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which was proved untrue by the fathers, viz : "Washington, Hamil- ton, Madison, and the rest." Will not the reimposition of them be alike fraudulent, revolutionary and detestable? For a complete expose of the wrong, see the Republic of Republics, part III, ch. i, P- 159-

THESE EXPOUNDERS ARE AWAY FROM THE ORIGINAL ROCK —

Away from Republican tenets— away from the organic laws of the people — away from the faith of the fathers, and away from the doc- trines of the publicists. They seem never to have comprehended the system aimed at. Montesquieu and Vattel, who guided our fathers in federalizing, held that liberty and self-government were only pos- sible in small societies, while the size and strength and the stability needed among nations is to be attained by their uniting themselves into a "Confederate Republic," or "Republic of Republics." It was numerous commonwealths, or self-governing peoples, united in one system, that the founders contemplated ; and the extension of " the area of freedom" over America was to be Federal, and not National. " New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union," tells the whole grand story of the ocean-bounded " Republic of Republics." And the States showed that they adhered to and consummated the federalizing plan, by declaring unanimously in their Convention, as we have seen, that ^^ the style of this governtnent shall be the United States of A^nerica.^^ The people " established" a perpetual, volun- tary union of States — a Republic of Republics. " Nation," indeed! It simply means revolution, empire, and subject peoples everywhere!

GREATNESS AND GLORY ATTENDED THE UNION OF STATES,

And "we, the people," enjoyed "the blessings of liberty," and conse- quently "domestic tranquility;" "the sacred ties," amity, mutual interest and justice were preserved, and the polity seemed immortal ; but through perversion and usurpation nationalism supervened, and " hell followed with" it ; or, perhaps it were better to say, it brought " the abomination of desolation !"

Respectfully,

P. C. Centz, Barrister. The Author of the " Republic of Republics:*