[PEN-L:766] Re: Re: Re: Re: Controlling sea-lanes and Apaches

[James Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>You might appreciate Anders Stephenson, *Manifest Destiny: American
>Expansion and the Empire of Right* (Hill & Wang, 1995), from which:
>
>     It  is  peculiar to the character of this Anglo-Saxon race of men
>     to  which  we belong, that it has never been contented to live in
>     the  same  country  with  any  other distinct race, upon terms of
>     equality;  it  has,  invariably,  when  placed in that situation,
>     proceeded  to  exterminate or enslave the other race in some form
>     or other, or, failing that, to abandon the country.
>
>     ---Senator  Benjamin Leigh of Virginia during "Jacksonion epoch"

that's almost a call for the extermination of the Anglo-Saxons!

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx &
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