The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-02-14
WOE UNTO THE NATION.
Senator Hoar Discusses the Uni-
ted states Imperialistic Poll

people OF Cno OnlteQ states IN inc
Western hemisphere was submit
ted to the arbitrament of war in
the far East. The people of the
United States have not, as yet, full
ly understood it. They have
thought, some of them, that we
were dealing with barbarous and
savage race, incapable of govern
ing themselves They thought that
an unprovoked attack had been
made upon our flag. They have
been excited, as every free and
brave people would be excited, by
the fact that their country was en-
gagged in war. But the truth of the
fact and the righteousness of the
law which has been defied, are
alike becoming known. The ques-
ton above stated between the re-
public and the empire; between
the Declaration of Independence
and imperialism; between the doc
trines of Washington and Lincoln
and the doctrines of George III
and Napoleon Bonaparte, will be
settled. They will be settled, soon
er or latter, by the American peo-
pie, and they will in the end be
settled right. BY presidents,
through presidents or over presi-
dents; by Congress, through Con
gross over Congress; by political
parties. through political parties or
over political parties, the irresisti-
BILE current will find it's way.
Some of our friends, who justify
this subjugation, are fond of TAX
ing on their lips the name of Deity,
although [ think most of them like
better to speak of destiny. This
invocation of the name of God
seems to me to be impious. Did
God decree the partition of Poland {?
Did God keep the fair isles of
Greece under the feet of Turkey?
Did God keep Italy under the arm
ed heel of Austria, and Naples and
Sicily under King Bambo? Did
God thrust the Italian patriots in
to their hopeless prisons? Was it
God that murdered Toussaint
L'Ouverture by staring him in a
dungeon when Napoleon decoyed
him on board a French shin and
carried him to France? Did God
plumber our missionaries in Ar
menia2 Did God torture the
Christians in Turkey? Did God
enact the fugitive slave law? I
have read the scripture otherwise.
It must need be that offenses
come. But WOO unto that man, and
woe unto that nation by whom the
offense cometh.
The doctrine for which I stand
and for which Ispeak huo triumph
ed SO far in every conflict in war
and in peace throughout our his
tory, from the landing at Plymouth
of the Pilgrims, who brought it
across the sea, down to the resolu-
tions when we declared war with
Spain-passed by both houses of
Congress and signed by President
Mckinley. It kept in it's grasp
against statesman ard court and
prelate the charters of Massachus-
etts and Connecticut. 1t stood in
arms at Lexington and Concord in
the morning of the Revolution. 1t
extracted victory from defeat at
Bunker Hill. 1t cheered Marion
and Sumter and Greene in the
Southern swamps. 1t was written
in blazing words in the great de-
olaration. It cheered Washington
and his army in the gloomy day of
Valley Forge. 1t was victorious in
the supreme hour at Yorktown. 1t
has built the eternal foundations of
the nation in the constitution and
is the eternal foundation on which
every State rests. It stood for
sailors rights in 1912 It saved
the Union in the day of it's supreme
peril. BY it Washington lived, and
for it Lincoln died. It was that
which justified us in liberating
Cuba, and which justified us in
sinking the fleet of Spain at Ma
Mia. Under it we had become the
freest, richest nation on
the face of the earth. It is written,
invisible to the bodily eye, yet Wis
IDLE to the spiritual discernment on
every fold, over every stripe, and
over every star of the American
flag. That man little understands,
in my judgment, the temper of the
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