Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Dedication of the Memorial Room
Fifty and five years have brought to this organization numbers and possessions not dreamed of by the Found ers. The country they helped to save has grown to great wealth and power. Its borders have spread beyond the western seas. With Jacob it may say, With my staff I crossed this Jordan and now I have become two bands. Our national isolation of 1861 has disappeared, never to be seen again. We have seen the troops of the United States marching through the streets of London and Paris. The Stars and Stripes have ?oated over Parliament House in Westminster and have been carried at the Shrine of Napoleon. Pershing has bent at the tomb of Lafayette and said a thing that will become historic [applause], and down through the ages will ring his cry, Lafayette, the Americans have come.
This very night, as we sit here, our country's defenders - your defenders, and my defenders - are fighting in the trenches in France and sailing British waters, defending British and other ships from the devils of the deep. [applause] What does this all mean? Simply this, that in the bloody struggle of 1861 - 1865, during which this Union League was born, government of the people, by the peo ple, for the people was saved in these United States, in their isolation, from a domestic autocracy. Now, in our intimate world-wide relations of 1917, we must preserve our charter of freedom from destruction by a foreignautocracy. [applause] Since Sumter was fired upon nothing has been heard more ominous of danger to these United States than the Kaiser's warning, I will stand no nonsense from the United States.
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