The Bond That Ties Them To The
North Is To Them A Mezentian Marriage, And They Hate Their Northern
Spouses With A Mezentian Hatred.
They would be anything sooner than
citizens of the United States.
They see to what Mexico has come,
and the republics of Central America; but the prospect of even that
degradation is less bitter to them than a share in the glory of the
stars and stripes. Better, with them, to reign in hell than serve
in heaven! It is not only in politics that they will be beaten, if
they be beaten, as one party with us may be beaten by another; but
they will be beaten as we should be beaten if France annexed us, and
directed that we should live under French rule. Let an Englishman
digest and realize that idea, and he will comprehend the feelings of
a Southern gentleman as he contemplates the probability that his
State will be brought back into the Union. And the Northern feeling
is as strong. The Northern man has founded his national ambition on
the territorial greatness of his nation. He has panted for new
lands, and for still extended boundaries. The Western World has
opened her arms to him, and has seemed to welcome him as her only
lord. British America has tempted him toward the north, and Mexico
has been as a prey to him on the south. He has made maps of his
empire, including all the continent, and has preached the Monroe
doctrine as though it had been decreed by the gods.
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