. The lives and deeds of our self-made men . easure the nations courage, theconscious calmness, the unmoved resolution, theknowledge of strength and wealth and power, grewmore high and strong, and whereas the world knewthat no nation had ever survived such an assault, andknew, it said, that ours would not, lo and behold,the United States achieved things beyond all compar-ison more unheard of, more wonderful, than even thetreasonable explosion for whose deadly catastrophe allthe monarchists stood joyfully waiting. They weredisappointed. And ever since, they know that if theRebellion was not the
. The lives and deeds of our self-made men . easure the nations courage, theconscious calmness, the unmoved resolution, theknowledge of strength and wealth and power, grewmore high and strong, and whereas the world knewthat no nation had ever survived such an assault, andknew, it said, that ours would not, lo and behold,the United States achieved things beyond all compar-ison more unheard of, more wonderful, than even thetreasonable explosion for whose deadly catastrophe allthe monarchists stood joyfully waiting. They weredisappointed. And ever since, they know that if theRebellion was not the death-toll of Republics, it wasthe death-toll of many other things, and ever since, allthe kings are setting their houses in order. There were three great national material instrumen-talities which the Free Christian People of the UnitedStates created in their peril, being the sole means whichcould have won in the war, and being moreover ex-actly the means which England and Europe assertedthat we were peculiarly unable to create or to use;.
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