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United States (United States) (search for this): article 1
not, however, long maintain the monopoly of that comprehensive and patriotic title, and after their early decease it reverted to its original proprietors, the United States at large. Since the secession of the Southern States the Yankees, with their accustomed modesty, have appropriated the old national name of Americans. Havingt some share of Americanism. In the first place, it was in accordance with the swelling and beautiful spirit of Yankee to assume such a name even for the United States at large. When, in point of A constituted so small a part, territorially and numerically, of the continent of America. Still more ridinlons is its assumptio once pure and classic river of a former age as that which is now called America is to the America of 1776. In other and even more important respects, the United States have no longer a claim to the name of America; still less to the monopoly of that name. What liberty won by our fathers; what right, franchise, or prerogative
Washington (search for this): article 1
Who are Americans? It was a very easy thing a few years ago to say who were and who were not Americans. In those days, when the admonition of Gen. Washington, "P none but Americans on guard to-night," was the watch word of a formidable political party, the only "Americans" were members of the Know-Nothing order. They did not, however, long maintain the monopoly of that comprehensive and patriotic title, and after their early decease it reverted to its original proprietors, the United States at large. Since the secession of the Southern States the Yankees, with their accustomed modesty, have appropriated the old national name of Americans. Having previously appropriated the territories, the army and navy, the military stores, the flag, the common Capitol, Hail Columbia, and the public Exchequer, it is not to be wondered at that they assume also a monopoly of the American, name, and that foreign nations, with their customary discrimination, have accorded to them that title.
Yankee (search for this): article 1
mbia, and the public Exchequer, it is not to be wondered at that they assume also a monopoly of the American, name, and that foreign nations, with their customary discrimination, have accorded to them that title. What justice there is in appropriation of the name of Americans, it would be hard to show; nor is there any equity or in the South surrendering her claim to at least some share of Americanism. In the first place, it was in accordance with the swelling and beautiful spirit of Yankee to assume such a name even for the United States at large. When, in point of A constituted so small a part, territorially and numerically, of the continent of America. Still more ridinlons is its assumption by the fragment of Yankee States broken off by recent political convulsions. As a description of race, the term is vastly more approvable to the people of the Southern than the Northern States. The former are, with le exception, of pure English descent, a mogeneons people, identifi
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