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We have been tardy sometimes-like when we were proclaiming democracy and neutrality, and yet ignored our national rights-but the ultimate and helpful part we played in the Great War will be the pride of Americans so long as the world recites the story. This republic has never failed humanity, or endangered civilization. Let us hesitate before we surrender the nationality which is the very soul of highest Americanism. The Constitution does abide and ever will, so long as the Republic survives. The Federal Constitution is the very base of all Americanism, the 'Ark of the Covenant' of American liberty, the very temple of equal rights. America headed the forward procession of civil, human, and religious liberty, which ultimately will affect the liberation of all mankind. Representative democracy was proclaimed the safe agency of highest human freedom. The American Republic began the blazed trail of representative popular government. Americanism really began when robed in nationality. Once it was achieved, nationality was the only agency suited to its preservation. The colonists were resisting a wrong, and freedom was their solace. In simple truth, there was no thought of nationality in the revolution for American independence. It is all American in the destined result, yet all of it lacked the soul of nationality. Other pioneers of New World's freedom were rearing their new standards of liberty from Jamestown to Plymouth for five generations before Lexington and Concord heralded the new era.

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The pilgrims signed their simple and majestic covenant a full century and a half before, and set aflame their beacon of liberty on the coast of Massachusetts. My countrymen, the first flaming torch of Americanism was lighted in framing the Federal Constitution in 1787.

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