: The Man Without a Country by Hale Edward Everett - Historical fiction; Sea stories; Soldiers Fiction; Stateless persons Fiction; Exiles Fiction; Burr Conspiracy 1805-1807 Fiction

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"He cried out, in a fit of frenzy, 'Damn the United States! I wish I may never hear of the United States again!'"

Boston Little, Brown, and Company

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, BY TICKNOR AND FIELDS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, BY TICKNOR AND FIELDS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, BY TICKNOR AND FIELDS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

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Introduction

Love of country is a sentiment so universal that it is only on such rare occasions as called this book into being that there is any need of discussing it or justifying it. There is a perfectly absurd statement by Charles Kingsley, in the preface to one of his books, written fifty years ago, in which he says that, while there can be loyalty to a king or a queen, there cannot be loyalty to one's country.

To-day we are not in the darkest period of the Republic.

This nation never wishes to make war. Our whole policy is a policy of peace, and peace is the protection of the Christian civilization to which we are pledged. It is always desirable to teach young men and young women, and old men and old women, and all sorts of people, to understand what the country is. It is a Being. The LORD, God of nations, has called it into existence, and has placed it here with certain duties in defence of the civilization of the world.

It was the intention of this parable, which describes the life of one man who tried to separate himself from his country, to show how terrible was his mistake.

It does not need now that a man should curse the United States, as Philip Nolan did, or that he should say he hopes he may never hear her name again, to make it desirable for him to consider the lessons which are involved in the parable of his life. Any man is "without a country who, by his sneers, or by looking backward, or by revealing his country's secrets to her enemy, checks for one hour the movements which lead to peace among the nations of the world, or weakens the arm of the nation in her determination to secure justice between man and man, and in general to secure the larger life of her people." He has not damned the United States in a spoken oath.

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