. Bill Nye's history of the United States. -load lots but findthat we were using all the liberty ourselves ? Butwhat do we want of liberty, anyhow ? Whatcould we do with it if we had it ? It takes a manof leisure to enjoy liberty, and we ha\e no leisurewhatever. It is a good thing to keep in the housefor the use of guests, but we dont need it forourselves. Therefore we have a statue of Liberty Enlight-ening the World, because it shows that we keepLiberty on tap winter and summer. We wantthe whole broad world to remember that whenit gets tired of oppression it can come here toAmerica and oppres
. Bill Nye's history of the United States. -load lots but findthat we were using all the liberty ourselves ? Butwhat do we want of liberty, anyhow ? Whatcould we do with it if we had it ? It takes a manof leisure to enjoy liberty, and we ha\e no leisurewhatever. It is a good thing to keep in the housefor the use of guests, but we dont need it forourselves. Therefore we have a statue of Liberty Enlight-ening the World, because it shows that we keepLiberty on tap winter and summer. We wantthe whole broad world to remember that whenit gets tired of oppression it can come here toAmerica and oppress us. We are used to it, andwe rather like It. If we dont like it, we can geton the steamer and go abroad, where we mayvisit the effete monarchies and have a high oldtime. The sight of the Goddess of Liberty standing THOUGHTS ON THE LATE WAR. 301 there in New York harbor night and day, bathingher feet in the rippHng sea, is a good thing. It isfirst-rate. It may also be productive of good in adirection that many have not thought of. As she. MAY BE LED TO TRY IT ON HIMSELF. stands there day after day, bathing her feet in thebroad Atlantic, perhaps some moss-grown alienlanding on our shore and moving toward the FarWest may fix the bright picture in his so-calledmind, and, remembering how, on his arrival in New York, he saw Liberty bathin 26 g her feet with 302 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. impunity, he may be led in after-years to try it onhimself. More citizens and less voters will some day beadopted as the motto of the Republic. One reference to the late war, and I will want to refer especially to the chronic reconcilerwho when war was declared was not involved init, but who now improves every opportunity, espe-cially near election-time, to get out a tired olive-branch and make a tableau of himself He isworse than the man who cannot forgive or forget. The erowth of reconciliation between the Northand the South is the slow growth of years, andthe work of generations. When
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