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...side of the Atlantic to change their free institutions. To repeat the language of Mr. Jefferson, " America, North and South, has a set of interests distinct from those of Europe, and peculiarly her own; she should, therefore, have a system of her own, separate and apart from that of...

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...guide. " This sets our compass and points the course which we are to steer through the ocean of time. Our first and fundamental maxim should be never to...suffer Europe to intermeddle with Cisatlantic affairs." From all this becomes apparent the condition we have reached in our national progress towards empire,...

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