announced as destined to lead, in one not improbable alternative, to a conclusion which must convulse the nation and may affect the civilization of the world? The fact is that there never was a public question which stood more in need of immediate, full and open discussion. The people are very far from being united, and it would be a bold man who would venture now to rely on the country for support of any extremen position, and however determined Mr. Roosevelt himself may be he would no doubt admit that...
...Roosevelt's eyes; and though a mad president may any day commit the country without warning to an utterly new career and history, no citizen, no matter how he feels, must then speak, not even to the representative constitutionally appointed to check the President in time of need...
...Wines then considered these evils as they are related to the social institutions of the family, the government and property; and he then described the means of prevention and cure. In conclusion he dwelt especially on the need of organization in this work...
...members of Harvard University, recalling the spirit of patriotism manifested by our predecessors on every occasion of need, believe that the present aspect of our foreign affairs is so hostile to our national interests as to warrant some expression of feeling from Harvard...