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Excerpt from The Fall of the Confederacy
Mastered one code, can readily practise in the Courts of either country. America is a Republic, and England is a Monarchy, yet one Constitution is a counterpart of the other. The English government is a Democratic Constitutionalism, whilst the Ameri can government is a Constitutional Democracy. In England the Chief Magistrate is an hereditary sovereign; and in America, an elected President; but neither the Monarch of England nor the President of America has any other than denned executive authority. In both countries public opinion is predominant - here' represented by the Press and by Parliament; and in America by the Press and by Congress. The two nations have common aspira tions and common faults. Both are ambitious both love a wide domain both carry their commerce to the ends of the earth, and crowd the seas With their ?eets both are exceedingly sensitive, and are rashly extreme to mark and to resent real or supposed insults. These, and many other bonds unite England and America, and strong as any, or all other bonds together, is the complete identity of interest. Their only reasonable rivalry is in the arts of peace, for the one wants nothing of the other that can be gained by war. Divided the English - speaking race rnay lag behind other races, but united no foe can hurt it, or will dare assail it. When shall we be delivered from the plague of an armed peace, the progenitor as well as the harbinger of wars to come? An armed peace is war, with all the ills of war, save the horrors.
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