. The world's speaker, reciter and entertainer for home, school, church and platform; recitations, readings, plays, drills, tableaux, etc. .. . DISAPPOINTMENT. PATRIOTISM AND WAR 81 odosolve this Union, or to change its repub-lican form, let them stand, undisturbed, asmonuments of the safety with which errorof opinion may be tolerated where reason isleft free te combat it. I know, indeed, thatsome honest men fear that a republicangovernment cannot be strong,—that thisgovernment is not strong enough. Butwould the honest patriot, in the full tide ofsuccessful experiment, abandon a
. The world's speaker, reciter and entertainer for home, school, church and platform; recitations, readings, plays, drills, tableaux, etc. .. . DISAPPOINTMENT. PATRIOTISM AND WAR 81 odosolve this Union, or to change its repub-lican form, let them stand, undisturbed, asmonuments of the safety with which errorof opinion may be tolerated where reason isleft free te combat it. I know, indeed, thatsome honest men fear that a republicangovernment cannot be strong,—that thisgovernment is not strong enough. Butwould the honest patriot, in the full tide ofsuccessful experiment, abandon a govern-ment which has, so far, kept us free andfirm, on the theoretic and visionary fearthat this government, the worlds besthope, may, by possibility, want energy topreserve itself? I trust not. I believe this,on the contrary, to be the strongest govern-ment on earth. I believe it the only onewhere every man, at the call of the law,would fly to the standard of the law, andwould meet invasions of the public orderas his own personal concern. Sometimesit is said that man cannot be trusted withthe government of himself. Can he, then,be trusted with the
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