American Trinity by Larry Len Peterson

Author:Larry Len Peterson
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Farcountry Incorporated
Published: 2017-06-06T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

Manifest Destiny:

If God is for Us,

Then Who Could Ever Stop Us?

Friends and brothers, listen: Where you now are, you and my white children are too near to each other to live in harmony and peace. … Beyond the great Mississippi, where a part of your nation has gone, your father has provided a country large enough for all of you, and advises you to remove to it. There your white brothers will not trouble you; they will have no claim to the land, and you can live upon it, you and all your children, as long as the grass grows or the water runs, in peace and plenty. It will be yours forever.

—ANDREW JACKSON TO THE CREEK NATION,

MARCH 23, 1829

O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand

Between their lov’d home and the war’s desolation!

Blest with vict’ry and peace may the heav’n rescued land

Praise the power that hath made and preserv’d us a nation!

Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,

And this be our motto–“In God is our trust,”

And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave

O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

—LAST VERSE, STAR-SPANGLED BANNER,

FRANCIS SCOTT KEY, 1814

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