. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. and were determined to do so no longer than theycould concentrate their energies, and direct them to bear upon the general foe ofChristendom. The whole was indeed a wonder, that a nation that scarcely hadrisen into the great family of independent powers, should be able to grapple in a measure subdue, these barbarians who had been for so long a time thescourge of mankind. We had not taken one power alone but all, from the .Atlan-tic to the Red Sea. The Doge (of Venice) who had been wedded to the Adriatic,.and promised for
. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. and were determined to do so no longer than theycould concentrate their energies, and direct them to bear upon the general foe ofChristendom. The whole was indeed a wonder, that a nation that scarcely hadrisen into the great family of independent powers, should be able to grapple in a measure subdue, these barbarians who had been for so long a time thescourge of mankind. We had not taken one power alone but all, from the .Atlan-tic to the Red Sea. The Doge (of Venice) who had been wedded to the Adriatic,.and promised for the dower of his bride the dominion of the seas from the Delta■of Egypt to the Straits of Gibraltar, had never in the pride of aristocratic strengthclaimed the honor of humbling the insolent Turk to the extent that the UnitedStates had done in a few years. The arm of liberty, when properly directed, wasalways deadly to despotism. These exertions gave our flag a rank among thenations of Europe in these classical seas in which so great a proportion of all the.
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