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Page 5 - America; extorting by the mild compulsion of reason, the shores of the Pacific from the stipulated acknowledgment of Spain; and leading back the imperial autocrat of the North, to his lawful boundaries, from his hastily asserted dominion over the southern ocean. Thus strengthening and consolidating the federative edifice of his country's union, till he was entitled to say, like Augustus Caesar, of his imperial city, that he had found her built of brick and left her constructed of marble.
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| Title | The People the Sovereigns |
| Author | James Monroe |
| Editor | Samuel L. Gouverneur |
| Publisher | J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1867 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Oct 24, 2005 |
| Length | 274 pages |
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