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Title: The Independent
Year: 1849 (1840s)
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Publisher: New York : S.W. Benedict
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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acts of Russia on the ground
that a Czar who is now dead befriended the cause of
the Union in the Civil War. An even larger number can-
not forgive the British because a stupid King persisted
in governing his American colonies against their
wishes, and incidentally against the advice of the ablest
British statesmen of his time. We could multiply exam-
ples indefinitely of this incessant clamor to forget the
present and remember only the past, but one more will
suffice. There are many who tell us that England and
the United States can never be anything but enemies
because the British sympathized with the South in the
day of our greatest national peril. As a matter of fact
the reverse was the case. The masses of the people were
openly for the Union thruout the Civil War; they proved
it in speech, in print and by monster demonstrations.
But they could not prove it by their votes because they
were still disenfranchised and the actions of the govern-
ment were controlled by the well-to-do minority. Should
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Drawing for the Independent by W. C. Morris
FOR HUMANITY!

56 THE INDEPENDENT April 7, 1917

we debit a democratic government of the twentieth cen-
tury with the blunders of a nineteenth century aris-
tocracy ? This country could make no better resolution than to
give every new government a clean sheet on which to
write its own good and ill deeds. If Germany will re-
pudiate the Empire, we should forget and forgive the
events of the past three years and heartily welcome the
Republic into the brotherhood of free nations. If the
Great War results, as it seems that it will, in a new
Russia we will not load it with the sins of the old. Let
the dead past bury its dead.

AT WAR WITH GERMANY

PRESIDENT WILSON'S ADDRESS TO THE CONGRESS
APRIL 2, 1917

I HAVE called the Congress into extraordinary session be-
cause there are serious—very serious—choices of policy to be
made, and made immediately, which it was neither right nor
constitutionally permissible that I should assume the responsi-
bility of making.

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