Excerpt from No Cause for War Am I to forget the fact that my people came from that section of Germany in which the Germanic tribes were at home in those early days? I need not be ashamed. I have sometimes asked some of my friends of English descent where they really think they come from. A good many of them come from that same section, and we are quarreling over no worthy subject. We are so indebted to each other that we can not keep the accounts. For illustration, I am only waking up to the fact that Germany is indebted to the teachings of Irishmen who came over there as missionaries centuries ago to bring wisdom and learning. Our indebtedness is so interwoven that we can not separate it. And so it should be. They have all contributed. But in the last analysis we will all be American - a new type; something that has never been seen in this world - a composition of the best that could be gathered, physically, morally and intellectually, able to cope with the new problems of free government which are very far from being solved. To my mind we have that type in a measure now. We can not resist it. When I watch the people, more especially when I see our boys in blue going down the avenue on horseback or on foot, I look upon them and feel that the forehead, the eye, the nose, and the chin, and the whole poise is unlike anything else in the world. We have a type now - an American type of our own. (great applause.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.