Oh. how more powerful is love than hatred. for it has produced this miracle of accomplished fact. a union of hearts and common aspirations. of patriotism that knows no dividing line. a solemn compact sealed with the mingled blood of the sons of those who wore the gray and of those who wore the blue on battle fields 10.000 miles apart. from Santiago to Manila. and again on the burning sands of Vera Cruz. And not less has it been cemented by the labors of peace under this splendid dome. joined in wholeheartedly by men from both sides of what was once known as Mason and Dixons line. Here Puritan and Cavalier. native and foreign born. those of ancient and those of more recent lineage. all merge in the greatest of all human titles of nobilityAmerican citizenship. "Kings and emperors" may well "gaze and marvel" at the wondrous spectacle here and now presented. of a free selfgoverning people. saluting. living under. and willing to die for one flagthe most beautiful on earthand working in harnony for a better. cleaner. freer humanity iii the New World. while the civilization of the Old World seems to be sinking in a bottomless sea of blood. Senator BACON believed in the Constitution of the fathers. He appreciated thewisdom of those checks and balances. so irksoie to impatient radicals. which prevent it from being what Macaulay said it was. "All sail and no anchor". which bar the way alike to the confiscatory zeal of State socialism and the blind fanaticism of those who would enthrone the mob as a more absolute tyrant than any autocrat in Europe.
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