Mr. President. if we could step aside and see for a moment with any clearness of vision our relation to the world. we would hesitate before throwing the gage of battle into the face of the Orient. Our good people are the natural progeny of the people who were driven from the Caspian and the Bosphorus and the shores of the Mediterranean across Europe. pursued by the Asiatics. occasionally conquered at points and places. but still tenaciously adhering to the doctrine underlying the Christian religion. to wit. that man has an individual responsibility. and that as an individual responsible man he can not belong to any other man. That theory left this world. as far as our people controlled it. without a master and without a slave. War was the song our ancestors sung in dealing with the oriental character. and with what success.
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War was the song our ancestors sung in dealing with the oriental character.