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their spirit spoke out to the Old World in the
greeting with which the President of the United
States consecrated the first transatlantic
telegraph cable in 1866:—
“Glory be to God in the highest, and on
earth peace, goodwill to men.”
When this message came to us, the roar of
cannon was but newly hushed, and the man of
“blood and iron” had victoriously set his foot
upon one of Europe’s great powers; the same
Austria which since then has, by the Triple
Alliance, united its warlike strength with Germany.
But that message has not been an unheeded
sound to all; especially to those whose
warning voices the people never listen to before
the misfortune falls, but who are always justified
after it has struck. Yes! perchance in the near
future it may again appeal to their reason, and
find a hearing only when Europe has fallen
into untold miseries after another war.
While menacing forebodings of this long
expected war were spreading in the summer of
1887 through various parts of our continent, a
little company of courageous men, strong in
faith, like the pious pilgrims of the Mayflower,
gathered together for the voyage across the
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