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Excerpt from The Call of the Republic a National Army and Universal Military Service Not long ago, in the cover illustration of a great popular weekly, Uncle Sam was represented holding in his hands a flint-lock musket and closely examining its ancient mechanism. The expression on his face was a puzzled one, for he seemed not only to be unfamiliar with the obsolete piece, but impatient with it. It seemed as if bis mind had fully grasped the danger 6 of depending upon a weapon so thoroughly antiquated and inadequate to his pressing needs. The picture was a good one, and I could not but wonder if the cartoonist himself understood the fullness of its significance. This reflection led me on to further cogitation and I determined to answer, in a very thorough way, the question that arose in my mind. That question was, not how shall he defend himself, hut with what weapon will Uncle Sam henceforth oppose his foes? The observations that follow in this book comprise the answer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.