Let their reception into ‘the family’ be frank,
kindly, and cheerful, as befits such an occasion, as comports not less
with our own self-respect than patriotic duty towards them. Ill betide
those foul birds that delight to file their ow

Kindly cheerful

hampering our power, limiting our greatness and checking
the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent
allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multip-
lying millions.

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in a spirit of
hostile interference against us, for the avowed object of thwarting our
policy and hampering our power, limiting our greatness and checking
the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent
allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multip-
lying millions.

Our old rival and enemy

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