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Excerpt from Werner's Readings and Recitations, Vol. 42: Famous Modern Orations
The underlying viciousness of the type of expansion of both Greece and Rome was plain enough and the remedy now seems simple enough. But when the fathers of the Republic first formulated the Constitution under which we live, this remedy was untried, and no one could foretell how it would work. They themselves began the experiment almost immediately by adding new States to the original thirteen. Excellent people in the East viewed this initial expansion of the country with great alarm. Exactly as during the Colonial period many good people in the mother country thought it highly important that: settlers should be kept out of the Ohio Valley in the interest of the fur companies, so after we had become a nation, many good people on the Atlantic coast felt grave apprehension lest they might somehow be hurt by the westward growth of the nanon. These good people shook their heads over the formation of States in the fertile Ohio Valley, which now forms part of the heart of our nation; and they declared that the destruction of the Republic had been accomplished when through the Louis iana Purchase we acquired nearly half of what is now that same Republic's present territory. Nor was their feeling unnatural. Only the adventurous and the far-seeing can be expected hearti to welcome the process of expansion, for the nation that ex pands is a nation which is entering upon a great career, and with greatness there must of necessity come perils which daunt all save the most stout-hearted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
