Therefore, in this campaign the question is larger than a party question. It is a glorious history our God has bestowed upon His chosen people a history whose keynote was struck by Liberty Bell a history heroic with faith in our mission and our future a history of statesmen, who flung the boundaries of the Republic out into unexplored lands and savage wildernesses a history of soldiers, who carried the flag across blazing deserts and through the ranks of hostile mountains, even to the gates of sunset a history of a multiplying people, who overrun a continent in half a century a history divinely logical, in the process of whose tremendous reasoning we find ourselves to-day. It is a mighty people that He has planted on this soil a people sprung from the most masterful blood of history a people perpetually revitalized by the virile workingfolk of all the earth a people imperial by virtue of their power, by right of their institutions, by authority of their heaven-directed purposes, the propagandists and not the misers of liberty. Fellow-citizens–It is a noble land that God has given us a land that can feed and clothe the world a land whose coast lines would inclose half the countries of Europe a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe a greater England with a nobler destiny. BEVERIDGE, “MARCH OF THE FLAG” (16 SEPTEMBER 1898)
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