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Excerpt from The Guide Post for Patriots It has long been evident to every thinking mind, that there was an intense hatred of Republican Institutions on the part of the rulers of Monarchical Governments in Europe, and the cause has been as evident as the result Republicanism and Monarchy cannot both flourish together in one State, and no more can either continue in its strength and vigor, if rival nations, when one acquires an overmastring influence by its superior power. Especially is this true of the latter, when the former attains a position which renders the latter the inferior as a maritime or military power to that one, which acknowledges no superior in the State to the laws made by the people themselves, and whose executive officer is but the servant of the power which created both. The United States of North America had become the haven of safety to which the oppressed of all nations fled for security, and who thus became of themselves one of the most material elements of our greatness, and brought along with them the most thorough and deep seated hatred of the tyranny which we then knew only by name: but they had felt its working, and when they touched our shores became not only Republicans in theory, but active Democrats in political life, and for which unmeasured scorn has been heaped upon our party. - Would to God that our own people had learned to prize our institutions as highly as did the foreigners whom our enemies so openly berated and despised! It is a truth, which time will make only more apparent, that the aristocratic parties in Europe, at an early day, saw that the Republic of the West must be destroyed, or that the term of their tenure as hereditary rulers of their various states, would be but a limited one. Our space precludes us from much more than referring to this subject, so full of food for sober thought, and replete with cause for anxcity to every lover of his country and of free institutions throughout the world. 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.